Small organic farm located in Alt-Madlitz, Germany, roughly 80 km east of Berlin.

Currently, they are experiencing their very first seasons including, in their words, »the crazy process of building infrastructure, preparing the beds, starting seedlings and planting«.

Ackerpulco

Non-governmental & non-profit organization.

Weaving a Rooted Society for food, forest and culture. Using Web3 tools to build on chain governance of Agroforestry Commons.

We are creating Agroforestry-focused spaces, protocols and incentives to support long term positive-sum interactions for knowledge sharing, training and joint ventures, while building reputation and credentials in a membership ID.

Agroforest DAO

In Arusha, the Northern part of Tanzania, we boost the program of partners LEAD and Erbacher Foundation with communication power and regreening knowledge. Together we aim to bring back vegetation and improve the livelihood of agro-pastoral households who heavily depend on their pasture lands and farm soils.

The Monduli District in Arusha is one of the driest areas in the country. The majority of people living in the region are Maasai: a nomadic community whose main source of income and survival is livestock keeping. Due to drought, they are struggling with insufficient pasture resources. Meanwhile, farmers in the area are also struggling with the productivity of their farms.

Time for a change! Therefore we boost the program of partners LEAD and Erbacher Foundation with communication power and regreening knowledge. The program aims to improve the livelihoods of the local communities as well as restoring nature by regreening the area. The methods that will be used are Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) and Pastoralist Managed Natural Regeneration (PMNR). These methods are fast, low-cost, and sustainable and will allow pastoralists and farmers inhabiting the most degraded landscapes to restore their pasture lands and farm soils. This positively affects water availability, soil health, crop yields, and grass and fodder for livestock. On a larger scale, regreening degraded land has a cooling effect on the (local) climate. 

Arusha (Tanzania) - Regreening the land of Maasai pastoralists and farmers

Atlas of the Future is inspired by the talent and energy of people across the world working to solve our biggest challenges and create a better tomorrow. As part of a non-profit being launched in Barcelona and London, our mission is ‘democratising the future’ by speaking human.

Atlas Of The Future

Territorial foundation to support the creation of a bioregional economy and an "Ecoversity" in Barichara, Columbia.

Barichara Territorial Foundation

basinDAO is global DAO reducing/removing carbon, restoring/protecting nature and improving human health/wealth.

Also known as the "project developer" DAO, basin works at the real property level building and executing climate, nature and carbon projects with an emphasis on "core benefits" such as biodiversity, ecosystem services and climate resilience.  

Our real asset projects create restoration, regeneration & conservation at scale, basin to basin.

Basin DAO

The first property purchased by Ecotone for ecological restoration, Bee Tree Run Farm had previously been a farm with row crops on the steep slopes with livestock grazing on the broad floodplain of Bee Tree Run. The goal was to connect several forested parcels by planting native trees and shrubs.

The property is bisected by Bee Tree Run, one of the most productive trout streams in Maryland that flows into the Gunpowder River. The 100-acre property in Baltimore County was reforested with native hardwood trees and shrubs, along with stream restoration to improve habitat for trout. Tree species were carefully selected to provide food and cover for wildlife species. When Ecotone originally purchased the property, it retained five development rights. Ecotone donated the development rights to the Land Preservation Trust, a local land trust, to protect the property in perpetuity from development.

Bee Tree Run

Bioparque Móncora

Bloom is an action-based media company. Local Blooms host events and media to help more people find and participate in regenerative actions where they live. Together we accelerate the adoption of regenerative - as opposed to exhaustive - practices.

We have 22 active chapters in 9 countries, based on the work of hundreds of volunteers who believe that human culture is at a critical moment to evolve. We are ready to expand to 100+ chapters on every continent.

Bloom Network

Regenerative demonstration farm.

Bodemzicht works towards growing healthy food and diverse landscapes.

"We are passionate about integrating nature, agriculture and communities, creating thereby a long-term future for farmers in the Netherlands."


Bodemzicht

The Brandt Family Farm is located in Fairfield County, Ohio. We are in the outskirts of Columbus and are first and foremost a grain farm. Our crops include Corn, Soybeans and Wheat, and include many other cereal grains sold through the on farm cover crop seed business, Walnut Creek Seeds, LLC.

The Brandt Farm has used soil conservation practices for over 50 years. These practices include No-Till, Crop Rotation, and cover crops between cash crops. We continue to challenge ourselves to improve land stewardship practices. One of these challenges is to grow Heritage Grains and provide locally milled flour to our community. We are pleased to partner with other farms in this venture to build soil health, farm resiliency and food security in our neighborhood and through out the region.

Brandt Family Farm

To connect with Bloom in Uganda, find Broadfield Enterprises Uganda – Permaculture Group! They are focused on the creation, implementation, and use of innovative climate change adaptation strategies using the permaculture ethics and principles, especially with the most vulnerable populations of rural farming communities. Today working to integrate Permaculture into Ministry of Education to recognise permaculture as an outdoor learning discipline to be taught in teachers colleges to serve public schools where we have the biggest number of unprivileged children, to have most impactful education.

Broadfield Permaculture Enterprises

Outside Pittsburgh, Allegheny Land Trust protected 124 acres of woodlands from rapid encroaching residential development in southeastern Allegheny County. The 40 year old maple, cherry and oak-hickory forest provides habitat for deer, turkey, and many species of birds. Hikers, birders, and mountain bikers will be able to explore the area, and possibly catch a glimpse of a majestic 200 year old oak tree.

Protection of this forest also contributes to maintaining clean drinking water for Pittsburgh region’s residents. Located within the lower Youghiogheny River Watershed, the property is five miles upstream from the confluence with the Monongahela River.

Revenue generated from the sale of carbon credits will be put towards acquisition costs, land stewardship, and future expansion of this and other conservation lands.

Buena Vista Heights Conservation Area

Camp Altiplano is our first camp on the high steppe of south-eastern Spain, in the Murcia region. 

Murcia is one of the lowest income regions in Spain with high levels of rural to urban migration caused by lack of employment opportunities.  This is a semi arid ecosystem that has been severely degraded by deforestation, industrial agriculture, water exploitation and climate change.  The degradation of the landscape is intricately connected with the degradation of the social fabric too. Many of the villages in the region are semi empty, with shops closing the populations dwindle. The landscape was historically degraded by deforestation for making ships, followed by industrial agriculture.

The camp itself is a 5 hectare plot in the middle of the La Junquera farm of Alfonso Chico de Guzman, who is converting his 1,500 hectare organic almond and heritage grains farm to regenerative. Restoration work at the camp is supporting the local Alvelal collective to restore 620,000 hectares of degraded natural and agricultural land.

Expect a sparse, degraded yet beautiful landscape, with high heat in summer and frosty cold in winter. With only 250 mm (on average) of rain per year, this is a semi arid place, on its way to becoming a desert if action to revive this landscape isn’t taken. 

Originally a highly degraded field of wheat, the area is now transforming into a haven for life, with ponds making up a wetland that is home to snakes, toads, frogs and dragonflies, a regenerative almond agroforestry system, an apple orchard, all growing out of soil that is growing in microbial, bacterial and fungal life.

Now in its fifth year of restoration, where many techniques have already been implemented to bring the land back to life.

We envision a healthy, resilient regional ecosystem made up of a mosaic of productive and biodiverse farms, natural areas and a regenerated economy.
 

Camp Altiplano

Camp Appalachian Renewal sits on a 7,000-acre reclaimed surface coal mine site and offers a diversity of ground conditions. Over half of the site consists of forestlands in need of forest stand improvement/restoration. This work includes the removal of suppressed trees, elimination of invasive species and reduction of understory vegetation. The remaining site acreage has been significantly disturbed by surface mining and reclamation. Restoration work in these areas varies, but can include elimination of invasive species, establishment of native grasses and groundcovers, and reforestation activities.

The camp is located near Lovely, Kentucky which has a seasonal climate, with spring, summer, fall and winter periods. On average, there are 162 sunny days per year and 124 days of precipitation mainly in the form of rain; snow is most likely in January, February but typically without periods of sustained accumulation. September, June and May are the most pleasant months in the area, while January and February are the least comfortable.

