The place

Cobana is built around one place: the Zărnești valley and the Piatra Craiului foothills.

The bioregion is the curriculum — the place sets what the community learns and builds. Agri-food opens the door; the door stays open to the clusters around it.

The working pastoral landscape of the foothills — grazing sheep, the lived valley.

A real place, worked by real people.

The Zărnești valley and the Piatra Craiului foothills hold a community that is already here — growing food, stewarding land, guiding the mountains, studying the region. Cobana doesn't invent it. It surfaces it, so the bioregion can see itself.

The clusters.

Agri-food is the starting lane — but the bioregion is wider than any one sector. The picture grows out to the clusters around it.

Agri-food

Local producers and short-supply-chain makers — the starting lane that opens the door.

Carpathian tourism

Mountain operators and the people who guide visitors through the bioregion.

Researchers & academics

Those studying the region — its land, its food systems, its future.

Innovation & ecosystem practice

The ecosystem-development work that helps a bioregion organise and grow.

Agri-food opens the door; the door stays open to the clusters around it.

Made here, by makers.

Across the valley, producers and makers do real work — in their fields, at their benches, at market. Cobana puts that work on a living picture of the bioregion, where the people who'd value it can finally find it.

Cobana surfaces and connects — a capability, not a guarantee. The work and its value are the community's own. DEEP Ecosystems is a credibility reference, not a partner or sponsor.

Start the conversation

A producer at their own work in the field — a member-maker of the community.