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.

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.

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.