HATCH FOOD HUB · A cohort of the “HATCH Food 50”
Soil, schools, capital, culture, health and policy all run through the same plate. This Hub gathers the ranchers, chefs, founders, investors, designers, scientists and civic leaders HATCH has met at the table, so the work each of us is doing alone can start moving together.
Meet the cohort, send anyone a note directly, and tell us what you are building, what you need and what you can offer. We read every answer and use them to make introductions, shape Labs and seat the next dinner.
HATCH Food Fellowship
There is an emerging opportunity to convene a HATCH Food Fellowship bringing together a small cohort of Indigenous, Latino, and other frontline food-system leaders with carefully curated partners across food, education, agriculture, philanthropy, policy, and storytelling.
There is so much happening in food right now with real opportunity for transformation.
Nancy Williams · Founder, No More Empty Pots
The cohort
Filter by where people work in the food system, or search by name, place or idea. Tap Message to write to anyone directly.
The exchange
Every ask and offer shared through the form lands here. See something you can help with, or something you need? Send a note and it goes straight to that person's inbox.
Have an ask or an offer? Add it in the form below. With your permission it appears here for the whole cohort.
Post an ask or offer →What we are building toward
Four threads carried forward from HATCH Catskills 2026 and our partnership work in nutrition and school food. Each one is open for co-authors.
Every pathology in the food system is downstream of a value decision made far from the table. The Lab asked a narrow question, and we are keeping it open here.
Find one place where value is created but not captured by the people or systems that created it, and design the smallest move that closes the gap.
A working lab that pairs farmers, school-food leaders, policymakers and storytellers around one design challenge, and leaves with named commitments, pilots and co-funding concepts.
How might we design direct, lasting relationships between local farmers and school kitchens, so nourishing, locally grown food becomes part of children's identity rather than an occasional program?
Fully sponsored seats at HATCH covering travel, lodging, meals and an honorarium, for practitioners on the front line of food justice. Fellows help shape the agenda of the food working group and leave with relationships and commitments they carry forward.
Know someone who belongs in that room? Nominate them in the form below.
The farmer who grows the food meets the advocate who won the policy that gets it into schools. The chef who reimagined the cafeteria meets the funder who can scale what she built.
Hub dinners, site visits and small working sessions are how we build those rooms between Summits.
Have a thread this Hub should pull on? A lab, a pilot, a question worth a room of its own.
Add your idea here →Add your voice
About ten minutes. Your answers go to the HATCH team, who use them to make introductions, match asks with offers, and design the next FOOD Lab. Nothing is published without your permission.
About the Hub
The food system has no shortage of intelligence. What it lacks is alignment. Ranchers, chefs, school-food leaders, investors, scientists, Indigenous knowledge keepers, policymakers and storytellers are all working on the same problem from different ends of the plate, and rarely in the same room. The HATCH FOOD HUB is a standing home for the “HATCH Food 50”, a curated cohort of food-system leaders. It turns a list of remarkable people into a working network, where relationships, needs and resources can find each other between gatherings, not only at them.
