Nexus & Nodes: A Pattern for Resilient Food Systems
Through decades of observing both natural systems and human enterprises, we’ve identified recurring patterns that can transform how communities feed and support themselves. The Nexus and Nodes model offers proven strategies for communities seeking to build food security and resilience, drawing from successful innovations across America’s food landscape.
Strategic Implementation Support
As we establish our homestead in Fort Lupton, Colorado, we’re expanding our impact through strategic advisory roles that allow these patterns to propagate more effectively. Our systems thinking expertise now supports initiatives across multiple continents, from grassroots AI innovation clubs developing regenerative swarm intelligence to community groups in Paonia and Trinidad building local food security.
Understanding the Pattern
This evolution in our approach allows us to:
The Path Forward
Our work demonstrates how traditional barriers to food security and community resilience can be overcome through innovative system design. Whether you're working to transform local food systems, build community resilience, or tackle related challenges affecting health and planetary wellbeing, we offer deep practical experience in finding unexpected solutions to persistent problems.
We invite those
Working on systemic change to explore how these patterns might serve their communities. Every context requires unique adaptation, but the underlying principles remain consistent – like nature’s recurring patterns expressed through endless variation.
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