Co-op’s a Part Of Community Chain

I want to take this opportunity to thank both the Herald and Randolph National Bank for the support they have shown Randolph Cooperative Market.

The Herald helped bring attention to the need for our community to come together and show we need our co-op. The Randolph National Bank has shown it knows how important the co-op is for our community, both people and businesses, through its financial loans.

I write this as one of the many local vendors that sell products to the co-op. I am a vegetable farmer in East Brookfield. I have been selling vegetables to the Co-op since the early 1990’s.

The co-op is an integral part of my business plan for our farm. I also know most of the other vegetable growers who contribute to the produce display. One of these growers is Rae-Anne and Keith LaCroix of Solterra Farm in Brookfield. They too are dependent on the Co-op for a percentage of their livelihood.

The reason I mention Keith and Rae-Anne is that recently they gave permission to the Brookfield School Club to cut balsam from their property. The school club in turn made wreaths and sold them to help support artist in residency programs in the school.

I offer this example as a reason why the Co-op needs your support. Your local growers (Bethel, Brookfield, Chelsea, Randolph, Royalton and Tunbridge to name a few) need the co-op to survive. These local growers are an integral part of your community.

We need you to support the co-op, not just by buying what we supply, but by really helping the co-op become financially secure. A saying goes "What comes around, goes around." It can be that simple. Thank you.

Clotilde Hryshko

East Brookfield

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