Resources · Policy makers

For policy makers.

Agriculture is Montana's second-largest industry — and it deserves a serious strategy. This is where we'll gather the data, briefings, and thinking that inform better food-system decisions.

Good policy needs an honest, whole-system picture and the right capital behind it. We bring the data and convene the dialogue — across producers, business, research, and government.

New tool · The Local Food Calculator

From people to acres.

Set a community, a target, and a diet, and it works bottom-up — the land, animals, and dollar gap to feed a place from its own ground. Every assumption is on the table and editable. Free, no login.

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The library

On the shelf for policy makers.

The data, the working models, and the strategy questions worth asking. What's here is real and useful today — and I add to it as the work surfaces more.

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Get the right people in the room

Building food-system strategy?

Let's bring the data, and the right people, to the table — and challenge the status quo together.

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