Bioregion 02
The bioregion
The Valley of Mexico is a high-altitude basin ringed by volcanic mountains, stewarded for centuries by the Nahua and Otomi peoples whose lineage on this land carries an unbroken practice of agricultural cosmology, ceremonial calendar, and urban-rural cohabitation. The bioregion holds one of the densest regenerative cultural infrastructures in the Americas: Huerto Roma Verde and the Roma Norte and Coyoacán neighborhoods, the Xochimilco chinampa system, agroecology collectives across the valley, and the indigenous-led food-sovereignty networks that compose the everyday ground.
The city and the surrounding ecology already practice the cohabitation the Protocol invites. The dry season and the rainy season set the rhythm; ceremony tracks both. The valley has held population centers continuously for more than seven hundred years, and the modern city has not erased the older grammar so much as layered itself on top of it. The Protocol enters where that grammar is still legible.
The partnership
Huerto Roma Verde is the community-driven urban regenerative space in Roma Norte that anchors the activation venue. Mexico Climate Week is the annual catalyst window that positions Mexico City as a regen-finance node for Latin America. The partnership is in active development, not yet contractually formalized; the relationship is real, the cooperation agreement is in draft, and the sequencing into October 2026 exists precisely because the partnership work needs the time it needs. Exploring is not weakness here. It is the appropriate state for partnership-in-becoming.
Anchor venue
Community-driven urban regenerative space, Roma Norte
A community-led ecological and cultural space in Roma Norte. Long practiced in urban permaculture, food sovereignty work, and cross-cultural ceremony. The anchor venue for the Mexico City activation.
Catalyst event
Annual catalyst, October cadence
An annual climate-and-regeneration gathering positioning Mexico City as a regen-finance node for Latin America. The catalyst window the Mexico City activation synchronizes with.
Status note
The partnership is in active development. The relationship is real; the formal cooperation agreement is in draft. The page reflects what is true on the day it is read, not what is hoped for. Updates land here when the agreement ratifies.
What the $160K activates
The per-bioregion Stage 1 budget is $160,000. The allocation is identical to Hudson Valley because the structure is identical; the ground is different. Sixty-three percent goes to people work. Sixteen percent seeds the Flow Fund. Six percent captures the story.
| Line item | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bioregional steward compensationOne named lead steward holding the bioregion for 18 months at partial FTE. In Mexico City the lead steward anchors the cohabitation between the city and the agricultural valley around it, holds the bridge between Huerto Roma Verde’s urban regenerative practice and the broader Nahua and Otomi lineage on the land, and carries the cadence of circle and ceremony in Spanish, Nahuatl, and the relational grammar the valley already speaks. Stewardship in a high-altitude urban-rural valley reads differently than a Northeast watershed; the work honors that difference. | $42K | 26% |
| Community mapping and listeningPhase 1 SENSE and Phase 2 SEE costs. Circle convening, ceremony, listening sessions, asset and needs and offer and relationship mapping, bioregional intelligence data collection. Honoraria for community elders and lineage holders. In Mexico City the mapping pass listens for Nahua and Otomi lineage holders whose ceremonial and agricultural practice predates the city by centuries, for the chinamperos still tending the Xochimilco system, for the urban-permaculture and food-sovereignty practitioners Huerto Roma Verde already convenes, and for the agroecology collectives composing the valley’s living regenerative-cultural network. | $28K | 18% |
| Activation infrastructurePhase 3 ACTIVATE. Training and facilitation for governance capacity, project incubation, peer support cadence. Travel and venue costs for cross-bioregion learning convenings. The Mexico City activation centers on Huerto Roma Verde as the anchor venue, with the October 2026 entry synchronized to the Mexico Climate Week catalyst so the bioregion arrives into a window the city has already gathered itself for. Subsequent gatherings rotate across Huerto Roma Verde, the chinampa sites, and the agroecology collectives the mapping pass surfaces, so the activation circle moves through the bioregion rather than meeting in one room. | $30K | 19% |
| Governance circle setupLocal Flow Fund governance setup, integration with Mycelial Law's living-contract framework, training the local stewardship circle. Integration with Kinship Earth fiscal sponsorship. The Mexico City stewardship circle is anchored by the lead steward in collaboration with Huerto Roma Verde’s convening team and with Nahua and Otomi lineage holders the SEE-phase mapping surfaces. The decision protocol honors the cultural ground: consensus by ceremonial calendar where the lineage asks for it, working-group cadence where the urban practice asks for it, and the local circle holds final authority either way. | $20K | 12% |
| Flow Fund seed capitalA small seed grant from the Planetary Party Trust to the local Flow Fund. Distinct from Kinship Earth's own deployment. Demonstrates the mechanism, attracts first-cycle proposals, creates the proof-of-pattern that draws additional capital. The Mexico City Flow Fund is listening for proposals from chinampa restoration crews, indigenous-led food-sovereignty kitchens, urban-permaculture sites in the Roma Norte and Coyoacán corridor, and agroecology collectives whose practice the SEE phase surfaces. The first cycle deploys whatever the stewardship circle chooses, ungated by Trust priority. | $25K | 16% |
| Documentation and storytellingMicelio Media production budget for the bioregion's case study. Films, photos, written case study, ceremony documentation. Becomes a learning asset for future bioregions. In Mexico City, Eslerh and Micelio build on what the Hudson Valley pass made visible and listen for what is distinct here: the bilingual texture of circle, the volcanic-valley light, the Climate Week catalyst as living context, and the way Nahua and Otomi ceremony already carries the cadence the Protocol invites. The documentary frame holds the bioregion in its own grammar. | $10K | 6% |
| Contingency and reserveThree percent reserve for unforeseen ceremony, partner, or logistics costs. Held by the local stewardship circle, not by the core team. | $5K | 3% |
| Mexico City Stage 1 total | $160,000 | 100% |
Source: Planetary Party financial model, 2026-05-14, Section 5.
The 18-month arc
The Mexico City activation begins after Hudson Valley has run its first SENSE and SEE cycles. Learning carries forward. The Protocol is identical; the practice deepens each time the federation runs it.
Pre-activation
Q3 2026
Pre-conditions opening
Partnership with Huerto Roma Verde and Mexico Climate Week ratified. Lead steward named. Hudson Valley's first SENSE and SEE cycles inform the Mexico City entry; the federation learns by doing.
Phase 1
October 2026
SENSE opens
Activation begins around Mexico Climate Week. The bioregion begins listening to itself with Huerto Roma Verde as the activation venue.
Phase 2
Winter 2026 to spring 2027
SEE deepens
Community mapping across asset, need, offer, relationship. Nahua and Otomi lineage holders are honored in the mapping pass. Bioregional intelligence data collection.
Phase 3
Summer 2027
ACTIVATE
First Flow Fund deployment from the stewardship circle. Project incubation begins. The third bioregion enters its discernment pass in parallel.
Phase 4 and 5
Fall 2027 onward
CELEBRATE and REGENERATE
First Mexico City Planetary Party festival. Cross-bioregion learning integration with Hudson Valley. The cycle continues; the bioregion enters the federation as a steady-state node.
The Latin America lineage
The Mexico City pilot does not begin from a standing start in Latin America. Colombia Regenerativa, a six-year network of regenerative communities, has held watershed restoration, regenerative agriculture, Indigenous governance, and urban-rural reconnection across twelve territories. The Protocol inherits that practice; the practice is the asset.
Read the full lineage page: /origins
Read deeper
Hudson Valley anchored in Spring 2026. A third bioregion enters discernment in late 2026 or early 2027. The horizon page reads the full arc.
