Maine Co-ops
Cooperative Maine Business Alliance Members
Belfast Co-op
Belfast Community Co-op is a community-owned market and café since 1976. It is their mission and pleasure to bring locally-sourced, reasonably priced, organic and natural products to all. Read more…
Tootie's Tempeh
Tootie’s Tempeh™ is a worker-owned consumer foods cooperative innovating tempeh—a high protein, plant-based food. Read more…
Blue Hill Co-op
We are a welcoming, vibrant community of Owners guided by our belief in the importance of healthful, honest food options. Through cooperative principles we support our economy by sourcing locally, and by providing education on food, environmental and social issues. Read more…
Raise Op
If our buildings are the bricks, then our relationships are the mortar, and our mission is the foundation upon which everything rests.
O'Donal's Nursery
O’Donal’s Nursery, originally established in the 1850s, has been a cornerstone of Maine’s horticulture for over a century.
Portland Food Co-op
Island Employee Cooperative
Employee owned since 2014. Dedicated to creating good jobs for island residents, to providing the highest quality service for our customers, and supporting the island community.
Fare Share Food Coop
Fare Share Food Cooperative was founded in 1978.
OUR VISION is a cooperative, welcoming, sustainable, and resilient food hub that educates, inspires, and serves a diverse local community. Read more.
Zero Energy Homes
Zero Energy Homes is an employee-owned cooperative that offer off-site modular construction using Maine materials and lean manufacturing strategies. Read More…
Celebration Tree Farm and Wellness Center
Celebration Tree Farm and Welness Center is a Southern Maine’s certified organic tree farm that converted to a multi-stakeholder cooperative in 2020.
Wheelers Insurance
At Wheelers Insurance, we help clients compare and save on insurance coverage and pricing with dependable service and reliable advice so together, we can protect what matters most.
Good Tern Co-op
The Good Tern Co-op in Rockland, Maine, began as a buying club in 1980 and has since grown into a member-owned natural food cooperative.
Marsh River Co-op
The Marsh River Cooperative was established in 2014 as a consumer and producer member agricultural cooperative and opened a retail storefront in August 2014. Its focus is on promoting and selling food and other goods produced within a 10-mile radius of the Co-op, at an affordable price. Read more…
Rock City Roasters and Cafe
To preserve a community institution and a great place to work, business owner Susanne Ward is selling Rock City Roasters and Cafe to the people who helped build it — the employees — with the help of the Cooperative Development Institute. Watch the video.
Rising Tide Co-op
Rising Tide Co-op is a cooperatively-owned natural grocery serving Midcoast Maine since 1978, “…dedicated to being a trusted community-based resource for high-quality, natural, sustainable foods & goods.” Read more…
Fedco
Fedco Seeds is a worker and consumer multi-stakeholder cooperative started in 1978. They currently employ over 50 people and are one of the largest suppliers of trees, seeds, bulbs, tubers and garden supplies to farmers and gardeners in Maine. Read more…
PROJECT CO+OP
PROJECT CO+OP specializes in building design, urban design, community planning, product design, and sustainability. We work with clients who wish to commission us for projects aligned with our values and generate our own projects based on the same.
Maine Community Power Cooperative
Maine Community Power Cooperative, formed in 2023, empowers local communities to take control of their energy future through a member-owned cooperative model.
Maine Farm and Sea Cooperative
Maine Farm & Sea Cooperative was formed in 2015 to change the conversation about how we can provide locally grown, raised, harvested and processed food to our universities, schools, hospitals, nursing homes and other institutions. Read more…
Cabot Creamery
The Cabot Creamery Co-operative story reaches back to 1919, when a group of 94 dairy farmers in the area of Cabot, Vermont joined forces to turn their excess milk into butter. The cost to join was $5 per cow, plus a cord of wood to fuel the boiler. Read more…
CMBA Support Organization Members
Cooperative Fund of New England
Since 1975, the Cooperative Fund of New England has successfully disbursed over $58 million in almost 1,000 loans to mostly cooperatives across New England, including over $4.2 million to 18 co-ops in Maine since 2011. Read more.
Columinate
Our network of consultants share resources, provide referrals, and lend counsel to move you and your organization forward. Whatever your focus, Columinate will prepare your organization to make an impact close to home and around the world.
Cooperative Development Institute
We envision a democratically owned and just economy where everyone can fulfill their needs and aspirations
Other Maine Co-ops
Stonington Lobster Co-op
Starting with just 15 fishermen in 1948, the Stonington Lobster Co-op is now a central piece of social and economic infrastructure in the community. Read more.
Wardtown ROC
Wardtown is one of more than 192 manufactured home parks in the country that have converted to resident ownership. Read more.