Orientation for navigating complexity, difference, and shared responsibility
Welcome. We’re glad you’re here.
This page is a guide for people arriving at Food For Us for the first time.
Many people find their way here because inherited ways of understanding politics, food, and community no longer match the realities they are navigating.
This page helps you find the door that best fits your role, question, or moment.
1. If you are trying to understand what this work is about…
Start with Post-Partisan Pathways, the core orientation that underlies all of our work.
It introduces:
the conditions this work responds to
what post-partisan practice does and does not do
how cooperation can emerge without consensus
Go to Post-Partisan Pathways
2. If your role involves making, influencing, or implementing decisions within an organization…
You may be navigating polarization, loss of trust, or complexity within organizations or communities. Explore How We Work, to see how this framework translates into strategy, accompaniment, facilitation, and learning.
3. If you are directly involved in food, land, care, or community work…
If you are already organizing, facilitating, or stewarding shared resources under strain, the Full Framework and selected writing may be most useful.
Access the Framework
Browse Field Notes
4. If you are exploring the thinking behind this work…
You can find longer-form writing and reflections through:
Field Notes
The book Feeding the Future: Restoring the Planet and Healing Ourselves
Browse Field Notes
Visit the Substack
5. If you are unsure where to begin…
You are welcome to read, linger, and reach out.
At the Threshold
This is emergent work with no roadmap. What we offer is orientation, practice, and relationship so that people can act with integrity and care while the ground is shifting.
Wherever you’re coming from, we’re grateful you’ve arrived.