Food For Us is a movement for food democracy grounded in care, connection, and community agency.

We support people and communities navigating ecological disruption, political polarization, economic precarity, and declining institutional trust—those seeking practical ways to work across difference on the shared material foundations of life: food, water, soil, land, and health.

Across the United States and internationally, individuals and communities are searching for pathways beyond division and beyond inherited narratives of progress, growth, and control. Food For Us offers a regenerative, community-led alternative, an orientation rooted in interdependence and in the understanding that durable change emerges when people tend the world they share, even when they do not begin with shared beliefs.

Our work brings together regenerative food systems, post-partisan practice, ecological stewardship, and collaborative governance, integrating insights from complexity science, Indigenous and ancestral traditions, cooperative economics, and relational frameworks for navigating threshold moments.

What emerges is a set of living practices that help communities move from debate to stewardship, from fear to agency, and from isolation to belonging.

Why This Work Matters Now

We are living through a period of profound transition. Climate instability, political fragmentation, economic insecurity, and eroding public trust are reshaping daily life faster than our existing systems and narratives can adapt. Many sense that the institutions meant to support communities are straining under pressure, and that the stories we once used to understand our world no longer align with our lived reality.

Food sits at the center of this transition. It links our bodies to ecosystems, economies, and culture. It reflects both the fragility of our current systems and the possibility of regeneration. Food invites us back into relationship—with land, with one another, and with a future built on care rather than extraction.

Food For Us exists to help communities navigate this larger turning.

What We Offer

• Frameworks for working across political and worldview differences while maintaining clear boundaries, material grounding, and community safety

• Tools for building resilient, regenerative food systems that strengthen local capacity and ecological health

• Resources for cooperative economics, collaborative governance, and shared stewardship of land, water, and community infrastructure

• Courses, workshops, and convenings for practitioners, organizers, educators, communities, and institutions

• A growing body of research and writing—including the forthcoming book Feeding the Future: Restoring the Planet and Healing Ourselves

A Movement Rooted in Relationship

Food For Us is grounded in the belief that communities can navigate complexity with dignity and creativity when they have the relationships, tools, and supportive conditions needed to collaborate. We honor multiple ways of knowing including scientific, ancestral, ecological, spiritual, and experiential, and work to cultivate spaces where these knowledge traditions can meet without domination or erasure.

Food For Us is not a traditional program or organization. It is a movement, an approach, and a shared invitation to restore our relationship with food and one another, to rebuild community capacity in a time of transition, and to cultivate futures rooted in care, regeneration, and resilience.

Welcome. We’re glad you’re here.