My local co-op is nearly a hundred years old now and has a combined members land area larger than the United Kingdom:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGjGsyMe_F8

* https://www.cbh.com.au/about-cbh/what-we-do

Thanks to being globally remote and easily isolated and events like WWII and COVID we're picky about having reserves (seed, fuel, grain) in storage to ride out <reasonable levels of shit happening>.