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Building a Regenerative Future

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Self Sufficiency, Hands on all parts of the system, woodwork. Appreciation for all parts of the process.

Landscape design using permaculture ideology to set up earthworks to create a landscape that can flourish and thrive far beyond the time when we are here. Adding a plant community of perennial flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that work together and support each other.

Being resourceful is a major aspect of this project. Using materials that have been discarded to build buildings, build soil, and feed animals has been used across the property.

Seaweed, Woodchips, leaves, logs, compost, cardboard, have been used for building soil. Logs from other properties, driftwood (which includes round wood and pressure treated lumber) has been collected for building fences and structures. Discarded building materials such as windows, doors, insulation, bricks. Using what has been discarded or seen as waste while also living in a way that generates less waste. Local materials from the site like timbers and rocks are used in building.

See the possibilities in waste and materials that we are surrounded by. Be resourceful with what’s available. We are surrounded by an abundant amount of resources. Sometimes we just have to look outside of our normal mindset to see what’s available.

Artful Abundant Living

Creating a design that is beautiful and harmonious where the man made structures complement and support the life around them. Providing habitat for the other creatures and plants that live alongside us. Considering our interconnectedness as a crucial part of the design. Giving back to the soil.

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Stay focused on your dream, trust that it will take form, and it will! These beautiful photos were taken by the talented, Dell Hambleton!

Together Growing a Regenerative Future

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Imagine a landscape where plants, animals, and people can all thrive. In an abundant food forest where the man made structures are made from the local resources from the site and visually blend into the landscape. Where people can live more harmoniously alongside the natural world that provides for us, and we provide for it. A created place of abundance, where set up systems enhance the diversity, biodynamics, and fertility of the environment and create a place that will thrive for generations.

This is Dugnad Farm’s dream.

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A Norweigan tradition, in preparation for the next season, a dugnad takes place. The community gathers to tidy, clean, and fix a space so that it will continue providing an optimal situation for the community as a whole. In preparation for the next epoch in history we suggest a dugnad. The spirit of will to work together is the mind set that will carry us forward. By combining the labor and ideas of many, we can produce something that will support the lives of many. The systems are made possible because of the combined efforts of many people’s desire to make them work; to create a landscape that will continue to grow and provide for us even after we have stopped working the land. Setting up for an increasing yield while decreasing work, we design a landscape and the plant community to be the volunteers in this ongoing dugnad that will support our natural community of people, animals, and plants.

Applying the help of the community, to support the health of the community in the long-term is the backbone of our project. The main aspects include designing a landscape that collects and stores water, increasing plant diversity, introducing animals into the landscape, managing a woodlot, and reviving traditional building techniques. The focus of the project is to build an abundant and resilient local community while inspiring new generations to connect with nature, the land, and their hands. This site is a place to explore these ideas and projects. What is a better way to spend community time than to create something that will last for many generations?