Human Health Begins in the Soil
How Climate Farm School uses on-farm education to demonstrate the healing properties of food in human and planetary health.
"The Week I Spent Crying With Farmers"
How FARMpreneurs takes MBA-level training and distills it into week-long boot camps for regenerative farmers.
Raving For a Better Future
How Plant Futures harnesses the energy of music festivals and packed venues to spread climate awareness.
Food is the single strongest lever to optimize human health and environmental sustainability on Earth.
EAT Lancet Commission
We invest in solutions creating change at a global scale
Food systems drive roughly a third of global greenhouse gases, and the most powerful interventions live at the intersection of planetary and human health.
We identify and grow social ventures targeting three high-leverage points for lasting change: plant-centric diets, regenerative and ecological farming, and the cultural and behavioral shifts that restore how we value food, land, and the people who grow it.
Plant-Centric Diets
Bringing sustainability to the plate
Regenerative Farming
Agriculture that works with the land
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Cultural Change
Shifting how we value food
Impact that Ripples Outward
Climate resilience, community health, local economies, and access to nourishing food are all connected. We believe lasting change comes from working across these connections rather than treating each challenge on its own.
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Our current portfolio of educational programs creates a regenerative pipeline of ideas from:
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110+
University chapters across the globe
130+
Regenerative farmers within our ecosystem
200+
Program alumni driven to create change
$400K
granted to early-stage food system ventures via Greg Steltenpohl Pragmatic Visionary Award
$700K
facilitated to Ideagarden portfolio initiatives
$120K+
of pro bono mentorship offered to portfolio Executive Directors each year
75 Years
of collective experience held by Ideagarden Board Members in deploying hundreds of millions of capital
Working with Ideagarden has been a catalytic and life-changing experience. Like, wow! It's so awesome I love it.
Eli Steltenpohl
Pragmatic Visionary Award
