Cutting edge research to transform agriculture with regenerative principles
FIELD DAY 2026!
A DECADE OF DISCOVERY
Saturday, August 8, 2026
Join us for the 10th anniversary of Blue Dasher Farm and Ecdysis Foundation!
This very special field day will showcase highlights from our 10 years of research and farming, including exciting accomplishments from the past year.
Hear from speakers representing multi-generational family farms, including Benina Montes from Burroughs Family Farms, who raises regenerative, organic almonds, olive oil, walnuts, and livestock products from sheep and poultry.
The event will also feature Jillian and Colton Jones from Wild Idea Buffalo near the Black Hills of South Dakota. They steward a 600-head bison herd for meat and leather while regenerating the prairie they manage.
We will end the evening with Amazon's award winning documentary featuring Ecdysis Foundation, "Groundswell."
RSVP is not required to attend but we encouraging people to let us know their plans to make sure be have enough seats and food for everyone.
Ecdysis Foundation is all about grower-focused research to transform agriculture with regenerative principles. Agricultural science is typically conducted and communicated to other scientists, rather than the farming community. At Ecdysis, we flip those priorities. Ecdysis has a strong emphasis on farmer-, rancher-, and beekeeper- driven research questions, and empowers growers by involving them in the actual research projects themselves.
Funded by grants and donations, all of our research is provided back to the farmers at no cost, with no strings attached. We host field days around the country to help others understand our findings, connect growers with each other, and make friends along the way.
Chances are, if you have heard of Ecdysis, you’ve heard of 1000 Farms —one of the most ambitious agroecology experiment ever conducted, researching food systems across North America.
Each dot on the map represents a farm we’ve visited, where we complete the same set of sampling tasks to better understand how management practices shape life on the land. We’ve now surpassed 1,000 farms, and the work is just getting started.
Where We've Been
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Where We're Going
Project Ignite is building on the 1000 Farms Initiative. We’ll continue collecting real-world data while focusing on the regenerative potential in key food systems, and measuring how agriculture may change under more extreme climatological conditions.
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Project Avalanche is about enabling farmers to take science into their own hands. Bringing people together in regional learning cohorts, farmers are provided with the tools to measure progress on their own farms.
We are continuously releasing peer reviewed, published scientific papers on various topics, such as...
Annals of the Entomological Society of America
In the Media
Executive Director, Dr. Jonathan Lundgren, speaks at TEDxBoston — highlighting the potential of regenerative agriculture and Ecdysis's role in fostering the evolution of a regenerative food system.
All Ecdysis webinars are recorded and posted to our Youtube channel. If you want to catch up on our webinar series about neonicotinoids, click the link below.