It's Happening!...
Nelson Mandela cured the heart of a nation through the love of rugby, we have apple pie.
People are sharing shovels, feeding each other's chickens, and sharing land and crops grown. Fire circles are filled with new stories of planting, frustrations and the newly found awe of life all around them. Healthy trade is easing financial pressure while biodynamic farmers work making soil preparations, walking the fields together in their application, leaving the pollination to local bee guardians creating a bigger voice for themselves as they grow in numbers.
Take a class, come for a visit, or attend a local gathering to get a feel for the movement and then consult with us about our long-term Sustainable, Organic, Interdependent Living programs. Welcome to the land of apple pie...

The North Fork Valley hosts thirty square miles of farm country, Colorado's hub of organically grown food. This fertile bowl is the campus for SOIL Academy, including the towns of Paonia, Hotchkiss and Crawford, and extending throughout Delta County. It's working farmers are our instructors, it's community centers our meeting rooms and it's rural hospitality our dorm facilities. The unique connected way of life here is what SOIL Academy aims to maintain and strengthen while serving as a teaching center for others, ensuring healthy interdepence for all.
S.O.I.L. Academy is a non-profit for the one, and profit for the all...
vision...
SOIL Academy envisions a new emergence of self-supporting sustainable communities who are accountable for their food, shelter, water, personal and community well-being, local communication and bartering systems, and generational inheritance where all share in an eco-environment of balanced interdependence.
mission...
SOIL Academy is a network of local interrelated agricultural experts, artisans, inter-personal communication professionals, business owners, energy experts, health and wellness professionals, recreationalists, and practicing sustainable community members who are all dedicated to one common theme: the beautiful environment in which we live. By sharing that common passion through an educational program, we strengthen existing local systems of expertise, economics, communication, generational local stability while assisting other communities to become self-reliant according to their own goals, thus creating healthy interdependence all evolving in an equilibrium of belonging.