Through his Moon & Stars project, Nando Jaramillo has been connecting community, traditional food, and regenerative farming through heirloom corn and the arepa-making process. Nando has been working with workshop co-host Willie Gibson, CCA, agronomist with the White River NRCD, for a few years to manage the land he leases under Certified Organic standards & innovative cropping strategies for optimal corn production and to generate soil/ecosystem health.  

Floricola Farm has been a cooperative host for Nando, with about 35 acres of long-time field corn land being transitioned to perennial pasture and crop rotation. Through this partnership, this work is also exploring the role of agroforestry, creating space to test how practices like cover cropping & planned future grazing can function within and alongside tree-based systems and how soil and management context inform options when the goal is to increase water and nutrient cycling and overall soil health. 

Come tour the farm to hear about these collaborations in action—the successes, challenges, and lessons learned, and join the conversation as we dig into soil health and talk about how the path to improving it is often crooked. This workshop earns one RAP Agricultural Water Quality education credit and is supported by the Transition to Organic Partnership Program.

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