Biodynamic Farm & Education Center

“Learning To Sustain Greater Self-Awareness In Partnership With Ecology”

Our aim is to preserve biodynamic land + grow conscious local community via:

Snapshot

GEOFLOWER is a culturally emerging community that has grown up enduring the eco-sensitivities inherent in our planetary transition, while enjoying the breakthroughs of integrating systems and philosophies to support an exponentially aligned new world. Founder, Rebecca Carlson, describes herself as “helping uplift humanity through this elevation in consciousness” which we are seeing expressed through ecology, biology, and society in greater systems integration / holistic applications / awareness of polarizing views / emergent interests and adaptations that benefit the collective, including nature and all life. She has been called a hands-on restorer of unloved gardens and lands, an articulate and self-aware humble leader in service to the greater good; a conscious rEvolutionary and profoundly inspiring healer and guide.

The community she has inspired is currently developing numerous self-directing initiatives, including a regenerative design incubator, a human-canine therapeutic group, and a self-awareness through growing program.

We’re pleased to be creating these new community pathways for bioregional catalyzers and regenerative activists. We invite you to participate in our classes and support us along the way!

Our Vision

People are inspired the world over to live in greater harmony with nature. Given the state of our world, it is imperative now that we take action as local communities to preserve and protect heathy land and to educate our neighbors how to build a mindful communal relationship with the land through personal experience.

We offer a unique ‘circulation’ of classes and immersions allowing people to cycle through the various layers of our ‘flower of life’ programs, being able to take their learning and experience into action exponentially onward along their path and into the larger world we are co creating.

We are creating an Educational Center & Land Trust as the ground from which to support people’s inner and outer education while working in harmony with earth. For this kind of holistic education to truly become second nature, we must invite people to a local farm & practice center to partake of our significant knowledge and experience in accessible hands-on ways, including mindfulness practices that help us attune to the world around us. Together with others, we learn to anchor and balance the abundance of information and connections for ourselves and within our blossoming lifestyle. We learn how to honor our unique path as well as our encounters in partnership with various communities. 

With so many people of varying world-views needing to come together to learn how to re-integrate our collective dissonances and find a way forward, it is essential now that we create working examples of a spectrum of healthy living. We do this through securing healthy land, perpetuating healthy practices inner and outer, and beginning to expand our reach through an international network of sister organizations dedicated to an Integral vision for a healthier world. Both locals and international participants can travel and come together at varying network centers around the world to gain complimentary experience in places made specifically for sharing such incredible wisdom and traditions. Let deep inner transformation and awareness move through our collectives.

Join the conversation and be part of a truly local and global integration as we birth a new perspective for ourselves and our world - one that supports a diversity of examples of cultivated land, and cultivated hearts & minds, in balance with our inner and outer nature.  

Our Learning Opportunities

HANDS-ON CLASSES, EVENTS, PROGRAMS, IMMERSIONS

2023 Fall

• Native Landscape + Agricultural Design + Ecology - Design + Consulting services available for local homeowners, farmers, or HOAs.

• Husky Therapy - “The Spirit Animal Sesions” is a private series of 4 weekly therapeutic sessions. December 15-Jan 12 (skip Dec 22).

2024 

• CSA introduction with “Learn & Earn” Practice - Detailed how-to and walk-through of all the elements of our working CSA program, from the ground up. A way for members to participate and gain experience and connection with the soil and the community.

• “Green Land’ Certification Program for Homeowners / Designers. An ecology-based Property Assessment Course, + Credit, designed to eventually go hand in hand with existing Green Building Certifications.

• Kids Farm Camp - Kids take a different tour each day of the farm and gardens, learn about growing food, meet the animals, engage in handmade crafts, and perform helpful farm activities! Plenty of play, healthy food, and learning, with supervised ‘field-time’ for integrating their daily experiences. Give kids and youth a head start for falling in love with the land and how to work with it.

• Family Weekends On The Farm - Farm activities and relaxation time for the whole family. A chance to create screen-free togetherness-time with productive and fun activities that can be continued in conversation or practiced and cultivated at home. 

