Camp Contour Lines believes in hard work, not merely preaching and wasting time. We directly provide training, trees and funds to local communities to plant their own projects, on their own lands, to help enable their regenerative transition. 

Camp Contour Lines aims to regenerate 100 sq km of GLA in 5 years, transitioning cornfields pasture to both agroforestry systems and restored rainforests.

While we teach many regenerative agriculture methods—cover-cropping, planting polycultures and legumes, mulching, rotational grazing—by focusing on one and applying it (planting on contour), we adopt a hands-on, project-oriented approach, one measurable in meters of progress.  Contour lines form the backbone of a regenerative landscape.   Terraces of fertility form over time.  Once woven with the curves of contour, rural communities will continue farming regeneratively long after our work is done.

And while Camp Contour Lines focuses on land use, our projects form the roots of a greater cultural transition. Processing and marketing of regenerative products, eco-tourism and reforestation incentives all provide sustainable income to communities. It reverses the region’s trade deficit, from importing the garbage of foreign corporations to exporting healthy, organic produce from local campesinos. The resulting improvements in diet, employment, education and reduction of migration all inspire a cultural regeneration. 

Ultimately our goal is change in mindset, one that unites humans with nature, farms with forests, the economic with the ecological—one that restores the ecosystems of the Greater Livingston Area while empowering and enriching it’s people.  In this sense Contour Lines are the vanguard of a regenerative society.