Camp Appalachian Renewal

Camp Arcoora is nested inside a 30-year-old eco-community that was originally established as a Buddhist Temple and retreat. The former Vajradhara Gonpa now accommodates Arcoora’s experiential programs aimed at invigorating ecological mindedness and strengthening capacity to respond to the world as it is today, both locally and globally, including mass loss of biodiversity, degradation of ecological complexity, climate change and increased frequency of severe natural disasters.

Our location is on the edge of the precious remaining Gondwana Rainforest, at the ecotone of dense rainforest gullies and wet sclerophyll forest. Our camp is home to many iconic Australian fauna including Koalas, Red tailed Black Cockatoos, lace monitor lizards, carpet pythons, wallabies and many colourful parrots. 

Camp Arcoora is surrounded by 30-year-old regrowth forest however, as seen in the catastrophic fires of our 2019/20 summer, climate change poses great threat of bushfire as well as drought imposed land degradation. 

Camp Arcoora is partnering with local indigenous land management organisations to explore cultural burning as a response to land degradation and ecosystem restoration. 

Additionally, they are experimenting with successional agroecology as a means of food and fibre production whilst simultaneously improving soil ecology and sequestering moisture in a dense forest microclimate.

The community has planted extensively along the riparian area for Koala habitat, begun management of invasive vegetation in the surrounding forest and installed two demonstration syntropic agroforestry gardens within Camp Arcoora grounds.

Camp Arcoora is weaving healthy systems into the local bioregion. They offer experiential training and community outreach initiatives to support capacity building in regenerative agroecology, ecosystem restoration and culturally regenerative projects. 

Their approach to land restoration includes research into successional agroecology, cultural burning for bushfire and land management and progressive techniques for restoring and managing grassland, wet sclerophyll and rainforest ecosystems.

Arcoora believes that their approach to restoration must include the restoration of the human spirit. This is why they value, learn and share in the arts, community building skills, and spiritual and contemplative practices. The camp is a place for healing both the earth and human hearts.

Camp Arcoora

Camp BirdHouse is Regenerating the land under the Hollywood Sign, by growing gardens on public and private lots, sharing the bounty, and creating a culture of care.  

In this urban setting they act as a hub of exchange for ideas and various ways of cooperating with nature to restore the biodiversity of soil biology, plants, insects and animals; to restore the lost topsoil and organic matter; and to increase biomass in the animals and trees everywhere.

Camp Birdhouse

Camp Chocaya is in Bolivia, close to the bustling city of Cochabamba. It is based on the mountainside above the village of Chocaya and underneath the hot springs of Liriuni. Part of the magnificent Andes mountain range, the altitude here is about 2,800 meters. The Bolivian Andes are generally very eroded and suffering from the impact of the climate crisis, with water shortages common in the dry season.

In a financially poor country, the challenge is to balance ecological values and economic gain.  The agroforestry system provides a model for how that balance can be achieved. One of our local partners, the Samay Foundation has been successfully introducing this system with farmers in the region for a number of years. You are invited to join them in Chocaya for this unique restoration experience.

Camp Chocaya is an unique collaboration with a community in Bolivia and local partners, offering Campers the chance to design and implement an agroforestry based restoration project. This is a Camp for adventurous and skilled individuals interested in a challenge and prepared to volunteer both time and expertise to an important initiative.

Camp Chocaya

Since 2018, Camp Contour Lines has been working to restore and rehabilitate 1000 kilometres of land that was once tropical rainforest  throughout the Greater Livingston Area, on Guatemala’s Caribbean Coast.

Camp Contour Lines plants tropical agro-forests mainly in Q’echi (mayan) villages. To date they have designed and installed 2,100 agroforestry sites across 125 communities, transitioning 215 hectares (532 acres) of land degraded by slash-and-burn chemical corn farming to regenerative land use. Since they started, 124,000 new fruit, legume, and hardwood trees have been planted, along 113km of contour lines. 

Camp Contour Lines

Camp Desperto – Regenerative Cultures Centre came about through a conscious decision to restore a piece of degraded land in a heavily industrialised region of Brazil. 

The 5-hectare camp  is situated on top of a mountain with beautiful, sweeping views of the valley and nearby cities. We take time almost every day to take in the beautiful sunsets, especially in the winter season (June – September).

Most of the land has been used for grazing over the past 15 years which has led to very compacted soil with no water infiltration, and inhibiting growth of the original rainforest. The entire area surrounding the camp is highly degraded, with pastures or monoculture eucalyptus plantations.

The camp aims to restore the dried-up water spring and create a regenerative agroforestry, restoring it to the original biome. They would like to become an example in their region of how abundance is possible through the regeneration of land and people, thereby influencing other farmers to adopt regenerative practices as well. They are also working to strengthen the ecosystem of small producers and artisans, collaborating for the creation of a local regenerative culture.

Camp Desperto

Camp Doku is located in Sarawak, a state of Malaysia, on the Island of Borneo. The camp and research center sits on 10  acres of land; 4 acres are deforested, degraded agricultural land and 6 acres are preserved, ancient rainforest. The camp is located at the gateway of a 20,000 hectares land bank and also Borneo’s national forest reserves, which includes 100,000 hectares of rainforests, and just beyond, there are approximately 100,000 deforested hectares that are destined to be used as land banks for agricultural use. 

The degraded portion of Camp Doku’s land was destroyed by logging, palm oil, and rubber tree plantations as well as fruit orchards and vegetable farms. The land underwent rapid soil and ecosystem deterioration due to chemical runoff, which also negatively impacted the groundwater quality, coastal landscapes, coral reefs, and ocean life. The impacts from these negative externalities are already affecting the fish populations which are a major protein source for Malaysia.  

What makes this project so valuable and interesting is that Camp Doku’s research team and campers will have first-hand experience seeing what a healthy micro rainforest should look like when biodiversity and thriving ecosystems are intact, but also how starkly different the contrast is when deforestation and unsustainable farming techniques have been deployed for over five decades. This living framework allows Camp Doku’s education and research center to observe the whole ecosystem, from the soil to microorganisms, fungi, flora, and fauna, all in its most pure, symbiotic state. And because their land is adjacent to a protected natural rainforest, this allows the camp to embark on extensive research in partnership with local universities on germplasms and other microorganisms, which allows more understanding of these native species’ genetic makeup, which is extremely valuable information for conservation, ecosystem restoration, and protection.

The task for the degraded portion will be to use this information collected from the pristine site in order to develop and create abundant, healthy food forests, restoration systems, and techniques to be used to educate farmers and communities on how to sustainably grow in the deforested land banks at the same time as reforesting the devastated rainforest.

Camp Doku

Camp Dryland Solutions is located in the Nugaal Valley region of Somalia, a semi-desert grassland ecosystem that has been degraded through deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion, droughts, water shortage food insecurity, disappearing wildlife, and conflict. This project will ensure the implementation of long-term and highly sustainable solutions to address some of the main challenges faced by the inhabitants of the country, such as food insecurity, poverty, vulnerability to climate change and extreme weather events, and desertification.

Camp Dryland Solutions

Situated in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, Camp Earth Connection is a biological reserve with a Cenote and Mayan ruins. The camps is restoring 39 hectares of tropical forest in this region, bringing an abundance of life back to the area with extensive planting of native species. They are also experimenting with various forms of agroecology, with the creation of a food forest and other regenerative methods for growing food. 

The property was initially cleared of trees and used as a cattle ranch for many years. When the project started, the bare soil was red and exposed from cattle grazing in the dry season. The only trees and shrubs growing were the thorny vegetation that the cows wouldn’t eat. Once the cows were excluded from the property, the vegetation started to grow again. The ground was covered by early succession species and the soil gradually turned darker. Earth Connection established a small nursery to grow local native vegetation and grow 100s of species.

Camp Earth Connection is also establishing regenerative agricultural practices and hope to be food independent in the coming years. The camp takes on interns doing research and hopes to motivate more students to come and participate in tropical ecological restoration and regenerative farming practices. Their end goal is to expand their impact by sharing the successes with the local Mayan communities, ideally helping to restore 1000s of ha.

