Groundwork
Paonia, CO, USA
Through the farming season—April through October—fellows live on our Colorado farm, tending the land in the mornings and devoting afternoons to projects and seminars focused on one central question: how can we live so that future generations might see us as good ancestors? Since 2021, this fellowship has been a powerful space to explore ways of being outside the boundaries of the modern, industrial, capitalist culture. At Groundwork, sustainability is not about a techno-utopian vision of solar panels and electric cars. It’s about deeper questions: what it means to be a human being alive in an unraveling world; replacing a life of commodity with community, extraction with reciprocity, and practicing coming home to ourselves and to the land. The fellowship covers a lot of ground: •Practicing farming skills as you tend our organic vegetable and seed farm and study local food systems •Learning to save seeds and step into an intergenerational lineage of seedkeepers...
