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Mission
Mission
The Harvest Collective LLC is a regenerative worker-owned agriculture business that empowers ownership in vibrant ecosystems through community farms, food scrap diversion programs, and ecological mentorship.
Vision
Vision
The Harvest Collective LLC is a community-based agriculture business that helps families and individuals to reconnect and restore their relationship with their local ecological systems. We are united by growing food and maintaining healthy, bountiful relationships. We build our community by outlining decision-making and data collection processes that create democratic and equitable ownership in local food systems. We will always strive to improve, learn, and modify our systems to produce quality compost, plants, and wonder.
Guiding Principles
Guiding Principles
The Eight Principles for Self-Governing the Commons reflect deep wisdom, viewed through the studies of real-world communities that sustainably manage shared natural resources, such as pastures, farmland, fisheries, and forests. We regularly return to these principles to guide us as we create community ownership in vibrant ecosystems.
The Harvest Collective LLC founded and is an owner of Star City Compost LLC, creating quality, fertile compost and compost products for gardeners, landscapers, and farmers in the Roanoke Valley by coordinating the area’s only food waste and organics recycling program at our permitted compost facility. We are committed to supporting and supplying compost to a network of growers and sustainable businesses in our region.
We are also a proud partner of Lick Run CDC – a nonprofit creating resilient infrastructure, an environment for interaction and exchange in the local human & biological ecosystems, and opportunities for education and community initiatives. We provide valuable resources to achieve our shared goals, and are an active partner in their education programming.
Our Story
Our Story
The Harvest Collective is a long-term response to the crisis of our time.
Our founding occurred when a Montessori toddler teacher, a biologist, a retail manager, a law student, an environmental educator, and a sociologist walk into a barn... Ours is a story of serendipity and perseverance in the face of difficulties.
The founding characters have their own stories, but their collective story is planting food forests, mentoring stewards of the earth, and showing through practice what it means to be present in this moment of crisis and collaborate.
Life means that characters have come and gone, but the current team is still taking steps on the road of regenerating the Roanoke Valley. Each of us shows up with our own history of successes and failures. And we take collective responsibility for each other's growth.
So come out and support yourself and others in this life-long practice of building a relationship to a livable future. We would love for this part of our story to be your story too.
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