Data: Tending Seeds of Civic Activity

Farmers in the Netherlands who were identified as “proto-regenerative” were selected, and new contacts were gathered through the snowball method. Proto-regenerative means that the selected farmers are, to varying degrees, driven by a mission of building regenerative food systems, which is defined as healthy people, healthy communities, and a healthy planet.

Land and food cooperatives in Germany and the Netherlands were also identified and contacted for interview. Cooperative initiatives, to varying degrees, share principles of democratic control by members, solidarity, collective ownership, and value-based organizational decision making. Interviews generally followed the interview guide included in the data set.