• Regenerative Design Immersion - Focus on designing your property while staying on and learning from ours. Mini private course overview of permaculture principles in action, including a tour of farm daily activities. Participants may also choose to book separate access to local attractions such as a mountain hike, a lake visit, spa, or in-town events. Great for a couple or family getaway. Lodging available at our Air BnB, or through local hotels, hostels, or outdoor camping. Includes multi layered experiential based practices, healing sessions, and training for self awareness techniques demonstrated through outdoor nature-based engagement. One 3-day weekend immersion. Offered three times a season, once a month July, Aug, Sept.

• Inner Nature Immersion - Includes multi layered experiential based practices, healing sessions, and training for self awareness techniques demonstrated through outdoor nature-based and on-farm engagement. One 3-day weekend immersion.Participants may also choose to book separate access to local attractions such as a mountain hike, a lake visit, spa, or in-town events. Great for a couple or family getaway. Lodging available at our Air BnB, or through local hotels, hostels, or outdoor camping.  Offered three times a season, once a month July, Aug, Sept.

• Farm-to-Table Dinners or Other Event Hosting - Select groups or Sponsorships, hosted via a natural farm style setting, and if applicable, main food provided and prepared by local farms and participants

2025

• SHIRE Program Certification Modules released - for anyone looking to journey through the earth and the stars for self mastery 

• Realtor Certification (Permaculture-based Property Assessment, Course, + Credit, to go hand in hand with Green Building Cert) 

• Geoflower Festival - 1-3 day annual or semi-annual potpourri of short intro-sessions, supplemented with eco-friendly vendors, for all our programs and presenters in order to build client relationships, memberships, and awareness. (Based on 'Botanica Festival’ at Three Leaf Farm in Lafayette)

• International WWOOFer Program - hosting local and international skilled seasonal labor in trade for services to the land

Niche programs + Workshops (MINDFULNESS, INtegral, holistic, etc)

• Geomancy For Healthy Living - Identifying and Harmonizing Earth Ley Lines (dowsing) and positive placement of gardens and structures for greater health and yield. Working with crystals for earth acupuncture and intentional resonance. (Rebecca Carlson + Kelley Springer)

• Inner Permaculture Principles applied therapeutically in a Self Actualization practice, integrating outdoor presence and work with the land together with simple inner self awareness technique. Can be expanded to include therapeutic animal connection.

• Experiencing Soul Archetypes - Learn to identify 7 general Soul and Personality Archetypes and Experience One Another’s Natural Gifts

• Awareness in Community Relations, supported by Human Design - Learn how best to support one another’s process and active roles, by learning more about ourselves and others through the revealing wisdom of Human Design and Gene Keys.

• Earth C.A.R.E. - Conscious practices engaging with nature to facilitate inner healing and transformation

• Sacred Ceremony & Medicine Circles - Positive Intentions and traditional practices for blessing our collective work and all elements of the innate wisdom of the land for continued harmony and benefit for the whole

• Path To Wholeness Program - Deep Soul Integration Work in partnership with Nature

• Shamanic Healing Retreat - Dive deep to find your inner empowerments amid that which needs to be released and transformed. Sacred fire and water ceremony, elemental and animal connection, crystal and energy work.

GeoFlower Farm Flower Of Life Organizational Structure™

Support, Guidance + Leadership

Most Positions are Currently Filled. Additional details will be released in appropriate time.

• 0% Loan Funding: SOIL (Slow Opportunities for Investing Locally), supporting current applications

• Board Members: TBA

• Core Vision & Guidance: Rebecca Carlson

• Permaculture Partners + Mentors: Tara Rae Kent, Jerome Osentowski, Michael Maki

• Business Organization Advisors: Aaron William Perry (We On Earth), Adam Brock (Denver Botanical Gardens)

• Non-Profit Advisor: Mayana Kingery

• Financial Advisor + Funds Manager: TBA

• Property Ownership: TBD

• Property Management: Rebecca Carlson

       √ Structural Management: Buildings, Hardscape, Vehicles, Machines, Tools, Parts, Services

√ Water Management: Well water, irrigation, pumps, swales, filters, catchments, distribution

       √ Plants + Materials Management: Soil, Plants, Plants, Veggies, Materials, Soft and Hardscape

√ CSA + Growing Team Management:

       √ Contractor Labor + Installation Management

• Director of Educational Programs: Rebecca Carlson

• Marketing + Outreach Specialist

• Documentary Film + Media Specialist: Charlie Maxwell

• Legal Specialist

• Insurance Specialist

• Landscape Integrations: Rebecca’s Gardens

• CSA-EA Program Lead

• TLC Program Lead

Colorado Affiliates, Programs, & Certifications

our resources and wisdom can come together to create a healthier happier community in-tune with the natural world

• Boulder PDC (Permaculture Design Course) and Affiliates, in Boulder & Longmont, CO

• CRMPI (Colorado Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute), Jerome Osentowski, founder

• Three Leaf Farm & Botanica Festival, in Lafayette, CO, inspires the full time farm, supplemented by hosting educational events and classes.

