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Spiralweb · Café Sofia
A place-based planetary work in progress
Living soil · connected food systems · local stewardship

From living soil
to connected food systems.

Spiralweb supports locally led processes where people rebuild soil, water, food and local living capacity — one real place at a time.

We begin with an active field relationship in Kitgum and a forming constellation of relationships and pre-pilot inquiries in Morocco. Each place develops its own direction. Local stewards keep authority over the land and the work. Financial support never creates ownership, return, or control.

An action on 10 m² is small. But it can become part of a larger change when practice is documented, shared, and connected to other places.

Our heart is consciously co-created food systems — the place where soil, water, biodiversity, work, culture and community meet. The method we are building, the PG Ledger, is designed to support different forms of locally led regenerative practice; food is where it begins and where most threads connect.

The Kitgum working group standing in a cleared field with hoes
Kitgum, Uganda · the working group before clearing the field · July 2026
Assyl Elazzaoui smiling in the polytunnel beside a hanging bottle gourd
Had Soualem, Morocco · Assyl Elazzaoui among the bottle gourds · 2021

We are preparing and supporting real fields. Each is at its own honest stage.

See the fields →

Not yet opened
Iquitos, Peru
A place identified, waiting for the right locally rooted relationship before anything begins.
last verified · July 2026
Land and ecology
Is soil, water, biodiversity and food genuinely strengthened?
Steward viability
Can the people carrying the work live, rest, learn and continue?
Coordination and governance
Are decisions, money, data, responsibility and consent clear?

We keep them separate so reality cannot be faked by averaging. A green field must not rest on depleted people, hidden labour, or ecological debt. There can be no green ecological account on top of a red human one.

The PG Ledger is the field- and documentation-architecture we are now establishing around the first fields. When active, it will make visible what a field wants to achieve, what is supported, what is actually done, what changes, and what must be corrected or stopped.

It is not a sustainability certificate, and not a cryptocurrency, trading system, or blockchain certification. The trust it offers is modest and demanding: not “this field is sustainable,” but “there is enough local authority, documentation, transparency and capacity for correction that it is reasonable to support the next step.”

How the PG Ledger works →

The architecture beneath the work
Planetary Guardians
Planetary Guardians is the governance and protocol architecture developed since 2019, drawing on 25 years of governance research. Spiralweb Stewardship Association was constituted on 22 March 2026 as its Danish non-profit container. It keeps ecological conditions, steward viability and governance clarity structurally separate, so progress in one cannot conceal depletion in another.
Constitutional Ground → Explore the protocol architecture →
Café Sofia is Spiralweb's first public doorway. Other domains — including governance, ecology, science, art and economy — open only as the work and the people carrying it can hold them.

The constitutional horizon is expressed through Rule of Life: no economy, institution, technology, right or legal form may override the conditions of life.

I
Moral Biology
How bodies, relationships and living systems reveal whether an arrangement can genuinely be sustained.
Read paper 01
II
Gold Before Bloom
Why people, governance and foundations must be stable before expansion or ecological success is claimed.
Read paper 11
III
Penguin Economics
How resources can support stewardship without capture, hoarding or extraction.
Read paper 12
IV
Applied Protocols
How principles become repeatable decisions, observations, records and correction procedures.
Protocol layer
How to engage

Seven ways in.

Observe — Download and read SRIP — The Steward's Journey and begin with 10 m² of ground you already have. Paper and pencil. No connection to us required. The protocol meets you where you are.

Read and respond — The Green Papers are written to be challenged. If you find an assumption that does not hold, write to us. Critical friends are more valuable than silent admirers.

Hold land — If you have a site and want to connect it to the network, reach out via AnchorPoints. Relationship follows time and trust, not application forms.

Contribute skills — The 13×13 observation method is designed for citizen science: anyone with a piece of ground, a school garden, a community plot, or an ecologically interesting site can contribute field observations to the shared evidence commons. The 13×13 grid is one possible architecture for coordinated observation where the place, people and purpose support it. People can begin observing locally now; the pathway for submitting observations to a shared evidence commons is still being developed. If you have a capacity that connects to this work — field documentation, translation, protocol design, ecological knowledge, civic imagination — and want to explore what contribution could look like, write to us. We are not recruiting. We are forming.

Support — Public support is being prepared.

Spiralweb Stewardship Association is preparing its first public collection for locally led regenerative food systems, steward viability and the directly connected PG Ledger infrastructure. The planned First Field Flow includes current processes in Kitgum, the Morocco constellation, Mexico City and Karachi.

Contributions will open when permission from the Danish Fundraising Board (Indsamlingsnævnet) has been issued.

Grants, institutional partnerships and other funding enquiries are welcome at contact@spiralweb.earth.

Spread — Share what you find useful. Unless otherwise stated, our texts and open tools are CC BY 4.0: you may use, translate and build on them with attribution. Photographs and field materials are shared with steward consent; no reuse licence is implied unless explicitly stated.

Meet us — We are not currently announcing an international delegation. If you want to meet, host a conversation, or explore collaboration, write to us.

Field notes — We expect to share four to six brief updates each year as field relationships and documentation develop. This is an occasional information list, not membership of the association. Ask to receive field notes. You can leave the list at any time by writing to the same address.

Current phase
Founding phase · active field work and preparation
Governance foundation
Constitutional kernel v1 · February 2026
Methods & protocols
View documentation →
Public collection
Preparing · permission from Indsamlingsnævnet pending

Spiralweb Stewardship Association is a Danish non-profit constituted on 22 March 2026. It is currently governed by a board of four: Oleg Koefoed PhD (chair), Áine Donnellan, Storyteller (vice-chair), Nikolaj Sorgenfrei Blom PhD (treasurer), and Lars A. Engberg PhD (working director).

The association provides the present organisational home for work developed through Planetary Guardians since 2019, including the PG Ledger, the Green Papers, the governance architecture and the growing field relationships. The published knowledge materials are offered for open reuse under CC BY 4.0, allowing others to read, share, translate and build upon them with attribution.

The association's purpose is to give the work a transparent, accountable and increasingly shared form, distributing knowledge, responsibility and carrying capacity across the board, field stewards and future collaborators.

Field relationships are carried with Akena Patrick and village elders in Kitgum; Abdelhamid Badaoui in Doukkala; Ingrid Pullar in Casablanca; Assyl Elazzaoui in Had Soualem; Arturo Flores López in Mexico City; and Yasir Darya Husain in Karachi. Each place retains its own authority, pace and decision-making.

Explore the 10 m² entry, citizen science, the 13×13 architecture, AI limits, field autonomy and the full protocol layer.

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