SymbiOp, Landscaping Worker-Cooperative (Portland, OR)
SymbiOp is a worker-owned landscaping cooperative in Portland, OR. This employee-owned coop has grown from 2 to 25 employees since 2020. The cooperative has residential and commercial landscaping services plus a garden shop.
What distinguishes SymbiOp is their approach to…Read More
Friends of Gardens (Revere, MA)
From a family farm in El Salvador to the gardens of Boston, the Friends of Gardens journey is one of resilience, growth, and nurturing the land and dreams. Eulalio Guevara’s connection to the soil was forged tending a corn, beans,…Read More
Juneteenth 2024
Juneteenth marks our country’s second independence day – when 159 years ago Union troops arrived to announce that 250,000 enslaved black people were finally free despite an executive order that had come 900 days earlier. This week, we reflect on…Read More
Welcome Back, Nathan! LEAF’s Managing Director, Capital Markets & Institutional Partnerships
A conversation with LEAF’s newest team member, Nathan Hixson.
Q: What was your original role at LEAF?
NH: When I first joined LEAF in 2014, we were smaller and less specialized. I underwrote loans and spoke with investors, wrote grants,…Read More
Chocolate Therapy (Wayland, MA)
Chocolate Therapy, family businessRead More
Bloomington Cooperative Living Housing (Bloomington, IN)
Housing Coop in BloomingtonRead More
Congratulations, Comfort Kitchen! (Dorchester, MA)
Comfort Kitchen finalist in James Beard Best New Restaurant 2024. Read More
Finding New Paths on the Farm (Lakeville, MA)
Elliot Farm sister, brother bringing life to the family farm.Read More
LEAF Selected for ImpactAssets 50™ 2024 (IA 50)
ImpactAsset IA50™ 2024 showcases LEAF, an example of harnessing the power of capital for good.Read More
Dean’s Beans Puts Ownership in the Hands of the Workers (Orange, MA)
Dean Cycon was turning 70 and knew it was time for succession. He started his fair trade coffee business in 1993 as an experiment to show it’s possible to support indigenous coffee farmers, pay them higher prices for beans, sell…Read More
Atlanta Land Trust Builds Dreams (Atlanta, GA)
Building Dreams: LEAF’s Support for the Atlanta Land Trust
In Greater Atlanta, where aspiring homeowners meet the realities of high housing costs, stands a ray of hope: the Atlanta Land Trust (ALT). Founded on the belief that everyone deserves a…Read More
We Grow Microgreens, LLC Grows Food in the City (Boston, MA)
Lisa Evans and Tim Smith founded We Grow Microgreen greenhouse and farm in Hyde Park, Boston, MA in 2019. It has a 4,600-square-foot greenhouse plus two garden tunnels on approximately 1 acre of land. The farm grows microgreens, herbs, tea…Read More