• McCauley Family Farm, in Longmont CO, inspires bio-dynamic practices, teachers, and CSA

• PINA, Permaculture Institute of North America, certification program

• Rebecca’s Gardens, Regenerative Design and Education, Boulder CO

• Mahavidya Siberians, Boulder CO

• Four Winds Energy Medicine, offering therapeutic energy work in support of allowing a deeper ecological connection

Global Network Centers + Affiliates

Sister farms or centers dedicated to eco-friendly and mindful living practices and education. Representatives for the following centers are already in talks. Each is willing to offer a collaborative vision as part of the eco-neural network, as well as nature-based educational or work-opportunities for expanding self-sufficient properties, networking, education, or travel.

• Hawaii (Big Island): suggested: Chrissi Lemire* TBA

• South Africa: suggested: Mike Maki* TBA

• Peru or Chile: TBA

• New Zealand or Australia: TBA

• Europe: suggested: Mary Reynolds* TBA

Property Assets

• 5 acres, AG zoned, with open potential for conditional use permits for proposed activities

• Plan for productive Vegetable, Herb, Flower Gardens, & Fruit Trees as well as restorative native design

• Honey Bees

• Zoned for additional farm animals such as dogs, chickens, goats, pigs, sheep, horses

• Aquifer Well Water, 2 Additional Cisterns, + 2 Adjascent Above Ground Tanks (1600 gal)

• Multiple Multi-use structures: Farm House, Cottage, Renovated Studio, and 2+ Sheds with room for yurt and camping

• Sufficient space for event hosting and both on and off street parking

Farm Production + Management

• Organic CSA - 1 acre Vegetables, Medicinal Herbs, Flowers, offered by the farm and run by the CSA Team

• Educational Programs - Offering hands on learning and practice with soil, plants, animals, and people through a variety of topics

• TBD Woofer (USA & International) Program - Inviting select workers from around the world to live in a Tiny Home and to learn more in exchange for participating with daily use farm activities as outlined in support of the daily function of the farm

Land Development

To support adequate use of the land for proposed activities, the following developments are in consideration:

• Expand Production Gardens to provide bounty for local CSA

• Introduce farm animals and care: Huskies, Goats or Sheep, Chickens, Ducks, Guinea Hens

• Plant bio-diverse Food Forest consisting of a fruit and nut tree orchard, berries, flower guilds, ground-cover, coordinating elementals

• Acquire available Special Use Permits for AG zoned land for proposed activities related to people, structures, or land use

• Optional: Open Bidding for Architect Companies to create a tiny house

• Develop Historic Farmhouse into modern multi-use space with updated kitchen for dinners, media set up for group events, classes, guest rooms, bathrooms, and an educational reading/research nook

see video inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mws1c9JhCI&list=LLWWgjmdwSRLaSqHbqugHAcQ&index=80&t=0s

• Create an irrigation or a retaining pond for wildlife, with sacred garden feature (reference movie: “Dare To Be Wild” for visual/philosophical inspiration)

Timeline

2023-2024

Set Up Organizational Structures (Trust, LLC, NonProfit)

Appoint & Organize Business Roles & Teams —  Hold Initial and Regular Meetings

Set Up & Implement Flower of Life Leadership Communication Structures

Initiate Programs and Begin Momentum with Volunteer and Paid Positions

Clearing and cultivation of designated areas for expanded design and growing operations

YEAR 2 2025

Discover rhythm for Food or Medicinal Production and Market Sales — Planting and harvesting plans and schedule

Implement Initial Stages of Biodiverse Food Forrest — Plant diverse trees, berries, ground cover 

Implement Initial Programs (Educational and CSA) — Build Memberships 

Introduce Additional Farm Animals— Chickens, ducks, goats

YEAR 3 2026

Develop and Hone Program Structures (Educational and CSA) — Increase Memberships

Set Up and Implement TLC (True Land Collective) “Cooperative” (Independent Permaculture Worker Program) a la “

