The Landscape Hub Cultivator is the developmental home for established Regenerate Cascadia Landscape Groups. It is not a course; it is a cohort community of practice, where landscape stewards learn by doing, build trust across the bioregion, and grow the social infrastructure that lets regenerative finance flow well into their landscapes.
Who it is for
The Cultivator supports established Landscape Groups as they mature into coordinated, landscape-scale work. Each participating group sends two or three Landscape Stewards to take part on its behalf and carry what they learn back to their team. Groups are invited in as they become ready.
The journey
The program moves through three phases, each anchored by real work rather than coursework.
- Making the work visible. Each group shapes a Story of Why and a story deck for its landscape, shared publicly at a Landscapes Showcase.
- Bioregional mapping and flow funding. Each group hosts an in-person bioregional mapping workshop and pilots small, trust-based flow funding in its community.
- Core team and local funding ecosystems. Mapping becomes a regeneration strategy, a project portfolio, community-defined indicators, and a funded landscape team.
Where we are now
Our first cohort of ten Landscape Groups across Cascadia has moved through the opening phases, producing story decks, a public Landscapes Showcase, in-person bioregional mapping workshops, and first flow-funding pilots. As that first year completes, the Cultivator is becoming an ongoing, seasonal community of practice: a cyclical mentorship and peer-support network that established groups can join and return to as their work deepens.
What a Landscape Hub becomes
Every hub takes its own shape. Over time, we picture a mature Landscape Hub as a group that:
- holds a funded regeneration team, so the work is consistently supported;
- maintains a regeneration strategy, project portfolio, and budget grounded in relationship and care for place;
- practices local fundraising and helps build Cascadia's bioregional financing facility;
- tracks watershed-scale indicators and carrying capacity for long-term regeneration;
- takes part in bioregional forums for shared learning and resource flow;
- experiments with participatory governance, especially around how funding flows.
Your next step
Already an established Landscape Group? Talk with your Community Steward about joining the next cycle. Newer to this work? Our Learning Journey is the clearest on-ramp into the bioregional movement. Questions are always welcome at landscapes@regeneratecascadia.org.
Meet the coordinators
Clare Attwell
Co-administrator, Victoria, Salish Sea (she/her)
Clare is a textile and multi-media artist in Victoria, British Columbia, and a co-founder and administrator of Regenerate Cascadia. She is especially interested in what makes complex social systems functional, and in using the arts to help communities explore identity and vision.
Brandon Letsinger
Co-administrator, Seattle, Salish Sea (he/him)
Brandon is a co-founder and administrator of Regenerate Cascadia and the executive director of the Department of Bioregion. He has organized bioregional culture, media, and movement-building across Cascadia for nearly two decades.