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• The Boston Globe, July 5, 2007
  Making Agriculture a Community Effort
  This story highlights some of the benefits and challenges of running a CSA. World PEAS is highlighted as a model, which helps farmers solve practical problems.
  
  
• Press Release, March 19th, 2007
  "World PEAS Cooperative Announces Collaboration with UTEC Fresh Roots Program to Serve the Greater Lowell Community".
  World PEAS Cooperative ("WPC") teams up with United Team Equality Center, a safe-haven program for youth development and grassroots organizing. WPC will mentor the youth in nursery management, specialized crop cultivation, and agricultural produce marketing. In turn, UTEC Fresh Roots program will sell its surplus through WPC, and also make its commercial kitchen available for use by WTC farmers to add value to their products.
  
  
• The Boston Globe, August 31, 2006
  Market Values
  A Boston Globe journalist visits the Revere Beach farmers' market, in Revere, Massachusetts where she finds New Entry farmer Visoth Kim selling his ethnic produce in a multicultural setting. Kim was asked to participate in the market by the market organizers in order to accommodate the different ethnic backgrounds in Revere.

Whole Foods Market Features WPC in 2006 Promotional Materials

World PEAS Cooperative sells to a number of wholesale outlets, including Whole Foods market, of Framingham, MA. In 2006, Whole Foods Market featured the World PEAS Cooperative in two of its promotional materials. Whole Foods developed both a World PEAS Cooperative poster, and a brochure featuring World PEAS Cooperative.