“Regenerative Dynamics”

Apply for and Acquire Relevant Permits — (Educational and CSA)

Continue Existing Educational Programs — Expand Membership

Introduce Additional Programs — (Expand Membership Circles)

Continue CSA with Expanded Farm Production — Hay, Vegetables, Flowers, Herbs (with expanded client list)

Apply for and Acquire Relevant Permits — (Historical Barn Development for Groups and auxiliary barn addition for 

      horses)

Implement Barn Developments — (Architectural Design & Building)

Begin Private Documentary Film Footage for all aspects of Our Process & Experiences

YEAR 4 2027

Programs are sustainable “hit their stride” — (Educational and CSA)

Set Up and Implement Initial Partnerships with various Global “Sister Centers”

Begin Global Partnership Educational Program Tours (Educational and CSA)

Expand Local Memberships — Highlighting global travel and education opportunities

Apply for and Acquire Relevant Permits — (Retaining Pond)

Implement Retaining Pond— (Design & Waterway Plumbing)

YEAR 5 2028

Continuation of Local and Global Programs and Partnerships

Supporting The Dream

Before us now is the opportunity to combine a very unique piece of land on 5 acres in Boulder County, just across the street from Boulder City, and demonstrate how to make it thrive by bringing together our local farm experience, native plant and ecology expertise, and a seasoned team of hands-on educators as we expand our 20+ yr roots in this community to promote vital and nourishing food, and self awareness practices in the process. Our aim is to grow our contribution and make a healthy impact by demonstrating the merits and need for organic food growth together with the awareness of how our direct connection with the land promotes health across many interconnected facets of our life and society. Our current methods add fresh momentum to our community’s natural living practices, as opposed to “Big Ag” methods which have been destroying healthy food, healthy soil, healthy financial balances for farmers, and healthy community. This land is specifically designed to be symbolic of a lighthouse in these changing times, a beacon to guide those who are wanting to promote and grow a healthy, non-toxic food supply and to live a more integrated healthy lifestyle inside and out.

Our current funding request is in the range of $20k to fulfill our $50k estimate. $30k has been graciously invested through SOIL to date on behalf of our current expansion and operational expenses for this planned 2 yr launch. See our business breakout below for details. We are grateful to our sponsors who choose to align with our mission and who support our growing contribution to our community.

The current designated growing areas used for vegetable, medicinals, and flowers are between 1/2 - 2 acres. We’ll increase the production area by between 50-100%, to reach the level of production to sustain the CSA market sales. Our funding request covers the requisite  expansion terms of materials, tools, and labor to continue this self-sustaining farm operation. 

With regard to educational programs we have all experienced leadership and educators stepping into new roles. This team of individuals is outstanding in their own right. They are well-respected, experienced, and knowledgable industry leaders, capable of drawing people both locally, nationally, and internationally into the educational programs we are currently creating. Our long term plan includes developing the programs and learning opportunities that will be offered on-site, at sister centers around the globe, and eventually online. The back office work to engage marketing and social media, will receive additional funding as well.

Current Estimated Funding Request

2024 SPRING

SEEKING COMMUNITY DONATIONS ESTIMATED BREAKOUT

10-20k  Grants or Sponsorships 10-15k Purchase of Equipment: Farm Work Truck/Around Town Vehicle

5-10k Structural Improvements, includes additional deer fencing and bldg maintenance

ESTIMATED FUNDING REQUEST $20k

Current Estimated Funding Fulfillment

2023 Fall-winter WE ARE PROUD TO BE A RECIPIENT OF A LOCAL SOIL LOAN

0% REGENERATIVE AG LOAN ONE TIME EXPENSE - BREAKOUT

30k  SOIL Slow Money Loan 10-15k Land Lease + Operational Support

5-10k Expansion of Production Areas 

2-5k Mahavidya Siberians, donation 5k Retainer for anything unexpected

ESTIMATED FUNDING FULFILLED $30k

Summary

COMPARISON OF SIMILAR SUCCESSFUL FARMING OPERATION

• For additional reference if interested, we researched a comparison of a 35 acre Farm Funding Plan for future continuing conversation with our supporters.

  Source: https://permacultureapprentice.com/how-to-make-a-living-from-a-1-5-acre-market-garden/)

  BENEFITS OF GEOFLOWER

• Our small scale farming offers the possibility for growing diverse crops and economies of scale to earn money in an organic certification practice for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).

