The co op will sell any quanity up to an oz a day.

I am a grower and I do OK in terms of weight brought in. I will happily sell an oz. I get a slightly higher price and I put my product out there. Then the quality sells the qt lb on the next go round. So I swipe bussiness from other growers. It's called competition.

You are talking a business here. You don't need new growers. You need a stable of maybe 6 people that do good work. And are willing to work together.

Once again it all comes down to why you are doing this. If you are doing this to make big bucks it won't work. If you are looking to make fair bucks it will.

I thought the goal is to get rid of the middleman, so you become him.
To do that you keep cash on hand to pick up a good deal that drops in your lap, put your posted fixed cost on it and sell it at that price.

Now I know nothing about Washington. But the second It becomes Legal to sell here in Hawaii (my guess in 2 years) I'm going to do something like this.