Projects


Garden and Farm Stand at Newledo

The Garden at Newledo is an organic garden powered by community members who are passionate about growing healthy foods, beautiful flowers and practicing sustainability together. They encourage families without gardening space at home to join them in growing so all can share in the bounty! There’s also a free food share farm stand where produce from the garden and contributions from neighbors are made available 24/7 to all, especially those in need.

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, please reach out or visit
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The Garden and Farm Stand

Rich warm to Biochar Burn

Biochar Project

Biochar is a stable solid, rich in carbon that is made from organic waste material or biomass that is partially combusted in the presence of limited oxygen. It's beneficial for building soil, creating housing for beneficial soil microbes and controlling moisture. A common attribute among all types of biochar is the primary ingredient: a recalcitrant carbon that can persist in soils for years or decades, and even millennia.


Wood chips are plentiful here at the Coast, so Newledo has been experimenting with using them as feedstock. Chipping downed trees and branches and using them to make biochar could also be an environmentally friendly alternative to burn piles, a common practice to get rid of such material onsite.


Newledo is also experimenting with various kiln designs including the TLUD simple kiln and is hoping to construct a continuous feed Kon-Tiki kiln this summer.


Fruit Forest

We’ve planted a combination of fruit trees, native plants, perennials and vegetables to create a fruit forest. The emphasis is on companion planting and best adaptability to our microclimate. This little valley used to have fruit orchards back in the last 1800s so we’re putting “fruit” back in Fruitvale!

Newledo Fruit Forest

Bee Project

Newledo is hosting the Bee Project, a beekeeping apprenticeship led by a long time beekeeper from the area. As lovers of honey, Newledo was keen to provide space for this immersive learning opportunity. But, we’ve also increased our flowering plants to provide sufficient food to native pollinators we didn’t want impacted by the introduction of thousands of honey bees. Newledo is surrounded by hundreds of blackberry bushes, so at least, in the spring and summer, there should be ample food supply for all.


Reach out if you’d like to learn more about the project or beekeeping.


Compost Collective

Newledo is experimenting with various methods for composting including the following. We’re also testing various local organic waste including dog hair.


Aerated Static Pile - Experimenting with a small scale, diy aerated static pile that uses air flow, instead of pile turning, to expedite the compost process.


Vermicomposting - Experimenting with worm based compost in our microclimate.


We’re hoping to create a compost collective, scaling up production and increasing the distribution of compost to the broader community. Reach out if you’d like to join the collective.

Kate

Past Projects and Events

Bio Charge

01.2025 Biocharge, Newledo’s first annual biochar celebration, providing education on this carbon sequestering material and a demonstration of a very low cost method for making it.


Explore the Wonders of Making Compost

02.2025 Compost Cafe. Experts and newbies gathered to connect, while viewing various compost systems, including a low cost aerated static pile and vermicomposting. Educational materials were on display, providing the basics on the amazing wonders of compost.


Land Based Art

10.2024 Fluxscape Art Show Newledo, in collaboration with Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.), launched Fluxscape, a year-long show that investigates shifting flows of time and land through Newledo’s 10-acre northern pasture, known as the "North-10". For more visit our fluxscape page


Water Wise Solutions

09.2024 Make Every Drop Count, Home and Garden Water Saving Solutions. Presentations were on rainwater harvesting, rain gardens and bioswales, and greywater reuse.


Kids Adventure Day fundraiser for The Garden at Newledo

08.2024 Kids Garden Adventure Day! A fun-filled fundraiser for The Garden at Newledo with amazing participation from the community including a bug hunt, story reading, face painting, snow cone give away and so much more.


Mural painting, Cake party and Bees Welcoming

05.2024 Paint by Number Party with Cake and Welcoming of the Bees Celebration. Help create a vibrant community gathering space by joining in painting murals in the carport.


Seeds, Starts, and Plants were swapped

05.2024 The Garden at Newledo’s 1st Plant and Seed Swap Gardeners sharing the variety of food baring plants at Newledo


Mushrooms on a Globe

04.2024 A Celebration of Earth Day with the Lincoln County Mycological Society who led a hands on mushroom inoculation workshop


Steve with Solar Panel

01.2024 F_ the Clouds,a demonstration of various small-scale distributed solar systems suitable for the Oregon Coast, during the winter.


Free Fermentation Class

11.2023 Ferment-Me-This: Fermentation Class providing education on this carbon sequestering material and a demonstration of a very low cost method for making it.


Forage and farm mocktails under the stars.

10.2023 Exclipser Mixer, foraged and farmed based mocktails under the stars, educating attendees about the flavor and medicinal benefits of “weeds”


Mushrooms on a log

04.2023 For the Love of Mushrooms. Celebrating the love of mushrooms with a freee hands on Shiitake mushroom log inoculation workshop and mushroom based dye demonstration


David making Ferrock cement

03.2023 Ferrock Workshop and Demonstration, led by innovator / material scientist David Stone, on a carbon negative, waste-material based alternative to concrete