Marko

The idea for the food cooperatives was the same as the Farmer's Market, but the food would be bought for a dozen to two dozen households, who signed up with seed-money in advance - like twenty dollars. Different teams took turns to take orders for food by phone on Thursday night using order forms. Another team went and bought the food at the Farmer's market. And someone set up a pick up spot in their garage, on Anderson Street on the South-side of Bernal Heights. On Saturday morning the households would go and pick up their food and pay for it. It was a great deal, and we would eat for a week on fifteen dollars, including fresh Salmon. This idea spread city wide I believe and eventually it graduated into the Community Corner Stores, one of which was at Powers and Coleridge Streets in the neighborhood.

There was needed wood to set up side-tables in the garage to hold the groceries for pick-up over on Anderson Street. It got rumored around that some of the more radical set, stole wood from someone's yard over on Courtland Avenue, and that someone was pretty angry. It could be called maybe co-option, or the premise that it is OK to co-opt other people's property, for a good and worthy purpose as better use. This was a prevalent attitude within a certain set of the more radical element of which Marko and SusieQ may or may not have been a part. I had done it myself when I co-opted wood for my potters wheels from the construction site at Army and Bayshore. However in my case it was used wood and I didn't think they would ever use it again. I had to scrape cement off of it.

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