For policy makers, community leaders, local governments, designers and practitioners ready to move beyond strategy and learn how to activate thriving local food systems.

Have you ever looked at the challenges in your community and wondered where to begin? At Living Earth College, we help people turn care into confident action. Through practical coaching, courses and real-world projects, you'll learn living systems thinking, regenerative design and community leadership that you can apply immediately. Together we'll explore how to strengthen local food systems, build meaningful partnerships, navigate complexity and create lasting change where you live and work. Whether you're a farmer, educator, designer, community leader or simply someone who wants to make a difference, you'll gain practical tools, a supportive learning community and the confidence to become a catalyst for positive change.

If you feel a responsibility to strengthen food systems where you live, this program is designed to support that work.

Activating Local Food Systems is a 7-week professional program from Living Earth College designed for farmers, designers, community leaders, educators and policy practitioners who want practical pathways for strengthening regional food systems.

Activating Local Food Systems

Program begins: Wednesday October 7th 2026
Duration: 7 weeks

Live Global Learning Sessions
Wednesdays (7 weeks)

Session times:

• London: 8:00 – 9:30 pm
• Rome / Central Europe: 9:00 – 10:30 pm
• New York: 3:00 – 4:30 pm
• San Francisco: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
• Sydney: 5:00 – 6:30 am (Thursday)
• Hobart: 6:00 – 7:30 am (Thursday)

Sessions are recorded for participants who cannot attend live.

Activating Local Food Systems explores how resilient food systems can emerge from soil and seed through to community economies, regional infrastructure and policy.

The program brings together practical knowledge from farming, food system design, community enterprise and governance. Participants explore how food systems function as living systems shaped by relationships between land, people, infrastructure and institutions.

Through a seven-level living systems framework, the course offers practical tools and perspectives for strengthening food systems within participants’ own regions.

Throughout the program, participants begin developing a place-based food systems activation project responding to the opportunities and conditions of their own community.

Graduates receive a Certificate in Local Food Systems Activation and join the Founding Seed Cohort of Living Earth College, an emerging international network of practitioners working across farming, design, community food initiatives and policy.

Places are limited to 20 participants worldwide to allow meaningful dialogue and collaboration.

Course price

United Kingdom: £360 GBP
Europe: €420 EUR
Switzerland: 395 CHF
United States: $495 USD
Canada: $600 CAD

Australia: $690 AUD

Prices shown in other currencies are approximate and may vary slightly depending on exchange rates.

Before enrolling

If you feel a responsibility to strengthen food systems where you live, this program is designed to support that work.