Regenerative Tennessee
Highlights Include: Visits to regenerative farms, eco-forestry projects, a transformative women’s empowerment social enterprise, a community land trust. Homestays with local families. Meet changemakers in an Appalachian coal mining community. Visit and stay at the historic Highlander Folk School!
Day Passes now available!
2020 Dates TBD
5 Days, fully guided | Call for Pricing
- Transportation
Price includes airport transfers and all local transport related to the program.
- Lodging
All lodging is included in price along with most meals.
- Guided tours
The Rē Team, along with local partners, will be with you every step of the way of your experience, giving you the ability explore with confidence and security.
Trip Details
The Regenerative Tennessee program focuses on the important ways that people are rebuilding lives, communities and the land in Tennessee. For us at the Rē School, regeneration is a holistic process that includes people, towns and the environment. Across Tennessee there are fantastic innovators, visionaries and doers on the ground moving us into a regenerative world of increasing abundance for people and planet.
The program will start in Nashville and take participants from middle Tennessee to the mountains of east Tennessee and Kentucky, looking at a variety of agricultural, educational and social programs that are making Tennessee and the wider world a better place to live. Please join us for an exciting and hopeful journey into what a restorative future looks like
Tentative Itinerary:
April 22: Bell’s Bend Agroforestry in Nashville, Timberframe construction, Dry Farming, Farming on Leased Land, Farming as Community Organizing, Farming Hops for Beer in Tennessee, Regenerative Farming under 30, Farming as Empowerment
April 23: Nashville & Summertown Environmental Justice, Gender Justice, Social Enterprise as Regenerative System, Commercial Vegetable and Animal Production based on Permaculture Principles, Sylvopasture systems for wooded farms, Small Scale Pork Production, Green Building Tour, Cooperative Farming
April 24: Fayetteville Rotational Grazing, Homesteading, Working with Livestock Dogs, Working with goats, Lavender farming, alternative farm-based incomes, Building/working with farmer’s markets
April 25: Elora, Sewanee Organic Aqaponics, non-grain proteins in aquaponics, on farm research methods, year-round greenhouse production, fruit forests, farm-to-table meets university dining hall
April 26: Coalmont Food Hubs, Online Farmer’s Markets, Farming on Reclaimed mine land, Soil regeneration techniques, Off-grid living, Designing/building your own home from scratch, working with WOOFers
