Willamette Valley Listening Tour
Ecoregional Listening Tour - September 1st-17th, 2025
As a collaboration from organizing and regenerative teams in Cottage Grove, Eugene, Corvallis, and Portland, we produced an ecoregional listening tour during which we visited and wove together regenerative projects in the Willamette Valley. We highlighted projects doing regenerative agriculture, ecological restoration, food sovereignty, restorative justice, mutual aid, communal commons, and community care. We also visited some culturally and historically significant sites throughout the ecoregion.
If you'd like to read an online flipbook (with photos!) about this journey, click here.
If you'd like to learn more, please email regen.willamette@protonmail.com.
Tour Sites
| Lost Valley Education Center |
| Rafting & Opening Ceremony on the McKenzie |
| Center For Rural Livelihoods CRL |
| Twinberry Commons |
| Kennedy High School |
| Cottage Village |
| Mount David + Solidarity Projects Driving Tour |
| Dharmalaya |
| Jan Spencer's Site |
| Heart-Culture Farm |
| River Ceremony |
| Kalapuya High School |
| Maitreya Ecovillage |
| Hummingbird Wholesale |
| Springfield Youth Farm |
| Anahuac Farm |
| Silver Falls Campsite + Hike |
| Muslim Education Trust |
| Black Future Farm |
| Kindness Farm |
| ITECK Center |
| Tryon Life Community Farm |
| Green Anchors |
| Mosquito Fleet (Kayak tour) |
| Leaven Community Center |
| p:ear mentor |
| Oswego Creek |
| Fringecup Creek (Stephens Creek) |
Tour Aspirations
In addition to the local organizing teams, we invited members of the public and the bioregional community to join on this tour to raise awareness of regenerative work. Among our goals for this ecoregional tour were the following:
- Extend and deepen our direct knowledge of the Willamette ecoregion
- Bring to sites we visit our emerging vision for bioregional action
- Learn from the sites we visit about the regenerative visions they’re trying to manifest
- Promote conversations about the next step in our bioregional program
- Gather information about funding needs for sites and possibilities for flow-funding structures
- Undertake service activities at sites we visit
- Deepen our bonds of community in the course of our journey together
- Explore the Willamette Valley at diverse levels: natural, cultural, historic
- Document the tour and share this documentation
- Integrate the Willamette Valley tour into larger purposes of building bioregional work
- Engage in visioning activity as we go, engaging others in this process