BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders - ECPv6.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260504T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260504T130000 DTSTAMP:20260525T173618 CREATED:20260219T184607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260513T230455Z UID:10000745-1777896000-1777899600@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:From the Ground Up: Finance and the Future of Regenerative Agriculture | Film Screening and Discussion DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and Croatan Institute \n\n\n\nJoin us for a virtual double-feature film screening and conversation exploring one of the most pressing questions in food and agriculture today: how do we finance the transition to regenerative systems at the scale and speed this moment demands? \n\n\n\nThis joint screening features excerpts of the film Digging In from the Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders and Soil Wealth: Investing in Regenerative Agriculture from Croatan Institute. Together\, these films illuminate the opportunity in regenerative agriculture to restore soil health\, strengthen rural economies\, and build climate resilience. They also expose a shared tension: while regenerative practices are proven and growing\, capital structures have not kept pace. \n\n\n\nFollowing the screenings\, a moderated panel with funders\, investors\, and field leaders will examine the role of transformative finance in unlocking this transition. We will explore how grantmaking\, investing\, and lending can move beyond short-term risk frameworks to support long-term stewardship\, farmer viability\, and community wealth. The conversation will share practical insights on what is working\, where capital is still misaligned\, and how funders can collaborate to close critical financing gaps. \n\n\n\nThis event is designed for philanthropic and investment leaders who are: \n\n\n\n\ncurious about a just\, democratic\, and sustainable food and agriculture system;\n\n\n\ngrappling with how to deploy non-extractive capital more effectively;\n\n\n\nseeking peers committed to aligning finance with ecological and social outcomes\n\n\n\n\nWhether you are already funding in this space or exploring your next steps\, this screening and discussion offers a grounded entry point into why regenerative agriculture needs new financial tools and why the time to act is now. \n\n\n\n\nRecording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQ&A\n\n\n\n\n“What financial tools are most effective and where are the gaps?”\n\nBridge loans\, often secured by private or public program awards or contracts. For example\, USDA NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) Bridge Loans or bridge loans that help farmers take advantage of “cost-share\, reimbursable” grants that require spending money and implementing practices before they can receive their awards.\n\n\n\nLoan guarantees that help de-risk loans\n\n\n\nLoans with flexible terms\, such as unsecured loans in general and unsecured land loans in particular. Lower interest rate loans\, lower or no closing costs or hidden fees (pre-payment or servicing)\, longer repayment periods\, low-to-no repayments in early years. Simple interest rate loans that are not amortized using daily compounding.\n\n\n\nEffective gap filler: Forgivable/convertible recoverable grants (effectively a 0% loan\, convertible into a grant upon certain progress)\n\n\n\nConservation easement funds to purchase development rights are limited\, highly competitive\, and often dependent on the USDA with exceptionally long timelines. We need more flexible\, rapid-response philanthropic easement funding\, but the easements also need to have restrictive regenerative covenants. Not just preserving farmland or forests but ensuring they are moved out of “conventional” production. This is a major gap.\n\n\n\nLand acquisition financing is a major gap. Many lenders and investors will not finance raw farmland and forests without unaffordable down payments. Hence the need for the Resilient Southern LAND Fund and other similar strategies in other parts of the country.\n\n\n\nLow-interest\, patient capital with flexible terms is highly effective because it allows farms to retain value and manage seasonal variability. The biggest gaps are in pre-development support\, like financial cleanup\, modeling\, and deal structuring\, and post-close support to work with farmers on ongoing financial management. Without subsidy\, that work either doesn’t happen or those costs get pushed onto farmers who are least able to absorb them.\n\n\n\n\n\n“I’m curious if folks have sought a loan with their Farm Credit Association and what was the outcome?”\n\nYes\, generally\, if you have a good credit score\, or solid\, multi-year farm financials with P&L and Balance Sheets\, one can qualify for local FCA operating or farm construction loans. Generally\, these are costlier: PRIME + 1% for very good credit\, with relatively high closing costs. A member does\, however\, benefit from an annual patronage dividend\, depending on the ACA’s net profitability — which effectively subsidizes the cost of capital.