Strategic Briefing
State of Grace Living Instituteand
Onchenda Open Global Food Cooperative
Social Mission Joint Venture
OBJECTIVES1. Create a business model by which anyone can transition to a lifestyle of cooperative local abundance and stewardship based on the local food movement.
Onchenda Open Global Food Co-op, A Utah Benefit Corporation:
A) Enable small acreage farmers to sell produce at better margins direct to local consumers online at a lower price. Consumers receive delicious, healthy, locally grown food conveniently, and at a reasonable price
OBJECTIVESOnchenda Open Global Food Co-op:
B) Reinvest profits into others who want to grow their own food and do likewise.
OBJECTIVESOnchenda Open Global Food Co-op:
C) Mentoring: Co-op shareholder Permaculturist to design, educate and mentor them for a percentage of online sales.
OBJECTIVES2. Create a network of local food webs restoring healthy soils, healthy communities, healthy local economies, and healthy local ecosystem services:
Onchenda Open Global Food Co-op:
1. Logan Food Web
2. SLC Food Web
3, Cedar City Food Web
4. Moab Food Web, etc.
OBJECTIVES3. Create a showcase where others can see, feel, breath, taste, experience and learn all the components of abundant sustainable living & stewardship, and export them globally:
State of Grace Living, A Utah Benefit Corporation
ResourcesHUGE public demand for LOCALLY GROWN food that is:● Good tasting
● Less expensive
● Nutritious and health
● Convenient
● Sustainable
ResourcesAn Established Market:
ResourcesAn Unfulfilled Niche:
Struggling local food hubs, CSAs and farmer's markets with:● Flawed business models● Frustrated & disillusioned
farmers and consumers members due to:
● Unnecessary and costly logistics● Low margins● Lack of variety● High prices
ResourcesA Better Business Model:
Our business model beats the competition on costs & margins by:A) Marketing food produced through Permaculture
B) Eliminating warehouses and hubs
C) Outsourcing farm-to-home delivery
- 23% !
ResourcesA Better Business Model:Marketing food produced through Permaculture
Nature’s technology costs less than Man’s technology.
ResourcesFunding:
Billions of dollars allocated by private charitable foundations for:● Education● Health and wellness● Alleviation of poverty● Alleviation of hunger● Agricultural systems researchWho must invest 5% into aligned social missions annually
Are giving it to Public Benefit Corporations
Resources
● Want to sell their produce direct to local consumers without the hassles and frustrations of food hubs, CSA, farmer's markets, and supermarket wholesalers.
● Would rather spend their time farming, designing, teaching, and mentoring.
● Want to make a good living doing that without having to work for somebody else.
● Want to converge as a cooperative community for abundance and against encroaching outrages..
Manpower & Know-how:
Local regenerative agriculturists, edible horticulturists, organic farmers, Permaculturists who:
Onchenda Revenue Projections
Onchenda Open Global Food Cooperative
Assumptions:1. Membership follows natural fractal expansion pattern2. Customers spend an average of $60.00 per week
Onchenda Revenue ProjectionsOnchenda Open Global Food Cooperative
Break Even
CALL TO ACTION!
● Create a successful local Permaculture food web for:
Cooperatively generate the needed social enterprise
● Tap the billions of dollars already allocated for creating a PERMANENT CULTURE
● Make the Grace Institute a showcase of viable living a reality
● Export our cooperative model of viability globally
● Designing
● Teaching
● Mentoring, and
● Enabling small acreage to grow & distribute fresh food profitably
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