Maia shares a remarkable story about a young woman, a poet and mother, whose life was impacted profoundly by Cooperative Community Grains — herself. I was honored that she let me in, and will be thinking of her story often.

Maia was a pioneering member of Cooperative Community Grains or CC Grains in the 1970s, which was one part of the larger Seattle Workers’ Brigade, an all-womyn’s food distributor warehouse distributing organic and natural foods to co-ops, buying clubs and natural foods stores ranging from Alaska to Montana, centered in Seattle, WA.

It was part of the Alternative Economic System, and was a crucial link in developing the organic food industry.

Seattle was a huge part of the creation of the modern food movement, but so much of that has been lost to history.

The Seattle Worker’s Brigade, “A worker collective, that was worker self-managed and women-owned" was "explicitly anti-corporate, alternative, our motto was 'Food for People, Not for Profit.' 

📷 Cover Photo: CC Grains group photo. Maia is on the far right, in a red sweater.