Free AI Website BuilderName: Zeromile
Location: Allegheny County, PA
Founded: 2025 (launch year)
Structure: Community & Producer Cooperative
Mission: To create an equitable, self-sustaining food system by removing barriers in food production, supporting small producers, and expanding community access to healthy local food.
Website: zeromile.community
Social Media: @ZeroMileMarket (IG) | LinkedIn
Contact: info@zeromile.community | (412) 449-9023
Zeromile is building a community-rooted food ecosystem that challenges traditional power structures and puts resources back into the hands of the people. By combining a member co-op (buyers club model) with a producer co-op (shared kitchen and retail space), we create a space where food producers and community members co-create solutions for food access, economic sovereignty, and mutual support.
We aim to be a replicable model—a blueprint for other neighborhoods to adapt based on their needs and local producers.
👥 Member Co-op
Bulk buying power = reduced cost local food
Discounts on co-op products & kitchen/event space
Supports the operations of Zeromile directly
🍓 Producer Co-op
Affordable kitchen space for small food producers
Shared sourcing & back-end services
Retail space + collaborative revenue-sharing opportunities
🌱 Community Programs
Pay-What-You-Can Dinners & events funded by the community
Value-Added Product Collaborations using local bumper crops
Zero Waste-to-Table scrap food repurposing
Community Preserves & Pantry Programs
Apprenticeship-to-Producer Pathways
Kitchen Pop-Ups & Educational Workshops
The current food system is costly, inaccessible, and inefficient. Zeromile is flipping that script. Our cooperative model builds equity and capacity from the ground up, by redistributing opportunity and prosperity—not just food. Food is a right, period. Our approach leverages collaboration, coordination, and capital to create new structures of support that can live beyond traditional funding cycles and move into true self-sustainability.
Zeromile founders and producer members are available for interviews.
Topics We Speak On:
Food sovereignty and mutual aid
Fermentation and Food
Solidarity economies in action
Building community-owned infrastructure
Decentralizing food production
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