Grab a blanket, brew some tea, and tune in to land-based learning!
During the winter months, the Horn Farm Center will host a series of virtual evening talks presented by our staff and special guest instructors. From the comfort of your couch, learn fundamental land stewardship skills that you can implement and support at varying scales, from regenerative agriculture and agroforestry to ecological restoration and local living.
Talks take place on alternate Tuesdays beginning January 13th, Check out our 2026 offerings and sign up for individual sessions below!
Regenerative Roots:
Ecological Action for the Local Landscape
2026 Winter Webinar Series
With growing concern for our local ecosystems, many of us are searching for ways to support nature, grow food responsibly, and encourage one another in caring for the earth.
This winter, join the Horn Farm Center and special guest presenters for a series of webinars that will dig deep into regenerative land care. From backyards to small farms, we’ll capture what it looks like to create abundant, resilient landscapes that serve local needs while nourishing and healing the wider ecosystems we depend on.
This series will showcase and celebrate the work of reintegrating ourselves into local ecosystems–rebuilding our roles as proactive members of nature’s community.
We’ll address questions like:
- What does it look like to care for the land regeneratively? What makes this different from other ways of restoring nature and growing food?
- Why have we lost touch with tending the land in our daily lives, and what can we do to recover our roles as caretakers and protectors?
- What are accessible, adaptable actions each of us can take to support healthy landscapes while providing for ourselves?
Join us to build ecological literacy, demystify our current environmental challenges, and find hope in like-minded folks committed to deepening connection and taking action.
Logistics for Virtual Sessions
- All sessions will take place at 6PM EST. Most sessions wrap up at 7:30PM, and longer sessions finish at 8PM.
- Online registration is required to receive a link to attend each session.
- To register, view the session details below and click the links. After submitting your information, you will receive an automatic follow-up email containing the webinar link for that session.
- A $5 minimum donation is requested for each session. Proceeds support the Horn Farm Center’s mission of land stewardship and ecological learning.
- All webinars will be hosted in the traditional Zoom meeting format. You are welcome to engage with your camera on or off.
Interested in attending the entire series?
Click below to register for all six sessions at a discounted rate. Two days before each session, you will receive an email with that session’s link. This package offers a $5 discount, or one free session.
Session Topics:
Elements of Agroforestry
Tuesday, January 13th
Presented by the Horn Farm Center
Lately, practices like agroforestry and regenerative agriculture are commanding attention as increasingly popular alternatives to conventional farming. These practices offer pathways to address the most pressing issues of modern agriculture, including ecological degradation and climate change. But what does agroforestry look like in action? And what can it teach us about engaging with the land in ecologically responsible ways, whether or not we’re farming?
While less than 2% of US farms engage in agroforestry, according to self-reported data, the practice of incorporating trees and shrubs with other crops and livestock systems is actually very old. Older, in fact, that the annual agriculture we’re familiar with today.
In this session, we’ll uncover some of that ancient history and pay homage to the way past civilizations used agroforestry to sustain both local productivity and ecological wellbeing for generations. We’ll then dig into agroforestry in the present, covering different types, basic principles, and ecological underpinnings. We’ll share what the Horn Farm has been up to lately in creating scalable agroforestry systems, like forest gardens and riparian buffers, for community education.
Dude, Grass is So 1753 …
Tuesday, January 27th
Presented by the Endangered Species Coalition
Learn about the history of lawn culture, restoring wildlife habitat, and grassroots advocacy
We’ll dig deep into our cultural obsession with lawns, manicured spaces, and exotic plant species, exploring questions like:
- How do we work together to reinvigorate lands for native wildlife, plants and communities?
- What role can agricultural lands and local green spaces play in restoring habitat and serving as examples to influence culture and change policy?
We’ll help you navigate ways we can come together as grassroots community activists, sharing key tools for policy advocacy. You’ll hear more about what’s at the root of non-native landscapes dominating public spaces, in order to understand approaches to changing these preferences. And you’ll come away with ideas for taking local action to support native plants and wildlife.
A Forest From Scratch?: Growing the Miyawaki Method
Tuesday, February 10th
Presented by the Horn Farm Center
The work of restoring local plant communities is necessarily humbling. Especially when trees are involved, the impacts exceed our lifetimes. But the delayed gratification of restoration need not always be the case.
For the past several years, the Horn Farm Center has explored one solution for advancing restoration quickly. Rapid reforestration may help meet the urgency of today’s ecological crises, and this time-tested method offers a promising pathway for doing so, even in the most unexpected places.
In this session, we’ll discuss the Miyawaki Method for planting rapid-growth mini forests from the ground up. We’ll branch into its history and ecological underpinnings, basics of the process, and current examples of mini forest systems at the Horn Farm Center. While mini forests were initially designed for urban and industrial settings, we’ll shed light on agricultural and residential spaces as worthy contenders for rapid rewilding.
This topic is also offered as an in-person experience at the Horn Farm. Join us on DATE TBD for Meet a Mini Forest: The Miyawaki Method.
Gardening Like the Forest: Home-Scale Ecological Food Production
Tuesday, February 24th
Presented by the Dave Jacke, Ecological Designer and Author of Edible Forest Gardens
Healthy forests maintain, fertilize, and renew themselves, naturally. Wouldn’t you like to grow an abundant food-producing ecosystem like this in your back yard? You can!
Edible forest gardens mimic the structure and function of natural forests through all their stages of development and grow food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizers, farmaceuticals, and fun. We can meet our own needs and regenerate healthy ecosystems at the same time.
This talk introduces the vision of forest gardening with some scientific background, a few living examples, and a sampling of some useful perennial edibles you can use in your own garden.
Stick It, and It Will Grow: Planting Habitat with Live Stakes
Tuesday, March 10th
Presented by the Horn Farm Center
The Horn Farm Center is home to a multifunctional riparian buffer: a natural space where land restoration and agriculture come together. In the buffer, hundreds of native shrubs, including willows, elderberries, and dogwood, are helping to improve water and habitat quality. At the same time, they’re providing an annual supply of stems and twigs that can be cut and “staked” elsewhere to grow new plants, hence the term “live stakes.”
Live stakes are a promising, accessible resource for restoring degraded waterways across our region. In this session, we’ll explore the science of live stakes and how to harvest, store, and use woody stem cuttings for growing new trees and shrubs. We’ll also explore some of the history, uses, benefits, and characteristics of plants commonly suitable for live staking.
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Tuesday, March 24th
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