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REGENERATING THE  LAND & FOOD SYSTEM


“What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century - a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of nature and culture and to keep the good and artful examples before us." 
— Wes Jackson, from Native To This Place

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HEADING INTO THE SIXTH PLANETARY EXTINCTION


Regenerative Communities Network Costa Rica Hub Leader Eduard Müller speaks frankly about what humanity urgently needs to do. 

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HAWTHORNE VALLEY — GROWING DEEPER IN PLACE


Over the past 45 years, The Hawthorne Valley Association has been quietly demonstrating what it truly means to commit to live and work in harmony with all natural systems, guided by a spirit of reciprocity and mutuality. 

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HUDSON VALLEY FARMER’S REFLECT


A healing relationship with the land has been the basis of Hawthorne Valley's Biodynamic approach to farming for over 40 years. HV farmers speak of the challenges and rewards of this work.

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DESIGNING THE GREATER HUDSON RIVER VALLEY FOODWAYS


How people and programs are co-creating the Greater Hudson Valley farm-to-institution pipeline.

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NUTS FOR NUTS




Meet 3 pioneering greater Hudson Valley farmers who believe that one day nuts will provide the basis of a new, ecologically restorative agricultural polyculture, replacing corn and soybean monocultures. 

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HOT BREAD KITCHEN




Under NYC's Metro North Railroad's elevated tracks, hope is rising along with what's baking in the ovens as women acquire skills to launch careers and fledging entrepreneurs grow businesses in one of the world's most competitive food capitals.

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TAMAR GROW LOCAL




Building on the Tamar River Valley's rich agricultural history, Tamar Grow Local's goal is to revitalize the local food economy by addressing the barriers to enterprise success experienced by small-scale farmers in this Southwest region of England.

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EPLESLANG




A self-sustaining social enterprise that turns the untapped potential of underutilized human resources and wasted local assets into productive work and a product of community value.

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UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF PLACE IN THE BRANDYWINE VALLEY


A course at Schumacher College in South Devon, England, on bioregionalism and the story of place led Mark Phillips to examine how Pennsylvania's Brandywine River Valley has been shaped by human habitation. 

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THE REDD ON SALMON STREET



The Redd on Salmon Street—located in the Central Eastside industrial district of Portland, Oregon—is a food hub unlike any other, and with a wildly ambitious mission: to make regeneratively produced, locally sourced food a mainstay of the regional diet.

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BED-STUY FRESH & LOCAL



A new-generation corner grocer with a big heart brings healthy, affordable foods to its neighborhood, and converts to a worker ownership.

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LIVING BREAKWATERS



A storm resiliency project on Staten Island that will be engage a community whose economy and natural systems have been damaged, not just by a superstorm, but by the march of "progress."

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WHOLE TREES



WholeTrees© Architecture and Structures has engineered a visceral-delight-inspiring way to use small diameter trees in construction, creating a path for the forest products industry to thrive in a regenerative economy.

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KING GROVE ORGANIC FARM


Hugh Kent strives to strike a balance between making a living and regenerating the land from which he earns that living. He is converting a farm that had been in his family for generations from conventional citrus to organic blueberry cultivation.

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VIROQUA FOOD COOP


A P6 Trade Movement member, this coop works to connect owners and consumers with the value of small, local, and cooperatively produced food.


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THE DRIFTLESS, WISCONSIN


Geography is destiny in a landscape that is both a place of refuge and inspiration for creatives, and that nurtures a remarkably diverse co-operative economy.  


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P6 COOPERATIVE TRADE MOVEMENT


The Principle 6 Cooperative Trade Movement is a growing network of retail and producer food cooperatives that is exploring creative ways to support a just and healthy food system and to encourage conversations around it.


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GRUPO ECOLÓGICO’S  “PATI” RUIZ CORZO


Pati Ruiz Corzo's story of a remarkable adventure and spiritual quest in Mexico’s Sierra Gorda, and of a not-for- profit that has empowered iimpoverished farmers and ranchers to assume the role of regenerators of one of the world's most biodiverse regions. 

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MATILDA ESSIG’S OUTDOOR CANVAS


Painter, illustrator, and photographer Matilda Essig invites us to stop, look, listen, and engage our imaginations with the “sheer beauty of life forms” as expressed in her own work, and the work of the artists she reveres.  

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CO-CYCLE



In the summer of 2012 and 2013 a group of college students and recent grads bicycled across America to visit cooperatives, to hone their own cooperative skills, and to reimagine the country they were about to inherit.



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GRUPO ECOLOGICO’s MARIO DAVID PEDRAZA


Grupo Ecologico’s Mario David Pedraza works with the farmers and ranchers of Mexico’s Sierra Gorda to reconnect with the culture of their native soil, regenerate their land and enrich their lives through the practice of permaculture and holistic management.


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GROCYCLE



A UK "community interest company" grows mushrooms on a small scale by capturing waste streams from breweries and cafes in Totnes.

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LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST


A cooperative, affordable-housing community land trust incubates entrepreneurialism and land stewardship on an island of breath-taking natural beauty off the coast of Washington State. 


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SEEING IS BEELIEVING WITH ELISE FOG


Connecting with her essence by getting up close to bees to take their photographic portraits in action in Oregon's beautiful McKenzie River Valley leads Elise Fog to a fervent advocacy for these hard-working pollinators. 

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GRASSLANDS



A custom grazing business follows the holistic management practices of Allan Savory and generates real wealth over the long term while restoring grasslands and improving their carbon sequestration properties on a vast scale.

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MAINE HARVEST CREDIT PROJECT


A former pension fund manager moves from New York City to Maine on a quest to found the country's first Sustainable Agriculture Credit Union and to help regulators come to a new understanding of the sector’s risks.

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VIVA FARMS



A nonprofit farm incubator based in Washington’s Skagit Valley creates a pathway to ownership in the sustainable ag sector for farm laborers while addressing the generational crisis in agriculture.


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ACCELERATING APPALACHIA


A new business accelerator founded by a sixth generation Kentuckian nurtures natural-based businesses and entrepreneurial capital to appropriately scale a post-extractive, regenerative economy in coal country. 


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MCCARTY FAMILY FARMS



A Kansas dairy farm forges a values-aligned contractual partnership with Dannon Inc., that, by reducing price uncertainty in a mutually beneficial way, raises the bar on both parties’ shared regenerative goals.


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FOODLAB DETROIT’S KITCHEN CONNECT


There are quite a few kitchen incubators in the country, but what makes this one special is the many creative and intentional ways it is bringing together, through the shared love of food, a diverse urban community.


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MATILDA ESSIG’S OUTDOOR CANVAS


Coming soon ... Painter, illustrator, and photographer Matilda Essig invites us to stop, look, listen, and engage our imaginations with the “sheer beauty of life forms” as expressed in her own work, and the work of the artists she reveres.  

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THE FIELD GUIDE TO A REGENERATIVE ECONOMY

The Field Guide is a project of Capital Institute, a non-partisan think tank exploring the economic transition to a more just, regenerative, and thus sustainable way of living on this earth through the transformation of finance.  Our Regenerative Capitalism framework is the source code for all our work. Since 2010, The Field Guide has been telling the stories of projects and enterprises of the emerging Regenerative Economy.  It is Capital Institute's attempt to link theory with practice, shining a light on how the Regenerative Economy is emerging in the real world, if only we have eyes to see.



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