Earth School Fund for Living Villages

Seeking projects that help people learn by living, growing, and building regenerative communities together.

The Earth School Fund for Living Villages supports creators building a new model of education rooted in land, community, and lived experience. We believe some of life's most important lessons cannot be taught in classrooms—they are learned by growing food, building homes, stewarding ecosystems, and living in intentional communities. From eco-villages and regenerative farms to apprenticeships, cultural exchanges, and action-based learning programs, we champion projects helping people cultivate more resilient, self-reliant, and regenerative ways of living together. We believe the future will be grown, not built. This fund exists to support the people growing it.

Eligibility

We welcome homesteaders, organic farmers, eco-villages, intentional communities, educators, designers, land stewards, and community organizers creating opportunities for people to learn through meaningful collaboration with one another and the Earth. We are especially excited by projects that combine regenerative agriculture, self-governance, ecological design, and hands-on education to cultivate thriving communities.
To qualify for this fund, projects must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Action-Based Learning: Projects should create hands-on educational experiences where participants learn by building, growing, stewarding, or collaborating together.
- Regenerative Practice: Every project should include meaningful agricultural, horticultural, ecological restoration, or land stewardship as part of the learning experience.
- Intentional Collaboration: Projects should foster collaboration between hosts, apprentices, volunteers, or residents through clearly defined learning goals and shared responsibilities.
- Self-Governance: Communities should document their mission, values, agreements, decision-making processes, and approaches to conflict resolution to help participants thrive together.
- Knowledge Sharing: Projects should document lessons learned through journals, guides, videos, workshops, research, open educational resources, or other formats that allow future communities to benefit from their experience.
- Living Villages: We welcome eco-villages, homesteads, intentional communities, regenerative farms, cultural exchange programs, apprenticeships, residencies, and other collaborative living experiments.
- Reciprocal Exchange: Learning should benefit both hosts and participants through fair exchange, mutual respect, and clearly communicated expectations.
- Growing Together: Above all, we seek projects that help people grow—personally, socially, and ecologically—while cultivating healthier relationships with one another and the living world.

Projects (41)

30 submitted · 11 curated

Project	Status	Raised
Urban Ecology	curated	$4,179
adopt a tree	curated	$14,777
Social agroforestry	curated	$19,025
The Living Village	curated	$1,770
Traditional Dream Factory	curated	$317,897
Bioarchitectural Center for Movement Arts in Antalya	curated	$80
Ecovilab: From Swamp to Sanctuary	curated	$80
Plantamor Regenerative Community	curated	$49,636
Manure 2 Gold	curated	$2,097
Field to Table	curated	$560
GFI HEALING ARTS RETREAT CENTER AND COMMUNITY VILLAGE	curated	$50
Game Con Kaduna	submitted	$897
GreenPill Uganda: Uganda's Regenerative Agriculture and web3 mission	submitted	$11
Akuya	submitted	$234
Landscapes of Opportunity	submitted	$1,373
Vida Verde . A Solarpunk Revolution!!	submitted	$932
SITIO-FLORESTA-ESCOLA	submitted	$29,340
Cacao Planting - Guajuvira Agroflorest	submitted	$90
La Maison Passerelle, an Earth based Cultural Research and Invention Center	submitted	$258,788
Awe co-living community	submitted	$1,166
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
Sombetini Regenerative Sessions	submitted	$1,038
Element of Chawaza	submitted	$1,356
Voices of my Community: Anthology Project	submitted	$0
Submerged Walipini Greenhouses	submitted	$102,688
The Lighthouse: A Home for Peacebuilders	submitted	$937
The Be-Coming Initiative	submitted	$10
FTB - Farm to bed learning project.	submitted	$50
artandpermaculture	submitted	$4,124
Nature’s Home	submitted	$38,720
Choras Forest Recovery After Wildfire	submitted	$256
Iscas Pet Pollinator Network	submitted	$24
The Public World Library - worldbibliotech.com	submitted	$60
MA Artist-Owned Cultural Campuses	submitted	$4,676
Egregore's Echoes : A Cultural Interface for Ecological Regeneration	submitted	$10
Village Futures Project	submitted	$276
Re-membering New Earth	submitted	$10
Autobot Future Makers	submitted	$0
Empowering futures: Scholastic Materials & Sponsorship for Rural Children	submitted	$1,060
Le Radici	submitted	$8,775
Sao Mateus Pico Arts and Research Residency	submitted	$111