Map
A participatory atlas of projects, places, steward groups, and the connections between them. Start with a pin and a short description; add layers later.
Coming next: filters, relationship views, and “show connections.”
Make agricultural knowledge durable—together.
The Agricultural Knowledge Concordance is a community-built index of agricultural knowledge, tools, and the people who steward them. We start with relationships and consent, then build governance and sustainable resourcing connected to distributed digital civic infrastructure.
What’s here now
Welcome to the project! There are several clear entry points, a growing list of initiatives, and a place to plug in.
What grows next
Fellows profiles, a live event calendar, and deeper pages for the map, directory, tools, and trust library.
Initiatives
Map • Directory • Tool Library • Data & Trust
Pilots & Projects
Talk to the Land • Talk to Your Tools
Fellows
Call for nominations • Cohort support • Stipends
Calendar
Events • Working groups • Updates
Start small. Add a project, a tool, a dataset, or a story. Build the map over time.
Initiatives
This site starts simple and expands as the community contributes entries, protocols, and reusable templates. Each initiative below is designed to grow from a “starter index” into a deeper library over time. Want your work listed? Contact the team or add an entry through onboarding (coming soon).
Directory
A roster of people and organizations: what you steward, what you offer, what you need, and how to collaborate.
Coming next: “offers/asks” matching and shared priorities.
Tool Library
A curated index of tools, protocols, templates, and training materials—documented for reuse. Practical notes are valued as much as polished documentation.
Coming next: tool comparisons, interoperability notes, and ethical technology assessment framework.
Data & Trust
A home for provenance, consent, and governed sharing. Where “open” becomes accountable: access tiers, stewardship roles, and reciprocity expectations.
Coming next: trust templates, and data trust pathways, Consent management systems, and Commons Governance Organization (CGO) tool kits
Pilots & Projects
We test and use conversational interview processes that prioritize natural language but which generate durable outputs: structured narratives, shared maps, shareable stories and reusable stewardship patterns.
Talk to the Land
A guided way to share structured stories of place—what the land is teaching, what practices are working, what’s changing, and what must remain protected. Stories can be translated into shared knowledge without flattening context.
- Capture: interview, circle, voice memo, or short form
- Structure: key fields that make stories legible across contexts
- Stewardship: permissions, review, and selective sharing
Pilot focus: grazing lands and place-based observation.
Talk to Your Tools
A companion workflow to document “technological terroir”—the local context that makes tools work: materials, repair culture, skills, climate, crops, and social realities. Which leads to better documentation for tool registries such Farmhack.org
- Tool stories: build notes, modifications, and maintenance reality
- Safety & accessibility: what’s required to use tools well
- Lineage & attribution: keep origins and improvements visible
Pilot focus: grassroots agroecological innovation networks.
What “pilot” means here
We prototype in the open, learn quickly, and publish reusable patterns—so the community can adapt and extend them.
Fellows
The Fellows program supports trusted contributors who help build the first-year foundation of the Concordance. Fellows are nominated or self-nominated, meet monthly as a cohort, and share learnings with the community. Fellows are recognized publicly and receive a stipend.
Call for nominations
The call for nominations (including self-nominations) is open. Nominate someone (or self-nominate) who can bridge communities, collaborate well, and make durable contributions.
Nominations link (coming soon)Fellows directory
A growing set of Fellows profiles: what they steward, what they’re building, and how to collaborate with them.
View Fellows (coming soon)Fellows FAQ
What is a Concordance Fellow?
A Fellow is a trusted contributor helping build the first-year foundation of the Concordance—especially the map, directory, tool library, and the stewardship practices that make shared agricultural knowledge durable, attributable, and safe to reuse.
When does the call for nominations open?
The call for nominations (including self-nominations) was announced at the Feb 13 Concordance virtual sessions. Nominations remain open on a rolling basis.
Who can be nominated? Can I self-nominate?
We welcome nominations of land stewards, Indigenous knowledge holders, community leaders, data stewards, librarians/archivists, tool builders, civic technologists, organizers, and researchers. Self-nominations are encouraged.
What is the time commitment?
Fellows meet once per month as a cohort. Fellows are invited (not required) to share short updates or present their work to the wider community. The program is designed to be lightweight and flexible.
What support do Fellows receive?
Fellows receive a monthly cohort space, public recognition, a stipend (issued as a contract), and opportunities to shape Concordance priorities during the first year.
What about data sovereignty, sensitive knowledge, or safety concerns?
We do not ask Fellows to publish sensitive information. Fellows can work at an appropriate sharing level (public, community-only, or restricted) and will be supported in consent-forward practices and selective disclosure.
Want to help shape the Fellows program? Join an upcoming community call or reach out through the Connect section below.
Calendar
Community events, working group sessions, and convenings. Upcoming events appear first; past events are collapsed below.
Add an event: Reach out to the team to share a title, date/time, and a short description.
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Working groups kickoff
Monthly convenings for map building, tool documentation, and trust templates.
Add an event
Reach out to the team to share a title, date/time, and a short description. We’ll add it here and to the shared calendar feed when it launches.
Key contributors
The Concordance is built with and alongside many communities. These are key contributors and convening partners. This list will expand over time.
The Concordance Project
The Concordance Project aims to establish an atlas of knowledge for a planetary library.
VisitFarm Hack
Open source farm innovation network.
VisitIndigiDAO
Indigenous-led, sovereignty-forward governance and community infrastructure.
VisitOpenTEAM
Open Technology Ecosystem for Agroecological Management.
VisitWant your organization listed? Add an entry through onboarding (coming soon) or contact the team.
Join / Contribute
Start light and go deeper when you’re ready. You can revise your entry over time as projects and relationships evolve.
Add your project or role
Share what you steward (knowledge, data, tools, protocols), what you offer, and what you need. Choose your visibility level: public, community-only, or restricted.
Onboarding form (coming soon)Host a “Talk to the Land” circle
Libraries, conservation districts, and community hosts can run local circles—collecting stories with consent, supporting review, and returning value to contributors.
Host kit (coming soon)Principles
Trust before tech • consent-forward sharing • reciprocity and accountability • reuse over reinvention • durable maintenance
About
A concordance is more than a list. It’s an index that preserves provenance and context, and points to where copies live—so knowledge remains usable over time.
What we mean by “durable”
Durable knowledge has a clear lineage, stewards who can maintain it, and terms that prevent misuse. It can be found again, understood in context, and updated without losing trust.
How this site will grow
This starter site is intentionally simple. As entries accumulate, we’ll add searchable pages, filters, hosted circles, Fellows profiles, and templates for data trusts and shared governance.
Connect
Want to contribute, collaborate, or host a session? Email the team to share an event, contribute a resource, or connect with a working group.