[CPEO-BIF] "Worker Cooperative Greenhouse Planned For Brownfield Site, Springfield, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Worker Cooperative Greenhouse Planned For Brownfield Site

By Paul Tuthill 
WAMC (Northeast Public Radio)
September 7, 2016

Plans are moving ahead to develop a worker cooperative commercial greenhouse in Springfield, Massachusetts.

A site for it has been found, buyers lined up for the food that will be grown, and a direct public offering is being made to enlist investors for the project.  
 
A public information session is taking in Springfield later today. 

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Fred Rose, Co-director of Wellspring Cooperative.


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For the audio, see
http://wamc.org/post/worker-cooperative-greenhouse-planned-brownfield-site


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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