About Our Farm
The Agraria Farm is a 138-acre educational and research farm in Yellow Springs, Ohio that studies and demonstrates the benefits of regenerative practices at multiple levels — from the environmental, economic, psychological, and social, to their impact on human health and well-being. Soil regeneration is the root-bed of this work.
Restoration
The Nature Conservancy Stream and Wetland Restoration Project
The Jacoby Creek corridor through Agraria will look, and feel, completely different 10 years from now, thanks to our partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) on a stream and wetland restoration project. Where honeysuckle once grew, native trees and shrubs, and grasses will flourish along the banks of a gently meandering stream, creating a welcoming habitat for wildlife and beneficial insects.
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Feeding the Soil
Soil regeneration is the root-bed of our work, and we are building soil health on Agraria through regenerative practices like cover cropping, organic soil amendments, conservation tillage, and permaculture.
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Feeding Pollinators
We recognize the central role pollinators play in building strong local food systems and sustaining ecosystem health. They are responsible, in part, for the production of 75% of the world’s food crops. At least a third of our garden areas on Agraria is dedicated to pollinator plant species, and in 2020 we planted over 100 sensitive native prairie plants.
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Feeding People
Our aim is to transform Agraria into a regional hub that helps build and support a just, equitable, and accessible local food system that recognizes the right of all people to fresh, healthy, culturally appropriate food.
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Our Mission
Agraria cultivates community resilience by modeling regenerative practices that restore ecosystem health, heal our relationship with the land, and grow just and equitable food systems.
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Our Vision
A continuously regenerating world that recognizes the interconnectedness of all living beings, where people live in balance with each other and nature.