Cooperation, food sovereignty, and land justice
Agroecology Commons cultivates knowledge sharing, community action, and global solidarity for agroecological land stewardship, collective healing, and justice within the food movement.
Our Work
Agroecology Commons is a Bay Area–based, collectively led nonprofit advancing food sovereignty and ecological justice. Rooted in Indigenous and peasant traditions, we cultivate decolonized land stewardship, train the next generation of farmers, and organize alongside global movements to resist extraction and build thriving local food systems.
“Agroecology is political; it requires us to challenge and transform structures of power in society. We need to put the control of seeds, biodiversity, land and territories, waters, knowledge, culture and the commons in the hands of the peoples who feed the world.”
— Forum for Agroecology, Nyeleni 2015
Since our founding in 2020, we’ve:
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Our Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training (BAFFT) is a nine-month program from March to November, organized by Agroecology Commons, and our network of farmers and community educators with diverse expertise.
Focus areas include small farm production, food sovereignty, agroecology, and global social movements. BAFFT promotes critical educational programming that teaches technical agroecological farming skills.
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Following BAFFT, Agroecology Commons provides graduates with opportunities to dive deeper into the visceral experience of farming. By linking graduates with experienced agroecological practitioners, we support beginning farmers as they deepen their work as land stewards through real relationships with place, people, soil, and plants. We currently collaborate with nine different farms to offer paid apprenticeships to graduates of BAFFT. Both apprentices and farm mentors are paid for their time and efforts.
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Agroecology Commons facilitates farmer-to-farmer skillshares to support the exchange of agroecological practices and build networks of regional practitioners dedicated to relationship-based mutual care and community resilience. Some past skillshares have included direct market sales to cooperative markets, Black agrarianism, goat stewardship, and amaranth cultivation.
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The Food Sovereignty Seed Grant Program provides direct funding and advisory support to beginning, aspiring, and urban farmers to launch, grow, or deepen agroecological projects. The grants support a wide range of farmer-led efforts, from building farm infrastructure and incubating new farm businesses to organizing seed exchanges and other community-rooted initiatives
Our Focus Areas
Community Education
Farmer-to-farmer training, apprenticeships, and skillshares that pass on agroecological knowledge across generations.
Land Stewardship
Cooperative incubator plots, seed and tool libraries, and ecological restoration projects that root justice in the soil.
Networks & Solidarity
Building alliances across the Bay Area and Latin America through delegations, land justice campaigns, and farmer wellness.
Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training Program
The Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training (BAFFT) is a nine-month program from March to November, organized by Agroecology Commons, and our network of farmers and community educators with diverse expertise.
Focus areas include small farm production, food sovereignty, agroecology, and global social movements. BAFFT promotes critical educational programming that teaches technical agroecological farming skills.
“BAFFT was a very unique learning experience. I appreciated being able to go outside conventional forms of education and training. I also felt moved by how language accessibility and justice were centered in the space to support Spanish speaking participants in accessing the program and education in real-time with the rest of the cohort.”
Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training
Graduate 2024
Join us in cultivating a future where land, seeds,
and culture are held in community, by the community
