“Something of Our Own” was made from conversations by the West Batesville Farmers’ Cooperative members about how they organized an agricultural marketing co-op in Mississippi.pic.twitter.com/Yzzm7a7ZIT
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Their conversations were taped, transcribed, edited and illustrated with photos of the members at work. The information captured not only the reality of organizing the co-op but also the reality of the racism that the farmers faced constantly while they were building their co-op.pic.twitter.com/C5LNTdYqEz
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The two booklets (Part I and II) included some of the nuts and bolts of the cooperative’s operations, so that farmers wanting to organize a cooperative elsewhere could get a realistic understanding of what it took to start up and manage such an endeavor.pic.twitter.com/EcA83bFxSV
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The West Batesville farmers also got pretty real about the challenges. They shared, for example, how farmers who joined when the coop was paying more money for the okra than the white buyer, went back to the white buyer when the co-op had to lower its prices.pic.twitter.com/qgUjMCfBnO
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What the West Batesville farmers shared in those conversations was how their experiences and mistakes informed the decisions needed to strengthen the co-op and change how they organized for the next year. Describing these experiences helped shorten the learning curve for others…pic.twitter.com/AvYtU8AWFr
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“Y’all are doing it the hard way. You know that, don’t you?” the white buyer told the West Batesville farmers at one point. And their response was: “Doing it the hard way earns us something of our own.”
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