Illustration by Anna Denardin, Edge Finance
Looking beyond the pilot, Phase Three is about sustaining momentum and expanding Landscape groups’ capacity to do the regeneration work and attract and manage funding, including exploring new/old forms of participatory governance. The second six months of June 2026 will focus on developing the emerging Landscape Regeneration Teams’ core capacities, growing local funding ecosystems within landscapes, and helping groups contribute to developing a Cascadia Bioregional Finance Facility such as a regeneration fund. At this stage in the LHC a lot of emergence and real-time learning will have unfolded that will directly shape the specific structure and activities of Phase Three. We will also have insight into how the complementary Cascadia BioFi program is developing and what funding opportunities are emerging. Phase Three will focus on how to harness these and develop the core capacities to do so.
The Landscape Hub Cultivator is an invite only program in that participants are the designated Land Stewards of each Regenerate Cascadia Landscape group formed through our BioRegen program. Participating Land Stewards are representatives of their Landscape group, responsible for connecting the work happening in the cultivator back to their local community. It is important they be available to be 1099 contractors for any stipends or honorariums we are able to provide. They should be connected with or able to connect with the regenerative work happening within their locality and keenly interested in exploring the central goals of Regenerate Cascadia—growing collaborative, participatory, governance capacities cohesively across the scales of landscapes, ecoregions, and bioregions—as part of a multi-generational strategy for the long-term health of the Cascadia bioregion.
We are very excited to embark on this next phase of our bioregional journey together in coordinated landscape regeneration and exploring BioFi as a tangible, practical reality!
Clare is a textile and multi-media artist living in Victoria, British Columbia in the Salish Sea and is a co-founder and administrator of Regenerate Cascadia. When she is not working on her own art, she works as a community artist, using the arts in imaginative ways to help community groups explore complex issues such as cultural and spiritual identity, including community visioning. Clare Grew up in South Africa and moved to Canada as a young adult. She is deeply influenced by her early years in Africa under Apartheid. She creates predominantly large-scale wall hangings that evolve from her work with the community. She is especially interested in exploring what makes complex systems functional, particularly how they relate to organizations and social systems.
Brandon Letsinger is the co-founder and administrator of Regenerate Cascadia. He is also the executive director of the Department of Bioregion, co-producer of the Cascadia Northwest Arts and Music Festival and President of the Cascadia Association Football Federation. In the past, he also launched CascadiaNow! in 2005, which he stepped back from in 2017, as well as helping organize the Cascadia Poetry Festival, Cascadians Against White Supremacy, Yes Cascadia, Vote Cascadia, and the Cascadia Underground, an independent media center on Capitol Hill. He also runs a 6400′ square foot art space in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. His work has been featured in Time Magazine, Vice, USA Today, the Atlantic Monthly, NPR, the BBC, National Journal, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Canadian Broadcasting, as well as a host of local newspapers and radio segments.
Taya is a deep generalist developing systemic strategies and building capacities to address and embrace the complex nature of our climate emergency. She specializes in mobilising collaborative networks of change agents across multiple disciplines to work together on the design and implementation of solutions. Taya was a core member of the delivery team for the 2023 Edge Prize Challenge hosted by Salmon Nation and the Terran Collective, and has been a core Regenerate Cascadia team member for two years. Her primary lens for prototyping solutions is systems thinking. She recognises Indigenous peoples as the original systems thinkers and practitioners and is grateful for and respectful of the knowledge and wisdom First Nations peoples have chosen to share with the global community.