We believe healthy soil leads to healthy food, leads to healthy people and healthy communities.

 
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Future Heirlooms

We host tours and a variety of workshops at our GROW BIOINTENSIVE research, demonstration and education mini-farm.

We're teaching gardeners and farmers low-tech, sustainable soil and resource management techniques; in order to increase local food security and sustainability.

Research and Development

Through ongoing project research we're working to identify and develop crop varieties that thrive in our local climate and that are resilient to climate change and environmental challenges, as well as tracking micro-climate data to better maximize our growing season.

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Sharing Seed

Through the Future Heirlooms Seed Bank we provide open-pollinated seeds that have been grown locally and adapted to our Northern climate. We also teach seed saving workshops and host seed swap events to encourage sharing of open-pollinated seeds.

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Natural Building

We host workshops to teach sustainable building techniques that focus on using locally available, natural and non-toxic materials. By using passive solar design and high efficiency stoves we can build and heat our own homes that are naturally warm in winter, cool in summer, and that consume minimal resources.

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Protection & Regeneration

By teaching sustainable living we enhance local food security, limit resource consumption, and aid in the restoration and regeneration of our forests and waterways.

By teaching farmers how to increase yields and reduce land and resource requirements, ecosystems can be restored and biodiversity re-established and protected for future generations.