Ever'man Cooperative Grocery & Cafe of Pensacola, Florida, was founded in 1973 by a group of people who wanted to have access to wholesome, nutritious food at a reasonable cost.
Wheatsville Co-op (Guadalupe) in Austin, Texas, offers a full range of organic and natural foods, a wide selection of locally produced products, as well as traditional American staple foods.
The Ypsilanti Food Cooperative in Ypsilanti, Michigan, began like most food co-ops, as a buying club organized by volunteers that outgrew its borrowed church basements.
The mission of the Willimantic Food Co-op — community-based, member-owned retail consumer cooperative in Willimantic, Connecticut — is to provide nutritious, local, high quality, affordable foods and other products.
What began in 1972 as a community-based experiment in radical collaboration through grassroots food sourcing, distribution and sharing, the Isla Vista Food Cooperative has grown into a legitimate force in the local foods movement in Santa Barbara County and beyond.