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Direct grants to small-scale farmers reduced transition risk for regenerative practices across 73,000 US acres in 2025. Now the work shifts from capital deployment to storytelling — connecting eaters to the human systems behind soil governance.
Community land trusts in Kensington and beyond are testing whether neighborhoods can govern their own futures against displacement. It's hyperlocal democratic innovation with a clear thesis: ownership structures are governance structures.
Bipartisan legislation elevates community land trusts and shared equity programs to federal policy — testing whether ownership models that prioritize stewardship over speculation can operate at scale.
Over 20 hectares and 18,000 plants later, Jungle Project demonstrates how governance begins with land stewardship — training 22 farmers in regenerative agroforestry while building the market infrastructure to sustain it.