\n\n\n\nFCA mortgages can be good options for financing acquisition of a farm that serves as a primary residence. The cost of mortgages is much more competitive\, vs. operating loans. However\, FCA loan officers will get into your business and potentially steer one’s operation away from certain activities (e.g.\, dairy) toward added-value production\n\n\n\n\n\n“What factors or practices that FoodShed Capital\, Croatan and presenters are using for  “regenerative agriculture\,” and specifically if  eliminating or reducing pesticides and chemical fertilizers is included along with soil health practices?  Also\, are socio-economic factors such as equity and worker/farmer health included in the interpretation of regenerative?”\n\nAt Croatan Institute\, we aim to meet growers where they are\, but we do strongly encourage eliminating synthetic chemical inputs and\, if the grower has capacity and relevant markets\, to consider Organic certification. We provide an expansive conceptualization of “regenerative agriculture” in our flagship 2019 paper “Soil Wealth: Investing in Regenerative Agriculture across Asset Classes” (pp. 2-4): “Instead of simply avoiding further degradation and depletion\, regenerative agriculture aims to work with natural systems to restore\, improve\, and enhance the biological vitality\, carrying capacity\, and ‘ecosystem services’ of farming landscapes. Regenerative farming operations also aim to support the resilience of the rural communities and broader value chains in which they are situated.” This is a much more expansive conceptualization of regen. ag. than that of “carbon cowboys” — one that takes farmer livelihoods and equity explicitly into consideration.\n\n\n\nAkiptan: The primary regenerative practices we encourage through our direct TA with farmers and landowners are rooted in long-standing agroecological and agrarian traditions (Indigenous\, Black\, and smallholder)\, including soil health-building strategies associated with cover cropping\, reduced tillage\, diversified rotation and other diversity-enhancing practices\, re-introduction of fire on the landscape through prescribed burning and biochar\, applying natural sugars\, mulch\, and other carbon sources to the soil\, introducing trees and other perennials across the farm landscape (agroforestry interventions such as hedgerows\, windbreaks\, alleycropping\, silvopasture\, riparian borders\, and forest farming in the understory)\, planting native pollinator strips and habitat corridors\, more intensively managed grazing of livestock with high animal welfare standards\, native grassland restoration\, and more naturalized forest management.\n\n\n\nAt RBI’s Free Union Farm\, several of these practices are being pursued\, including transitioning away from conventional monocultural farming and forestry practices (GMO commodity grains\, clearcutting loblolly pine plantations) into a more diversified operation\, with the discontinuation of all synthetic chemical spraying and fertilizing\, the transformation of the woodlands through selective thinning and prescribed burning into silvopasture for agroforestry hog production\, the revitalization of an historic pecan grove using organic methods\, and the development of an on-site native nursery to increase biodiversity.\n\n\n\nFoodshed Capital: Regenerative agriculture\, as we define it\, centers on small- to mid-scale farms using soil-based\, diversified systems that continuously improve ecosystem health: building soil\, supporting biodiversity\, and contributing to climate resilience while reducing harmful inputs. It also extends beyond ecology to include social and economic resilience\, equitable food access\, and food sovereignty. A better food system\, one that heals the land\, nourishes people\, and creates resilient communities\, depends on the ability of local farms to stay in business feeding their communities. When that happens\, those farms have the time and stability to deepen the regenerative practices and community connections that climate solutions depend on.\n\n\n\n\n\n“As a funder very new to the Regen Ag space but excited by the opportunities\, what is the best way to channel charitable dollars to catalyze the existing work of so many great orgs on this call and elsewhere?”\n\nBe sure to seek mission-related investing opportunities as you determine your grantmaking strategy. Put your cash in rural ag banks or credit unions that finance resilient food systems. Invest in CDFI and impact loan funds. Allocate equity capital to regenerative farmland and forestland funds. Even public market investments can be mobilized to divest from extractive food and ag value-chain companies and invest in more sustainable alternatives. SAFSF\, TIFS\, and FORA are just a few of many great philanthropic networks for learning about mission-aligned investment opportunities.