The Foraging Food Park: A Model to Regenerate Soil, Communities, and Farmers.

This workshop shares the real life journey of a family farm transitioning from land previously leased for conventional monoculture production into a regenerative organic farm.

Faced with what seemed like an impossible mission to rebuild depleted soil, grow healthy food, preserve the family farm, and create a viable livelihood with limited labor, equipment, capital, and outside inputs, we began searching for a different model.

Through extensive research, visiting and learning from other farms, and years of experimentation and problem solving within our own context, the Foraging Food Park model began to emerge.

This workshop showcases both the transition and the model that grew from it: an approach that brings together perennial food production, soil regeneration, community engagement , education, and agritourism to turn limited resources into abundance.

We’ll openly share the challenges, mistakes, solutions, and design principles we’ve learned along the way and explore how the Foraging Food Park model creates thriving soil, thriving communities and thriving farmers.