Camp Earth Connection

Camp Elk Run Farm is the pilot farm for a non-profit called Drylands Agroecology Research. It is situated on 14 acres of previously dry and degraded fields in the rolling hills and grasslands of Longmont, Colorado. This region was once inhabited by native peoples of the Ute, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Comanche, Apache, Hopi, Dine, and other tribes. Once settlers from other continents arrived in the 1800s, towns, farms, and cities throughout Colorado were established. Many of the new settler’s agricultural practices were unsustainable and quickly degraded the once fertile grasslands.

In 2015, when Elk Run Farm began, the topsoil on this 14-acre foothills property had been visibly degraded, and little to no biodiversity remained. The overgrazing of ruminants, non-sustainable land management, extractive productions, and dry/arid/drought conditions was to blame. There was only enough well water on-site to irrigate about one acre of the farm, and the prevailing opinion was that there was not enough water on-site to restore the land to a farmable state.

Seven years later, the techniques that the founders used to regenerate the land have become the core methodologies of the pilot farm’s non-profit, Drylands Agroecology Research (DAR). These techniques include water-harvesting earthworks, dryland agroforestry, intensive livestock management, and drought-resilient grain crop trials and breeding. DAR is scaling its implementations through partnerships with landowners and simultaneously developing a research program to track how well the landscapes are sequestering carbon, retaining moisture, supporting biodiversity, and producing viable agricultural yields. Camp Elk Run Farm aims to restore over 1000 hectares of land within the next decade so that these lands can once again teem with the spirit they used to hold.

Camp Elk Run Farm (Drylands AgroEcology Research)

Camp Embercombe is a 20 year old education centre nestled in a wooded valley on the edge of wild Dartmoor, in the South West of England.

It is embarking on a new and exciting journey to rewild it’s 50 acre site and welcome local farmers and members of the Devon community, as well as anyone interested in this subject, to take part in this adventure.

What makes the rewilding at Camp Embercombe interesting is it’s intention to continue as a centre for personal, social and environmental transformation, welcoming hundreds of people to the site each year. Therefore the central question is: How to rewild a relatively small piece of land that is so used and loved by us, humanity, whilst also increasing biodiversity, creating habitats, drawdown carbon, and all of the other amazing benefits that rewilding can offer? 

Embercombe’s work revolves around this question, weaving together the different aspects across society that need transformation in order for rewilding to truly succeed. How do we rewild ourselves, our families, our homes, our gardens, our workplaces, our farms, our communities, our society, our culture and our politics?

Our aim is to become an international centre for the rewilding of people and places.
Ecosystem restoration camps are a wonderful way to become involved at an early stage in the practical and philosophical evolution of this vision and we hope that our campers will leave inspired and empowered to work and advocate for rewilding and restoration in their own places.

Camp Embercombe

The aim of Camp Farm of the Future is to support the creation of a vibrant farmer community, supporting 800 families to create livelihoods through ecosystem restoration and regenerative agri/aquaculture.

At Camp Farm of the Future you will work to change a former cattle-ranch into a prototype regenerative farm. 

You will explore innovations that will work in the Amazon Cerrado region of Brazil, protecting and restoring the Amazon-Savanna ecosystem. 

You will help develop new businesses based on regenerative farming models. Sociocracy, Permaculture, Harmony with Nature are key-terms associated with the Farm of the Future.

Camp Farm of the Future

Starting as a permaculture-informed response to the trauma of a single day, the Camp Fire Restoration Project began immediately following 2018's devastating Camp Fire in Butte County, CA.  Survivors and allies who felt passionately that regenerative solutions for rebuilding were needed came together and organized with support from partner organizations such as Ecosystem Restoration Camps, North Valley Community Foundation, and others.

Through a variety of action-based efforts that now also include education around Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), CFRP has grown into an organized 501(c)3, under the umbrella of Blue Oak Collective, that is expanding past disaster response and becoming a long-term resource for ecosystem resiliency in our region and elsewhere.

Camp Fire Restoration Project

The team at Camp Functional Forests  Zeytinalani (FFZA) are an interdisciplinary team with rural and urban backgrounds combining traditional and scientific knowledge through decades of design, implementation and entrepreneurial experience to design, implement, manage, monitor and disseminate Functional Forests. 

Functional Forests (FF) are a holistic approach to regenerative small-to-large-scale poly-cultural production based on a culmination of Indigenous- and Syntropic Farming Methods. Besides food, medicine, fodder, fuel, fibre, building materials etc. FF provide many other social, economic, ecological and motivational benefits for regeneration.

FFZA has successfully planted approximately 6000 saplings on contour and alongside the fence line between 2019-2020 with 5-10 campers in each activity, and  2500 meters of mulch has already been applied. As a result, even through the extended two month dry period, irrigation for the saplings was only necessary, on average, once a month with remote vehicles between May and late October, using only 250 tons of water. They achieved their goal of keeping 85% of the saplings alive under arid conditions with minimum intervention and use of resources.

Camp Functional Forests Zeytinalani (FFZA)

Greenpop is a non-profit organisation working to restore ecosystems and empower environmental stewards through reforestation, urban greening, sustainable development, and environmental art projects across Sub- Saharan Africa. 

Camp Greenpop

Camp Habiba Community is a beach-front resort/permaculture training centre with plenty of opportunity to relax, as well as work with the local farmers on ecosystem restoration and on strengthening regenerative agricultural techniques in the region.

Camp Habiba aims to help local communities introduce regenerative agricultural techniques, stop erosion and further desertification, and rebuild local livelihoods based on healthy ecosystems.

Camp Habiba


Camp Hotlum has  a mission to restore humanity’s relationship with the biosphere. Hotlum is situated at the foot of Mount ”Shasta”. This mountain is one of the most picturesque mountains in California and is ecologically one of the most important wilderness area. The Camp is located on the site of a lumber operation which has left the land struggling to regenerate. Campers have the opportunity to be part of a learning community developing an ERC from the ground up and the heart out. 

At the end of June 2021 Camp Hotlum experienced a destructive wildfire. The camp lost over 95% of all the trees, their infrastructure and tools. The team has been working on gathering information about the ecological state of the property and the tree survival, assessing the infrastructure damage, bringing in fresh water and removing remaining structures.

Camp Hotlum

Human Nature Projects Camp Uganda is working to meet the challenges facing the forest ecosystem  in the Bunyoro Sub region, Kakumiro District of Uganda by working with the local communities on sustainable ecosystem management, climate change adaptation, habitat restoration and biodiversity conservation, livelihoods, emergence and effectiveness of a green economy, among others.

The camp covers an area of 540 hectares of forest reserve that has been given attention by government authorities in the past but – until the start of our efforts in 2021 – there were no visible signs of rehabilitation having taken place.

Camp Human Nature

Camp Humble Habitat is located in southern Dalarna in a rural area that has been exploited by mining companies and clear cutting for centuries. The camp is restoring the area through grafting, conscious forestry, gardening, natural building, bio-char production and soil building, to name just a few of the holistic approaches.

Over the past 1.5 years, the camp has begun the process of regeneration on 13 ha of land. Hundreds of visitors and course participants have contributed to the restoration process. Over 400 trees and other perennials have been established and many more allowed to grow naturally where they previously were not able to do so. Top-soil building has been a main focus and a lot of infrastructure has already been implemented, including four composting toilets, several intensive “gardening areas”, mushroom farms, vineyards, orchards, camping sites and introduction of chickens and rabbits. Everything has been established with a foundation in Permaculture principles.

Humble Habitat is a 13 ha off-grid homestead run by David and Eliza Roxendal as a private company. On site are both annual and perennial gardens as well as a forest garden that melts into the surrounding nature and landscape. It is a place for biodiversity, foodscaping and learning by doing. There are many workshops, educational events and celebrations every year to include both neighbours and travellers to the experience.

Camp Humble Habitat

Guided by the land’s needs for regeneration and restoring the power of water in the region, our vision is to establish a low-cost replicable example of regenerative agriculture/agroforestry capable of settling people back into the region while documenting indigenous knowledge through open collaborations with the locals.

Our camp is located on 4.5 hectares in the Moroccan drylands, which is in a very degraded state, supporting very little vegetation due to environmental erosion and unsustainable land practices. Together, we aim to restore this land into a thriving ecosystem that future generations can benefit from for years to come.

