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Experiential Education
rooted in regenerative agriculture
-In person courses on working farms worldwide
-2027 Courses Now Open⤵️
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What if moving your money could actually be… fun?

We’re bringing Solar Punk Farms’ iconic Divestment Happy Hour to Brooklyn.

Join Climate Farm School, Walden Mutual Bank + Webatuck Valley Farm Collaborative for an evening about something that sounds decidedly un-happy-hour-ish: where our money lives, what it funds, and what becomes possible when we move it somewhere else.

Because this isn’t only about leaving the big banks financing extractive industries. It’s also about what our money can help build instead.

Last year, Webatuck Valley Farm Collaborative and its food hub partners moved 1.5 million pounds of food through the Hudson Valley. Walden Mutual is helping support that work through financing designed specifically around the needs of the regional food system.

Come learn how it works, ask all your questions, eat something good, meet the people behind the work and stamp your favorite jacket / tote / socks / mystery textile at our CFS woodblock station.

📍 Rule of Thirds, Brooklyn
⏰ 10/28, Arrivals at 5:30 | food + program at 6
🎟 $35, including snacks + an N/A beverage

Details + tickets at the link in bio. taken in Rule Of Thirds by @climatefarmschool

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2 days ago

Is Climate Farm School on your bucket list?

We heard it over and over again at NYC Climate Week in September.

“I’ve been dreaming about going to Climate Farm School.”
“It’s been on my list forever.”
“I’m going to make it happen one of these years.”

Maybe 2027 is that year.

Because what happens at Climate Farm School doesn’t seem to stay on the farm.

In our latest alumni survey (2025), 45% of respondents said attending CFS led to a significant change in their role or professional focus. 72% have gone on to start, join, or contribute to food and climate projects inspired by their experience. And 72% described Climate Farm School as having an immensely significant impact on their personal lives.

Those numbers confirm something we’ve watched happen again and again.

People come for a week of learning about soil, farming, food and climate. But somewhere between walking fields with farmers, asking questions around the table, eating together, getting their hands in the soil and meeting other people asking many of the same questions, something starts to shift.

Sometimes it’s a career.
Sometimes it’s a project.
Sometimes it’s simply a clearer understanding of where you belong in this work and what you want to do next.

One alumni called CFS “a life-changing and life-affirming opportunity.”

We couldn’t say it much better ourselves.

So if Climate Farm School has been sitting on your someday list, this is your invitation to move it onto the calendar.

For the first time, you can secure your 2027 course with a $500 deposit. Reserve your place by October 15 and you’ll also lock in 2026 tuition before prices increase.

2027 is the year you finally check it off.

Come learn in the field with us. by @climatefarmschool

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15 days ago

Food is medicine, but what does it look like to put that idea into practice?

This month, we hosted Climate Farm School for a two-day, Food Is Medicine-focused gathering here at Caney Fork Farms.

We welcomed local medical professionals, farmers, researchers, food system leaders, and members of our own team to learn from one another. Together, we explored the connections between regenerative agriculture, nutrition, and human health. We also talked about what it can look like to bring these ideas into healthcare settings and our communities.

A huge thank you to Climate Farm School for bringing this group together, and to our speakers and participants from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, The Soil Inventory Project, Periodic Table of Food Initiative, Nashville Food Project, Welcome Garden, and beyond.

We’re especially grateful to everyone who shared their expertise, asked thoughtful questions, and spent time learning alongside us on the farm.

For us, this is exactly why Food Is Medicine starts long before food reaches the plate. There is so much value in bringing together the people who care for our soil, grow our food, study its nutritional quality, and care for our communities.

Food Is Medicine takes community, and we’re grateful to be part of one that is willing to learn from each other.

Soil → Food → Community.

📸 Thanks to our guest, David Finkler, for some of these wonderful photos! by @climatefarmschool

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21 days ago

A just food system has to work for the people who grow our food.

Join Climate Farm School + Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming for our next CFS Conversation: Farmworker Health & Housing.

We’ll be joined by Jules Farr, Director of Growing Homes at Glynwood, and Michelle Lynn Hughes, Director of Regional Food Programs at Glynwood, for a conversation about what it takes to create lasting security for farmers and farmworkers, from stable, affordable housing to accessible health care.

Together, we’ll explore the systems, policies, partnerships, and practical pathways that can better support the people at the foundation of our food system.