\n\n\n\nCatalytic philanthropy has a huge role to play\, particularly in the context of the public funding crisis at USDA. Many organizations have been hit directly by federal shifts in funding priorities\, freezes and terminations\, away from explicit “climate” and “DEI” related regenerative agricultural initiatives. Provide general operating support to organizations deeply involved in this work to give them the flexibility and operational and overhead capacity that restricted project or programmatic funding simply does not provide. And even when government funding can be tapped\, the restrictions against overhead and advocacy are challenging.\n\n\n\nSome of the most catalytic work is happening at the margins. Supporting pilot projects that are often fiscally sponsored is a great way to start. At Croatan Institute\, we have fiscally sponsored numerous regenerative\, agroecological projects\, including RBI’s Free Union Farm Sustainability Hub.\n\n\n\nSupport grassroots\, community- and place-based initiatives as an agroecological alternative to large incumbent organizations (such as land grant universities\, which as a matter of course receive huge allocations of funding from USDA and state agricultural agencies). Nonprofit food hubs\, nonprofit technical assistance providers\, smaller conservation organizations\, regenerative mutual aid initiatives\, community-based rural development organizations\, regional value-chain groups working on fiber\, food systems\, and forestry are great examples.\n\n\n\nFinancing land access and land-back initiatives is extremely important\, particularly with Indigenous groups\, as well as other underserved farmers of color that have experienced land dispossession and small family and community-based farming initiatives that face unaffordable land valuations. Follow-on infrastructure and land improvement funding\, as well as farm operating capital\, become even more critical following land acquisitions.\n\n\n\nFoodshed Capital: Consider an integrated capital approach that combines impact-first investments with grant funding. Mission-driven food funders rely significantly on both. Impact-first investments are integral to supporting farmers with as low-cost financing as possible while preserving return-of-capital expectations. Grant funding further supports the non-profit mission of advancing food system transformation without erecting cost barriers for farmers\, while also allowing non-profits to build and maintain the capacity they need to deliver programming.\n\n\n\nLong term PRI\, gen ops grants to support the deployment of the dollars\, hands off/partnership approach\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResources\n\n\n\nCroatan Institute \nResources page! \n\n\n\nSoil Wealth program page provides an overview of our many collaborative initiatives that support financing regenerative farming\, food\, forestry\, and fiber value chains. \n\n\n\nTo see investable opportunities across asset classes\, check out RAISER Food and Ag Investment Database\, housed at Croatan Institute’s Lab for Impact Finance. \n\n\n\nIn the Soil Wealth film\, we learned about the Farm Credit System which is failing to serve the people it is designed to serve. Learn more in our Credit Worth and Soil Wealth ESG analysis of the Farm Credit System \n\n\n\nFARMWISE Hub – A new national Financial Health Learning Cohort with bilingual office hours starts this week. Please share with organizations supporting land stewards to access this free resource.  \n\n\n\nLearn more about the Resilient Southern LAND Fund\, a joint venture of Rural Beacon Initiative and Croatan Institute\, which was just selected for the The 2026 Transformative 25 list of funds transforming the economy for social\, environmental\, and economic justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSAFSF:\nJoin us for the SAFSF Forum in Savannah\, Georgia! \n\n\n\nLearn more about membership and join our network of 120+ member organizations including foundations\, impact investors\, community development finance institutions\, funding collaboratives\, and re-granting organizations. Schedule time to connect here. \n\n\n\nLearn more about the Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice\, offered with First Nations Development Institute to deepen understanding\, effectiveness\, and relationships with Native American communities\, Tribes and Native-led organizations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Barber III\n\n\n\nCEO\, Rural Beacon Initiative\, LLC.\nWilliam J. Barber III currently serves as the Director of Equitable Investment and Energy Justice at the Coalition for Green Capital and the CEO of Rural Beacon Initiative\, LLC.  