SEQUIM — An agricultural consortium found the fast track to raising seed money, and they’re looking forward to planting it in all the right places.
Less than a year after its inception, the Sequim Growers Cooperative Inc. landed a prized federal grant of $85,000 it can use toward marketing endeavors, which is precisely the nature of the 20-member group formed last February.
“I’m just really pleased,” said Tom Mix, owner of The Cutting Garden and president of the cooperative.
“This is a very young business, and we haven’t got much of a track record. The fascinating thing is that the government is bending over backwards to get these new agricultural businesses going,” Mix said.
The cooperative complements — not competes with — the more established Sequim Lavender Growers Association, many of whose members have also signed on to the cooperative.
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The rest of the story appears in the Monday Peninsula Daily News.