This post is part of our Artisan Profiles series, promoting authentic artisans and their products. Artisans: get your store featured by joining our free Buy… Read More »Artisans Profile: Stella NC Works
Three intertwined policies – a trinity – form the foundation of our unique, multi-stakeholder, community-owned business structure. As any woodworker knows, a 3-legged stool is… Read More »The Policy Trinity Supporting Our Co-op
It is graduation season! After many years of dedicated studying, students are preparing to move onward, armed with the knowledge and experience that they learned… Read More »4 Handmade Gifts for Graduation
In this post, we’re sharing our rules of engagement: our cooperative bylaws. In enacting the bylaws, we also had to appoint an interim board and… Read More »Our Bylaws & Board
In this post, we’re presenting the details of our innovative Points & Tiers policy. The purpose of the Points & Tiers system is to incentivize… Read More »Our Points & Tiers Policy
In order to learn more about “the workmanship of risk” from our handmade policy, we spoke to a few artisans from the co-op about their… Read More »The Risk of Making Things by Hand