The ventures
Rootstock is the master plan. Each venture has a specific job, its own identity and the structure appropriate to that work. Together they cover one local food system from land and farm tools to sales, processing and a public place.
By function
By status
Venture 01
BuildingAcquires and protects multiple farm sites, and leases them to the people who work them.
Land tenure
Farmland can remain zoned for agriculture and still become unreachable to the people who need long-term ground. Price, succession, and access are the open questions.
Nonprofit · Washington and Yamhill counties, Oregon
Venture 02
BuildingA café, farm stand, and teaching kitchen where the corridor's food meets the public.
Public face and conversion capacity
A corridor can grow good food and still lack one dependable public place to buy it, eat it, learn from it, and keep surplus from becoming waste.
Nonprofit · McMinnville, Oregon — site search under way
Venture 03
BuildingRuns land and getaway properties for owners who keep the title.
Property operations
A useful rural property can stall when the owner wants to keep it but no longer wants to staff, maintain, or run it day to day.
Oregon LLC · Banks to McMinnville
Venture 04
BuildingPrepaid food shares that pay producers before the season. Free for anyone to run.
Pre-sell / prepaid food shares
Farm expenses arrive before the harvest does. Producers carry that timing risk while customers wait until the food is already grown to buy it.
Open model · Corridor first, open anywhere
Venture 05
ConceptLow-ABV craft beer, and benefit events that fund the rest.
Surplus conversion and unrestricted revenue
Suitable surplus needs a shelf-stable outlet, while local nonprofits need fundraising that does not require them to produce another event alone.
Oregon LLC · Banks–McMinnville corridor
Venture 06
BuildingFree search for grants, loans and technical help for small farms, plus a market garden workbook and a ranch manager.
Tools for producers
Farm funding is scattered across agencies and organizations, while the records needed to plan a season often live in disconnected spreadsheets and notebooks.
Free public tool run by Rootstock (not yet its own entity) · Built for corridor producers; useful anywhere
All ventures here are concept-stage.