An incubator for people, projects, and organizations shaping the future of food.

Bringing together practitioners, frameworks, and projects working on the structural redesign of how food is grown, distributed, and shared, through collaborative R&D and decentralized experimentation across food systems.

Challenges

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

Food Production

Growing food responsibly while protecting ecosystems.

Food Education

Empowering informed choices through knowledge.

Healthy Diets

Making healthy eating accessible to all.

Coming Soon

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Projects

Active and emerging projects. Platforms, programs, and ventures being built in the open.

Easymeals

A complete food ecosystem for healthy eating. Open content, a practice world, a practical companion, all connected by one membership.

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Active

School of Food

An open-world learning experience for building a deep, capable, and joyful relationship with food.

_PROGRAM

Alpha

Plan Cook Eat

A learning journey through the world of food. Three realms, nine chapters, forty-five quests. Book, digital, and community formats.

_PROGRAM

Alpha

Food Forward

The first Challenge World. A coordinated environment dismantling systemic barriers to healthy eating.

_PLATFORM

Alpha

Quickbite

Engaging, insightful articles transforming the relationship with food, one bite at a time.

_PLATFORM

Hibernation

Oatchi

A functional food concept built on organic oat-based nutrition for sustained energy and everyday ease.

_PRODUCT

Concept

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Working examples for the people redesigning food.

Open Food Lab is an incubator building platforms, programs, and ventures that demonstrate what a better food system can look like.

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Commons

A growing library of frameworks, playbooks, tools, and research for working on the food system.

Reference

Glossary

^{By Open Food Lab}

An A-to-Z reference of essential terms across agriculture, food technology, nutrition, and sustainability.

Library

Food World Library

^{By Open Food Lab}

A curated collection of videos, books, tools, and papers from across the food world, gathered to deepen understanding of the food system.

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Three ways in

Pick the entry point that fits where you are.

Challenges

Learn about the pressing issues facing the food system, and how we're working to address them.

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Projects

The platforms, programs, and ventures we're building toward a better food

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Commons

Frameworks, playbooks, videos, and research, free to use and free to adapt.

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Open Food Lab

An open incubator for redesigning the food system.