IN GOLDEN COMPANY is a free association of independent producers, distributors, and consumers. We see it as a model for a new way of doing business. We think IN GOLDEN COMPANY will eventually be one of many independent companies, each working alongside one another. Small at-home "cottage" industries, and independent farmer's, to major suppliers; from store owners, to the customers who order and enjoy these special products, we think will come to see and appreciate the advantages in working independently, but in free association with other independent persons, and companies of persons...for mutual benefit, rather than in opposition or in a harmful competitive manner.

Our venture is just beginning. There really is little to compare it to, so we expect it to take some time to understand how we differ from the familiar ways of doing business.

Each of us working in our association are, first of all, individuals.  The health and satisfaction of each individual involved in our economic activities is our primary mode and mission: the stronger, more capable, and energetic the bodies and spirits of each person within any society becomes, the stronger the society, in our view.  Providing opportunities for individual expression and choice is the beginning and end of our business!  With repeated experience with our products, our sales programs and catalogs, and the enabling power we offer, we think you will soon see what we are about, and want to participate in some way In Golden Company.

Good company is people with whom we like to share our time and energies. Too often doing the things required to supply our needs and wants involves us in activities and relationships we would not necessarily choose, were there other alternatives. The independent persons and companies you find in these pages have freely chosen to work in association to produce, distribute and purchase quality products. Conscious cooperation is our modus operandi. Our end products and services show our attention to quality and the total well being of each of us.

The inter-relatedness of all the roles played within the economic cycle bring to light that what benefits the producer, the distributor, or the consumer is of benefit to each of the others. Our methods of business encourage, not discourage living the Golden Rule. Here, it becomes evident, what I do to others in business, I do to myself as well.

Our accountability and responsibility to others, reciprocating to ourselves, extends also to the Being from whom we take sustenance, Mother Earth. Our organization grows along side a newly developing Human Rights branch which provides guidelines as to the use made of natural resources, and the effects our activities have on the ecology of the planet. We are grateful for the bounty we share, and it is of primal concern that we do not abuse our privileges for the short time we are here. We expect that those who live after us also will appreciate our principles of fair use of our planets resources.

We tend to think of economics as a material, cut and dried matter. As it happens, this realm of human activity is the arena where men and women most often interact, and, oftentimes even of necessity, learn to get along. The by-words Fraternity/Sorority best characterize the humanness of economics, the convivial welfare of men and women being just as important as the provision of things.

Each particular economic activity requires a special and unique base of expertise and knowledge. To produce a ton of wheat requires a different training, experience, and knowledge base required for building a house, or writing a book. The leaders in this economic realm are those who do the best, and know the most, about their own specific field of endeavor, and are, as such, easily recognized, acknowledged, and rewarded as leaders for the superior products and services they provide. The type of consensual authority one gains in our inter-personal/personnel, relationships derives from this respect for expertise, not a power or dominance based on a higher financial or social status.

In fact, not just appearance, each participant in our economic activities is in reality her or his own boss. , Entering all economic transactions as a free Being, each person is head of her or his own business; each with his or her own special individual talents, aspirations, desires and needs. By clear, explicit, mutually agreed upon contracts worked out amongst all the participants in any economic activity (we say EA.), each person operates as, and is, a free agent. To provide for our physical, mental and emotional needs and wants, no person should have to lose one's sense of integrity! The common employee/employer dichotomy is quickly fading in OUR COMPANY.

A new day begins.