West Georgia Farmer's Cooperative

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West Georgia Farmer's Cooperative West Georgia Farmers' Cooperative, founded in 1966, supports local farms and sustainable agriculture. Sound like a fairy tale?

We offer fresh, locally grown produce, meats, baked goods, and more. Join us for weekly farmers markets and community events! 🌱🍅🥕🚜 Would you like to live in a neighborhood where there are fruit trees on every corner, where everyone that wants a job was able to find one, where there is a thriving community of small businesses, where you can easily feed your family both from the bountiful harvest growing in surrounding pocket farms and from the increased economic opportunities this harvest brings to the entire community? If fairy tales are built on hard work and small steps, then yes. The West Georgia Farmer's Cooperative is the place where we can work to achieve these goals.

10/15/2026
09/25/2026

This cooler weather is practically begging for time outdoors in the fresh autumn air, sipping a coffee, enjoying a seasonal Apple Pie Muffin, and meandering through local markets or shops. You will find all of that and more in Old Town Columbus!!!

🌻 FARMERS MARKET TOMORROW! 🍅🥬

Join us 10AM–2PM with the West Georgia Farmer’s Cooperative for fresh local produce, herbs, flowers, specialty products & more!

🌱 Only 3 markets left this year, come out and support our local Georgia farmers!

💳 EBT accepted

📍3500 Massee Lane, Columbus, GA 31909 - directly in front of The Brick and Mortar Café

Shop local. Eat local. Support local. 💛

Cannon Street Market118 E Cannon St.LaGrange, Ga9/19/2026
09/18/2026

Cannon Street Market
118 E Cannon St.
LaGrange, Ga
9/19/2026

Join us this Saturday at the Cannon Street Market: 118 E Cannon Street; LaGrange, Ga. 30241
09/17/2026

Join us this Saturday at the Cannon Street Market:
118 E Cannon Street; LaGrange, Ga. 30241

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In 1966 a group of Black farmers around Hamilton, in Harris County, got tired of hauling a load to a buyer who set the price and dared them to argue about it. 🚜

So they quit going one at a time. What started as the Harris County Farmers Cooperative became the West Georgia Farmers Cooperative in 1969. The idea was plain and it was nobody's favor: show up with one man's load of purple hull peas and you take whatever they offer you. Show up with everybody's load and you are the one doing the talking.

They moved collards, turnip greens, okra, sweet potatoes and tomatoes. They sold feeder pigs at the Eastman livestock market, ran produce to the Columbus farmers markets and to a frozen food plant over in Montezuma, and put up their own feed mill and storage building out on Highway 27 outside Hamilton. They joined the Federation of Southern Cooperatives so they would not be standing out there alone. 🥬

Fifty years in, they were still at it. That is the part nobody tells you about Black farming in Georgia, that some of it did not get lost. Did your people ever sell through a co-op, or was it always straight to the man at the scale?

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7516 US Highway 27 South
Hamilton, GA
31811

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+17068811249

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