Community-based research can produce many outcomes: from the documentation of knowledge to the connection of different types of knowledge to the true co-production of knowledge. In this chapter, we describe our experiences with two projects that lie along this spectrum. The Bering Sea Project documented local and traditional knowledge about the region’s ecosystem, leading to papers that presented that knowledge, connected it to other ways of understanding the human role in the ecosystem and developed a new understanding of the ways in which ecosystem conditions affect hunting success. The Bidarki Project started as an ecological study of a keystone intertidal grazer and developed into a co-production effort exploring history and culture to explain today’s patterns in intertidal abundance. In both cases, the path towards co-production started with personal relationships and continued by taking advantage of opportunities that arose during the course of each project. Not all community-based projects will result in co-production of knowledge nor is that outcome the only measure of success, but all will benefit from the essential foundations of true collaboration which are mutual respect and intellectual equality.