Department Updates
We’re excited to invite you to the first-ever DWeb Camp Cascadia, happening August 8–10, 2025 at the beautiful Salt Spring Island Farmers’ Instituteumbia. This is more than a tech gathering. It’s a weekend for planting seeds—ideas, relationships, and experiments—that will ripple beyond the island and into future decentralized networks. Whether you're deep in the DWeb world or just D-curious, this is a space for you.
We are excited to share that Ashley Bonn has officially joined the team at the Cascadia Department of Bioregion as a Communications & Events Coordinator.
We’re excited to announce that Cascadia Pride merch is officially back in stock—just in time to keep the spirit of pride and place flying strong as we move through summer and beyond. June is nationally recognized as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, commemorating the Stonewall Uprising of 1969—widely considered the spark of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. While Pride is often celebrated in June, queer joy, resistance, and identity are year-round—and so is our commitment to honoring the diversity of our Cascadian community. That’s why we’re thrilled to share a fresh restock of our Cascadia Pride patches, along with several new additions that center identity, inclusion, and bioregional belonging.
On June 14, 2025, more than 70,000 people flooded the streets of Seattle to join one of the largest demonstrations in the city’s history. The No Kings Day protest, part of a national day of action in over 80 cities, brought people together in response to the Trump administration’s militarization, ICE raids, attacks on public programs, and deepening disregard for human rights and constitutional limits.
Each year on May 18th, people across the Pacific Northwest and beyond gather to honor Cascadia Day—a celebration of bioregional identity, cultural diversity, ecological reverence, and community resilience. For me, this year’s Cascadia Day felt like a homecoming. Not just to a place, but to a purpose.
From May 16–18, 2025, over 250 visionaries, organizers, artists, funders, and culture-shapers gathered at the historic Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle for the inaugural Cascadia BioFi Conference—a gathering rooted in the question: How do we regenerate an entire bioregion?
A day to celebrate the unique dynamism of our bioregion and movement.
To Celebrate Cascadia Day, we are inviting anyone that feels so moved to share a picture, poem, song, story or short video in this thread that helps to share something of the essence of this amazing place we call home.
We’re hiring! The Department of Bioregion is seeking a Cascadia Organizer to support the growing Cascadia Movement, and a Nonprofit Program Officer to help steward programs, projects, and landscape teams across the bioregion. If you’re passionate about bioregionalism, community resilience, and working across watersheds, we’d love to hear from you.
For the first time in more than 15 years, bioregionalists from across North America are coming together to plan a Continental Bioregional Congress — a gathering of organizers, artists, land stewards, and community leaders from across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. If you know of a good site - make sure to recommend it using the survey by April 8th!
Support local Cascadia farmers as we finish off the last couple weeks of farmers market season!
September reminds of us back to school shopping and a reminder that it’s never too late to learn something new! We are so fortunate to be in an area rich in everything it takes to grow our own food in our backyards, rooftops, or community gardens.
Read the full article here. Published by the Canada National Observer on June 20th 2023 by Tori Fitzpatrick. You can
The Department of Bioregion was proud to win the prize for Systems and Governance. The Edge Prize celebrates regenerative projects from rural, Indigenous, and historically marginalized communities across the bioregion — from Alaska to California and between.
2023 arts and music festival tickets are in limited supply so grab a set before they’re gone!
Submissions for the 2023 Summer Issue of the Cascadia Spoke are open!
We are officially debuting Regenerate Cascadia in collaboration with Design School for Regenerating Earth and Regenerative Communities Network.
Here at Cascadia Department of Bioregion we are thrilled to welcome our new Community Coordinator to the team.
Collection of resources about mapping, education, and compiling information on bioregionalism.
The Department of Bioregion, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is seeking a community organizer and program coordinator to help us grow our engagement and impact.
The Department of Bioregion is super excited for the release of the Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, being released by Mountaineers Books March, 1st. For those not familiar, in the first ever ‘Cascadia’ field guide, local experts, poets and artists are working to create a literary field guide for the Cascadia bioregion.
This summer, cooperative leaders, organizers, visionaries, and values-aligned businesses from across the Cascadia bioregion will gather in Seattle for the first-ever Cascadia Cooperative Conference (CCC)—a landmark event dedicated to deepening the roots and expanding the reach of the cooperative economy in the Pacific Northwest.