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HeartSeed Farm also operates as a learning center for a K-8 school. Our values center on repairing our relationship with the land and its diverse inhabitants. We strive to exemplify a regenerative agricultural system that respects the balance between cultivated landscapes and natural ecosystems.\n\nDecision-making at HeartSeed is a cooperative effort involving the farmers, the school's mentors, the neighboring housing community, and our broader network of ecological experts. We collaborate with friends and organizations in the surrounding community who have experience with improving ecosystems. This collaborative approach ensures that our strategies are informed by a wealth of knowledge and are community-focused.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe your project's mission and values.", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "United States", "hidden": false, "question": "What is the location of your land project?", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Landwell is on 22 acres. The upper land hosts a housing community, and HeartSeed Farm is located in the valley below. Jonive Creek flows through the bottom of this valley.\n\nAt HeartSeed Farm we observe the water as it flows down the hill and into the creek. Through carefully planned drainages and ponds, we slow and spread the water throughout the landscape. We prepare and apply our own compost, intentionally rotate crops & use cover cropping, we select seeds for drought tolerance, bury large amounts of biomass in hugelkultur mounds, and practice rotational grazing. This leads to increased soil fertility and diminished ground water demands. We don't till beds after they\u2019ve been opened the first time. We incorporate perennial trees & shrubs, nitrogen fixers, and pollinator plants into each of the garden landscapes.\n\nWe are managing sheep with electric fencing, and we rotate them through the valley to improve the health of soil and grasses. Grasslands benefit when the sheep graze just enough to stimulate a healthy root system and new growth.\n\nHeartSeed is intertwined with the BeeHive school that is nestled in the farm. Students help and learn at the farm by weeding and planting. These children are learning to recognize and value a thriving ecosystem, and how a farm can work in harmony with its surroundings.", "hidden": false, "question": "Summarize the regenerative activities you are engaged in.", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We need funds to manage water flow. We have plans for a network of ponds and basins on the hill side, and implementing this vision will require labor, consulting, and equipment.\n\nThe bulk of the work will be shaping the hillside for maximum water retention and aquifer recharge. We see four basins and two ponds added to the hillside with contoured terraces conveying water between them. We already created a pond at the top of the hill and the first basin will be close to its outlet, receiving its overflow. It will have two outlets connecting basins on either side of the slope as high as the contour line allows. The second basin will receive runoff from the neighboring pasture as well as the first basin. \n\nThe basins will feed ponds in the valley. Native wetland plants will be used to mitigate erosion around ponds and basins. Terracing conveying water between basins will be used for annual and perennial food crops interspersed with pasture blocks for winter grazing.\n\nThis project will create habitat for native species, reduce erosion of the soil and the creek bed, and help provide water to the crops in the drier months. The more water we can sink into the earth the less water we have to pull from our well.", "hidden": false, "question": "What particular initiatives will these funds support?", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our farm will receive more water from surrounding ponds and we should see a measurable reduction in water pumped from the aquifer.\n\nThe frog song during the winter months has been a good measure of the health of our ecosystem and the success of our efforts. Similarly, the sighting of ducks and other birds that stop in our valley on their migratory paths are good indicators.\n\nWe have been tracking the birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals in our valley, and our work should result in a visible increase in biodiversity.\n\nThe slower flow of water will extend the seasonal ponds in our valley so that they survive during the dry seasons. A measure of success would be to see more fish that migrate from the creek into the ponds.\n\nWe have been working with the Atascadero Green Valley Watershed Council, and their feedback on our progress in restoring and improving the watershed is one of our measures of success.", "hidden": false, "question": "How will/do you measure or determine the impact of your efforts?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "Your Signal phone number (for a group chat, if you have one)", "questionId": 6, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "lIT3ZUyPzaXklqp9a1n9Q8bNDEUMBeEREejV1XVIVPQ=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "59c47a96ab91cc9377f82da05e2405473f16756e3c5824eade064a0650cccc8d2e7c3e32b620a9b4d3b1f337770e9a0b59e17870d9692af6f48cfdc94778319aa89f2bb075452ba7377e70343af037e5792ba2ccccbc89678f56455254746cb1c0fba27d0d7dd0f86987035ebeffd1b9283fd01a51ad60decc9e35e4053b87530000000000000020a9e80d24530db62f6da2ff67c4c8726406e7fce0dcce6fe9f925a62b6c0b5dc7b57428aa1d371bf7d5787b0554906ca1"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "Your Telegram phone number (for a group chat, if you have one)", "questionId": 7, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "jkflm3y/fyfJ39OqcJ+3HS8KekJHFC43CHAtidoJKnM=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "7777b388593d8d57244b63317aa60a8c517f21ff6d0823bc64c0717a80dc2bca24a255441c5ef5d453271c307e293119e1c735faa24028677cadb9a39952b349520d8d3072feee0564dae51bba3edf4c28c4b4582ba7adb76a1895d956b64d951ae38545e28eab656fce7b1d02c4adad12cf2ee65055c143439d960059e986ff0000000000000020570752acc3766a43f4dd82f33d566a461e73ffb647f0b1453fb2aab3d99f0dd3052a41fa21cf76647607f4ab714b65ad"}}], "project": {"id": "0x49bf8980ba8c3c294a7c32580b8e4774fc5ae88fba3a4ec5dfc5679cbe83d19c", "title": "HeartSeed Farm at Landwell", "logoImg": "bafkreibofpgmmkffiompl2cjayldmevll4vpfxua55nedu52s6pumcfl54", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreihvypnvscmge445rbxpazc7qzm7kh6hhdfrjvhv62qfyahm5iv6ne", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://growingkinship.org/who-we-are", "createdAt": 1713464997235, "credentials": {}, "description": "Landwell's HeartSeed Farm is located on 22 acres in the wetland valley of Jonive, in Sebastopol, California.\n\nHeartSeed believes it is important to model a regenerative food system rooted in honoring the relationship between the domestic and the wild. Nestled in a fertile valley, HeartSeed provides a bounty of diverse annual and perennial food and medicine crops for the benefit of Landwell residents and the local community.\n\nHeartSeed Farm plays a pivotal role at the BeeHive Land-Based Learning Center, where over 40 children spend at least one day of the week engaging in farm activities such as weeding and planting.\n\nHeartSeed engages in regenerative agriculture, fire mitigation through grazing, and restoration of floodplains and waterways in collaboration with local bioregion-focused organizations and indigenous communities.", "lastUpdated": 0}, "recipient": "0xFbe7B89e4A18B2262725b287033AdA2579be75Cf"}}