Possessing over a decade of social justice organizing experience and deep academic training in the history\, science\, and law behind environmental and climate issues\, William is committed to connecting policymakers\, grassroots leaders\, faith leaders\, and corporations to ensure we are collaborating on climate solutions that are equitable for all. \n\n\n\nBarber’s background includes extensive experience as a social justice organizer and environmental justice advocate\, working with the North Carolina NAACP\, the Poor People’s Campaign\, the Climate Reality Project\, and numerous other organizations. Barber’s work focuses on increasing the self-determination of communities through responsible finance. With a bachelor’s in Environmental Physics from North Carolina Central University\, and a J.D. in Environmental Law and Policy from UNC School of Law\, Barber also sits on the board of the Croatan Institute.  \n\n\n\nAs CEO of Rural Beacon Initiative\, LLC\, Barber has collaborated with Croatan Institute to acquire a farm in the historic Free Black community of Piney Woods\, NC\, using innovative financing in partnership with Foodshed Capital.  \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSkya Ducheneaux\n\n\n\nExecutive Director\, Akiptan (CDFI)\nSkya Ducheneaux is the Executive Director of Akiptan and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. She spent her first 18 years of life on a cattle ranch on the CRST Reservation in South Dakota. She then pursued a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Business Administration while working at a county FSA office and buffalo meat processing plant. After returning home to work for the Intertribal Agriculture Council\, she was tasked with creating the first Native CDFI dedicated to serving Native Agriculture producers all across Indian Country. Akiptan began lending in January of 2019 and has grown rapidly over the years. \n\n\n\nIn addition to Akiptan\, Skya has served on many advisory committees and is currently the Board Chair of the Mountain Plains CDC. In her role as Executive Director\, she is a part of several CDFI coalitions\, advocates locally and federally and presents at conferences to share the mission of Akiptan.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIndy Brahm\n\n\n\nChief Operating Officer\, Foodshed Capital\nIndy joined in January 2020 as Foodshed’s first formal employee. She has played an integral role in designing and refining our loan process\, while collaborating with other staff as the organization has grown to embed business support services into our process. She continues to take the lead on our operational strategy as we expand lending and business support to new regions. \n\n\n\nWhile completing her degree in Global Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia\, Indy worked as a Senior Associate at the Charlottesville Angel Network (CAN). There she gained experience vetting potential investments and working with companies on their business models. Indy worked previously at the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council\, managing educational programming and assisting with operations as the Deputy Director. \n\n\n\nDuring the spring of 2018\, Indy spent 5 months studying Spanish language and culture in Cordoba\, Argentina and is now fluent in Spanish. After graduating from UVA in May of 2019\, Indy set out for the cloud forests of Northern Ecuador for three months with two colleagues and $21\,000 in grant funding. There she worked with provincial governments\, NGOs\, and community stakeholders to support sustainable development and economic alternatives to open-pit mining. This included creating and instituting a US-Ecuador small farm coffee trade relationship\, negotiating the purchase of equipment for a women’s plantain flour cooperative\, and establishing an ongoing partnership with UVA’s global studies department. From 2021-2023\, Indy honed her farming skills by volunteering weekly at Real Roots Food Systems in Richmond. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristi Electris\n\n\n\nExecutive Director & Co-founder\, Croatan Institute \nChristi Electris is the Executive Director and co-founder of Croatan Institute\, a research and action institute working at the intersections of food\, fiber\, forestry\, and finance. She has done consulting and research on a variety of environmental and social issues\, including projects on energy\, climate\, agriculture\, well-being\, sustainability indicators\, and corporate redesign. A computer scientist and quantitative policy analyst by training\, she has designed policy scenario analyses with environmental and social impacts. While at Tellus Institute\, she analyzed company practices and policies in worker equity at large public and private food and agriculture companies\, helping develop a new framework for social and environmental impact investing across asset classes\, known as Total Portfolio Activation.  \n\n\n\nAt Croatan Institute\, she regularly contributes to the thematic application of the Total Portfolio Activation framework to the Institute’s work on sustainable food and regenerative agriculture. Christi is a trained Climate Reality Leader\, and also serves on the CDFA Food System Advisory Council. She is based in Brookline\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Films\n\n\n\nDigging In\nDigging In\, created by Nathan.works and co-produced by Sustainable Agriculture & Food System Funders with support from Vatheur Foundation\, focuses on the US agricultural system and who controls our food and farmers. The documentary focuses on the challenges presented by land access (and a lack thereof)\, industry consolidation\, and climate change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSoil Wealth: Investing in Regenerative Agriculture\nSoil Wealth: Investing in Regenerative Agriculture\, produced with support from Patagonia and Waverley Street Foundation\, features farmers and capital providers Croatan Institute has partnered with over the years to demonstrate effective\, community-led solutions for funding the future of sustainable economies. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/from-the-ground-up-finance-and-the-future-of-regenerative-agriculture-film-screening-and-discussion/ CATEGORIES:Digging In Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251008T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251008T210000 DTSTAMP:20260525T173618 CREATED:20250904T210929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T162347Z UID:10000709-1759946400-1759957200@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Dual Film Screening in Minneapolis DESCRIPTION:Share food and drinks with SAFSF\, Croatan Institute\, and Cogent Consulting for an evening reception at the historic Capri Theater starting at 6:00 PM on October 8\, followed by the screening of two films (including SAFSF’s Digging In!) and an interactive panel discussion.  \n\n\n\nThis is a great opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and organizations passionate about regenerative change in food\, fiber\, and forest systems. All land stewards and attendees of the 2025 Regenerative Food Systems Investment Forum (RFSI) will be provided free access to this side event. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\nThis is part of a nationwide film tour by Croatan Institute to mobilize capital for resilient food\, fiber\, and forest systems. Soil Wealth: Investing in Regenerative Agriculture\, produced with support from Patagonia and SAFSF member Waverley Street Foundation\, features farmers and capital providers to demonstrate effective\, community-led solutions for funding the future of sustainable economies. Digging In produced by Sustainable Agriculture & Food System Funders (SAFSF) will be shown\, focused on the US agricultural system and who controls our food and farmers. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/dual-film-screening-in-minneapolis/ CATEGORIES:Digging In Film,In Person Gathering,Tours / Site Visits ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/unnamed-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T114500 DTSTAMP:20260525T173618 CREATED:20240913T191059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241107T224316Z UID:10000643-1729076400-1729079100@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Digging Deeper: Climate Change with Practical Farmers of Iowa DESCRIPTION:Dig Deeper with Digging In! Digging In is SAFSF’s first documentary film\, produced by Nathan.works and underwritten by the Vatheuer Family Foundation\, and was designed as a tool for funders and their grantees to explore the wide-ranging challenges of land access\, consolidation and concentration\, and climate change on U.S. agriculture. The film uplifts on-the-ground perspectives and solutions across the country. \n\n\n\nJoin us for our third installment of Digging Deeper\, a lunchtime condensed documentary screening and chat\, focused on climate change. We will dive deeper into the role philanthropy can play in combating climate change. Our guest speaker Martha McFarland\, Practical Farmers of Iowa‘s Senior Farmland Viability Coordinator will join us to share her perspective and expertise. \n\n\n\nThis 45-minute session is designed for you to enjoy on or off-screen and learn from field leaders. Recordings of the Digging Deeper series will be used in a multi-media discussion guide\, which will be published in early 2025. \n\n\n\n\nRecording\n\n\n\nSlides\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMartha McFarland joined Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) staff in 2022 as the senior farmland viability coordinator. In this role\, she supports land seekers and landowners with land access and farm transition assistance and resources. Martha has been a farmer member of PFI since 2014. Martha also runs Hawkeye Buffalo & Cattle Ranch near Fredericksburg\, Iowa\, where she manages grazing on woods and pasture\, raises oats and hay and works with a tenant who raises corn and soybeans. Her experience with her farm’s transition and her love of the Iowa landscape inspired her to help the next generation of farmers and landowners. Prior to running the ranch\, Martha spent 10 years working in education and mentoring beginning teachers. She has served on the Minnesota Bison Association’s board of directors and a mentor and facilitator for the Women\, Food and Agriculture Network. She holds a Master of Education from Colorado State University. