Welcome

Use these resource pages to learn about regenerative agriculture, education, history, finance, and culture happening in our ecoregion. You will find a directory of organizations and projects, calendar of events, and a volunteer match program that helps you find ways to connect with the land and the people tending it.

Regenerate Willamette Valley is an autonomous part of a larger bioregional movement, Regenerate Cascadia. Our team aims to create a network of people working in their landscapes to develop resiliency and reestablish a connection to the metabolism of the Earth.

Northern Willamette Valley

Our team is primarily based in the greater Portland area, so most of our offerings presently relate to this location, although we have intentions to widen our network.

We are focusing on the Lower Willamette and Tualatin watersheds, weaving and building relationships with regenerative projects in the area.

Willamette Valley Listening Tour

Our big project right now is to plan an ecoregional listening tour, which will visit sites from the headwaters of the Willamette River down to the confluence with the Columbia River. Our tour dates are September 4th-16th. If you are interested in joining or volunteering to support these efforts, please email regen.willamette@protonmail.com.

Our current tour sites for the Portland area include the following:

• Tryon Life Community Farm & Cedar Moon Ecovillage
• p:ear - mentoring for unhoused youth
• Rhythm Seed Farms
• Kindness Farms
• Mosquito Fleet - they will give us a CEI Hub tour from kayaks to talk about the activism being done there
• Green Anchors
• Stephens Creek + Bunny Grove

Stephens Creek Land-tending

Our group recently adopted about a quarter mile of landscape in the South Burlingame neighborhood, which follows Stephens Creek. This has become a model for restoration work for other bioregions! Our next event will take place on June 1st, 2025 at 10 a.m. Learn more here!

Central Willamette Valley (coming soon)

We don't currently have a landscape team in the Salem/Corvallis area. If you would like to help start building a directory of your own for this area, please contact us!

Southern Willamette Valley (coming soon)

With members from the Breach Collective and Lost Valley Education Center, this team is heading up the bioregional organizing in the Eugene area. Also Dharmalya, in Eugene, has an active team which currently meets bi-weekly; typically via Zoom.

Knowledge Commons

Complied resources for information across the bioregion.