CC Grains Part 5:
Nancy currently lives in Southern California in a tiny home and remains passionate about local organic food. From Seattle to Hawaii to California, her CC Grains story is a truly remarkable coming-of-age story. A brave story that weaves together spiritual and sexual identity, health, friendship, and womanhood.
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Seattle was a huge part of the creation of the modern food movement, but so much of that has been lost to history.
Nancy was a pioneering member of Cooperative Community Grains or CC Grains in the 1970s. It was one part of the larger Seattle Workers’ Brigade.
CC Grains was an all-womyn’s food distributor warehouse distributing organic and natural foods to co-ops, buying clubs and natural foods stores ranging from Alaska to Montana, centered in Seattle, WA.
It was part of the Alternative Economic System, and was a crucial link in developing the organic food industry.
The Seattle Worker’s Brigade, “A worker collective, that was worker self-managed and women-owned" was "explicitly anti-corporate, alternative, their motto was “Food for People, Not for Profit.”
