The Oklahoma Food Cooperative sells only local foods and non-food items produced by its members.  Both customers and producers may be members.  Producers set their own prices, they pay the coop a 10% commission on their sales.  Customers pay a 10% fee on their purchases for buying through the coop.  The price of a member share is $50, plus a $1.75 processing fee, and eveyr member must buy one share.  The coop operates via an online ordering system connected with a mostly volunteer delivery system.  The monthly order opens the first day of the month, and closes the second Thursday. Delivery Day is the 3rd Thursday.  The producers bringtheir products to Oklahoma City, labelled for delivery to their individual customers.  The coop workers sort the products into customer orders and the orders are picked up at 42 pickup sites around the state, mostly located in churches, homes, and other public locations.

The coop's 2009 product sales are expected to total about $700,00.

The coop makes its software available to other local food coops via the general public license system.  The website about the software is http://www.localfoodcoop.org/ .  The coop has helped start ten othern local food coops in other states and Canada by providing its software, and by providing information about our experienc, by providing speakers, by providing workshops/training for organizers, by email, and by allowing teams from other areas to visit one of our delivery days.

 The coop's website is http://www.oklahomafood.coop .  Information for organizing campaigns is at http://www.oklahomafood.coop/organizing.php . Other local food coops following the "Oklahoma Plan" are linked at http://www.oklahomafood.coop/otherstates.php .

The coop was recently profiled in the Wallace Center Study of community food enterprises -- http://www.communityfoodenterprise.org/ ,