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A healthy, hopeful world through regenerative food and agriculture.
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04/28/2026

Just as we walked onto the pasture with a tour group, the mama sheep started giving birth to twins. The second one took a minute to get started but both are doing well now. And the cows just standing there wondering what all the fuss was about.

04/27/2026

WHAT'S WITH THE ANIMALS along Bottom Road near Tiskilwa? Why are they moved daily?

How does this help build topsoil, restore watersheds, increase biodiversity, and store carbon --- not to mention fight the honeysuckle invasion?

How does moving animals this way result in more nutrient dense beef and lamb?

Are you going to plant trees in the pasture and why would you do that?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W69U3g5tR6VkOWIbzq2FCefZfNb7gEjrHgXku2zsBYU/edit?usp=sharing

04/21/2026

🌼 Friends on the Farm (From Tuesday Newsletter) - After tornado warnings and a deluge of rain on Friday that threatened to wash away tents and topsoil, Saturday dawned with the farm flooded with friends. Folks from Reba Place Fellowship, Living Water Church, Willow Springs Church, and Elkhart, Indiana arrived to clean-up the Plow Creek Cemataries. So many - Luke & Erica Mast, Ken & Lisa Stewart, Eric Gale, Susie Kauffman (Board Member), Melanie Freisinger, Ronn & Nina Frantz,

Celestine Chizanye, Ruth Anne Friesen, Jim & Meg Foxvog, and Dennis Zehr (former Board Member.)

Katherine & Dirk DeDecker who stayed overnight last year, came back to hold a volunteering-birthday party with 45 friends who took a regenerative farming tour and helped clean up the resident garden and remove a tree that had fallen on the playground. Anna Zehr and Ellen Starr (Board member) removed invasive species on Daisy Hill. Andy Krabill (Board President) and son Ira (toting a w**d wacker 2x his size) mowed the lawn. Later Sam & Shawna with help from a few guests helped prune the Vineyard.

To wrap up the day, another group of overnight guests including teachers from Quad Cities area spent an hour on a walking workshop discussing the benefits of regenerative grazing to the environment, the nutritional quality of meat, dairy, and eggs, and farmers’ bottom line. Of course Toby and the new bottle-fed lamb that has adopted James and his family stole the show.

It’s easy to feel disconnected and hopeless when so much of our life is conducted through phones and computers and we’re swamped with information about so many awful things happening in the world. We are so grateful to these volunteers and guests for creating such a special space to connect with nature and the people we love, while working on projects that make a difference.

P.S. Come see it for yourself. Join us for a weekend tour, workshop, or stay overnight and experience the farm as it comes alive this spring.

04/13/2026

Lambs have arrived! Around 20 with more expected. James and his family have been doing an excellent job caring for them. This particular lamb was initially rejected by its mother, so they’ve stepped in to help it survive by making sure it receives the colostrum it needs in these critical first hours.

Come visit them during a weekend tour. See Calendar on website for days/times of all tours, workshops, and volunteer projects.

03/25/2026

🫐 BLUEBERRY HILL bush pruning VOLUNTEER PROJECT, Saturday, March 28th, "Galaxy Beneath Your Feet", Water Bears, new Vineyard glamping tent and more in our NEWSLETTER. See in 1st comment. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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WHAT'S GROWING ON...
🐑 Regenerative Farming Tour, Sat 28, 10-Noon (dress warmly)
🫐U-Pick Blueberry Hill: Pruning, Sat, Mar 28, 1-4pm w/James
👨‍🌾 Farmstead Tour & Creek Walk, Sat, Apr 4, 10-Noon
➡️Volunteer Opportunity: Clean & Furnish Intern Apartment, Apr 11, 1-4pm. RSVP by responding to this email.
🍄2nd Annual Morel Hunting Fundraiser, Weather dependent, Early May.
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WHEN YOU STAND on a sun-drenched pasture, Blueberry Hill, or in the garden at Hungry World Farm, it is easy to focus on what is visible: the sway of the grass, the hum of a bee, or the weight of a ripening tomato.

But beneath your shoes lies a churning, invisible city.

A single handful of soil is not merely "dirt"—it is a soulful, high-functioning metropolis. This is the Soil Food Web, a complex choreography where every organism, from the microscopic bacterium to the tunneling earthworm, plays a unique role in a performance that begins with a photon of sunlight and becomes the very cells of your body.

Science has barely begun to untangle the billions of connections within this frontier, yet what we do know is awe-inspiring. By exploring five impactful takeaways from this hidden world, we can see how the microscopic shapes our macroscopic health—and why the mission at Hungry World Farm is a vital act of ecological healing.

03/07/2026

SEE YOU TODAY 1-4 for (Older) Tree Pruning Workshop. Science focused Friday issue of our Newsletter is out. 3 Videos that will blow your mind! https://mailchi.mp/hungryworldfarm/regeneration-is-more-than-a-label-10986536

03/06/2026

Don't miss this opportunity to support Bureau County United Way...and possibly win the silent auction for one of our farmstays!

03/04/2026

Come join us this Saturday from 1-4. we’ll be learning how to rehabilitate some mature fruit trees 🌳✂️😀. No cost, no equipment needed. RSVP would be great, but just showing up works to.

03/01/2026

We had a great time learning to prune trees today. We want to thank Jed Arkels for teaching us how to prune our trees for future success. There’s always more to learn. If you missed this week, come join us next Saturday, March 7, 1-4pm. We’ll be pruning older fruit trees, including some that haven’t been pruned in years. This is a free class, though donations always welcome. Leave us a comment if you’re coming.

We also encourage you to check out Jed’s website. He and his partner Ashley run a backyard nursery, with a focus on healthy foods and healthy ecosystems.

https://www.dropseedecology.com

02/23/2026

We are grateful for a new roof on the Learning Center this past Saturday! Southwest G.C. Corp. dropped materials Friday and did the whole thing by 3:30pm the next day - wow! Thank you to our many supporters who helped make this possible. Before, during, and after pics below:

12/11/2025

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Friends, guests, subscribers, and supporters! Your experience at Hungry World Farm is what drives us forward, whether you’ve stayed for a retreat, visited the Market Garden, or supported us from afar.

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Thank you for being part of the Hungry World Farm family!

Address

19183 Plow Creek Road
Tiskilwa, IL
61368

Telephone

+18152008688

Website

http://www.hungryworldfarm.com/

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