Food for Us
A movement for food democracy rooted in care, connection, and community agency
Food For Us is the initiative I founded to explore what becomes possible when communities reclaim food, not only as a resource, but as a relationship. It began with that intuition that food systems are among the most powerful levers we have for restoring ecological health, rebuilding civic trust, and strengthening our capacity to navigate difference during a time of profound transition.
Over time, Food For Us has grown into a broader movement space and learning ecosystem that supports communities working across political, cultural, and worldview differences on the shared material foundations of life: food, water, soil, land, and health.
Why Food For Us Exists
We are living through overlapping ecological, economic, and social fractures. As institutions struggle to meet the scale of these challenges, communities are searching for ways to build resilience, agency, and belonging from the ground up.
Food sits at the center of this work. It ties together bodies and ecosystems, economies and culture, memory and meaning. It shows us where systems are failing, and where new forms of relationship and regeneration are already emerging.
Food For Us offers a space to learn, experiment, and contribute to this shift.
What the Work Looks Like
Food For Us supports individuals and communities that want to move:
from polarization toward shared stewardship
from abstract debate toward grounded, material collaboration
from dependence on failing systems toward local capacity
from isolation toward belonging and relationship with place
The work integrates insights from regenerative agriculture, complexity science, cooperative economics, Indigenous and ancestral knowledge, and post-partisan practice. The focus is always on building practical capacity: how people can work together across difference to care for land, nourish one another, and navigate uncertainty with dignity.
How Food For Us Connects to My Current Work
Food For Us is one branch of the larger framework I now call post-partisan practice, an approach to community resilience and shared governance that centers material reality, relationship, and regenerative principles.
While the framework extends well beyond food systems, Food For Us remains its most tangible expression. It is where theory becomes practice, where collaboration becomes embodied, and where the work of navigating civilizational threshold becomes grounded in care for land and community.
My forthcoming book, Feeding the Future: Restoring the Planet & Healing Ourselves (Georgetown University Press, 2026), draws heavily from the insights cultivated through Food For Us. The book explores how our food system reveals the deeper paradigms driving ecological and political breakdown—and how a regenerative, relational orientation offers a pathway toward a more livable future.
What’s Ahead
Food For Us will continue evolving as a movement space for:
regenerative food system practitioners
community organizers and educators
local leaders and mutual aid networks
researchers, students, and emerging practitioners
anyone seeking a grounded way to build connection across difference
While the work is expanding into broader post-partisan practice, Food For Us remains the heart of my commitment to regeneration, community agency, and shared stewardship.
Learn More
For writing, frameworks, and the ongoing development of this work, visit:
FoodForUsMovement.org and
Post-Partisan Pathways (on Substack)
