A farm should be a beautiful and diversified enterprise that produces food, fuel, animal feed, and fertility. A place where bees and birds and wildflowers are invited to co-mingle with vegetable gardens, fruit trees, and animal pastures. We hope to heal this land by gently cultivating a diversity of plants and animals in an interconnected and supportive ecosystem.

Fauna Forest Farm is 33 acres of open fields, hardwood and pine forests, a spring and creek, and mountain views, but it was overgrazed and mismanaged for decades. We began managing it in December of 2021 and have a lot of work ahead of us!
Since then we have built two 500 square foot pavilions, two bathrooms, a 20' yurt, a 26' tall tipi, and a little performance stage. Future infrastructure projects we hope to build include an event barn, sustainable housing, indoor spaces for therapy, greenhouses, crafting spaces, a wood-shop, music room, library, sauna!

We have also developed raised bed and in-ground gardens, a 1/2 acre hazelnut orchard, a small kiwi vineyard, a mini-frog-pond, over a mile of trails, and lots of other magical nooks and crannies on the farm. In the future we look forward to planting lots more diverse fruit and nut orchards, expanding the veggie and flower gardens, building larger ponds, tapping the spring, and bringing to life many more dreams.

Below are some photos of the farm, as well as plants and animals we have grown and tended in East Tennessee that we hope to get onto the farm as soon as possible!

The Farm

Some Things We’ve Grown and Raised