📅 Thursday, October 1
⏰ 9:00–10:00 AM PT
🌱 Free + virtual
🔗 luma.com/q323lwhd by @climatefarmschool

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Last month, we gathered a group of nine participants at Hawthorne Valley Farm, one of our flagship host farms- a 900 acre biodynamic farm, known for its farmer training programs, for a week-long immersion into the mid-Hudson Valley food system.

They arrived from different professional backgrounds, carrying curiosity, questions, and maybe a little trepidation about what it would mean to spend a week learning and living in community together.

Over the days that followed, they milked dairy cows and toured the creamery at Hawthorne Valley, learning about raw milk and biodynamic farming. They harvested shishito peppers at Gentle Time Farm, a queer, trans, Asian-led no-till vegetable farm. They looked out across hundreds of acres of regenerative organic grain at Stone House Grain, made produce runs to MX Morningstar, and shared a meal under the stars at Wally Farms.

There were farmer-led conversations about soil health, regional food systems, and regenerative agriculture. But some of the most meaningful learning happened in the spaces between.

In daily debriefs. Around the table. During late-night games. In conversations where people felt seen in where they had been, where they were, and where they hoped to go next.

Climate Farm School is about understanding regenerative agriculture and our individual roles within a much larger food system. But it is also about the internal shift that can happen when we reconnect with land, with food, and with each other.

By the end of the week, each participant left with a personal climate action plan and a group of deeply supportive relationships to help shepherd them into whatever comes next.

Although “left” might be generous. On the final day, no one seemed quite ready to go. They lingered for one more lunch, one final swim in the neighborhood pond, and a little more time together.

The relationships forged in just six days were transformative. And that might be one of the most powerful things about bringing people together on the land: we arrive to learn about food systems, and often leave seeing our place within them, and each other, a little differently. 💕

📸 taken by our amazing participants by @climatefarmschool

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a month ago

@neilyeoh gifted me the best wedding anniversary this year that blew me away. It wasn’t a cartier or hermes. It was an admission to a school - to @climatefarmschool which shocked me in the best way possible.

The past summer, I stepped away from my desk to learn farming. I was wwoofing alone in the countrysides of France following my curiosity getting myself covered in soil everyday and sometimes, animal poop 💩 till then I wasn’t quite sure how this would all connect back to my work. I even thought maybe I’m meant to move onto another chapter outside the beauty industry. But spending a week at climate farm school made me reflect and helped connect all the dots.

the thing is.. The same impatience that pushes skincare toward more actives, more steps, faster results is the same impatience that pushes farming toward bigger yields, faster harvests, heavier inputs. It’s the same impatience that pushes a company toward faster launch cycles, faster growth, more SKUs, until growth stops being a sign of health and starts being the whole point. Same villain, three outfits. It shows up in a serum. It shows up in a field. It shows up in a boardroom deciding what to launch next quarter because the business needs a number, not because the product is ready.
Nature, where we take from, doesn’t hurry yet it accomplishes everything.
And ingredients that aren’t rushed carry more of what they’re supposed to carry.

so if there’s something you’re curious about that you constantly talk yourself out of, maybe that’s a sign to double click on it💌

Some amazing folks that are fighting the good fight ⬇️
@hawthornevalley
@wallyfarms
@gentletimefarming
@stonehousegrain
@glynwoodorg
@apis.apotheca.farm
@breadtreefarms by @climatefarmschool

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2 months ago

Today we honor Wendell Berry, whose words and life taught generations of us to see the care of soil, place, community, and one another as inseparable.

His wisdom has shaped so much of how we understand our work, and will continue to guide us forward.

Rest well, Wendell. Thank you for reminding us what it means to belong to a place, and to care for it. 🌱 by @climatefarmschool

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2 months ago

For three days, we gathered at Wally Farms to ask a bigger question: what becomes possible when funding for food systems begins with listening to the people doing the work?

Our Funders on Farms program brought participants into an immersive, farmer-led experience rooted in the land, the businesses, and the relationships that make a thriving regional food system possible.

At Wally, we met some of the incredible farm businesses growing within its ecosystem: FarOut Container Farm, producing hydroponic greens and even perennial peppers; Overstory, growing shiitake mushrooms in the woods for medicinal broth; Apis Apotheca, cultivating medicinal herbs and flowers for skincare; and El Alimento, growing plants with seed saving and future resilience in mind.

We also spent time at Gentle Time Farm and Stone House Grain, learning directly from farmers, food producers, chefs, and others working across the many layers of the regional food economy.

