For U.S. and Canadian food co-operators, including staff, managers, boards of directors and member-owners.

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know where we have come from?

This couldn’t be a more important time to review the history of grocery retail and food cooperatives. As the political and economic paradigms of today swing in a different direction, history offers us clues for what the future might hold.

Join author and co-op storyteller JON STEINMAN to explore the fascinating, frustrating and inspirational history of modern grocery retailing and the waves of food co-op formation that emerged alongside.