There are some organizations you encounter that change the way you think about what is possible, and for me, Las Cañadas has been one of those places for more than a decade. Located in the cloud forests outside Huatusco, Veracruz, Las Cañadas has spent more than thirty years experimenting with what it actually means to live within the ecological limits of a place while building a strong, productive, and increasingly autonomous community. What began on a degraded cattle ranch has grown into...

This month, I was invited to advise on agricultural and food sovereignty projects being considered by the newly forming Foundation to Be Good and Do Good. One of the first projects brought into the conversation was in Baringo County, Kenya, where the nonprofit So They Can works with dozens of government schools and surrounding communities across Kenya and Tanzania. For more than a decade So They Can has done an incredible job creating bright futures for school children throughout Kenya and...

There are gatherings that inform you, and then there are gatherings that change you. The American Regeneration Summit in Bandera, Texas was unmistakably the latter. Terra Advocati's Bryan Hummel and friend of TA David Casillas joined me, as we gathered in the middle of nowhere in the Hill Country, not quite sure what to expect, and left with a renewed sense of just how wide and deep the regenerative movement has grown. What made this conference different was not just the caliber of the...