Camp Khalifah

Camp Khetee works with the local people to restore the dry land of Bihar. Currently, we are running a one-year Khetee fellowship program where women and youths are learning Regenerative Agroforestry practices by implementing and managing Agroforestry on land. 

To date, we have restored 4 acres of land.  On this land we have planted 10,000 plants including herbs and crops. These lands are now able to retain rainwater and have had good vegetation with biodiversity. 50+ volunteers have worked at our farm coming from our country and all around the world.

Camp Khetee

Our work is rooted in Friesland, but we are also open to organizing camps throughout the Netherlands. At the moment we are preparing for projects to restore herb-rich meadowland, water management systems, fruit trees at farmyards, ecological restoration of roadsides, and many other biotopes that need restoration. What we do completely depends on the local landscape. 60% of our work will be concentrated on restoring biodiversity in an area in the middle of Friesland, which is mostly meadowland with villages on little man-made mounds.

We have only just begun but our camp has already restored six fruit courts, and our partner also restored six.  We connected the two locations with 8 kilometres of ecologically maintained roadsides.

Together with many enthousiastic landscape builders, we will be restoring a living landscape in which all forms of life will thrive. We aim to restore at least 1000 hectares.  We are part of an organization called Kening, which is an alliance for a living landscape. Kening is Frisian (a language spoken in the North of the Netherland) for King. And refers to the King of the Meadows, a bird called Godwit, which is on the verge of extinction and needs the Netherlands for its survival. The largest part of the population of this Godwit breeds in the Netherlands.

This bird is one of our storytellers. The Godwit tells us about the quality of our ecosystems. Next to this bird, there are many other storytellers and kings in our landscape that are having a voice in our organization.

We started our organization in 2012 with a mixed group of farmers, other inhabitants, conservationists, policymakers, artists, and other creative people to collectively work on restoring biodiversity and cultural diversity in our landscape. 

Most of our work is focused on the countryside. We started by organizing a lot of dialogue on biodiversity in farmland, we organized cultural projects and many spin-offs came out of our initiative. Now, we wanted to also come into action by literally restoring the landscape. Which is why we opened a camp!

We are a mobile camp that will travel to the restoration site.

Camp King's Garden

The Beaconia Research Station (BRS) is an 18-acre farm with an adjacent forest that has remained fallow for over 20 years. In that time the field has returned to wild prairie grasses and thistles. On the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg, the 10th largest lake in the world, Beaconia Research Station is dedicated to off-the-grid Permaculture solutions to revive a dormant farm, untouched for over 20 years. Collective members are also researching Rudolph Steiner’s techniques in relation to landscape.

Camp Kitigay

Camp Lake Tanganyika is a 15-acre site located in Katumbi Village near the Mahale Mountains National Park, of the Kigoma Region in Tanzania. They are also on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, which is 193 km from the town of Kigoma. Three acres on this site has been specifically designated as the forest garden demonstration plot, and the remaining land will to restored using ecosystem restoration techniques.

Camp Lake Tanganyika has a tropical climate with two distinct rain seasons, October to December and February to April.

Camp Lake Tanganyika

Camp Mainsprings is an 80-acre campus located in Kitongo on Lake Victoria, about 60 kilometers away from Mwanza, Tanzania. Thirty six acres are restored agroforests and polyculture gardens. Situated near the equator, Mainsprings has a tropical climate, with two distinct rain seasons; November through December and March into May.

Before Mainsprings began implementing its 36 acre Permaculture farm, the soil and land was a mixture of coarse sandy soils and rock which resulted in poor crop yields. But in just 9 years, what was once barren lakeside land now has a 30 foot canopy food forest and lush green gardens in rich black soil filled with life and biomass.

Camp Mainsprings

Camp Mama-Adama is a peaceful farm in between mountains in the Alentego region of Portugal.

The trees on the land are infected with fungus, therefore the trees lose their oxygen and die slowly. Our goal is to prevent this cycle and restore the trees and the land in a natural way.

You can join our camp to take part in restoring the landscape, rebuild a vegetable garden, save old trees by cleaning them, planting trees and helping to create an irrigation system.

Our vision is to create a place were people gather to learn from each other, to be more aware through work in the nature with animals and plants. We wish to create a place to present to local authorities to help and promote restoration in our region for a greener and better world.

Mama-Adama envisions a greener, self sustainable place for more people to live a back to basic life, learn to be aware and to reconnect to themselves, to animal and nature.

Camp Mama-Adama

The mangroves of Tudor Creek are unique because of their peri-urban setting so close to the settlements of Kisauni, Mikindani, and Mombasa’s Old Town. As you’re wandering through the tree line, you will spot the high rises of Mombasa in the distance. This sets the project apart from other mangrove restoration projects in Kenya which happen in more ‘conventional’ settings and which subsequently attract most of the media attention and thus funding.

What makes the site unique is therefore the manner in which the restoration work is deeply entwined with the local, urban community. School children often help us out with planting activities, the camp’s office is in the nearby village of Junda (where the camp coordinator is a respected member of the community), and the camp has key support from the community elders.

Camp Mombasa Mangrove Forest

Camp Mundo Nuevo is a project taking place at the Mundo Nuevo Permaculture Farm, in the lush, tropical biosphere reserve of the Santa Marta mountains in Northern Colombia. 

The Mundo Nuevo farm and ecohostel have been developed with the mission to create self-sufficiency for 3 generations (around 120 years) which means having a positive impact on local ecosystems and developing partnerships with local communities. 

The project Mundo Nuevo camp aims to go further by reforesting 20 new hectares of eroded soil, and scaling out to neighbouring lands to support the restoration.

Camp Mundo Nuevo

Camp Nguge Hills Lodge is located on a 25-acre degraded rainforest that is home to numerous communities and a growing monkey population. Since 2016, the camp has restored 2 acres of land with the local communities by planting over 5000 trees while protecting indigenous trees. Their method of action includes planting 5 new trees for every one that is cut for bio char production or construction from the local towns. The trees are selected by their ability to grow in harmony with the indigenous trees and vegetation and that can provide both shelter, food, or have medicinal value and can achieve ecosystem conservation goals. The Camp’s big goal is to restore 300 acres in the next 10 years with the help from local citizens.

Camp Nguge Hills Lodge

Camp OLCERI’s (Oglala Lakota Cultural and Economic Revitalization Initiative)  home site in Slim Buttes is currently in the development phase of becoming  a fully off-grid Eco-Ranch that represents a “Garden of Eden” model. This concept is designed  to provide access to affordable, simple, and often fun solutions to the 5 basic needs for the community on Pine Ridge Reservation. 

We are experimenting with off-grid technologies like biodiesel, rocket stoves, natural building, earthship-style buildings, vegetable gardens, swale systems, and earthen greenhouses called “walipinis.” Lakota culture is central to our work, and we include artwork and graffiti to reflect this tradition. An equine facility and small farm animals including pigs, goats, chickens and sheep also make up part of our work.

Camp Olceri

Peru has some of the greatest biodiversity in the world because of the presence of the Andes, Amazon Rainforest, and the Pacific Ocean. These three ecosystems are closely interrelated.

The Pachakuti camp is situated in the Amazon Rainforest ecosystem on the eastern side of the Andes at an altitude of 900 meters above sea level which makes it very comfortable in terms of temperature compared to the lower land of Amazonia.

This camp is still in a seedling phase. They are working very hard to build a program to start their first camp.

Expect to be involved from the start of restoring the land. Being involved from the start means you will help with the planing the activities, set the baseline for measurements and tests which are necessary to have in order to observe the state of the soil. You will have the opportunity to develop your full potential as a person and get closer to the best version of yourself.

Camp Pachakuti

Pachaland is located on a 4-hectare piece of land in the middle of the countryside, only 30 minutes away from the capital city of Europe: Brussels. The camp’s mission is to turn a landfill into a holistic micro-farm, while developing a restoration lab to learn how new consumer products can tell the regenerative narrative.

Most land restoration projects are focused on water retention and tree plantation in poor soil areas. The situation at Pachaland is a little different. It is located in Western Europe where water and vegetation challenges are fortunately not as dire (yet) as in other regions. The challenge with this little piece of land is that it is polluted. 40 years ago, the owner used to run a gunpowder factory here. Since the factory went bankrupt in the late eighties, the land was left mostly abandoned and used as landfill. Presently, the property is surrounded by conventional farm activities, thus exposed to high quantities of nitrates.

