Acting as the agent of producer members, the Squash Blossom Food Cooperative posts and publicizes the products the producers have for sale, receive orders, provides a way for products to be delivered to other members of the cooperative, collects from the customers and forwards the payments to the producers. Acting as the agent for customer members, we provide them a catalog of available local food products that includes information about how and where the product was grown or processed. We receive their orders and notify the appropriate producers, arrange for the food to be delivered, receive and process their payments. Our producers represent to us that their production and their products meet or exceed our published parameters and that they have satisfied our requirements respecting education and training regarding the use and the advantages of local foods.

For some of our producer members, we are agents that facilitate farm gate sales of their products. For other producer members, we facilitate off-farm sales or sales of processed products.

The essential business of the cooperative is to provide a marketplace where willing buyers and sellers can meet. At no time does the cooperative ever have title to any of the products of our producers. We have no inventory of their products. The products that go through our distribution system are owned either by the producer, or by the customer who purchases "title" to the product from the producer. All complaints should be brought to the attention of the producer.

SQUASH BLOSSOM FOOD COOPERATIVE MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARANTIES AS TO ANY FOOD PRODUCTS PURCHASED FROM PRODUCER MEMBERS. ANY REPRESENTATION MADE BY ANY PRODUCER MEMBER OR OTHERWISE AND DISCLAMIMS ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS, CLAIM, EXPENSE OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM THE CONSUMPTION, POSSESSION OR OWNERSHIP OF FOOD PRODUCTS PURCHASED FROM PRODUCER MEMBERS OR OTHERWISE.

Squash Blossom Food Cooperative
PO Box 681133 Riverside, Missouri 64168, 1-816- 352-9213

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