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/digging-deeper-climate-change-with-practical-farmers/ CATEGORIES:Digging In Film,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Digging-Deeper.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241002T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241002T114500 DTSTAMP:20260525T173618 CREATED:20240823T183848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241011T160022Z UID:10000637-1727866800-1727869500@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Digging Deeper: Climate Change with FoodWhat?! DESCRIPTION:Dig Deeper with Digging In! Digging In is SAFSF’s first documentary film\, produced by Nathan.works and underwritten by the Vatheuer Family Foundation\, and was designed as a tool for funders and their grantees to explore the wide-ranging challenges of land access\, consolidation and concentration\, and climate change on U.S. agriculture. The film uplifts on-the-ground perspectives and solutions across the country.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for our second installment of Digging Deeper\, a lunchtime condensed documentary screening and chat\, focused on climate change. We will dive deeper into the role philanthropy can play in combating climate change. Our guest speaker Kellee Matsushita-Tseng Land Stewardship Manager at FoodWhat?! will be joining us to share their perspective and expertise. \n\n\n\nThis 45-minute session is designed for you to enjoy on or off-screen and learn from field leaders. Recordings of the Digging Deeper series will be used in a multi-media discussion guide\, which will be published in early 2025.  \n\n\n\n\nRecording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKELLEE MATSUSHITA-TSENG (they/she)Land Stewardship Manager\, FoodWhat?!Former Young Farmer Board Member\, National Young Farmers Coalition \n\n\n\nKellee is a yonsei\, 4th generation queer japanese-chinese american\, living and farming on unceded territory of the Awas-was speaking Uypi-tribe. Kellee joined the Food\, What?! team in 2023 with over a decade of both farming and education experience\, with special love for connecting people to seed stewardship. In addition to their work with youth at Food What?!\, Kellee works to build seed sovereignty movements as a means of cultivating community power and organizes with a collective of AAPI farmers and organizers across the country\, called Second Generation Seeds\, which preserves\, improves\, and breeds crops significant to communities of the Asian diaspora. Kellee is a founding member of Bitter Cotyledons\, a collective of queer and trans asian americans that cultivates creative resilience through ancestral foodways and community. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining Food What?!\, Kellee worked as an instructor and assistant farm garden manager at the UCSC Center for Agroecology Farm\, and served on the board of directors at the National Young Farmers Coalition. Kellee has over two decades of experience working and organizing in community\, with a background in youth empowerment\, community education\, and advocacy for racial justice and equity in sustainable farming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Funder-Only Registration\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n CommentsThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.This field is hidden when viewing the formRegisterName*\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n \n Organization*Title*Email*\n \n Are you a funder?*\n \n Yes\, I am affiliated with a funding organization.\n SAFSF defines funders as staff\, board members\, trustees\, donors\, program officers\, and other professionals from organizations using grantmaking or investments as a core strategy to fulfill their mission.\nThis field is hidden when viewing the formEvent Name\nIt may take longer than expected to process your submission\, please only click submit once. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/digging-deeper-climate-change/ CATEGORIES:Digging In Film,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Digging-Deeper.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240829T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240829T114500 DTSTAMP:20260525T173618 CREATED:20240805T160529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240830T185934Z UID:10000634-1724929200-1724931900@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Digging Deeper: Livestock and Poultry Concentration with Open Markets Institute DESCRIPTION:Dig Deeper with Digging In! Digging In is SAFSF’s first documentary film\, produced by Nathan.works and underwritten by the Vatheuer Family Foundation\, and was designed as a tool for funders and their grantees to explore the wide-ranging challenges of land access\, consolidation and concentration\, and climate change on U.S. agriculture. The film uplifts on-the-ground perspectives and solutions across the country.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for our first installment of Digging Deeper\, a lunchtime condensed documentary screening and chat\, focused on concentration in the livestock and poultry industry.  \n\n\n\nThis call featured Claire Kelloway\, Food Systems Program Manager at Open Markets Institute.  \n\n\n\nTopics Covered:  \n\n\n\n\nUSDA’s New Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets Proposed Rule \n\n\n\nCurrent state of the livestock and poultry industry \n\n\n\nWhat funders\, non-profit and communities can do \n\n\n\n\n\nRECORDING\n\n\n\nReal Food Generation Be-Trayed Kickbacks Report 2020\n\n\n\nSOMO Hungry for Profits\n\n\n\nThe Meat Racket by Christopher Leonard\n\n\n\nSubscribe to Claire’s Newsletter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured in Digging In\, Claire Kelloway is the program manager for fair food and farming systems at the Open Markets Institute. She is the primary writer for Food & Power\, a first-of-its-kind website\, providing original reporting and resources on monopoly power in food and agriculture. She also oversees Open Markets’ policy research into the legal underpinnings of corporations and market concentration in the food sector. \n\n\n\nKelloway has written for outlets such as The Intercept\, Civil Eats\, The American Prospect\, and ProPublica. She has appeared on NPR’s “All Things Considered\,” Vox’s “FuturePerfect” videos\, and numerous podcasts. Before joining Open Markets\, she worked as a sustainability fellow with Bon Appetit Management Company and studied political economy at Carleton College. Kelloway lives and works in Minneapolis. \n\n\n\nYou can reach her at @clairekelloway on X. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/digging-deeper-livestock-and-poultry-concentration-with-open-markets-institute/ CATEGORIES:Digging In Film,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Digging-Deeper.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240409T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240409T110000 DTSTAMP:20260525T173618 CREATED:20240305T155356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241107T194017Z UID:10000608-1712655000-1712660400@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Digging In Film Screening & Discussion with Philanthropy Missouri DESCRIPTION:Grab your lunch and join PhilMO for the a virtual lunchtime screening and discussion of the documentary Digging In.  \n\n\n\nThis film by KC-filmmakers Nathan Johnson and Jay W. Austin is designed to help funders understand concentration and consolidation\, land access\, and climate change and explore the connection these issues have to their work and the work of their grantees. Filmed across the United States\, the Missouri communities of Auxvasse\, Kansas City\, and Mexico are specifically featured. The film builds upon themes from Part I\, which explored the U.S. Farm Bill.  After the screening\, we will have a robust discussion. \n\n\n\nThis program is designed with PhilMO Members and Non-Member Funders in mind. Share with your colleagues who are interested in the intersection of grantmaking\, food systems\, and equity.  \n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to Missouri Foundation for Health for supporting access to the film.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here! URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/digging-in-film-discussion-with-philanthropy-missouri/ CATEGORIES:Digging In Film,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/farmbill.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240319T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240319T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T173618 CREATED:20240215T012531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240321T165619Z UID:10000604-1710874800-1710878400@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Digging In Screening DESCRIPTION:In San Francisco\, California — \n\n\n\nFollowing our in-person gathering Opportunities & Challenges in Funding Regenerative Agriculture\, SAFSF is hosting a film screening of Digging In\, our documentary focused on land access\, consolidation and climate change\, and their impact on American agriculture\, especially BIPOC farmers and ranchers. It’s taking place at the Landmark Opera Plaza Theatre in San Francisco on March 19 at 7 pm. \n\n\n\nThis is open to all who are interested! Please extend the invite to your partners and friends in the field. Come one\, come all for this great discussion about Digging In\, featuring our film narrator\, Masika Henson. Reach out to Holly know if you have any questions about the film or want to host a screening of your own.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are attending our San Francisco Opportunities & Challenges in Regenerative Agriculture gathering\, please register to attend this screening via your event registration. Questions? Reach out to Holly at holly@safsf.org. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/digging-in-screening/ CATEGORIES:Digging In Film,In Person Gathering,Meetings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/unnamed-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR