Pilot Venture Launches
Members join, pay annual fee, and optionally buy shares. Capital pool funds the first venture — starting with the buying club.
A cooperative incubator. We launch community-owned businesses across every necessity — food, transportation, energy, and beyond. Necessities at cost. Luxury carries profit. Built by the 99%, for the 99%.
See the Ventures How It WorksEvery necessity of modern life — food, heat, getting to work, staying connected — is controlled by companies that profit off your need to survive.
The groceries you need carry a 25-40% markup. The car you need to get to work costs $9,000+/year to own. The power that heats your home is a profit center for shareholders.
What if we built all of that — owned by the people who use it?
NFG isn't a single business. It's an incubator that launches community-owned cooperatives — one for each sector where greed currently extracts from people.
Every necessity of modern life is a target. Food, transport, energy, housing, communication — anything people need to survive and participate.
Start small with the community. Bulk buying club, group carshare, shared solar — prove the model works before scaling. Member capital funds it.
Once a pilot is self-sustaining, it becomes its own cooperative business unit under the NFG umbrella. Workers, members, and investors each have a seat.
Profit from each venture flows back: 30% to workers, 20% to community dividends, 10% capped investor return, 35% growth reserve, 5% community impact. The cycle fuels the next venture.
Each venture targets one necessity. They launch in sequence — each one's surplus helps fund the next. This isn't a buying club with a wishlist. It's a roadmap to community ownership of everything you need.
The pilot. Members pool purchasing power for food, hygiene, and household necessities. Bulk orders, farm-direct meat splitting, wholesale group runs. Necessities at cost — no markup.
A community-owned carshare and e-scooter program — like Modo, but owned by the people who use it. Book a car by the hour for groceries, appointments, errands. Grab an e-scooter for short trips. No private equity, no surge pricing, no extraction.
Community-owned energy. Start with group buying of heating oil/propane at bulk rates. Scale to shared solar installations, battery storage, and eventually a community microgrid. Keep warm without funding shareholders.
Every necessity is a future venture. Community land trust for affordable housing. Member-owned internet/phone co-op. Bulk clothing and basics. The pipeline doesn't stop until every thing you need to survive is owned by the community that uses it.
These are the things every human needs to survive and live with dignity. They should flow at cost — no one should profit off someone's need to eat, stay warm, or get to work. Each one is a future NFG venture.
Venture 1 — Buying Club. Staples, fresh produce, protein, dairy.
Clean drinking water. Accessible to all, always.
Community land trust. Housing as a right, not an investment.
Venture 3 — NFG Energy. Heating, electricity, community solar.
Venture 1 — bulk hygiene at cost. Soap, medicine, menstrual products.
Basic, durable essentials. Not fashion — function.
Venture 2 — CarShare + E-Scooter. Mobility without car ownership.
Member-owned internet & phone co-op. Coming.
Each venture launches, proves the model, and generates surplus. That surplus funds the next venture. The cycle doesn't stop until every necessity is community-owned.
Members join, pay annual fee, and optionally buy shares. Capital pool funds the first venture — starting with the buying club.
The venture provides a necessity at cost. Food at 25-50% less. Carshare at a fraction of ownership. Heating at bulk rates. The savings prove the model.
Word spreads. More people join for the savings. More members = more capital = more leverage with suppliers = lower costs.
When a venture is self-sustaining, its surplus doesn't go to shareholders. It funds the next venture in the pipeline — carshare, then energy, then housing.
30% worker profit share, 20% community dividends, 10% capped investor return, 35% growth reserve, 5% community impact. Everyone wins — not just the top.
↻ The cycle repeats. Each venture strengthens the next. The community owns more of what it needs. Less money extracts to shareholders. More stays home.
Real businesses in the Moncton / Dieppe area that the buying club (Venture 1) is connecting with. This list grows as NFG builds relationships.
Direct-from-farm purchasing. Bulk meat splitting, seasonal produce, farm-gate pricing.
Bulk purchasing power. Restaurant-grade quantities at wholesale prices.
Existing community food networks and farmers' markets.
Soap, toothpaste, menstrual products, basic medicine, first aid. Dignity in bulk.
Note: This is a living list. We're actively reaching out to these suppliers to negotiate near-cost pricing for NFG members. Know a local supplier we should add? Tell us.
Membership is the engine. You join for the savings. You stay for the ownership. Your fees fund the ventures. Your participation runs them.
The honest answers.
NFG is a cooperative incubator. We launch community-owned businesses — one for each necessity of modern life. The buying club is first (food, hygiene, household). Carshare + e-scooter is next (transportation). Then energy (heating, solar, microgrid). Then housing, communication, and beyond. Each venture is its own co-op under the NFG umbrella. Surplus from one funds the next.
Costco gives you individual bulk access. NFG gives you collective ownership. The buying club is just venture #1 — Costco can't launch a carshare, build a solar microgrid, or start a community land trust. NFG does all of that. And Costco's profit goes to shareholders. NFG's surplus goes back to workers, members, and the community — then funds the next venture.
The average car sits parked 95% of the time. Owning one costs $9,000+/year in payments, insurance, gas, maintenance, and depreciation. Most households need a car for errands and appointments — not all day, every day. A community carshare means you book a car when you actually need one, pay for the hours you use, and split the cost across dozens of households. Like Modo in BC, but owned by you and your neighbours.
No. NFG is a for-profit enterprise — every venture must be financially self-sustaining. The difference is who gets the surplus: workers (30%), community members (20%), investors capped (10%), growth reserve (35%), community impact (5%). Profit serves people, not the other way around.
Share purchases form NFG's capital pool. That capital is invested in launching ventures and in local suppliers — pre-purchasing inventory, funding equipment, buying a shared vehicle, installing solar. Investors earn a capped return (5-8% annually) and get voting rights. The capital cycles — it doesn't get extracted.
Each venture is a separate co-op business unit, but they share the NFG umbrella: common membership, shared governance, and a unified surplus waterfall. The buying club proves the model and generates trust + capital. That capital helps launch the carshare. The carshare's surplus helps launch energy. Each venture makes the next one easier — and every member benefits from all of them.
Now. We're recruiting the first 5-10 members in the Moncton/Dieppe area for the buying club (Venture 1), scouting local suppliers, and planning the first bulk order. Carshare planning begins once the buying club is self-sustaining. The sooner you join, the sooner the cycle starts turning.