WHAT WE DO
Grange Ventures invests in the people growing vibrant regional food systems.
We’re starting with grants for farm stops and community-rooted food entrepreneurs, supporting the infrastructure that helps farmers and communities thrive together. Over time, we look forward to expanding our offerings to meet the evolving needs of the people building local food systems.
WHO WE SUPPORT
Our focus is on early and growth-stage founders who source from local and regional farmers, keep ownership rooted in their communities, and are creating places where food, people, and place come together. We are especially excited to start with farm stops — welcoming hubs that connect farmers directly with their communities.
As Grange Ventures grows, we look forward to supporting a wider network of mission-aligned food businesses shaping a resilient and abundant local food future.
WHY NOW
Because local food is growing again.
Because farmers and entrepreneurs are building with care, creativity, and commitment to place. Because communities are choosing connection, resilience, and nourishment.
Grange Ventures exists to support what’s already growing.
Our Story
Grange Ventures was started by friends with a shared love of good food, good people, and the places that bring them together.
Over the years, we’ve taken many paths. We’ve worked on biodynamic farms, helped build new wine brands, supported Foodwise and other food education efforts, served on the boards of conservation nonprofits, spent time in local government, worked in venture capital, helped grow fast-moving tech companies, studied regenerative finance with the Capital Institute, and yes — picked up a master’s degree in finance along the way.
We’ve been shaped by the work of thinkers and writers like Wes Jackson, Lynn A. Stout, Marion Nestle, Herman Daly, John Fullerton, Wendell Berry, and Charles Eisenstein — voices that remind us that healthy systems are rooted in place, relationship, and long-term care.
It may sound like a winding road, but when we connect the dots looking backward, it all leads here — to work we care deeply about: using what we’ve learned to support a more vibrant, resilient, and locally rooted food system.
Thanks for stopping by. We’re really glad you’re here, and we’d love to learn about what you’re building.
— Trey & Greg