Food as the Foundation A nation’s strength begins with how its people eat. This isn’t poetry—it’s economic and public health reality. When communities lose control over their food systems, everything else becomes precarious: health declines, wealth extracts, relationships fragment, and resilience evaporates. Food cooperatives represent a fundamentally different approach to organizing our most basic need,Continue reading “The Cooperative Economy In-Depth: Food Sovereignty, Basic Needs, and National Prosperity”