From the ground up.

In 2015, Nick DiDomenico began farming a barren, desertified 14-acre parcel in rural north Boulder County, the start of Elk Run Farm. Together with Marissa Pulaski, a trained herbalist and community builder who understood that the human relationship to land needed as much tending as the land itself, the couple developed an integrated approach to dryland stewardship rooted in community care. In 2017 they founded Drylands Agroecology Research, formalizing a purpose to regenerate landscapes to improve life on Earth.
 

From the beginning, the work drew people in. Nature-based education, community ceremony, food donation, apprenticeship, and land stewardship at scale all grew from the same root belief: that healing land and healing community are inseparable. Over time, DAR has refined and honed its efforts toward the practices that most directly catalyze the land's own regenerative potential: perennial food and medicine systems that build lasting food security, and integrated land management that works with the land's natural capacity to absorb water, build soil, and sustain life.