Our Food Hubs, Farms & Partners
A Regional Cooperative Network
We are a network of farmer‐owned cooperative food hubs and partner organizations that share supply, services, and infrastructure to serve markets across Montana and Washington. By working together, we create economic opportunity for our 200+ farmers and local food producers and expand access to fresh, healthy food for communities.
Puget Sound Food Hub Cooperative (Mount Vernon, WA)
Puget Sound Food Hub is farmer-owned cooperative food hub based in northwest Washington whose mission is to support and champion local, family-scale farms by providing a direct connection to customers seeking fresh, local food. Our 50+ farmer-members are committed to supporting the legacy of agriculture in our communities and upholding our shared values of cooperation that sustain that legacy.
LINC Foods (Spokane, WA)
The Local Inland Northwest Cooperative (LINC) Foods is a worker- and farmer-owned food hub serving farmers and communities across Eastern Washington. Our mission is to build a sustainable food system by linking local farmers to new markets and delivering the highest quality products to our customers on the basis of democratic enterprise. As the geographic center of Northwest Food Hub Network, our food hub serves as the gateway for producers seeking to break into regional markets from Montana to the Pacific Coast.
Western Montana Growers Cooperative (Missoula, MT)
Western Montana Growers Cooperative is a cooperative of farmers and local food producers in the Flathead, Jocko, Mission, and Bitterroot Valleys. We improve our food system by enhancing the sustainability of local farms and contributing to local economic growth while reducing the amount of produce shipped here from long distances away. We’re the longest-standing member of the Network, bringing 20+ years of experience building deep, lasting relationships with our customers across Montana, Idaho, and Eastern Washington.
Know Your Farmer
After years of collaborating informally, our founding food hubs started working together in 2019 to offer institutional customers a simpler way to sustainably source local food. The disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic gave us all the more reason to shorten the supply chain by bringing community members closer to their local farms.
Our intercooperative model delivers the volume and variety of goods that institutions need without comprising on quality and freshness. We offer a single point of contact for sourcing from 200+ local food producers. Everything we sell is source-identified, meaning that you can trace the impact of your purchases and trust that every dollar is reinvested in your local farms and communities.
Supporting Project Partners
From project management and food processing to marketing services and technology, our project partners provide the critical infrastructure that we need to thrive. These partners listen closely to the frontline perspective of farmers and food hub staff to deliver innovative solutions that put our cooperative network on equal footing with our competitors.
Mission West Community Development Partners is a non-profit organization based in Ronan, MT committed to strengthening our regional food system as a pillar of sustainable economic development for underserved rural communities. Our USDA-designated cooperative development center acquired the Regional Food Systems Partnership grant that launched the Network in 2021. We’re the central coordinating entity for the Network and operate the Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center, a USDA-inspected facility that serves as our regional food processing hub. Our expert staff and infrastructure enable us to offer a full plate of locally sourced value-added products in the Network’s catalog.
Kitchen Sync Strategies is the dedicated sales representative for the network. We work with institutions committed to enhancing the positive impact of their food purchases. We help food service management offer the locally, sustainably, and equitably sourced products that match the values of the institution. We intimately understand the standards of many purchasing pledges and meet institutions where they are along their process of achieving them. Using our network of food hubs, we give you a single contact to find the local products that help your institution be a leader in values-based procurement.
Local Food Marketplace brings communities closer to their farms and the food they grow. The platform offers a shared venue for farmers, food hubs, and consumers to source and sell local food with complete farm-to-fork transparency. The LFM team works collaboratively with our members to provide visibility into the places, practices, and people behind our products. This means making it simple for our source farms to share up-to-the minute product availability while supporting seamless supply coordination across the Network. For customers, LFM offers a one-stop shop for all their local sourcing needs—from purchasing and order management to through values-based data reporting.