This land deserves some care. The plan is to nurse it back to health and turn it into an abundant, diversified, and productive micro-farm, which will be hosting a number of entrepreneurial projects around ecosystem restoration. The team hopes their efforts and soon-to-come results will inspire many more people to turn around hopeless places while making an income.

Camp Pachaland

Pachamama is restoring degraded and high risk land, on the edge of the largest native forest in Southern Africa, near Knysna in the Garden Route, South Africa.

After a 100 year wildfire event in 2019, exaggerated by industrial scale monoculture forestry plantations, and dense stands of invasive vegetation, resulting in increased fire risk associated with increased area and density of invasive vegetation, declining biodiversity, and fragmentation of the native forest ecosystem – home to many endemic species of plant and animal, such as the Knysna Lourie, Knysna Dwarf Chameleon, and the last remaining forest dwelling Knysna Elephant.

We are working toward holistic, systemic change, through the full restoration of this landscape (9 hectares (to start)). We are researching and developing innovative ecosystem restoration models, climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, regenerative enterprise and value chain development, with the goal of establishing self-funding enterprises that can drive holistic bio-regional restoration on scale through the natural resources that become available through the restoration process.

In parallel to the ecological restoration, we also are working on the social, economic, and cultural dimensions, seeking to maximise and optimise the potential social and cultural impact, while achieving economic viability for long term sustained regenerative impact. 

We also see the restoration of the inner landscape as central to holistic systemic change, creating supportive spaces and networks for personal and collective healing and transformation of personal, ancestral and collective trauma, so that we can relate more symbiotically with each other and the environments we inhabit.

Camp Pachamama

Camp Paradise is the world’s first ecosystem restoration disaster response camp and is a unique approach to a catastrophic environmental event.  On November 8, 2018, the deadliest wildfire in California history destroyed the town of Paradise and its surrounding communities. At least 85 people died and more than 50,000 people lost their homes in this devastating fire.
 
With the climate crisis predicted to make many parts of the planet uninhabitable, Camp Paradise will transform our understanding of how to deliver ecosystem restoration in locations affected by climate change, including land damaged by wildfires.

This is a collaborative, long-term restoration initiative being delivered by local environmental and community groups in conjunction with our partner, The Camp Fire Restoration Project. As we develop partnerships and community sites to work with, we will host camps to deliver large-scale permaculture action days, mobilizing hundreds of volunteers and Campers. 

We partner with local permaculture farms and sites to host Campers and then choose a public location in need of ecological repair. During an action day, our Campers work with local schools, downtown public spaces, businesses and community centers to restore soil and water cycles. We adopt a variety of different ecosystem restoration techniques, including planting fruit trees for food and shade, planting cover crop and native plants, creating earthworks and water systems, and building dry-composting toilets.

Camp Paradise

Camp People’s Coast’s objective is to restore degraded land in two local villages, Kartong which hosts 5,000 inhabitants, and Gunjur, with 9,000. The two areas have been the subject of historic and recent sand mining activity and the land to be restored covers many hectares. The Gambia is a sub-tropical region with a single rainfall season (July to October), with a dry-arid climate. The region’s natural vegetation is a mixture of native and endemic trees.

An important goal of Camp People’s Coast is to capture the seasonal rain by creating a sustainable water management programme. The two locations are also havens for migrating and resident birds.

Camp People's Coast

Camp Reedsdale Regeneration encompasses 3850 hectares of grasslands, and has been used for sheep grazing since 2001. The property bears indigenous trees, shrubs, and plants, as well as spekboom vegetation, a sprawling, succulent shrub known for being edible and its medicinal properties.

Today, the camp is practicing holistic planned grazing using 1000 sheep, in order to speed up the regeneration of the once degraded and compounded soils. They are also striving to harness maximum rainfall on the property by using sustainable techniques, slowing down wind and water erosion by strategic vegetation, rehabilitate already eroded parts of the land, and create booming ecosystems that foster plant, animal, and human biodiversity.

Camp Reedsdale Regeneration

Reforest Now works in the iconic subtropical region of Australia, primarily in the Byron Shire of Northern New South Wales. Here we find remnant rainforests and cleared rainforest areas which are the focus of our reforestation efforts. We envision turning cleared land back into rainforest.

A camp with Reforest Now will include helping us grow and plant thousands of subtropical native trees to this region.

The land we plant on was once teaming with life. It is home to Australias largest subtropical rainforest called the Big Scrub Rainforest. Now, after agricultural clearing only 10% remains. With empty farms and new owners who wish to see forests where they once were, we aim to reforest this cleared land and plant trees that will remain here forever.

Our vision is to restore this region and see rainforest on every paddock, to connect remnant rainforest patches, and bring habitat and food species back to the region for the longevity of the flora and fauna species here.

We plant on previously cleared rainforest land and the land will be protected as rainforest. This reforested land cannot be destroyed or logged as many species we plant are endangered or critically endangered native species.

Camp Reforest Now

This camp is situated in Buntine a small town located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, about 300 kilometres north of Perth. Due to a decrease of population and an increase of farmland the area suffers low groundwater issues. Their mission is to restore the degraded land.

Camp Regenerate Western Australia

Camp Regenesis is a beautiful 17 Hectare mountainous property located in the tropical island of Bohol, Philippines, one of the most popular travel destinations in the archipelago. Our site is unique in that we are situated in the interior highlands with unparalleled 270 degree views of the world famous Chocolate Hills, rural landscapes, and a breathtaking sea of clouds at sunrise, visible when we are lucky enough. We also have a 2.2 Hectare communal irrigation dam within our property that forms a unique inland water reservoir perfect for kayaking and stand up paddling. 

Historically, the majority of the island had a tropical forest cover. However  decades of agricultural expansion, slash and burn farming, and logging have left only 27% of its natural forests intact. Within our site area, cattle grazing, annual burning of grasses during the dry season, and lack of seed sources or forest patches at high elevation have prevented any natural regeneration or rewilding to take place.

We aim to restore the conditions of the site to enable it to ecologically evolve over time through fire management, water capture and storage through keyline design, establishment of much needed microclimates and soil conditions to support wild afforestation, while also exploring syntropic food forestry, bamboo production, SRI rice production, vetiver applications, and many more, all within the larger framework of moving our local communities towards regenerative ways of living.

Camp Regenesis

Camp Rocciaviva , also known in Italian as “living stone”, is an innovative association with three different restoration locations that are being developed by a diverse team of biologists, agroecologists, educators, and designers.

Camp Rocciaviva-La Fiorita, the pilot program in Matera, Italy, encompasses 5 hectares of land, and this project focuses on repopulating the land with trees, as well as water management. This location was the catalyst for the organization getting discovered and accepted by the local and global community. The second site, Camp Rocciaviva-Terra Dei Venti in Gravina, is on 2 hectares of land. This location is used as a base for Eco-building experiences, edible gardens, food forest implementation, and fruit tree planting.

The third, and soon to be main camp, Camp Rocciaviva-Regenera, sits on 73 hectares of very hilly land and is nestled next to the beautiful, rustic town of Salandra, Italy. The Northern exposed land is surrounded by a wide forest populated with ancient oaks, but the Southern area of land has been severely over-exploited over the centuries due to intensive agriculture and animal grazing. These actions degraded the soil to the point where trees are almost inexistent. Worsening the effects of the exposed soil are the extremely arid summers. Worse, the water flow has stopped due to the constant exposure to the sun and heat, and therefore all biodiversity has suffered greatly. At Regenera, the most pressing concern is to build the infrastructure necessary to carry out the land restoration initiative as well as prepare the land with the appropriate earthworks to favor continued land transformation, restore three nearby lakes and bring back biodiversity. The team is working hard to implement this phase of the project and will soon be able to welcome campers to this location.

We are experienced in getting people involved and creating moments of union and sharing. Our team has already organized successful public events, laboratories, and seminars on our territory, which has allowed us to earn the respect and trust of local institutions and the community.

We have already achieved our pilot project on 5 hectares of land, planted 6000 trees, and organized several courses guided by respected Italian and international experts.

