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What runs

Nido is an evolving bioregional regeneration initiative, centered on 4,000-acre landscape connecting the Pacific coast, protected mangroves, farmland, primary rainforest, rivers, and mountain watersheds. What began as a 100-acre regenerative development has expanded into a collaborative effort involving landowners, conservationists, farmers, community members, local government, and regenerative practitioners. We have undertaken ecological research, community engagement, collaborative design workshops, and landscape-scale planning, while developing relationships around the future stewardship of significant forest and agricultural properties. Our work explores how conservation, agriculture, housing, hospitality, education, and local enterprise can operate as mutually reinforcing parts of one living system.

For how many

A small project team of (5) and growing network of collaborators (20). The 4,000 acres represent the proposed geographic scope, not land already acquired or collectively managed.

Legal form

Limited Liability Company

Field

Coordination, Human

Layer

Pod

What is broken

Our greatest challenge is that almost every institution involved in shaping a place operates independently of the living system it affects. Real estate investors seek financial returns, conservation organizations protect ecosystems, governments manage infrastructure, farmers produce food, and communities try to preserve their livelihoods. Each may be successful within its own boundaries while the health of the larger place continues to decline. We have begun connecting these interests through a shared understanding of the bioregion, but the financial, legal, and governance systems needed to support genuine collaboration remain fragmented. Land ownership is divided, capital is largely transactional, decision-making is centralized, and there are few established mechanisms for reinvesting economic value into ecological and community health. We are also confronting the difficulty of moving from an initiative driven by a small group of people toward a distributed system that can develop its own leadership, agency, and long-term capacity. The challenge is not simply to protect 4,000 acres, but to develop the human relationships and institutional structures that allow an entire place to regenerate itself.

What is needed

We are looking for collaborators who understand that regeneration requires more than environmental restoration or responsible development. It requires new ways of organizing people, capital, ownership, and collective decision-making.

What can be given

We can contribute several years of research, relationships, and practical experience working at the intersection of regenerative development, conservation, community engagement, land economics, fund raising, and institutional collaboration.

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10 October 2026

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