Coordinating Agency Annual Income - $6,919+

Each Family Must Borrow $1,768

Each Family Earns $153 per Month

Per Family Loan Payment = $51 for 36 Months

(Additional Income is available if participants work in the processing plant or sell garden produce.)

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100 Family Hoop Houses @ $399 - $39,990

1 Meat Processing Plant - $5,190

Shipping Cost Estimate - $4,000

Misc. plus Pigs, Chickens and Feed for the First Rotation - $127,713

Total investment for each group of 100 Families - $176,808

You can fund or help to fund a $180,000 loan to a cooperative that must be repaid by the cooperative. When repaid, the funding will start another agricultural cooperative.

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$1800 is needed for a single Backyard Agriculture Project Family to become a commercial swine finisher, chicken grower, sausage producer.

A commercial swine producer sells pigs to the cooperative. He also provides technical and veterinarian oversight.

The families get to keep 18 chickens and most of their egg production.

About half of the $10k investment is spent on organizational costs and facilities development.

The other $5000 is used to finance the purchase of  pigs, chickens and feed.  This money is never placed in the hands of the cooperative. It goes out of the bank account and back into the bank account every 3 months as the pigs are bought and sold. ( See: Financial Accountability)

Every time the pigs are sold, the money received from the sale is used to purchase more pigs and feed. Profit only is distributed to the cooperative.