Camp Rocciaviva

SEKEM Wahat is part of the Egyptian development initiative “SEKEM”, that has worked with unwavering dedication since the 1970s and transforms hostile desert landscapes into functional ecosystems and sustainable communities.

Based on SEKEM’s vision, the SEKEM Wahat initiative is primarily relying on biodynamic cultivation of desertificated land. We believe that caring about natural soil management and organic plant growing is fundamental for sustainable development and people’s livelihood is ensured alongside. Apart from the environmental work SEKEM is building new sustainable and self sufficient communities, providing artistic activities for workers, families and community members, providing school education and is working on infrastructure improvements.

Camp Sekem Wahat


Sinal do Vale is a 400 acre campus with several agroforestry, regenerative agriculture and reforestation sites. 

They are located in the buffer zone between the urban sprawl of Rio and one of the last remaining protected areas of the Atlantic Rainforest. Implementing solutions to protect the buffer zone and its natural resources while offering viable economic opportunities to the local communities is the main issue they work on. 

The Atlantic Rainforest is a secondary forest with rains throughout the year. It is one of the hotspots of megadiversity in the world, with several endemic species of flora and fauna, including the Golden Lion Tamarin.

So far, they have planted over 8,000 trees (around 1,000 trees per year). They have regenerated around 20% of their territory and have developed several agroforests, assisted natural regeneration, and reforestation sites. To date 4,000 guests, students, volunteers and interns have passed through Sinal.

In 2021 the camp kickstarted a project for the reforestation of 30 ha. of land within the property.

Camp Sinal Do Vale

Siolta Chroi is a not for profit cooperative created in Monaghan in 2020 by a group of educators, activists, and others who are concerned about the environmental crisis we are living and its impact on humans and wider nature. Their intention is to help build a more connected world where ecosystems are restored and thriving. They contribute towards restoring Ireland’s ecosystems and communities through 1) education for regenerative cultures; 2) exploring resilient and regenerative food systems, and 3) carrying out hands on, practical eco system restoration work. 

The camp is based on a 1 hectare site in South Ulster, Ireland which has a temperate oceanic climate.  The landscape is heavily drumlinised (steep sloped hills) agricultural land (almost exclusively grassland pasture for beef / dairy production) with lakes, bogland and hedgerows interspersed. Once extensive native forests inhabited the land but clearances, first of the trees for wood and fuel, then of the indigenous population to colonize “the new world” resulted in the decline of this ecosystem. 

They are starting to regenerate the land again by planting an agro/food forest and market garden. They are creating projects in the community to rehabilitate our polluted local rivers and lakes and increase biodiversity.  The team is also building an education centre on the land where they can offer trainings and retreats for people who want to learn about land restoration and regenerative practices.

To date they have planted 390 trees with another 200 trees to be planted in early 2021. 

The camp has set up a tree nursery, run two tree grafting courses and used holistic management of chickens and pigs to clear and fertilize land in preparation for planting a market garden. 

They have also recently finalised plans for the agroforestry system and layout of the field, and have just completed earthworks to dig a pond and marked out pathways and access to the training space and other facilities.

“We envision a more connected world where ecosystems are restored and thriving. Humans are working in cooperation with wider nature and one another. We all have the opportunity to explore our full human potential. People are awake. The ecosystem is working together like the hum of beehive.

We aim to restore Ireland’s ecosystems and communities. We do this through
1) education focused on regenerative cultures,
2) exploring resilient and regenerative food systems, and
3) eco system restoration work.”

Camp Siolta Chroi

Camp The Land is located on 160 acres in a semi-arid, Mediterranean climate of California. This inspiring initiative started back in 2016 and since then has started the rehabilitation process on 50 acres through permaculture and reforestation restoration, and is aiming for another 20 acres by the end of 2023.

The team at The Land believes that one of the essential ingredients of restoring dignity in ourselves and others is our relationship to the Earth. When we re-wild the land, cultivate our own soil, grow and prepare our own food, we are building our own value and ownership. The Land is an extension of the Unconditional Freedom project and its aim is to aid in restoring the dignity of the marginalized, the cast out, the prison residents, and the wild ones. Once reclaimed, we believe people naturally find the desire to contribute their unique gifts to society.

The Land’s Earth program has a soil and ecological testing lab where the ecosystem restoration knowledge and skill developed spreads out into the community through its 100 x 100 Anderson Valley project. This is a goal to reach large-scale ecosystem restoration in the Navarro River Watershed, 800 sq miles of California using the template created by Professor Millán M. Millán, Former Executive Director of the CEAM-UMH Research Institute. The Earth Program is also developing a Botanical Sanctuary program at the Mendocino County Jail. The Botanical Sanctuary grows the trees and native plants that are used in the 100 x 100 project, and in the surrounding community, and the inmates provide the labor force employed by state and federal agencies.

Camp The Land

The Rural Educational Development Corporation (Rucore) was founded in 1991 as a non-profit organisation with a mission of promoting holistic approaches to community development and education in post-apartheid South Africa.

Rucore’s founders believed in the importance of establishing ‘centres of learning’ where local innovation could focus on overcoming historic inequalities and where a more inclusive development could be put into practice. Their aim was to connect our land and people with local livelihoods and environmental health, in a way that is learned, lived and replicated widely.

 It is from here that the Tlholego Ecovillage and Learning Centre began its life on an neglected 150 Ha cattle farm near the town of Rustenburg (Northwest Province, South Africa), nestled on the western slopes of the ancient Magaliesberg Mountains. Tlholego is a Setswana word meaning ‘creation with nature’- fitting well with our overall mission to restore our ecosystems, create local livelihoods and learn from the gifts of nature.

Over the past twenty years, Tlholego has supported itself through hosting training programs, workshops and events, as well as fundraising for specific projects. The development of community businesses in livestock and organic value added products has developed over the past decade.

People are learning of the many practical solutions available that meet everyday challenges from restoring damaged land, water harvesting and growing food in healthy soil, to housing, sanitation and the Ubuntu skills of working together successfully towards a common good.

The Tlholego Ecovillage Camp has been created to introduce activities that stimulate a culture of reconnecting with our earth and spiritual heritage. Building on these relationships is our way of returning home to a more natural experience of being alive. 

Camp Tlholego Ecovillage

The project aims to plant trees and establish a food-producing forest in Uthai Thani, Thailand through a community effort. Besides afforestation, the main objective is to mobilize and empower as many people as possible, especially Singaporeans, to participate in greening our world through concrete actions – planting trees and learning low-impact ways of living. The project will also benefit the local farming community by sharing eco-friendly practices and creating alternative jobs to conventional and environmentally degrading rice and sugarcane cultivation. As humans are the species responsible for climate change, Camp Uthai also creates an opportunity for us to act now, instead of waiting for others to do something.

We are offering volunteer camps for people with general and specific skills. To cover costs we will be charging volunteers 250 Baht a day for food and transport within Uthai Thani province (to and from the public minivan station, going out for meals and excursions, etc.). Ideally we are looking for volunteers who are willing and able to take the public minivan from Bangkok or other Thai towns to Uthai Thani independently as well as those in the region who are able to reach the camp with minimal to no air travel (very feasible within most of Southeast Asia).


Camp Uthai

The Via Organica Agroecology Centre is a working model of how to transform once degenerated farmland and pastureland. The working ranch in the semi-arid highlands of Mexico now produces delicious organic vegetables, herbs, fruits, seeds, and animal products for the Via Organica restaurant, farmers market, and food store in the Agroecology Center outside of San Miguel de Allende.

The vision of the camp is to bring people together from around the world to learn how to restore degraded natural and agricultural ecosystems, learning from the local people who are already engaged in this work. The skills learnt at the camp will then be transposed and used to restore land in other parts of the world.

Camp Via Organica

Camp Virsoleil is an education, ecosystem restoration and regenerative agriculture training center, located on the site of a 300+-year-old farm in the Dordogne region of South Western France.

We envision a thriving example of a regenerative polyculture farm offering educational programs and Restorative Retreats with a focus on regenerative lifestyle and local culture. 

