Socks

All of the cotton used in all of Maggie’s socks is ginned at a 100% worker-owned cooperative that is run by the farmer co-ops. Once the truckloads of seed cotton arrive at the gin, worker-owners run the equipment and bale the ginned cotton in preparation for shipment to the spinner. Maggie’s has stayed with this project through the early years of trials, even helping to hand-clean the fiber when needed. We pay for all ginned fiber as soon as it is completed, enabling the farmers to reap the harvest of their labor. Establishing long term relationships with our producers and making financial investments in their work is what we call real fair trade.