CC Grains Part 4:
Uli lives in Olympia, and she is one of the original founders of The Wildrose, Seattle's iconic lesbian bar. According to Wikipedia, in the 1980s when the Wildrose was founded, there were around 200 lesbian bars in the United States, and today there are only around 25. The Wildrose is one of the oldest lesbian bars on the West Coast.
Uli worked at CC Grains as a single mother of 5 young kids, during the chapter of her life that began after looking up "gay" in the Yellow Pages. Her story is amazing!
Seattle was a huge part of the creation of the modern food movement, but so much of that has been lost to history.
Uli 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.”
Photo from https://www.thewildrosebar.com/about-us
