Groundwork is a place-based education program working to deepen our society’s relationships with land, food, and water and to cultivate generative and regenerative ways of living and relating. Our mission is to inspire the cultural shifts needed for a sustainable future.

Groundwork's Vision
Rising to meet the challenges posed by climate change, ecological decline, and environmental injustice requires more than new technologies and policies. Changes to economies, political systems, and infrastructure must come in tandem with changes to values, attitudes, and practices. At Groundwork, we work to shift the foundations of the ways we understand ourselves and our place in the world, in order to work towards more just and sustainable shared futures for a time beyond our own.

Building sustainable culture takes time. At Groundwork, we believe that a long view and a slow approach is necessary to create deep, lasting change. We see our work as just the beginning of a process: planting seeds of a sustainable culture that takes time to grow.

Groundwork offers publications and programs that contribute to the emergence of sustainable culture. Currently, we run an educational farm, operate ecology and ethnobotany field courses in the mountains of Colorado, host a naturalist homeschool program for middle school age students, run ethnobotanical plant surveys and education programs in the sagebrush of northern Nevada and southern Oregon, and produce a variety of publications and podcasts.

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