AN EDUCATIONAL FARM NOURISHING COMMUNITY AND HEALING THE EARTH
IN BODEGA, CALIFORNIA.

BIODYNAMIC FARMING =

BRINGING THE SPIRIT BACK INTO OUR FOOD PRODUCTION & LAND CARE

Please invest in
our earth’s future.

Our mission is to teach farmers, gardeners, and land stewards Biodynamic farming methods that enhance biodiversity, draw down carbon, increase climate resilience, and provide nutrient-dense food.

Why Biodynamic? Learn more here.

BIODYNAMIC
WORKSHOPS

Our Biodynamic Workshop Series provides a unique opportunity in the North Bay region for gardeners, farmers & the Biodynamic-curious to learn and practice skills essential to a new way of relating to land, self, community and spirit. Our faculty inspire out of their years of lived experience and wisdom. Students high school age and older may enroll for the series or stand alone workshops.

SCHOOL
GROUP VISITS

Through school field trips and camping trips we provide children and youth with opportunities for outdoor education, learning, nature connection, respite, and recharge on our beautiful and productive Biodynamic farm. Trips are tailored to the age and developmental stage of the students, with real-world work projects centered on the important work of growing our own food.

RESIDENTIAL INTERNSHIPS

Three Springs Community Farm Foundation provides a training ground for aspiring Biodynamic farmers, homesteaders or gardeners by hosting season-long farm internships. Learn how to become the resource within your community and save the land and the food production of the future. Attendance in our Biodynamic Workshop Series is complemented by 24 hours per week of hands-on field experience.

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  • Guiding school and volunteer groups was a true highlight of the Internship Program! I enjoyed being with the students a lot.

    -Dav0 Task

  • The community of people at Three Springs was the most important part of the Internship Program to me. I feel so glad to know that I will stay friends with my fellow Interns after this program.

    -Emily Bates

  • I see Biodynamic/sustainable agriculture playing a large role for the rest of my life! I think my life will center around it and other specific goals will come as I continue to practice and learn Biodynamics.
    Building a community space for like minded folks is very important to me. There are so many tasks in life to maintain healthy living and I strongly believe we are not meant to do them alone, in fact we can't, that is why it takes a village. I hope to reintroduce this concept to people so they can be inspired to return to the village lifestyle as well.

    -Clarity Lewis

  • My time at Three Springs seems like a dream to me. It was a time that I felt most connected to the land and animals and my ideals, which were shared and supported by the warmth of the community. Somehow, even among the busy demands of farm life, I felt a great sense of peace and purpose, which seems quite hard to find in the hectic pace and drama of life.

    -Colin Schehl

  • Living and working at 3springs for the year-long Internship was life-changing for me. I will forever refer to the land and people I met and connected with as home. I left 3springs with a deeper connection to the many ways Biodynamics challenges the conventional, exploitative norms of cultivating the land. Biodynamics is better than organic because it focuses on the magic of farming, a spiritual aspect that farmers I have worked with in the past do not touch upon. Now, wherever and however I farm, I will integrate the cosmic teachings of Biodynamic agriculture into my practice. Coming to 3springs, I was met with unconditional love, acceptance, and respect.

    -Dav0

The FARMERS

Lew & Willow Summer, the founding farmers, began development of the land in 2017, and began vegetable production and our Farm Membership Program in 2020. Willow’s experience as both an urban farmer and Waldorf teacher in Oakland inspired her to create an educational biodynamic farm.

The farm community is formed of many members, including active farmers — those working the land — and those who choose to support that work. The diversity of the farm requires partnership to manage vegetable fields, orchards, and animals.

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