Become a member
The Lower North Shore BioProducts Solidarity Coop is launching its first membership campaign. The coop has as its mandate to stimulate local economic diversification through the sustainable and added-value exploitation of indigenous wildberries and other natural resources in the Municipality of Bonne Esperance and the other communities of the Lower North Shore. The Coop aims to accomplish this while creating local business and employment opportunities through the development, harvesting, processing and marketing of raw and prepared products from wildberries. Supported by a mixture of investments from government development programs, community engagement and business collaboration, the Coop will translate this ‘solidarity’ into a planned expansion of wildberry products into regional, provincial, national and international markets over a three-year period that will provide the basis for local employment opportunities, the creation of local infrastructure and skill base, as well as a return on investment that will fund future development initiatives. Starting with a core team of 1-2 fulltime employees, and supported by 15-20 occasional and part-time employees, the Coop plans to eventually create 3-5 fulltime and at least 30-40 seasonal jobs over a five year period.
SIGN UP NOW FOR YOUR MEMBERSHIP
The Lower North Shore BioProducts Solidarity Coop is structured as a Solidarity Co-operative (multi-stakeholder) consisting of worker members, user members and supporting members (as determined by the Quebec Cooperatives Act). Worker members will be those persons directly employed by the Coop in its operations, such as research, harvesting, processing, and distribution and management. Producer members will be those persons or organizations who engage in transactions with the Coop, such as the sale of raw materials for the processing of natural resource products or contract services. Supporting members will be persons or entities, which will assist the Coop in achieving its objectives through financing, management, expertise, guidance, etc.
The co-operative’s mission: The mission of the Lower North Shore Solidarity Cooperative is to stimulate local economic diversification through the sustainable and added-value exploitation of indigenous wildberries and other natural resources. This will be accomplished while creating local business and employment opportunities through the development, harvesting, processing and marketing of raw and prepared wildberry and natural resource products.
SIGN UP NOW FOR YOUR MEMBERSHIP
The Lower North Shore BioProducts Solidarity Coop is structured as a Solidarity Co-operative (multi-stakeholder) consisting of worker members, user members and supporting members (as determined by the Quebec Cooperatives Act). Worker members will be those persons directly employed by the Coop in its operations, such as research, harvesting, processing, and distribution and management. Producer members will be those persons or organizations who engage in transactions with the Coop, such as the sale of raw materials for the processing of natural resource products or contract services. Supporting members will be persons or entities, which will assist the Coop in achieving its objectives through financing, management, expertise, guidance, etc.
The co-operative’s mission: The mission of the Lower North Shore Solidarity Cooperative is to stimulate local economic diversification through the sustainable and added-value exploitation of indigenous wildberries and other natural resources. This will be accomplished while creating local business and employment opportunities through the development, harvesting, processing and marketing of raw and prepared wildberry and natural resource products.