This article presents Food Futuring as an emergence-oriented methodological approach for engaging multi-level actors in local food system transition. Drawing on Transition Design, Participatory Design, Art of Hosting–influenced facilitation, and emergent strategy, it examines how design-led facilitation can work with the tensions of convening diverse actors by engaging the interplay between plurality, distributed agency, and coherence. The methodology was structured as a staged sequence of participatory workshops and interspersed digital deliberation, designed to move iteratively between divergence and convergence, individual reflection and collective sense-making, and relational grounding and action orientation. Across these stages, facilitation employed light-touch structuring, dialogic formats, prioritisation exercises, and visioning activities to support shared understanding and pathway formation within a nascent multi-level network. Rather than evidencing realised system transformation, the article demonstrates how design can cultivate the early-stage conditions through which shared visions, pathways, and ecologies of intervention may emerge over time, offering transferable methodological principles for collaborative, place-based transitions.