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Portland Food Coop

Over 5000 Member-Owners Strong

The Portland Food Co-op is a thriving, member-owned marketplace that strengthens the local food economy while building and nourishing community.

Tootie's Tempeh

Tootie’s Tempeh™ is a worker-owned consumer foods cooperative innovating tempeh—a high protein, plant-based food.

Community-owned market and cafe since 1976. Belfast Co-op strives to offer a wide selection of products that are organically produced and locally-sourced, at reasonable prices, to support healthy lifestyles

Fare Share Food Cooperative

Owned by 480 Member-Owner families and a total membership of over 600.

Blue Hill Co-op

Serving local & organic since 1974

Cooperative Fund of New England

Growing Co-ops since 1975. Since 1975, the Cooperative Fund of New England has successfully disbursed over $58 million in almost 1,000 loans to cooperatives.

Cooperative Development Institute

We envision a democratically owned and just economy where everyone can fulfill their needs and aspirations.

Raise Op

If our buildings are the bricks, then our relationships are the mortar, and our mission is the foundation upon which everything rests.

Rock City

Providing great coffee, food, live music, and community in Rockland, Maine, for 25 years.

Island Employee Cooperative

Providing great coffee, food, live music, and community in Rockland, Maine, for 25 years.

W.J. Wheeler Insurance

A trusted name since 1864, W.J. Wheeler Insurance Agency has spent over a century working for you, our valued clients, but open to suggestions.

Isuken Co-op

Isuken is the first Somali Bantu farm to table cooperative food truck.

PROJECT CO+OP

PROJECT CO+OP specializes in building design, urban design, community planning, product design, and sustainability.

Gardiner Food Co-op

The Gardiner Food Co-op is a consumer-owned cooperative working to bring Maine food to Maine tables.

Cabot Creamery Co-op

Cabot Creamery Co-operative has been in operation since 1919, making a full line of award-winning cheddar cheese and dairy products. Cabot is owned by 800 dairy farm families throughout New England and New York. As a co-operative and certified B Corp, Cabot is committed to the planet, its people, and returning profits to the farmer owners.

Owning Maine’s Future

Opportunities and policies for growing a cooperative economy in Maine.

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Maine can create a prosperous, equitable economy where all of us—young and old, new and longstanding—can fulfill our needs and aspirations.

Working together, we can create an economy that generates more wealth and security for more Mainers, promotes entrepreneurship and innovation, and roots ownership more deeply in our communities.

Owning Maine’s Future shows the potential for cooperative and employee ownership to strengthen Maine’s economy and highlights legislation we can advocate for in this legislative session to build a locally-owned and controlled economy in our state.

News

RISING TIDE CO-OP

RISING TIDE CO-OP When I told my 13 year old daughter I was heading up to Damariscotta to visit with Heather Burt and Alex Zipparo at Rising Tide...

Cooperative Development in Action: A Lewiston Community Food Center

LEWISTON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTERA vision for a Community Food Center was developed through the Local Foods Local Places Community Planning process in...