This Project will improve the lives of the Hispanic/Latino community in the greater New Orleans area in many ways including health, welfare and income by helping families to grow their own ethnic food; by replacing imported products from locally grown produce; and by producing food that is more affordable, fresh and easily available.

Educate the Community 

Assist local county extension personnel, organic inspectors, and State agencies identify, prioritize and implement conventional/organic production and risk factors in Southeast Louisiana. Create bilingual resources and educational tools related to agriculture at the local level; create opportunities to increase household incomes; help members to acquire farmland for their own agricultural businesses. Help farmers to understand farming management risks. Increase capacity of small-scale farm owners/operators within the Hispanic community. 

Help the Environment 

Encourage biodiversity and landscape options by small, independent farmers in urban areas. This diversification reduces soil degradation, and erosion turning farmland into places for habit of wildlife. Support small-scale local farms protect the environment as food does not have to travel far away. This reduces carbon dioxide emissions and packing materials. 

Increase Food Quality and Diversification 

Keep consumers in control of food quality by choosing safe food from farmers that uses less chemicals, pesticides or genetically modified seeds in their operations. Offer local community a variety of tasty produce rather that offer produce that can have longer shelf life. Food grown locally in small-scale operations is fresher and taste better than food that is produced with factory farm practice and that have traveled long distance from other states and countries. Provide new sources of non-traditional crops to its shoppers and a place for Latino shoppers where can purchase fresh local fruits and vegetables.

Promote Community Development 

Promote community involvement and build relationships based on understanding and trust. Food that is grown locally it is also purchased locally keeping monies within the community and empowered the community to control their food system chain. Help to make local farming more profitable and selling farmland for commercial development less attractive. Increase economic development among other local businesses that provide supplies, building material, equipment, fuel, utilities, advertising to the Cooperative. 

Make Community Strong

Support small-scale family farms which is crucial at this point in time. Each dollar spent or invested in local farming goes directly to the preservation of family farming traditions currently in endangered. Family farms will continue to strengthen a community making healthy food available for generations to come. Many studies across the U.S. have shown that 1 percent of consumer expenditures to local food products would increase farmer's income by 5 percent. 

Foster Culture and Social Justice

 Promote community development by maintaining a connection to their culture, heritage, food and music between past and the present. Hispanic/Latino immigrants while living in urban cities continue to have a love connection for their agriculture roots. Building upon those skills and knowledge, Hispanic communities can build pride and teach young generations about culture, and tradition. Promoting social justices by encourage people to protect human right and by engage people in social justice causes using low-level meetings with specific governments, and letter writing campaign.