Overview
Through the farming season—April through October—fellows live on our Colorado farm, tending the land in the mornings and devoting afternoons to projects and seminars focused on one central question: how can we live so that future generations might see us as good ancestors?
Since 2021, this fellowship has been a powerful space to explore ways of being outside the boundaries of the modern, industrial, capitalist culture. At Groundwork, sustainability is not about a techno-utopian vision of solar panels and electric cars. It’s about deeper questions: what it means to be a human being alive in an unraveling world; replacing a life of commodity with community, extraction with reciprocity, and practicing coming home to ourselves and to the land.
The fellowship covers a lot of ground:
•Practicing farming skills as you tend our organic vegetable and seed farm and study local food systems
•Learning to save seeds and step into an intergenerational lineage of seedkeepers
•Seminars investigating the possibilities of life in the ruins of capitalism
•Exploring traditions that re-localize life: from basket weaving and natural sheepskin tanning to fermenting food and re-establishing relationships with the ecosystems outside of the cultivated spaces.
•Living an intentional, communal life aligned with a vision for a sustainable future
The fellowship is for people who aren’t satisfied with business-as-usual. The world is asking us to radically reimagine ourselves, so it’s time to ask bigger questions. Join us this year to dig deep, invest in your relationship with the Earth, and ask what it looks like to create a just and livable world for a time beyond our own.
Dates: April 1 – October 25, 2025
Location: Paonia, Colorado
Compensation: All meals, rustic housing, and small stipend.
About Groundwork
Groundwork offers educational programs and publications that seek to shift the foundations of how we understand ourselves and our place in the world. We envision a just and sustainable future, founded upon respectful and reciprocal relationships between the land and all its inhabitants.
