The 2025 season was characterized by extensive work and exploration with the Living Soil Network. Roseanum Foundation and Living Soil Network worked in collaboration to bring more fields into soil suitable for nourishing food cultivation. Living Soil Network is a non-profit with the mission “to transform unhealthy soils into living fertile ecosystems.” Learn more about their work at: LivingSoilNetwork.com
“It’s an opportunity to demonstrate how diverse microbial soil ecosystems go far beyond organic farming practices in providing nutrient dense, delicious and healing food, in cleaning up / protecting our waterways and surrounding environments (because we don’t use any inputs other than microbes) and in providing economic stability for farmers and food security for our communities.” –Robin from Living Soil Network
Spero and Robin are both natural medicine practitioners. After years of personally experiencing the profound healing properties of food grown in living soil, they are particularly excited about sharing the farm’s produce with their natural medicine clientele.
This year we worked with Living Soil and focused on establishing infrastructure for an expanded commercial farming operation. This included:
1) Establishing soil infrastructure (all the methods the Living Soil technique employs to restore a diverse microbial ecosystem to the soil)
2) Creating workable beds: removal of rocks and weeds (a lot harder than it sounds)
3) Installing a drip line irrigation system in the beds
4) Putting up fencing (to protect crops from wildlife)
5) Planting cover crops where appropriate
6) Planting crops where appropriate: tomatoes, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, squash
Volunteer Network
There were two big volunteer days on the farm. In the spring potatoes, corn, seeds, and seedlings were planted by volunteers brought in by Living Soil Network.
In October, garlic was planted with a big volunteer group.
Each day culminated with a delicious meal prepared by Robin and friends and a good time was had by all!
