We are a women-led land conservation organization working across disciplines to honor land for life through relational land care, sovereign food systems, and wildlife habitat enhancement.
Relational Land Care
INTEGRATING land conservation with RECIPROCAL HUMAN ACTIVITY
LivingFuture Foundation is focussing its efforts on land care that reflects an intimate relationship with the earth and her inhabitants. We coalesce decades of knowledge gained across disciplines—forestry, wildlife ecology, regenerative growing, land conservation, the law, wildlife coexistence , ecological food systems, and human health—to question the predominant mindset that reflects humans’ separation from the rest of life, a separation that still informs how we deploy cultural resources, even within the fields of philanthropy and land conservation.
We examine the meaning of conservation within our era of habitat loss and climate disruption where a pristine wilderness devoid of humans is often viewed as an antidote to the damage we’ve wrought. Instead, we seek out a more deeply pragmatic, sacred, and reciprocal relationship between humans and where and how we live.
Food Sovereignty
GROWING FOOD WHILE ENHANCING CLIMATE, LIFE, AND HEALTH.
As we lose habitat and ecosystem health due in large part to a dysfunctional industrial, commodity-based food system and severe climate impacts, it is important to bring integral imagination to what the nourishment of the future can look like. More than just sustainable or regenerative agriculture, more than re-localizing our industrial food system, more than designating forever wild conservation zones, Living Future’s SHO Farm collaborates widely to encourage food, fiber, & medicine gathering that’s in dynamic relationship with wild habitats and healthy human communities, even challenging the food-as-commodity premise that guides the present system.
Sanctuary at SHO
animals as Kin in harmony with place
In the summer of 2016, LivingFuture Foundation established Sanctuary at SHO when we adopted a flock of 116 ducks from a local, organic rice farm that were headed for slaughter.
Culinary Incubator
CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR A REGIONAL & RESILIENT food system THROUGH CULINARY INNOVATION
At LivingFuture’s SHO Farm, we have been capturing and rediscovering a spectrum of flavors and sustenance present in our own landscapes through brewing, fermentation, and creative gastronomy. We combine pan-indigenous, global food traditions with regional seasonal staples to create food and medicine for communities—all in partnership with animals, all with sacred intention. Foodways powerfully orient our relationship with Earth, with each other, and with life itself. For us, decolonizing our foodways and restoring intimacy with the land go hand-in-hand.
