As part of our Center for Restorative Community, RTB embraces farmers, growers, and educators who are making positive differences in our local food, farming, and education sectors. We call these social entrepreneurs “agripreneurs” or “edupreneurs,” and we couldn’t do our work in the same way if they weren’t here. Agripreneurs and edupreneurs don’t pay a traditional, monetary fee for using RTB’s resources; instead, RTB asks for compensation through education and maintaining our farm spaces. Within this framework, RTB acts as a support system, providing the farm and infrastructure as resources and a more stable footing to an intentionally diverse collaboration of visionary social entrepreneurs. The freedom and collaboration inherent in this model encourages creativity and ingenuity, and we see these outcomes having ripples beyond our farm, enabling us to reach beyond our borders and positively impact our community.
Through our agripreneurs and edupreneurs, a wonderful educational infrastructure blossoms, allowing these teammates to teach about their sustainable methodologies to our community members. In addition, agripreneurs help maintain the farm land, either by their seasonal growing or animal husbandry, thus creating a symbiotic relationship between them and RTB, where we invite them to use the land and in return, they care for it in restorative ways (without chemical use) that model nature and protect the earth and its inhabitants! RTB knows it takes a village,and we can’t do it alone – we wouldn’t want to, either! Our agripreneurs and edupreneurs step up to the plate, allowing us to fulfill our mission to educate and support our communities, and care for the land we steward.
