
Financing Trees & Perennial Crops for Your Farm: An Agroforestry Primer
This Primer explores financing options for agroforestry and perennial agriculture.

This Primer explores financing options for agroforestry and perennial agriculture.

Our next stop: Minnesota! Croatan Institute hosts a film screening and panel, alongside the 2025 Regenerative Food Systems Investment forum.

The 2025 BLAISE internship welcomes six students for an 8-week experience exploring regenerative finance, impact investing, and social equity.

The 2025 Soil Wealth Areas cohort welcomes 10 farms across North Carolina for a year-long journey to expand community wealth and soil health.

The Lab for Impact Finance hosted a small investor convening to share success stories and lessons, plus opportunities to unlock aligned capital for underserved farmers and regenerative value chains in North Carolina.

Our first-ever Annual Impact Report is here! Within this report, you can appreciate the breadth of our work and celebrate our major accomplishments in 2024.

Our premiere short film is now publicly available! Featuring farmers and capital providers demonstrating effective, market-based solutions for funding the future of resilient, sustainable economies.

The Lab will develop and test innovative financial mechanisms and tools to unlock non-extractive capital that serves communities and creates pathways to a just economy.

As we head into the next few years, we are excited to continue deepening into place-based work with our partners in North Carolina while expanding our regional impact. Download the full strategic plan and explore ways our collective work can intersect.

We look forward to working with our partners to help over 600 producers across North Carolina navigate federal conservation programs to protect our watersheds while enhancing biodiversity and agricultural resilience.

The REEFS team kicked-off the 6th cohort of the FinHealth program, bringing together BIPOC farmers in North Carolina for an intensive workshop day centered on personal financial security.

The Soil Wealth Areas team facilitated a convening of 40+ farmers and investor stakeholders in Chapel Hill at Union Grove Farm.