At noon today the 2026 Cascadia Cohort of the Design School for Regenerating Earth’s Learning Journey got together for its closing call, and we used the moment to open something new: the Cascadian Community of Practice!
Emily McGill, our Community Steward, hosted. We looked back on a season that started at the spring equinox, when cohort members began building a shared language for bioregionalism and bioregional mapping and meeting people doing this work in other places. We also shared some of what we brought home from the Turtle Island Bioregional Congress. Then Emily invited everyone into the Community of Practice, which is where we hope all those new relationships keep growing.
The idea is pretty simple. Too many people in Cascadia are doing good work a few miles from somebody doing nearly the same work, and they’ve never met. The Community of Practice is a place on Mighty Network where members, stewards, partners and funders can share what they’re learning and help each other along. Inside you’ll find rooms for the Landscape Groups program and the Landscape Hub Cultivator cohort, a room for topic-based practice, the Cascadia BioFi community of practice (where funders and regenerators learn together), and open spaces to meet people from across the bioregion. Members share resources and events, and they ask each other for help.
It’s not completely new, either. Last fall we started a private version for landscape stewards, a co-working space on the same platform, and this fall we’ve been reshaping it for a wider circle. Today it opens to the Learning Journey cohort, and more of the network will follow as we figure out what people need from it.
Becoming a member is the way in, and our Community of Practice page walks you through it. Questions are welcome at steward@regeneratecascadia.org. If you’ve been doing this work alone, or almost alone, come meet your neighbors. We’re glad you’re here.
Featured image: people gathered in a circle outdoors for a community call.