PROJECT FARMLAND

A New Kind of Community

Small Farms, Big Dreams

Imagine a place where everyday working families can own their own piece of productive land again — not as a far-off dream, but as part of real, everyday life.

Project Farmland is a nonprofit pilot in Idaho’s Treasure Valley creating something genuinely different: individual farmstead homes on working land, supported by shared barns, greenhouses, orchards, tools, and hands-on mentorship.

Here, families can grow real food, raise kids with dirt on their hands, build true community with their neighbors, and still keep their careers and modern lifestyles (if they choose).

This isn’t just housing. It’s a hopeful, scalable model showing how thoughtful growth and regenerative agriculture can beautifully coexist — in the Treasure Valley and in fast-growing communities across the country.

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WHY HERE, WHY NOW?

We Are Losing More Than Farmland

Modern life has pulled us away from the land, from one another, and from the simple rhythms that once grounded everyday healthy, balanced living.

In the Treasure Valley — and across fast-growing regions nationwide — we’re losing productive farmland at an alarming rate, while families are priced out of ever owning a piece of it.

Project Farmland was created to change that story.

We’re creating a new kind of community where everyday working families can own their own farmstead, grow healthy nutrient dense food, and rebuild meaningful connection — without giving up modern careers or modern life.

This isn’t just about saving open space. It’s about restoring a healthier, more connected way of life — and making it practical again for today’s families.

THE NONPROFIT SHIFT

Building Neighborhoods Differently

Most new developments are designed around maximizing profit and shareholder return through density and economy. That model will always be part of our landscape.

Project Farmland was created as a nonprofit because the goal is fundamentally different: decisions are not driven by profit or shareholder value. Instead, we prioritize preserving farmland, restoring meaningful community, and creating a healthier, more connected way of living that everyday working families can still realistically obtain.

By sharing infrastructure like barns, greenhouses, orchards, tools, and gathering spaces, small-scale farming becomes more practical, affordable, and sustainable for modern life. This would never be practical in a for profit entity.

Project Farmland isn’t envisioned as a typical development built around maximizing profit, sold, and eventually handed off to an HOA.

Through our nonprofit model, the community is designed as a living entity — one that can continue evolving alongside the land, its residents, and the surrounding community over time, supported by ongoing stewardship from the Project Farmland organization.

Why aren't we building neighborhoods like this?