Make Honey Ventures is the living link between the regenerative enterprise you want to build and the extractive structures that make it so hard to sustain.
Make Honey Ventures was founded by Jamie Prow, an enterprise designer who has spent a decade watching good intentions fail because the underlying structure was wrong.
We support founders and organisations who want to build enterprises that genuinely serve their communities and who need both the practical help to make that real and the support to try.
We believe the structure of an organisation determines its outcomes. Get that right, and everything else follows. Get it wrong, and you become everything you stood not to become.
The Predicament
The underlying structures of our current economies are designed for extraction, making it incredibly difficult for non-extractive enterprises to survive and thrive...
Our Response
Build a test bed for new-age economic activity. A sandbox to build and prototype organisations differently.
In the absence of a new economic paradigm that is regenerative, where the enterprises the world needs come as standard, we hold that space outside the current one, so organisations have the best possible conditions to imagine, design and build truly differently.
Enterprise Design
Stewardship & Coaching
Field Building
We redesign the underlying architecture of organisations, ownership, network, governance, finance, and purpose so that different outcomes become possible by design.
Facilitated space for organisations navigating transitions that conventional support cannot hold. A genuinely generative space to think clearly and find your own way forward.
We work to strengthen the wider regenerative ecosystem, connecting practitioners, translating frameworks into accessible tools, and engaging institutions and investors.
New space. New outcomes.
We. Work.. With...
Regenerative Leaders:
Regenerative pioneers in: agriculture, tourism, hospitality, finance, health, social care, education, craft and housing. Organisations actively working to incorporate living systems design into the heart of the sectors people most depend on.
Redistributive Initiatives:
Post-growth, de-growth, Doughnut Economics, wellbeing economy, steady-state, commons and solidarity economics. Organisations that measure success beyond mainstream models of extraction and work together to make it happen, to make it just and to make it fair.
Bioregionalism & Re-localisation:
Place-based, decentralised, post-global. Circular economies rooted in specific communities, landscapes, and regions. Care economy, share-economy and indigenous economics included.
Participatory Governance & Alternative Ownership:
Steward-led and Systemic Change Cooperatives, collectives, steward-owned, community-led enterprises, social enterprises, third sector, grassroots initiatives, and organisations working to shift the wider systems individual enterprises operate within.