Strengthening community capacity for regenerative, relational, post-partisan practice

Food For Us supports people, institutions, and communities as they navigate ecological disruption, political fragmentation, and shifting cultural landscapes. Our work focuses on strengthening the material, relational, and governance capacities needed to cultivate food democracy during a time of civilizational threshold.

Rather than offering one-size-fits-all solutions, we help communities develop the practices, relationships, and structures that allow them to collaborate across difference, steward their local food systems, and respond creatively to uncertainty.

Our contributions take four primary forms:

Learning & Capacity Building

We design educational experiences that help individuals and organizations deepen their understanding of food systems, regeneration, and the dynamics of navigating difference in complex environments.

Offerings include:

• Courses on regenerative food systems, ecological worldviews, and community resilience

• Workshops on material-stakes collaboration, systems thinking, and post-partisan practice

• Talks and keynotes for universities, conferences, foundations, and community gatherings

Our teaching emphasizes embodied practice, grounded analysis, and tools that can be adapted to diverse local contexts.

Strategy & Accompaniment

We work alongside foundations, universities, NGOs, coalitions, and community-led initiatives to help them:

• Integrate regenerative and relational principles into their programs

• Build cross-sector and cross-worldview collaborations

• Develop strategies that are contextually grounded and ecologically aligned

• Strengthen local governance and cross-partisan capacity

This work blends systems analysis, ecological thinking, organizational development, and community practice—always tailored to the unique conditions of place.

Facilitation & Convening

Across the political and cultural landscape, many people share the same material stakes but struggle to work together due to epistemic fragmentation or ideological tension. We help create the conditions for collaboration by offering:

• facilitated gatherings focused on material reality rather than ideological debate

• structured processes that restore trust through shared investigation and stewardship

• spaces where farmers, policymakers, scientists, faith leaders, organizers, and residents can work together on food, water, land, and health

Our facilitation is guided by discernment, care for vulnerable communities, and an ethos of shared responsibility.

Narrative, Writing & Public Scholarship

Food For Us helps transform the stories we tell about food, health, land, and democracy—stories that shape policy, culture, and imagination. This includes:

• narrative strategy for organizations and coalitions

• public-facing essays and media contributions

• research translation that bridges science, policy, and community wisdom

• communications that resonate across political and worldview divides

This narrative work supports broader cultural shifts toward regeneration, ecological responsibility, and shared stewardship.