Sustainability & Stewardship

Where Your Donation Will Go

Your donation helps us purchase and protect land - preserving its natural beauty, restoring ecosystems, and opening it to others through experiences that connect people to the earth and inspire living in harmony with nature.

Community Based Economies

NewTree Ranch is a model for community-scale farming and production.When community members are connected to the people and land that supports them, mutual respect, care, and understanding for others and the environment is increased to the benefit of the greater socio-economic-ecosystem.
Living Soils

NewTree Ranch builds living soils. Healthy, biologically diverse, living soils are also critical to absorbing and harvesting rainwater, sequestering carbon, and filtering pollutants. Visitors to NewTree Ranch can learn about (and will experience firsthand) biodynamic soil preparations, composting, animal tractoring, rotational grazing, sheet mulching, and more.
Vital Water Cycles

NewTree Ranch recognizes opportunities to re-vitalize water cycles and reduce potable water use by eliminating erosion and harvesting rainwater in tanks, ponds, and contouring the landscape to store water in the soil providing for irrigation needs, and creating wildlife habitat.
Energy Wise

Solar power at NewTree Ranch provides 90% of our energy through 250 solar panels, reflecting our commitment to renewable living. By harnessing the sun’s energy, we reduce our carbon footprint and sustain operations with clean, regenerative power that supports people and planet.
Reducing Carbon Footprint

Specifying local and onsite materials for construction reduces the carbon footprint of our projects. Rotational grazing can eliminate the need for mechanical equipment and offsite amendments.
Animal Sanctuary

As vital members of our biodynamic ecosystem, they freely graze our fields, they enrich our soil and provide manure for our farm. As teachers, they provide our guests and the public with experiences that help them to connect to nature in direct and intimate ways.
Forest & Watershed Stewardship

Forest and watershed health are critical to human survival and climate change moderation. NewTree Ranch practices fuel load reduction and fire thinning techniques, erosion and noxious invasive species removal, and native habitat planting as a means of regenerating the beautiful surrounding forests and streams.
Bee Rewilding & Repopulation

Bee Wilding and repopulation at NewTree Ranch support the vital balance of our ecosystem, enhancing pollination for our organic gardens. By creating safe habitats and nurturing natural hives, we help restore bee populations and ensure the flourishing of life of our land.
Seed Saving

Seed saving at NewTree Ranch is central to our sustainability vision, connecting land, food, and community. By preserving seeds from our organic crops, we protect biodiversity and strengthen future harvests, creating a full-circle journey from seed to soil to table that nourishes people and planet.
Educational Model

NewTree Farm aspires to be an educational model for both the local community and visitors from further afield, creating public and private partnerships with schools, growers, and local organizations that share this vision of community and earth regeneration.

NewTree Ranch
Sanctuary

NewTree Ranch Sanctuary is dedicated to educating the public about small farm operations, land conservation and regenerative sustainability; including a robust, solutions-based approach to tackling some of the biggest issues that we face as a species, including climate change and resource and habitat depletion. At the ranch, our visitors can learn strategies for making the critical transition to a more socially and ecologically sensitive (and resilient) way of living.

*NewTree Ranch Sanctuary is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization.