A collective of land stewards working at the intersection of food cultivation, ecology, and community to restore the relationship between humans and the ecosystems that sustain them.
Shared Values
- A kinship based approach to the living world, respecting the inherent wisdom and life force of all plants, animals, and insects and seeing them as teachers and allies
- Land stewardship practices that ground food cultivation in ecology, emphasizing perennial cropping systems, regenerative grazing, and native and bioregional crops
- An emphasis on building relationships, creating structures that enable people to relate to their food systems and one another rather than just selling food as a commodity
Offerings for Members
- The opportunity to participate in shared grants to access resources
- First preference for grant-funded scholarships to participate in our Land Stewardship Incubator Program
- Opportunity to act as a host site for educational projects to help implement systems*
- Opportunity to borrow hand tools
- Seeds and plant starts from our farm nursery*
- Starter livestock such as baby chicks*
- Access to our community to post offerings/needs
- Regular gatherings to connect with other members of the collective to celebrate, share learnings, arrange for collaborations, and exchange goods
- *As available
Meet the Current Members of the Bindweed Collective
The Farmstead School
The Farmstead School is an alternative Montessori middle school program, situating a traditional middle school curriculum in the context of a 5-acre regenerative farm.
The SPORE Collective
Brandon Burget is transforming his 2-acre mountain property into a community food forest to provide fruit, vegetables, medicinal herbs, mushrooms, and education to the community.
Wild View Farm
Wildview Farm is in the process of rehabilitating 30 degraded dryland acres into a silvopasture system with an emphasis on native and edible species. They are also making their land available to beginning farmers.