Light Root Farm & Learning Center
Light Root Farm & Learning Center is a 501-C3 non profit.
We steward a diverse, working farm and learning center where holistic agriculture, education, and healing come together. Through hands-on, farm-based educational and therapeutic programs, we invite people of all ages to engage directly in the life cycles of the farm—caring for soil, growing food, tending animals, and participating in meaningful, seasonal work. Our programs build practical agricultural skills while fostering connection, resilience, and well-being.
Our Vision is a community rooted in Heart-Centered Agriculture where care, reverence, and mindful stewardship shapes our relationship with the land, animals, plants, and one another.
Feeding our Community with Connection and Relationship to the Land.
Our Mission is to offer farm-based educational and therapeutic programs rooted in heart-centered, holistic agriculture. By engaging people of all ages in the life cycles of the farm and hands-on work with plants and animals, we cultivate skills, connection, healing, and resilience—for both people and the land.
Our Vision is a community rooted in heart-centered agriculture where care, reverence, and mindful stewardship shape our relationship with land, animals, plants, and one another.
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Our Vision is a community rooted in heart-centered agriculture where care, reverence, and mindful stewardship shape our relationship with land, animals, plants, and one another. 〰️
About Us
Light Root Farm & Learning Center is a nonprofit rooted in the belief that farms can do more than grow food–they can heal, educate, and bring people together in nature. On 65 acres at the edge of Boulder, Colorado, we practice holistic, draft-animal-powered farming that cultivates living soil, nourishes our community with local food, and supports a thriving ecosystem.
Alongside our farming work, we offer hands-on education and mental health programs that help youth and adults reconnect with nature, build resilience, and experience the healing power of meaningful work on the land.
Through heart-centered agriculture, experiential learning, and mindful connection we’re growing community, well-being, and hope for a more sustainable and resilient future. Our team of farmers, educators, therapists, and a development specialist work collaboratively to cultivate farm based experiential learning, community connection, sustainable food systems, and the long-term support that allows Light Root Farm to serve generations to come.
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School Visits & Farm Education Programs
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Dairy barn tour and hands-on milking demonstrations.
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Spring potato planting in the crop field
Beginning Farmer Training and Practical Farm Based Workshops
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2025-- Beginning Farmer Internships--Filled for the Season!
Supporting the next generation of farmers by offering full immersion learning through seasonal farm internships. Build practical skills and knowledge in regenerative agriculture, holistic dairy management, and draft animal powered farming systems.
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Draft Animal Power Workshops
Hands-on Draft Animal Power (DAP) Workshops and intensives for Farmers, New Agrarians, Homesteaders, and anyone interested in diving deep into the practical art of small-scale agriculture
“Agriculture is rooted in Nature and true Culture needs to be rooted in Agriculture.”
~ Wendell Berry