From the Margins: Wilding American Farmland for Climate Resilience

Join Mad Agriculture, Patagonia Provisions, and Whole Foods Market at Patagonia SoHo for Climate Week NYC.

Our food system is under strain. Biodiversity loss. Water degradation. Climate volatility. Farmer viability. These challenges are deeply interconnected, but most of our solutions are still fragmented. We work farm by farm, brand by brand, supply chain by supply chain.

But nature doesn't operate in silos, and this fragmentation weakens ecosystems at the landscape scale. If we want true resilience—ecological and economic—our solutions must operate at that same scale.

This gathering brings together industry leaders at the frontier of a new model: Phil Taylor, Ph.D., CEO and Co-Founder at Mad Agriculture; Paul Lightfoot, General Manager at Patagonia Provisions; and Caitlin Leibert, Global Head of Sustainability, Amazon Worldwide Grocery. In a discussion moderated by James Beard Award-winning journalist Liz Dunn, we'll explore Wilding, Mad Agriculture's pioneering framework for restoring ecological function within working farmland, and the audacious 50-year vision it is building toward: a national network of biodiverse ecological corridors threaded through American agricultural landscapes called the Wild Grid.

The conversation will explore what becomes possible when a retailer and 20 food & beverage brands look beyond their own supply sheds, recognizing that secure supply chains depend on thriving ecosystems. It will also explore what becomes possible when this work is done alongside technical partners like The Nature Conservancy, Pheasants Forever, and Audubon, who bring decades of on-the-ground ecological expertise to designing and implementing the Wild Grid.

Join us afterward for time to connect with fellow attendees. Light food and drinks will be provided.

About Mad Agriculture:

Mad Agricultureis a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a mission to create a regenerative revolution in agriculture. We work from heart to head, poetry to science, financing to markets, and soil to shelf. We meet farmers wherever they are on their journey toward regenerative agriculture.