Willamette Valley Listening Tour
Ecoregional Listening Tour - September 4th-17th, 2025
As a collaboration from organizing and regenerative teams in Cottage Grove, Eugene, Corvallis, and Portland, we are creating an ecoregional listening tour during which we will visit and weave together regenerative projects in the Willamette Valley. We are highlighting projects doing regenerative agriculture, ecological restoration, food sovereignty, restorative justice, mutual aid, communal commons, and community care. We will also be visiting some culturally and historically significant sites throughout the ecoregion.
Funding
We are actively seeking funding for this tour, and our team entirely consists of volunteers. If you believe in this preliminary work to identify projects for the community to support in the long-term regenerative process, please check out our pitch deck and reach out to us at regen.willamette@protonmail.com about funding and/or donations.
Tour Aspirations
In addition to the local organizing teams, we will be inviting 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 are 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