• Our CSA offers stable membership both for high quality produce yields and local relationships in concert with relevant learning opportunities designed to expand people’s healthy earth-based understanding, self awareness, and local practices which in turn positively impact our social and collective climates.

• Our flagship educational center aims to set an example of a keynote portfolio property that draws in the interest of people, which is then channelled into revenue from Educational Programs, a PDC, a local client-worker Cooperative (TLC), and sister center eco-tourism and WWOOFer worker exchange.

Thank you for your interest, shared values, and local community support!

We are available to answer your questions and expand our collective picture of what’s possible by supporting what is already in motion thanks to our commitment and experience. Let us know where your interests are and how you would like to support and/or be a part of our growing community. Thank you!

CONTACT

Rebecca Carlson

(303) 915-4483 cell

RMariaCarlson@gmail.com  email

Observation

People are inspired the world over to learn to live in greater harmony with nature. We travel to wild untouched places of natural beauty to feel the aliveness and health of nature and ourselves. Yet in our own backyards and neighborhoods, the health of our land, waterways, and air, along with the awareness of our relationship with it and our responsibility as custodians has been increasingly challenged. Fortunately, we can learn to cultivate our properties and practices through hands-on learning at a designated local educational and retreat center to restore this coherence, this inner and outer balance between nature and our own Nature. By example, we can create a nature-based movement within our community, spreading the wisdom and experience, and making a world of difference each in our own way, in our gardens, farms, and backyards.

Objective

We must take action to preserve, protect, and participate in sharing the wisdom and traditions that support healthy thriving examples of cultivated land in balance with nature before this delicate balance is lost forever. It is imperative that we sustain and showcase land that embodies biodynamic diversity, permaculture principles, and mindfulness practices in daily life, as a living example from which to study and enhance our own local properties and heal ourselves and our neighborhoods. We have the unique opportunity to create a flagship eco-social farm and exemplary educational hub that helps lift people’s daily lives, health, and spirits into a beautiful, respectful, and grounded future for all, one course, one garden at a time, and to create affiliations with exemplary farms and gardens as sister centers around the world for continued learning and travel.

Offering 

By preserving an existing biodynamic cultivated local farm & garden as an integral center, we support relevant conversations and tangible ways to come into right relationship with the land on which we live, thus facilitating the green socio-economic revolution right from our own properties and neighborhoods. Together with mindfulness and greater awareness we are positively shifting the cultural collective in our own backyards and around the world. Our programs are designed to support individual practices, groups, and certifications that help make it a desirable imperative for mindful citizens and property owners to actively cultivate green living through private properties as well as public marketplaces and positively impact our world.

Our Legacy

We are the stewards of what is to come. The actions we take now in support of our land, our educational focus, and our conscious communities will determine the support systems for future generations and earth balance. We have an unique window in time, an unprecedented opportunity to come into a greater understanding of nature’s rhythms and cycles and to find a deeper respect for the balance of natural law in alignment with human evolution. This is a process destined yet unique for everyone. Along the way there are identifiable patterns that speak to each of us. We can focus on and enhance everyone’s experience by focusing our education and services that promote understanding, encouragement, peace, self-growth, acceptance, awareness, kindness, fulfillment, and gratitude.

Llike the seed pattern in a sunflower, or light shining through a lotus, these patterns (of consciousness, of community) are like the flowering pattern of life. Each person’s lessons are a link to greater awareness for us all. We can support our collective evolution through the daily, local, and networked practices and education offered here. This allows everyone’s values and participation to evolve together, even when our collective spans the spectrum of learning.

Imagine a world where people live in harmony with Nature, where technological advancements weave seamlessly with ancient earth wisdom, and where daily lives are enriched and empowered by working WITH local land and community rather than outsourced or depleted by outmoded methods or limited earth-based education.

Imagine the way you live reflects your most inspired creative philosophy and purpose in greater balance with your sustenance and society.

Imagine the wisdom, learning, and practices that empower us to live like this are available at a center, at many centers, in a spectrum at a local and an international level. Some are here to practice Permaculture design principles, some work with biodynamic land cultivation, some practice integral ways of greening their lives, some use herbal remedies and self growth practices, mediation, yoga, and community based services. We all come together and create much needed transformation. May we each be the change we wish to see in the world.