Creating the Conditions for the Emergence of Cascadia Landscape Hubs
We are excited to announce the launch of our long-planned Landscape Hub Cultivator (LHC) 2025-26 pilot starting in late fall of this year! As part of our mission to support landscape-scale regeneration and grow a bioregional funding ecosystem across the Cascadia Bioregion, the LHC pilot will support up to ten Regenerate Cascadia Landscape groups from our Cascadia BioRegen program to co-create and define what a Landscape Hub is and develop its core foundations.
The LHC pilot is a chance to playfully engage with the following opportunities:
- interrupt existing systemic patterns to create a cultural shift, where right relationship to the land is a guiding principle;
- value and nurture networks of relationships as critical for building and holding trust;
- develop and practice new/old forms of participatory governance essential for nested-scale bioregional organizing; and
- develop the bioregional infrastructure required to attract and flow funding to where it is needed in Cascadia.
Landscape Hubs – An Essential Bioregional Organizing Structure
As a pilot, the LHC is all about learning together by doing—testing and modeling Regenerate Cascadia’s theory of change on developing bioregional funding pathways through action and reflection in real communities. We think that to make long-term bioregional regeneration and bioregional finance (BioFi) a reality, Landscape Hubs need to exist as regional organizing bodies that develop and engage core processes and cultures essential to bioregional-level collaboration and financing systems.
Just as a bicycle wheel needs a certain number of spokes to support its structure and function, we think Landscape groups require certain elements to organize and function as a Landscape Hub within an overarching bioregional regeneration strategy. The LHC pilot will guide groups through these foundational ‘spoke development’ elements, such as bioregional mapping, levels of stewardship, and development of Landscape Regeneration Teams that will function as the key coordination, administration, and ‘backbone’ to their eventual Landscape Hub.
Our Working Definition of a Landscape Hub
At this stage in the work we envision an established Landscape Hub to be a long term goal, which embodies the following features and activities:
- Have a funded regeneration team in place to ensure the work is consistently supported
- Actively participate in both local fundraising for their Hub and our Cascadia bioregional fundraising strategy
- Have developed and maintain a regenerative project portfolio, local regeneration strategy, action plan, and budget—whilst ensuring that relationship, learning and land attunement inform the work
- Participate in developing a bioregional financing facility and funding ecosystem that funds Landscape Hub project portfolios and regeneration strategies
- Monitor and sustain watershed-scale measurement, reporting and verification, context-based indicators, and bioregional carrying capacity for long-term regeneration
- Participate in bioregional forums to support whole system feedback, learning, and resource-sharing mechanisms
- Be willing to engage the leading edge in co-creating new/old forms of participatory governance, particularly in relationship to managing funding flows and finance systems
The Landscape Hub Cultivator is designed to be an immersive journey in supporting Landscape Groups to experiment with the above features and activities. We’re excited to embark on this journey together, rooted in our shared bioregional values of deep relationship to place, co-stewardship, building trust through being and doing together, and collaborative regeneration!
How the Pilot Works
The LHC pilot brings together 2–3 representatives (Landscape Stewards) from each group into an online cohort and community of practice.
The work will take place through the following:
- Bi-weekly online sessions with curriculum, activities, and process guides
- Office Hours with mentors and the LHC delivery team
- A dedicated Mighty Networks platform with a resource hub, Land Steward Lounge, activity threads, and archived recordings
- Showcase events connecting land stewards and funders
Financial Support
Each group receives $8,000 in direct support during the pilot:
- $5,000 for planning, mapping, and strategy work.
- $3,000 for a flow funding sandbox to practice small community re-granting.
LHC Pilot Phases
The LHC will unfold through three distinct phases, starting at the end of September.
LHC 2025 Timeline / Key Dates
The Landscape Hub Cultivator starts with the opening of our dedicated online community of practice for Regenerate Cascadia Landscape groups on September 29th. We’re holding a BioRegen Program Information and Q&A session during the evening of October 6th for anyone who would like to learn more about becoming a Landscape group and the LHC.
The LHC will officially start with an opening ceremony during mid-October.
The Landscape Hub Cultivator is the beginning of our collective journey into developing practical and sustainable BioFi for our beloved Cascadia bioregion. It is truly exciting to wonder where we will end up together in a year and how the work of bringing into being ‘the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible’ will evolve!