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According to Tuntable Falls, it began with 40 people who pooled their funds and contributed a $200 share to purchase 80 hectares of land.

Now, the co-op boasts 687 hectares of land and 280 shareholders, who are residents and members who hold or rent sites.

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Solidarity economy (SE) is an organizing framework for those who wish to create a systemic commitment to and practice of interdependence and collective liberation in the economic activities that meet our material needs.  Solidarity economy rests on our shared values: cooperation, democracy, social and racial justice, environmental sustainability, and mutualism. Interdependence and respect are central.

We're excited to announce that the 2026 Worker Co-op Conference will be held at Roxbury Community College in Boston, Massachusetts! The theme this year's conference is "Owning Our Future.” We'll explore the ways that cooperative structures expand democratic practice and community resilience, and encourage us to think innovatively to build an economy where workers and communities thrive.

Rehearsing the Future explores the work and legacy of James and Grace Lee Boggs, two of the most influential American radical thinkers of the twentieth century. Grace Lee Boggs earned a PhD in philosophy in the 1940s, though facing obstacles to an academic career as a young Chinese American woman, she left and became a political organizer in Detroit, where she met and married James Boggs, a Black autoworker and labor organizer from Alabama who had moved North during the Great Migration.

The Cooperative World Map (CWM) is an interactive, up-to-date digital map that aims to unite and showcase all cooperative entities worldwide!

Dan Durica has lived at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Missouri for two decades, in a home he built himself out of local straw bale and earth. 

Support work can be isolating. Even in a team, you might find yourself working alone most days, with little time or space to reflect on how things are really going.

At Equal Care, we’ve been developing a different way of doing things - one that values listening over telling, and connection over hierarchy. Peer supervision is a small but important part of that shift.

The sun rises over Petaluma’s hills as Calderon joins the team mixing dough and sending fluffy golden rings down the line to be packaged. He’s been working on the production floor for seven years. At most bakeries in the country it’s likely he would be making around $12 an hour. But his salary hovers around $60,000 per year, on top of stellar health insurance, a 401(k) and a share of the bakery’s profits.

In 2024, the UK’s worker co-op federation, workers.coop, began producing Punchcard – the first podcast dedicated specifically to worker co-operation. More than a year later, the project has produced a catalogue of episodes capturing experiences, lessons and knowledge from across sectors, industries and countries.