Quail Springs

Founded in 2004, Quail Springs is a leading educational nonprofit residing on a 450 acre permaculture demonstration site on the traditional homelands of the Chumash people in Cuyama Valley, California. Building a living example of a better future. Founded in 2004, Quail Springs is a leading educational non-profit that resides on a 450-acre permaculture demonstration site on the traditional homelands of the Chumash people in Cuyama Valley, California. Our mission is to empower students of all ages and backgrounds with knowledge, skills, and inspiration essential to cultivating ecological and social health in a rapidly changing world. Quail Springs teaches strategies and techniques instrumental for designing and building resilient, affordable, and carbon-neutral housing as well as ecologically sound and sovereign food systems. We are connected to an expansive local and international network of leading-edge practitioners. We envision an equitable global community that shares the bounty of this living planet and the responsibility to tend to its health. We believe the most effective way to foster positive change is through our relationships, both with one another and our ecologies. The work we do at Quail Springs: We build fire-resistant and climate-appropriate earthen homes. We protect and regenerate our local watershed. We grow food and build healthy soil in the desert. We collaborate with our local and international communities. What we are committed to at Quail Springs: Earthen Building Advocacy - education, activism, testing, informing + influencing building code Water Advocacy - outreach, education, activism, advising policy, conservation work Regenerative Agriculture - our regenerative onsite demonstration subsistence farm Online Education - thoughtful guidance and strategies to support regenerative living Local Outreach - youth programs and science education, community-building Social Justice -non-hierarchical governance, collaboration