At Foodshed Capital, we're changing the face of farm finance and making food systems more equitable and more regenerative from the ground up. We prioritize those who have been underserved by historically extractive and discriminatory lending practices, specifically Black and Indigenous people of color, immigrants, women and non-binary people, and those with low-income or limited assets.

Access to capital is consistently one of the biggest barriers to success for small farmers, but we believe most of the financial "solutions" presented are simply reinventing the wheel—new iterations of extractive models that force farmers to offer a return of and return on investment. The stress of those returns, coupled with the unpredictability of a changing climate, means farmers are forced to carry an inequitable portion of risk. 

To support the long-term viability of food businesses rather than short-term profits from loans, lenders must truly move outside the box of traditional financial models.  And that's exactly what we're doing.