The camp is situated in the Perigord area of the Dordogne region, famous for black walnuts and UNESCO world heritage sites. Expect beautiful medieval villages and lush rivers and valleys. This is an area with a growing awareness of regenerative landscapes and lifestyles

Camp Virsoleil

Camp Wasini Lookout is a  small ecological camp situated in Shimoni, on the South Coast of Kenya. The camp, which is also an established eco-tourism destination, is currently working on  5000 m² of coral “REEFolution” – restoration of coral reefs, that contributes to replenishing and restoring the damaged coral reefs and their ecosystem, while increasing fish and other aquatic species. 

A major aspect of the reef restoration consists of collecting broken pieces of coral that are still healthy but will not survive when left in the rubble. We call them “corals of opportunity”.  These pieces are placed in coral nurseries where they grow, after which they are planted on artificial reefs.

Camp Wasini Lookout

Watershed Camp sits in a classic Appalachia  cove hardwood forest with massive rock outcroppings, lush creeks, flowing springs and a myriad of secluded niches to explore.

The forest has a highly diverse native herb population and 4 distinct tree stands in various states of balance from historical logging practices. The forest highlands have a large section of old growth on the steep slopes that was spared in the last clear cut in the late 90’s. This swath of virgin forest is the living model that our long term restoration efforts are based upon.

This enchanted realm is connected by miles of meandering paths leading to a high ridge trail with breathtaking panoramic views of the bordering Cherokee National Forest and Appalachian Trail.  

Rising 1200 feet to the encircling ridge, the land’s topography forms a self-contained watershed basin, harvesting an average of 190 million gallons of precipitation each year. These sacred waters cascade through the streams and recharge her springs on its path to the Laurel, French Broad, Tennessee and Mississippi rivers before feeding the Gulf of Mexico. 

The latitude and altitude of these ancient Appalachian mountains support one of the most biologically diverse temperate regions on the planet. With its direct southern exposure, surrounding wildlands, abundance of water and variance of micro-climates, the Watershed Camp presents an ideal environment to study, experience and restore our region’s rich biological heritage.

To guide development and restoration projects, we are collaborating on long range regenerative forestry and permaculture design plans. We have built 3 greenhouses and a plant nursery and are engaged in ongoing inventories of botanical, fungal and wildlife species. We have installed a gravity spring water and drip irrigation system for domestic use  and agriculture. For the last 2 years we have operated a community supported forest agriculture program that offers weekly deliveries of garden fresh and wild foraged foods.

Camp Watershed Forest Farm

Caney Colibri

Casa Común

Located on the shore of Lago Calima, Valle de Cauca on the west Andes mountain, Premontain Humid forest.

We live practising Permaculture, breathe clean air and move in sync at natural speed. Abundant, nutritious and fresh food grows in our garden. Our soil is nourished with work at the same time that we are nourished with the food that it offers us and the learning that we add every day. Wonderful beings visit us (all species welcome), to share knowledge, laughter, good food and points of views.

Casa Florida

Clarkston International Garden is a community garden and educational space located in the heart of Clarkston at the Forty Oaks Nature Preserve. The garden features 30 small in-ground plots integrated into a permaculture design on the sloped hillside. The garden features a rainwater harvesting system, rain gardens, fruit trees, native and pollinator plants, tool shed, 3-bin composting system, and a covered meeting pavilion.

Clarkston International Garden

The unparalleled potential of regenerative agriculture to store carbon in the ground and restore ecosystems, all while improving the livelihood of farmers must be brought to its full potential.

Our mission is to build the necessary infrastructure to scale regenerative agriculture in Europe.

Climate Farmers

Coalition of Everyone acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and the Earth, and their continuing custodianship and connection to culture, community, land, sea and sky. We pay our respect to Elders past and present.

We are currently working with communities across Australia and New Zealand, piloting designed-for-purpose socio-cultural tools, for community-led regeneration at bioregional scale.

We support and empower communities with collaborative decision making tools, bringing together diverse perspectives of First Peoples, scientists, business, industry, artists, civic society and government to make decisions that matter for the greater good.

We have extensive experience of regenerative democratic practices, holding over 30 deliberative events reaching more than 900 participants across Australia and beyond.


Coalition of Everyone (CoE)

Regenerating financing for coffee farmers.

Coffee Carbon Collective

Hosted by the Columbia Presbyterian Church, this garden features 5 in-ground plots for garden members matched by Global Growers Network. The garden is located on the front lawn of the church, and features a rainwater harvesting system, shared toolshed, and pollinator garden.

Columbia Presbyterian Church Garden

Hosted by Columbia Theological Seminary and supported by their students, this garden features 6 extra large in-ground plots for garden members matched by Global Growers Network.  The garden also includes several smaller plots used by students.  A shared tool shed and irrigation system are available.  The garden is in a peaceful setting behind the seminary, right next to large soccer fields.

Columbia Theological Seminary Garden

We bring people together to restore landscapes and regenerate the Earth: our common land. With our holistic approach to landscape restoration - the 4 Returns framework - anyone can work with nature and their local community to restore a landscape at scale.

Commonland

This new orchard is a partnership between Global Growers Network, the City of Decatur, the Decatur Youth Council, and the Atlanta Local Food Initiative. While still in the planning stages, the orchard features recently planted apples, pears, blackberries, and persimmons (planted in 2019). Once the design is complete, the site will open to the public for pick-your-own events and learning opportunities. Stay tuned for updates!

Decatur Community Orchard

Located inside Decatur’s beautiful Legacy Park campus, Decatur’s Kitchen Garden is a 2-acre community garden with 30 large in-ground plots for growers. This garden features an agroecology design, with fruit trees integrated between plots of annual crops, and keyline contours to capture rainwater and reduce soil erosion. The site also features a meeting pavilion, pollinator garden, pond irrigation, and a shared toolshed. DKG frequently hosts volunteer groups, field trips, corporate team building activities, and small outdoor events. 

Decatur’s Kitchen Garden

The Diamante Bridge Collective (DBC) is a network of land stewards, individuals, organizations and communities located primarily within the Diamante Valley of Costa Rica, expanding to include those from the greater Southern Zone of Costa Rica, and those abroad.

Diamante Bridge Collective

By using the farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR) method and re-introducing rainwater harvesting practices, we aim to restore soils, re-green the area and improve the productivity of the land in the Dodoma region, central Tanzania.

Dodoma is the heart of Tanzania and home to the capital. With a surface of 41,311 km2 it has almost the size of the Netherlands. The population of the Dodoma region mostly depends on land for livelihood, which is used for small-scale agriculture and livestock keeping. 

The past years the complex problem of deforestation, land degradation and climate change has continued to accelerate at an alarming rate. Ecosystems are brought out of balance, destroying their capacity to sustain biodiversity and to provide natural resources of water and fertile soil. To restore the degraded ecosystems and improve people’s livelihoods and climate change resilience in the Dodoma region, we partnered up with LEAD Foundation. Together with them we inspire and activate local farmers to start regreening their own land by using a combination of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR, or Kisiki Hai) and rainwater harvesting techniques. Until now over 9.6 million trees have been regenerated in the Dodoma region. And we’re still counting!

Dodoma (Tanzania) - Kisiki Hai farmer-managed natural regeneration

Restoration and reconstruction of 1,750 linear feet of East Branch Winter’s Run and an unnamed tributary, located in Harford County, Maryland. The project also included reconnecting the channel and the creation/restoration of 7+ acres of forested nontidal wetlands within the Winter’s Run floodplain. The project was sponsored by the Maryland State Highway Administration to offset environmental impacts associated with the Hickory bypass roads project.

East Branch Winter’s Run

EcoCamp Coyote is located on one acre of a former sod farm on extremely degraded soil, in a semi-rural area facing development due to its proximity to major highways and urban areas. Together, as a small community living off-grid, we are regenerating the former sod farm with manure, woodchips, and vegetation and utilizing the waste stream to build structures and restore the land.

At  Ecocamp Coyote, we have enjoyed campouts, project days and a even a virtual camp! Together, we have established a native hedgerow, food forest, no till gardens, rainwater catchment, off grid energy systems, biodigesting toilets, and much more.
We have also planted over 60 trees, are raising 100’s more in our nursery, and have hosted over 100 guests & campers.

