Hope's five founders started to come together when Feng Hsiao-fei, who grows organic vegetables in Chungliao, began having conversations with Tao Fan-ying, a teacher in child welfare at Providence University who has long been interested in community development, about how to build marketing channels that would make things easier on farmers.
說起合樸 5 位發起人的聚合，早先是在中寮種植有機柳丁的文人農友馮小非，和長期關注社區產業的靜宜大學兒福系老師陶蕃瀛，一直在思考如何在產銷間建立機制，讓農友走得順利一點。