Meadow Farm Community Land Trust
Founded in 2013, Meadow Farm Community Land Trust is a 28-acre nonprofit 501(c)3 dedicated to caring for the Earth and fostering a resilient coastal community.
Mission:
Acknowledging the Climate Crisis
Nurturing Soil and Garden for Food Security & Carbon Sequestering
Creating Sustainable Living for Farmers and Visitors
Encouraging Plant-based nutrition
Hosting Earth Friendly Educational Events
Runs on Love, Volunteers, and tax-deductible donations
Upcoming Events!
Plan B for Number 2
A Waterless Sanitation Composting Weekend
October 4–5, 2025
Fort Bragg, CA
Join us for a weekend exploring practical, sustainable solutions for human waste and sanitation! Led by international expert Alisa Keesey (Program Director of GiveLove and PhD candidate, UCSC) and Nick Kawa (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Ohio State University), this weekend combines an experiential workshop, a thought-provoking film screening, and conversations about the future of sanitation.
Weekend Schedule:
Saturday, October 4th | 4–7 PM
Film Screening: “Holy Shit” by Rubén Abruña
Company Store, 303 N. Main Street, Fort Bragg
No registration required. Bring a friend!
$10+ donation – includes entry to win a Lovable Loo!
Sunday, October 5th | 10 AM–2 PM
Compost Toilet Workshop with Alisa Keesey
Meadow Farm CLT (off Pudding Creek Road)
Register here Limited space – sign up early!
Sliding scale: $20–$60
Expert Facilitators:
Alisa Keesey is Program Director and co-founder of GiveLove, a nonprofit advancing ecological sanitation (EcoSan) solutions worldwide. She has over 25 years of experience working in eight countries to promote composting, sustainable land use, food security, and community resiliency in the face of climate change. A PhD candidate in Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, her research examines the global sanitation crisis, water pollution in Lake Victoria’s fishing communities, and the politics of soil and nutrients. She holds a B.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University, an M.S. in International Agricultural Development from UC Davis, and an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz.
Nick Kawa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State University. His research explores human cultural relationships with soils, plants, and bodily waste, including contemporary sanitation systems in the U.S. and sustainable alternatives. He has studied Amazonian Dark Earth soils, botanical diversity, and social networks in rural Amazonian communities. He is also the author of the forthcoming book After the Flush: Rethinking the Future of Human Waste (University of California Press). nicholaskawa.com
Our Vision
Our community is a place of peace, beauty and creative life-enhancing opportunities. We live in harmony with each other, the environment, our neighbors and the wider community. We support, nourish and are grateful to all beings and our planet. Our work and play reflects love in action.
Our Mission
Our community recognizes the climate change emergency. We strive to ameliorate the suffering and other negative impacts of climate disasters. Our farm community allows for a diversity of people to develop and practice their talents, share their gifts and uses compassionate communication for living together safely and harmoniously. Meadow Farm provides an opportunity for enriching lives through affordable accommodations, permaculture, organic farming, education and other creative endeavors. We co-create via a dynamic and collaborative decision-making model.
Our Aims
Meadow Farm Vision and Mission seeks to create a healthy resiliency through the manifestation of these Aims as stated below:
- MFCLT collaborates with neighbors and community agencies to prepare for disasters and to provide relief though medical, food, clean water and shelter as possible.
- MFCLT supplies residents of the farm and the wider community with organic garden produce and products.
- MFCLT promotes carbon sequestering through cultivation of healthy soils, forests, meadow and wildlife interface on our land through conscientious environmental study and practices.
- MFCLT offers affordable living that more easily allows people to thrive using their skills and gifts in creating sustainable lifestyles.
- MFCLT promotes resident’s involvement through diverse meaningful volunteer service opportunities via its own non-profit, wider community programs and monetary donations.
- MFCLT provides enriching educational offerings to residents and the wider community with workshops such as: permaculture, natural building, natural energy, bicycle maintenance, trail building and navigation, healthy vegan food preparation and preservation, water conservation, NVC, yoga, meditation, homesteading skills and forestry.