Once California farmland is paved over, it's gone for good — and the two best programs for saving it (state-funded SALC and DoD's REPI) demand expertise most land trusts don't have in-house. Here's how we're helping the Ag Land Trust unlock both.

A single wildfire can demand the equivalent of a century's worth of stockpiled tree seed just to replant — and the Eastern Cascades have almost no infrastructure to supply it. Before building a commercial-scale orchard, our client asked us to stress-test whether a new commercial seed orchard could actually pencil out. Here's what we found.

The biggest barrier to ecological restoration isn't political will or shovel-ready land — it's that practitioners can't find the right capital among dozens of fragmented instruments. The Restoration Capital Toolbox is being built to close that gap.

New income streams for forest landowners — agroforestry, carbon, biochar, ecotourism — are emerging fast, but historically underserved landowners are largely locked out. We're working with SFLR, Asekia, and Khuba International to change who gets through the door.

Conservation in Missouri depends on capital that doesn't yet exist at scale — and most of the institutions that benefit from healthy land sit outside the funding equation. With the Missouri Department of Conservation, we're mapping where the dollars flow, where they don't, and what would change that.

Small businesses are the connective tissue of rural communities, but the people running them often can't access the capital, coaching, or sustainability planning they need. With Edward Jones, the Main Street Initiative delivers all three to the operators holding their towns together.

Federal conservation programs like NRCS and EQIP only reimburse landowners after they've already paid out of pocket — effectively excluding the families most likely to benefit. The Rural Resilience Fund is a Community Development Loan Fund built specifically to bridge that gap.

The US can't hit its reforestation goals without nurseries — and nursery infrastructure is contracting right as demand surges. The Forest Inputs Resilience Fund is dedicated debt capital for the businesses upstream of every reforestation project in the country.

If your supply chain depends on forests or watersheds, climate volatility isn't a long-term ESG question anymore — it's a near-term operating risk. Voluntary carbon markets are evolving from a corporate sustainability lever into a serious risk management tool.

Nearly half of all US land is farmed, and integrating trees back into that landscape could reshape both farm economics and the demand for tree seedlings. Our latest research module maps where US agroforestry stands today, what's driving it, and where it's headed.

Our 2023 Nursery Assessment looked at the supply side of the US reforestation market. This second research module turns to demand — mapping timberland ownership, value chains, and the seedling demand trajectory in the single largest segment of the market.

Of the 6.7 million acres of private California forestland that needs fuel treatment, 4 million sit in high-poverty areas — and at current treatment rates, the hardest-hit counties are 95 years from catching up. We mapped where the resilience gap is sharpest.

Our 2023 Nursery Assessment mapped the supply side of the US reforestation market. This new research is the demand-side companion — establishing where sustainable land use projects are happening, why, and what they'll need in capital, seedlings, and other inputs.

California's blue oak woodlands hold massive restoration potential — and almost none of the capital or technical help needed to act on it. A 100-acre pilot in Bella Vista is a working prototype of the Nature Development Financial Institution we're building to change that.

The US is short roughly a billion tree seedlings a year, and the supply chain is contracting just as demand surges. We visited operators across 20 states to map every nursery that matters — and designed the financing facility we think can change the trajectory.

The Inflation Reduction Act dedicated $1.5 billion to urban and community forestry over nine years, but cities don't yet have the nursery capacity, financing tools, or project infrastructure to spend it well. Here are the barriers we see — and how we're working to close them.

The US has 148 million acres of reforestation potential and a conservative $65 billion funding shortfall — and 88% of that land sits with private owners who lack the capital to act. Here's what catalytic finance has to look like to actually move it.

We spent the end of 2022 visiting nurseries across the country, and three patterns kept surfacing: a trade-off between scale and species diversity, ownership transitions with no clear buyer, and a market starved of long-range demand signals. Here's what they tell us.

Small landowners are responsible for a third of California's fuel reduction goal, but they're the least able to afford the upfront costs of treatment. We're piloting two new carbon-crediting approaches with 25 landowners across 2,000 high-burn-probability acres in Northern California.

The U.S. produces roughly 1.3 billion tree seedlings a year. To meet our reforestation goals, we need about four times that. The financing playbook to close that gap doesn't exist yet, so we're building it.