Steward is the world’s first crowdfarming platform™. We provide financing to small and mid-size sustainable farmers through online, crowdfunded investments. Unlike traditional funding models, this creates a win-win for both farmers and sustainability-minded investors: farmers get the land and equipment they need and investors earn a return on their money with the added ROI of knowing their funding supports a sustainable and regenerative food system. Ultimately, this network of beneficial relationships translates to healthy profit for investors, farmers, and the land they steward.



Our work allows Steward-backed farmers to focus their energy on the most important part of the process—making sure their actions produce high-quality products while enhancing the health of their farm ecosystem.

As our farm partners grow, their businesses increase in value and profit, allowing farmers to pay back the loan they used to purchase land or equipment, with interest. 

We are fully committed to building and supporting profitable businesses. But our end goal is more ambitious than that. We are supporting a world-changing movement. Food has always been part of what defines human culture. What communities grow, and how they grow it, says a lot about who they are and what they value. Our current industrial food system displays a cultural obsession with speed, convenience, and consistency, often obtained at the expense of taste, sustainability, health, community, and connection.

Steward is a response to a global awakening to a better way—a desire to connect more closely to our food that transcends borders and backgrounds.

Of course, changing a global food system is no simple task. The farmers dedicating their lives to what Mark Shepard calls “restoration agriculture” face a host of challenges: climate uncertainty, regulatory restrictions, centuries of soil degradation, and pressure to grow big rather than right. At Steward, we know that even a small investment can change farms and communities. While we can’t eliminate all the challenges facing these farmers, we can alleviate one major concern: funding. By providing the resources needed to secure that extra acre, tractor, or talented set of hands, we are helping secure a future in which the next generation (ideally the next seven generations) will be able to eat healthier, grow more resiliently, and flourish with the lands they call home. You can learn more about some of the thinkers and agriculturalists that shaped our worldview here.

In a sustainable agricultural system, there is no isolation. Interdependence is the name of the game. Healthy soils lead to healthy crops, farmers, communities, and economies. Steward exists to strengthen these relationships by building partnerships that not only benefit ourselves, but also the farmers who pour their hearts into growing exceptional products and restoring their land. When these farms thrive, we all reap the benefits.

The impacts of a disconnect from our food and our earth extend far beyond the dinner table. That disconnect alters the way we interact with each other and our surroundings. As we strive to restore that relationship, we envision stronger communities, a healthier environment, inclusive economic development, and a renewed sense of purpose for all involved.

We understand these are lofty goals, but that’s why we’re not trying to achieve them alone.