EcoCamp Coyote

A global network of Ecosystem Restoration Camps supporting the emergence of a fully-functional, peaceful, abundant, biologically diverse earth brought about through cooperative efforts for the ecological restoration of degraded lands. 

Ecosystem Restoration Camps

Ecotone is one of the few companies in the industry that provides full delivery ecosystem restoration and mitigation, restoration design, consulting, and construction services.

• Design/Build
• Stream Restoration
• Ecosystem Credits
• Stormwater Solutions
• Beaver Management

Ecotone Inc. - Ecological Restoration

Ekonavi

Ecotone identified a degraded reach of First Mine Run, which is fairly typical of streams in Baltimore County. Bank erosion rates were very high, the banks were steep and actively eroding, and the stream was physically disconnected from its floodplain. Ecotone worked with the partners, including the landowners, to secure restoration funding in 2015. Goals for the project included reducing streambank erosion, reconnecting the floodplain to the stream, improving wildlife habitat, and increasing biodiversity along the riparian corridor of First Mine Run.

First Mine Run

Fruittuin van West is a 16 hectares fruit orchard located on three island near Amsterdam. Here chickens, pigs and ducks can roam freely and feast upon the fallen fruits.

Fruittuin van West

Fundación Cultural Ojo De Agua

Together, we build and sustain networks of growers, land, resources, and markets in order to create a more equitable food system that is driven by cultural diversity, inclusive economies, and regenerative agriculture practices. 

GGN facilitates access to 10 farm, community garden and orchard sites across metro Atlanta.  These sites collectively offer access to over 30 acres of quality land for cooperative farming.  For growers who face barriers to access, land is vital to preserving cultural traditions, ensuring food security, and increasing financial stability. 

Our sites serve as regional and national models of ecological land stewardship and collaborative food production.  We focus on regenerative farming practices that improve soil fertility and biodiversity.

Global Growers Network

Our purpose is to create the community of DIGITAL GUARDIANS OF THE GREEN ARKS OF PLANET EARTH, where new technologies such as Blockchain and NTFs will allow laying the foundations for a decentralized model of environmental protection, supportive, visionary, and democratic.

Our greatest strength and delight will be the millions of DGGUARDIANS who will be able to monitor and protect the GREEN ARKS.

Blockchain and NFT technology will allow in the future that all members of the community DGGUARDIANS may participate in the decisions and deliberations that involve the GREEN ARK.

Green Digital Guardians

The Nicoya Peninsula Bloom in Costa Rica is anchored at Green Wave, a network of the people and organizations of the Santa Teresa, Cobano, and Montezuma areas that seek to protect, beautify, and help rejuvenate our surrounding communities through creative, sustainable, and inspiring events and actions. They host permaculture trainings, develop local policy, have a weekly film night, rehabilitate the local scarlet macaw population, and do lots of fun youth projects toward zero waste. Awards: “2019 Top-Rated Nonprofit” by GreatNonprofits. Also check out lead organizer Janine Jordan’s book about the magic of rave culture, Rave: Mythophrenia.

Green Wave

In the regions Amhara (Gubalafto) and Oromia (middle Awash) in Ethiopia, our partner MetaMeta aims to strengthen the local, rural economies.

By restoring landscapes through water buffering and erosion control, introducing regenerative agriculture practices, and generating awareness and traction for underutilized rural livelihoods opportunities (e.g. poultry rearing, biofertilizer production, and marketing) they show the local communities how they can increase their income.

The two regions differ in terms of geology, soil, climate, and agricultural practices. For this reason, the projects address a wide range of issues and demonstrate a great variety of solutions. Activities so far include: training for biofertilizer production, setting up youth-led tree nurseries, supporting government-led landscape restoration campaigns, business development training, and restoring and regreening degraded land through regenerative agriculture.

Gubalafto and Middle Awash (Ethiopia) - Restoring degraded landscapes with Regen Ag

The goal of the City of Issaquah’s Harvey Manning Park Expansion project is to protect Issaquah’s forested hillsides, connect residents to nature, and to preserve contiguous forest on Cougar Mountain. The 15.14-acre project site is part of a 33 acre property in the forested “Issaquah Alps” comprised of Tiger, Squak, and Cougar Mountains, that rise above Lake Sammamish, and connect to other public lands. The site is uniquely positioned in Issaquah city limits, the region’s urban growth boundary and the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area corridor.

The City has worked with community members, King County, and the Trust for Public Land for several years to protect this site. Carbon crediting will allow protection of the 100+ year old forest, comprised of mature mixed conifer and deciduous trees including Douglas Fir and Big Leaf Maples. Preservation of this native forest will store carbon, provide stormwater benefits, and contributes to the City’s 51% tree canopy coverage. The forest structure provides diverse habitat and pollinator plants that provide food and shelter for wildlife. The site also includes riparian and wetland habitat that supports wildlife corridors on Cougar Mountain and protects cool freshwater streams that feed Tibbetts Creek, a salmon-bearing waterway and tributary to Lake Sammamish.

Harvey Manning Park Expansion

Market gardening farm with agroforestry and permaculture.

Market Gardening farm in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that uses agroforestry and permaculture methods for sustainably intensifying production.

Helle Bauer

INHABIT started in Colombia in 2020 with the vision to empower groups of people to participate in the economy of their bioregion and the regenerative management of the places they inhabit.  

The Inhabit dream is to see a plurality of farms and community projects to emerge and align in a physical corridor, where each place hosts a unique pool of bio-cultural diversity, art and wisdom to safeguard and share. 

To achieve this dream Inhabit develops tools for people to design, transform and sustain the places they inhabit, and to facilitate healthy connections and exchanges within and between farms.

Token ecosystem: https://medium.com/@INHABIT_lands/inhabit-story-4c976bf67301

INHABIT

Blockchain education with a focus on Kenyan farmers.

'Jabali ' means 'rock' in Swahili. We aspire to be a grounding figure for the tech world; a foundational environment that sets a precedent for coherence as we innovate technologies that radically affect peoples' lives, nature, and ourselves.

Jabali DAO

The Jolly Avenue Garden is a vibrant community gathering space that fosters a collective experience of beauty, belonging, and friendship with the land and with one another. Our mission is to enrich the Clarkston community by offering growing spaces where refugee gardeners can grow their own food to feed their families and friends; facilitating educational opportunities for K-12 youth through agriculture programming, mentorship, employment, and STEAM curriculum initiatives; and providing gardeners in the programs access to healthy food and nutrition education. 

Jolly Avenue Garden

We are on a mission to regreen Africa and cool down the planet. Together with millions of farmers, and together with you.

Justdiggit

Launched in May 2019, King County’s Forest Carbon Project confronts climate change by offering local companies the opportunity to offset their carbon emissions by keeping forests intact here in the region, making it possible for their employees and their families to explore and enjoy the protected outdoor spaces.

The Puget Sound region, including the Seattle metro area, is growing rapidly. The Forest Carbon Project is a component of the Land Conservation Initiative, a 30-year vision to protect 65,000 acres of the most important remaining natural lands and urban green spaces for residents of the region.

King County has identified 1,500 acres of high-value urban forest to be preserved and will be acquiring lands with its city partners throughout the coming years. The first acquisition in 2019 was a 15-acre addition to Soaring Eagle Regional Park near Sammamish, WA.

King County Urban Forest Carbon Project

KOKO DAO works with local Colombian communities to create viable economic models as an alternative to small scale deforestation.

KOKO DAO

KOKO DAO Pilot Project

By digging over 150,000 semi-circular bunds, we have managed to bring back vegetation in the Kuku Group Ranch, creating environmental benefits and making the land useful again for the community.

The Kuku Group Ranch is located in the south of Kenya and acts as a critical wildlife corridor between Amboseli National Park and Tsavo National Park. The group ranch is home to around 29,000 Maasai people who mostly depend on the land as main source of income and food.

Due to overgrazing and the changing climate, the area has become very dry, making it hard for the local communities to live from the land. Together with the local Maasai community and our local partner, the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust (MWCT), we started to restore this degraded land. By digging rainwater harvesting bunds and setting up grass seed banks, we are regreening 1077 ha in the area. Until now the Maasai community has dug 150,048 water bunds and set up 5 grass seed banks, which are managed by five different women groups.

Regen League

Regen League