Crew · Five worker-owners · Equal shares
Five of us, all worker-owners. We rotate the after-hours dispatch each March. We meet for shop business the first Wednesday of each month, in the back of the bench room, with coffee from Jasper Grey across the street.
Master electrician · co-founder · 2026 dispatch
Master electrician · heritage rewire lead
Journeyman · microhydro & off-grid lead
Master electrician · 2026 after-hours rotation · soft-start specialist
Joined the crew in 2017 from Hyde Park; bought into the cooperative in 2020. Skye runs the J-02 dairy work and is on the after-hours rotation through March 2027. Outside the shop, Skye is the volunteer dispatcher for the Hardwick Rescue Squad and a member of the Cabot Community Association.
Journeyman · sugarhouse work · apprentice mentor
Joined as an apprentice in 2018; passed the journeyman exam in 2022; bought into the cooperative in 2025. Joseph grew up on a Plainfield dairy and brings that vocabulary to every dairy and sugarhouse call. Currently mentoring our open-position apprentice search for the June 2026 start.
Five equal shares, one vote each. The bylaws require unanimous consent for: hiring a new owner, taking on debt over $40,000, accepting a job over $100,000 in scope, or changing the rate sheet by more than 10% in a single year. Everything else is simple-majority. The shop has called for a unanimous vote three times in twelve years; all three votes were unanimous. We are deliberate about which decisions need that level of buy-in.
The annual cycle is documented on the colophon and in the April almanac entry. New apprentices and the path to ownership are on the careers page.
Because when you call us, we want you to know which person you might get on the phone, which person might show up, and which person was on the previous job we did at the property next door. The five of us know each customer's panel; we don't have a customer service queue you'll cycle through. Continuity is part of what the cooperative is for.