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One foot in the present, another in the future: Food Coops

Originally published: Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life on January 1, 2022 by Jonah Raskin (more by Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life) (Posted Jan 19, 2022)

The San Francisco Bay Area loves cooperatives, aka coops, which were invented in 1844 when the Rochdale Pioneers in Lancashire, England banded together to help themselves and their community.