More than anything, these three days were about listening deeply. To what farmers need. To where infrastructure is missing. To the opportunities that exist between the farm gate and the eater. And to the people already building the systems we will need for the decades ahead.

We left feeling hopeful about what can happen when capital moves closer to the land, when relationships come before transactions, and when food systems funding begins with the knowledge and experience of the people already doing the work.

A huge thank you to every farmer, speaker, chef, participant, and host, especially Nena Johnson, who made this gathering so special. This is how investment can begin to ripple outward: from the farm, through the middle of the supply chain, and into stronger regional food systems, thanks to intentional, land-based convenings like this. 💕 by @climatefarmschool

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2 months ago

We talk a lot about knowing where our food comes from.

We know the farm that grew our vegetables. We ask how our meat was raised. We look for single-origin coffee and chocolate.

But what about the grain in our bread?

Rice, wheat, and maize provide half of the world’s calories, yet grains remain one of the least traceable parts of our food system.

In our newest piece, Know Your Grains, Megan Wang follows grain from farm to mill to grocery store shelf and asks what it would actually take to rebuild regional grain economies.

The story is bigger than better flour or better bread. It’s about the infrastructure that connects farmers, millers, bakers, and eaters. It’s about rebuilding regional processing and storage, supporting regenerative farming practices, preserving grain identity, and creating food systems where we can know not only where our food was grown, but how.

And perhaps most importantly, it’s a reminder that transforming our food system doesn’t mean returning to the past. It means building something more regional, resilient, transparent, and connected.

Read Know Your Grains on the Climate Farm School blog.

Photo credit: @eileenmroche taken in Green Valley Farm + Mill by @climatefarmschool

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2 months ago

What does it look like to invest in farmland without treating land as just another asset?

On August 20, join Climate Farm School for a conversation with Jacob Israelow and Martín Lemos of Dirt Capital Partners, a firm working to channel private capital toward farmland access, conservation, farmer ownership, and regenerative agriculture.

Together, we’ll dig into Dirt Capital’s 10-Year Impact Report and explore what they have learned from more than a decade of investing across 50 projects, 23,000+ acres, and 16 states.

We’ll talk about:

🌱 Ecological stewardship
🤝 Farmer equity
🏘️ Community benefits
📊 The challenge of measuring real impact
💰 How capital can support regeneration rather than extraction

This conversation is for farmers, funders, food-system leaders, and anyone curious about the role investment can play in shaping the future of land and agriculture.

CFS Conversations: Farmland Investment & Impact with Dirt Capital Partners
Thursday, August 20
9–10 AM PT
Free & Online

Register through our events page on the website. by @climatefarmschool

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2 months ago

What if one of our most powerful climate solutions is already beneath our feet?

For every 1% increase in soil organic matter, an acre of soil can hold approximately 20,000 additional gallons of water.

That means healthier soils can:
• Better withstand drought
• Reduce flooding and runoff
• Recharge groundwater
• Support healthier crops
• Build resilience in a changing climate

Soil isn't just where food grows. It's living infrastructure.

This is why regenerative agriculture matters. By rebuilding soil, we're strengthening the water cycle, supporting biodiversity, and creating landscapes that are more resilient for farmers, communities, and future generations.

Healthy soil doesn't solve every climate challenge. But it's one of the most practical, measurable places we can begin. by @climatefarmschool

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3 months ago

It’s one thing to talk about regenerative agriculture.

It’s another to feel the whole system come alive around you.

At A Day on the Farm at PNW Climate Week, 30 participants gathered at Carnation Farms to learn about regenerative agriculture and ecosystem restoration in practice.

From field walks and soil health to grain conversations, shared meals, ecosystem restoration, and closing reflections, the day unfolded into something deeper than a one-day event.

It became a space to connect the health of soil, farms, food, ecosystems, and communities.
To learn from people doing the work every day.
To ask better questions.
To remember that restoration is relational.

We heard people left feeling inspired, educated, connected, grounded, grateful, and in awe. Honestly, same.

A huge thank you to our teachers, speakers, hosts, and partners who made the day what it was: Dr. Laney Siegner, Faith Van De Putte, Eric Popp, Kelsey Richards, Paul Glowaski of Cairnspring Mills, Rob Smith of Viva Farms, Taylor Pewitt, the Carnation Farms team, and every participant who brought their curiosity, questions, and care to the day.

This is what Climate Farm School is all about.

Learning on the land, in community, with the people actively tending what comes next. taken in Carnation Farms by @climatefarmschool

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