Land Stewardship Network: Connecting Landowners with Spiral Farms, Food Security, and Regenerative Agriculture

Land Access • Spiral Farms • Community Food Security

Growing To Give Land Stewardship Network

Connecting landowners, communities, and project partners through regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, and long-term food-security stewardship.

What Is the Land Stewardship Network?

The Growing To Give Land Stewardship Network is a nonprofit-led initiative designed to connect underutilized land with projects that preserve agricultural value, strengthen local food resilience, and create lasting community benefit.

Rather than approaching land only as a commodity, the network helps landowners explore stewardship-based uses for farms, orchards, woodlots, institutional land, retired agricultural parcels, and conservation-oriented properties.

Who We Help

The network is designed for landowners, communities, nonprofits, institutions, farmers, food-security organizers, and project partners who want to put land to productive and restorative use.

• Landowners with underused acreage, retired farmland, orchards, pasture, or legacy land

• Communities seeking local food production, demonstration gardens, or resilience hubs

• Nonprofits and institutions interested in education, food security, conservation, or public benefit projects

• Project partners looking for suitable land for Spiral Farms, Food Ambassador sites, agroforestry, or regenerative food systems

Project Types We Support

Growing To Give supports a range of land-based food-security and ecological restoration models that can be adapted to different parcel sizes, climates, and community goals.

• Spiral Farms — productive, regenerative farm layouts designed for food production, education, water efficiency, and long-term stewardship.

• Spiral Forests — large-scale tree, food forest, rewilding, and perennial landscape projects designed to restore land and create legacy value.

• Spiral Orchards — specialty orchard and woodlot plantings focused on conservation, long-term value, and non-fruit-bearing pear wood production.

• Food Ambassador Grow Sites — small-footprint household, school, church, community, or institutional food-production demonstration sites.

• Community Food-Security Hubs — localized growing systems that increase access to fresh food while supporting training, volunteerism, and resilience.

How the Network Works

The Land Stewardship Network currently operates through direct outreach, intake conversations, site review, and partnership-based matching rather than a public property listing database. This allows each opportunity to be evaluated based on landowner goals, community needs, site suitability, and long-term stewardship potential.

When a landowner, community, or partner expresses interest, Growing To Give can help clarify the opportunity, identify suitable project models, and facilitate conversations around next steps.

• Step 1: Landowner or project partner submits an inquiry.

• Step 2: Growing To Give conducts an intake conversation to understand goals, land conditions, and preferred partnership structure.

• Step 3: The site is reviewed for potential use as a Spiral Farm, Spiral Forest, Swiss Pear Woodlot, Food Ambassador site, or other community food-security project.

• Step 4: Suitable matches and partnership pathways are identified.

• Step 5: The parties explore lease, stewardship, host-site, sponsorship, or project-development agreements.

For Landowners

Many landowners hold property that is valuable but underused. Retired farms, family land, orchards, pasture, institutional acreage, church land, and conservation-oriented parcels may be suitable for stewardship partnerships that improve the land while creating public benefit.

Growing To Give helps landowners explore how their property could support food production, tree planting, education, habitat restoration, water-smart agriculture, or community resilience without requiring immediate sale of the land.

For Land Seekers and Project Partners

The network also supports land seekers and project partners who want to establish food-security initiatives but need suitable host sites. This may include community groups, schools, faith organizations, nonprofits, early-stage farmers, Food Ambassadors, or project developers aligned with the Growing To Give mission.

Site matching is based on project scale, water availability, access, soil conditions, community benefit, landowner expectations, and the long-term viability of the proposed stewardship model.

Possible Partnership Structures

Every property and landowner is different. The network is designed to support flexible arrangements that reflect local conditions and shared goals.

• Long-term agricultural leases

• Stewardship agreements

• Host-site partnerships

• Institutional or church land collaborations

• Conservation-oriented project agreements

• Sponsored demonstration sites

• Legacy landowner partnerships

Current Service Areas

Growing To Give’s land stewardship work is developing through direct activities and partnership cultivation in Washington, Arizona, Hawaii, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The program is especially interested in opportunities where land can support food security, agroforestry, tree planting, education, and community resilience.

Primary activities currently include Chelan County, Washington; Maricopa County, Arizona; Hawaii project development; and emerging partnership cultivation in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

Start a Land Stewardship Conversation

Landowners, communities, nonprofits, schools, churches, institutions, and project partners are invited to contact Growing To Give to explore whether a property or project may be a fit for the Land Stewardship Network.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Growing To Give Land Stewardship Network?

It is a nonprofit-led initiative that connects landowners and project partners through stewardship-based land access, regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, Spiral Farms, Food Ambassador sites, and community food-security projects.

Does the network maintain public land listings?

The program currently uses intake conversations and direct matching rather than a public property database. Online landowner and land-seeker inquiry tools may be developed as the network grows.

What types of land are a good fit?

Potentially suitable sites include retired farms, underused agricultural land, orchards, pasture, woodlots, church land, school or institutional land, conservation properties, and legacy landowner parcels.

What kinds of projects can be hosted?

Possible projects include Spiral Farms, Spiral Forests, Swiss Pear Woodlots, Food Ambassador demonstration sites, community gardens, educational agriculture, agroforestry plantings, and food-security hubs.