The Students' cooperative Matija Gubec from the Primary School Matija Gubec in Gornja Stubica, was founded on January 14^th 1987. The cooperative had a photo-cinema section, vegetable and fruit growing sections, and its own shop named Štacun. Among other activities, the shop supplied more than 600 pupils with textbooks and all other materials.

When in 1990, the founder and the head of the cooperative and chemistry and biology professor Željko Popović retired, the cooperative ceased with its operations. The orchard, however, was maintained through various means until the cooperative was reactivated.

Today, the students' cooperative has 151 members – the primary school students, 10 sections, and 10 section leaders:

• Fruit growing section (section leader: Štefanija Boletek-Mihaljevski, chemistry teacher),
• Ethnographic section (section leader: Armina Rod, homeroom teacher),
• Photo section (section leader: Marko Mihaljinec, science and technology teacher),
• Art section (section leader: Božena Lacković, homeroom teacher and art teacher),
• Titrica section (section leader: Magdalena Bajs, homeroom teacher),
• Embroiderers (section leader: Snježana Glogač, homeroom teacher),
• Klinček section (section leaders: Natalija Ciglenečki and Draženka Kušan, homeroom teachers)
• Florists' section (section leader: Željka Franjković, homeroom teacher)
• Puppetry section Obločeki (section leader: Magda Sinković, homeroom teacher)

The President of the Students' Cooperative Matija Gubec is the school principal, professor Sanja Knezić, the Secretary is the homeroom teacher Bernarda Razum; and the school janitor, Jadranko Kosec, is an external associate.

Currently, the cooperative has at its disposal 6,500 m² of land with 330 apple trees.

The cooperative also has its own tools and machinery necessary for tillage and fruit protection.