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<h2 align="center"><strong>An incubator for people, projects, and organizations shaping the future of food.</strong></h2>

<p align="center">Bringing together practitioners, frameworks, and projects working on the structural redesign of how food is grown, distributed, and shared, through collaborative R&#x26;D and decentralized experimentation across food systems.</p>

<h2 id="projects" align="center"><strong>Challenges</strong></h2>

Three connected challenges that together cover most of what needs to change in the food system.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th align="center"></th><th align="center"></th><th align="center"></th><th data-hidden data-card-cover data-type="files"></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center"><h3><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Food Production</strong></mark></h3></td><td align="center">Growing food responsibly while protecting ecosystems.</td><td align="center"></td><td><a href="/files/j0472PiudPq0zWXZHpo5">/files/j0472PiudPq0zWXZHpo5</a></td><td><a href="/pages/lxhSPQJzd2hgbEevqhOY">/pages/lxhSPQJzd2hgbEevqhOY</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><h3><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Food Education</strong></mark></h3></td><td align="center">Empowering informed choices through knowledge.</td><td align="center"></td><td><a href="/files/eddYzOciAph8DofQCA21">/files/eddYzOciAph8DofQCA21</a></td><td><a href="/pages/MOddNpcc6sInTNyPl95I">/pages/MOddNpcc6sInTNyPl95I</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><h3><mark style="color:$info;"><strong>Healthy Diets</strong></mark></h3></td><td align="center"><mark style="color:$info;">Making healthy eating accessible to all.</mark></td><td align="center"><mark style="color:$info;"><strong><code>Coming Soon</code></strong></mark></td><td><a href="/files/YHcM56mYg4PFHdpTqTea">/files/YHcM56mYg4PFHdpTqTea</a></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2 id="projects" align="center"><strong>Projects</strong></h2>

<p align="center">Active and emerging projects. Platforms, programs, and ventures being built in the open.</p>

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th align="center"></th><th align="center"></th><th align="center"></th><th align="center"></th><th data-hidden data-card-cover data-type="image">Cover image</th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center"><h4 id="projects"><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Easymeals</strong></mark></h4></td><td align="center">A complete food ecosystem for healthy eating. Open content, a practice world, a practical companion, all connected by one membership.</td><td align="center"><sub><mark style="color:$info;"><strong>PLATFORM</strong></mark></sub></td><td align="center"><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong><code>Active</code></strong></mark> </td><td><a href="/files/O2hiW8VFyFSk8xl3PcjD">/files/O2hiW8VFyFSk8xl3PcjD</a></td><td><a href="/pages/mEpAper4HKZhUNeaVwH9">/pages/mEpAper4HKZhUNeaVwH9</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><h4 id="projects"><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>School of Food</strong></mark></h4></td><td align="center">An open-world learning experience for building a deep, capable, and joyful relationship with food.</td><td align="center"><sub><mark style="color:$info;"><strong>PROGRAM</strong></mark></sub></td><td align="center"><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong><code>Alpha</code></strong></mark></td><td><a href="/files/YOdMwwHSic5JGBcVtt8K">/files/YOdMwwHSic5JGBcVtt8K</a></td><td><a href="/pages/yVGQb5OvwGQLV0m6tbiE">/pages/yVGQb5OvwGQLV0m6tbiE</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><h4 id="projects"><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Plan Cook Eat</strong></mark></h4></td><td align="center">A learning journey through the world of food. Three realms, nine chapters, forty-five quests. Book, digital, and community formats.</td><td align="center"><sub><mark style="color:$info;"><strong>PROGRAM</strong></mark></sub></td><td align="center"><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong><code>Alpha</code></strong></mark></td><td><a href="/files/4g1t0eAZ60LIfm1KlEjv">/files/4g1t0eAZ60LIfm1KlEjv</a></td><td><a href="/pages/ZgvKEWSTFWPP65rNNMhz">/pages/ZgvKEWSTFWPP65rNNMhz</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><h4 id="projects"><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Food Forward</strong></mark></h4></td><td align="center">The first Challenge World. A coordinated environment dismantling systemic barriers to healthy eating.</td><td align="center"><sub><mark style="color:$info;"><strong>PLATFORM</strong></mark></sub></td><td align="center"><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong><code>Alpha</code></strong></mark> </td><td><a href="/files/rCukaBRoEu7xGuPOR8c8">/files/rCukaBRoEu7xGuPOR8c8</a></td><td><a href="/pages/kmFU4DNCcUEDpgFfadmX">/pages/kmFU4DNCcUEDpgFfadmX</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><h4 id="projects"><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Quickbite</strong></mark></h4></td><td align="center">Engaging, insightful articles transforming the relationship with food, one bite at a time.</td><td align="center"><sub><mark style="color:$info;"><strong>PLATFORM</strong></mark></sub></td><td align="center"><mark style="color:$danger;"><strong><code>Hibernation</code></strong></mark> </td><td><a href="/files/CCpg4jvaEx9gfo7hNdlk">/files/CCpg4jvaEx9gfo7hNdlk</a></td><td><a href="/pages/pl6H1wydhOpxCLurRXMt">/pages/pl6H1wydhOpxCLurRXMt</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><h4 id="projects"><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Oatchi</strong></mark></h4></td><td align="center">A functional food concept built on organic oat-based nutrition for sustained energy and everyday ease.</td><td align="center"><sub><mark style="color:$info;"><strong>PRODUCT</strong></mark></sub></td><td align="center"><mark style="color:violet;"><strong><code>Concept</code></strong></mark> </td><td><a href="/files/gzaYQhFYXoE5IiswYNSs">/files/gzaYQhFYXoE5IiswYNSs</a></td><td><a href="/pages/tz7HpWZdgIc6V4OIfXj3">/pages/tz7HpWZdgIc6V4OIfXj3</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2 align="center"><strong>Working examples for the people redesigning food.</strong></h2>

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<h3 align="center"><em><mark style="color:$info;">Open Food Lab is an incubator building platforms, programs, and ventures that demonstrate what a better food system can look like.</mark></em></h3>

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<h2 id="projects" align="center"><strong>Commons</strong></h2>

<p align="center">A growing library of frameworks, playbooks, tools, and research for working on the food system.</p>

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<p align="center"> <mark style="color:$primary;">​</mark><a href="/pages/Ds3AGEw4A5cBHcbaNY5E">Browse the Commons</a>  <mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>→</strong></mark></p>

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<h2 align="center"><strong>Three ways in</strong></h2>

<p align="center">Pick the entry point that fits where you are.</p>

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<h3 align="center"><strong>Challenges</strong></h3>

<p align="center">Learn about the pressing issues facing the food system, and how we're working to address them.</p>

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<h3 align="center"><strong>Projects</strong></h3>

<p align="center">The platforms, programs, and ventures we're building toward a better food</p>

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<h3 align="center"><strong>Commons</strong></h3>

<p align="center">Frameworks, playbooks, videos, and research, free to use and free to adapt.</p>

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<h2 align="center"><strong>Open Food Lab</strong></h2>

<p align="center"><em><mark style="color:$info;">An open incubator for redesigning the food system.</mark></em></p>


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