The Watershed Wealth Cooperative (WWC) works with any product manufacturer that uses sustainable botanical materials in their goods. 

WWCs brokers high quality fresh, and where possible local, raw materials for nutraceutical, medicinal, ornamental and edible products and provides marketing and promotion for value added products that use materials from our WWC habitat restoration sites.  If you're a small scale processor, visit our "How it Works" page and read the Small Scale Producers Processor's Perspective for a more descriptive idea of how WWC helps you.

There are currently two main categories of products dealt with by WWC.

WWC Certified Products

Small scale value-added producers (making food, soap, teas, nutraceuticals, or crafts with plant-sourced ingredients) can have the Watershed Wealth Cooperative review and certify their product to carry the Watershed Wealth logo.  This allows the product maker to legitimately claim their product helped restore the environment due to its production if they use WWC materials, or at the least was environmentally neutral and supports the WWC concept.

When your product is WWC Certified, our Coop works to support you in the following ways:

• locates a source of local, certified raw product at a stable price
• your product is sold through the Co-op online store and offered to retailers through the Co-op wholesale distribution system (in addition to your existing sales)
• your product is promoted through WWPs online social networking and advertising, tradeshow appearances and other media campaigns
• you get access to an online resource center for free accounting and other business software
• you get access to informational and educational material including WWC certification courses
• you get access to a Co-op product consultant to help develop your product line, plus branding and promotional material
• the Coop will help you identify or develop a WWC Community Processing Facility to take advantage of more professional equipment in your area

WWC Approved Products

Larger product manufacturers who have well branded products with high sales that do not require Coop support can have their products and processes reviewed and approved by the Coop as environmentally neutral or beneficial.