How it Works

Starting with donated or leased land, Food Church will usher in permaculture methodology to utilize the natural aspects & abilities of the land to its fullest. 

The bounty provided by each property will be available for free on-site through a variety of access methods.

Why not distribute the free food harvests? 
Food Church strives to connect the local community to nearest available food sources and encourages on-site harvest as the primary access method. Members will be trained in sustainable harvest methods and thus able to consume food of the highest nutrient content possible.

Free Food

Food Church will provide free organic food on-site that is grown entirely within the grounds of Food Church locations.

Food Church Free Food will be delivered through on-site harvest, production and on-site Free Store. On-site harvesting will be available within as little as 1 year, and Free Store is projected completed within 2 years. On-site harvesting will be allowed to anyone after completing a minimum of 1 Sustainable Harvest Training Session (flexible, on-site training focused on seasonal species availability). 

Food Church follows Masanobu Fukuoka’s belief that fresh eating in accordance to seasonal availability provides the best and most complete nutrition. Food Church believes in consuming and preparing fresh food immediately upon harvest to preserve the peak nutritional integrity of the plant or animal. Through this commitment to preservation, Free Food from Food Church will be supplying a higher ratio of nutritious content per ounce than the local grocery store.

Free Living Water

Food Church will provide free living water that is collected entirely within the grounds of Food Church locations. Food Church believes that as the source of all life, water is a living entity and should be tended as such.

Food Church Free Water will be delivered through on-site rain-water collection, trusted & tested wells (where available), and natural springs (where available). There will be no requirements for accessing Food Church Free Water. Rain-water collection will be accessible within 1 year. Well & natural spring water (where available) accessible immediately.

Since ancient times, water has been viewed as a living entity with spirit, agency, autonomy, and rights. It is a life-giver and decision-maker with its own freedoms, purpose, ability to choose paths, sustain life, and form natural rhythms. Many cultures have revered it as the originating substance of everything in the universe–the source from which all things arise and to which they ultimately return. Water is ubiquitous, essential for life, and capable of transformation into other elements like earth, air, and fire. Movement and life in the cosmos implies a soul or spirit, and because water causes movement, it was considered alive or ensouled. Thus, water held a central, dynamic, and life-giving role in the cosmos, symbolizing the unity and interconnectedness of all things.

Food Church acknowledges that Water exhibits complex behaviors beyond being a passive solvent. It is shown to be an active participant in cellular activities, chemical reactions, nutrient transport, and energy cycles. It directs biochemical processes, including catalysis, enzyme function, and energy transfer. Water molecules create dynamic structures, facilitate information processing, and store and transmit energy.

Water displays multiple life-like physiological characteristics: RESPIRATION (interaction with oxygen), METABOLISM (energy storage and transfer), and even NEUROLOGICAL features like information processing and the capacity to remember. Modern scientific studies point to the fact that water can contain sensory and verbal knowledge characteristics and even demonstrates aging and death patterns akin to living organisms.


Although it would seem that all water is “alive,” we use the term “Living Water” to refer to healthful, life imbuing water that has been treated in accordance with its needs. Only when Water is mature and suitably enriched with raw materials is it in a position to give, dispensing itself freely and willingly, thus enabling the rest of life to develop.

When Water is handled or processed incorrectly or ignorantly, it becomes either stripped or diseased, imparting this condition to all other organisms, causing their eventual physical decay and death, and in the case of human beings, imparting to their moral, mental and spiritual deterioration as well.

Water such as sterile, distilled H20, while devoid of any so-called “impurities,” is additionally stripped of its “living” qualities. It has no developed character and as a young, immature and growing entity, it will immediately absorb the properties of everything (including impurities, trace elements, minerals, salts, even smells!) it comes into contact with. This unfortunately leaches out organisms’ store of minerals and trace elements, which can be useful for cleansing purposes, but eventually leads to a processing deficit, rather than surplus, in terms hydration & health.


“The Upholder of the Cycles which support the whole of Life, is water. In every drop of water dwells the Godhead, whom we all serve; therein also dwells Life, the Living Soul of the ‘First’ substance – Water – whose boundaries and banks are the capillaries that guide it and in which it circulates.” – Viktor Schauberger

Well, long story short, humans can’t. True Living Water spends extensive time inside the earth completing a necessary half of the well known Hydrological Cycle.

The first half of the Hydrological Cycle:

  • evaporating and forming clouds;
  • falling again as rain,
  • draining away over the ground-surface

The second half of the Hydrological Cycle:

  • infiltration of water into the Earth;
  • passage through the +4°C(39.2°F) centre-stratum of the groundwater;
  • purification at this temperature;
  • further sinking into subterranean aquifers due to its own weight;
  • transition to a vaporous state due to strong geothermal influences;
  • rising again towards the ground-surface with a simultaneous uptake of nutrients;
  • cooling of the water and deposition of nutrients;
  • draining away over the ground-surface;

at which point the Water either

  • evaporates and forms clouds, falling again as rain
  • or infiltrates into the earth

As stewards of Water, we aim to protect all sources of this valuable life-giving Water. When Living Water is unavailable, we strive to emulate the “in earth” or second half of the cycle as closely as the situation allows.

The process typically has three phases:

  1. Remove all the crud from typical municipal water or non-living wells (Filtering processes such reverse osmosis).
  2. Re-mineralize with a wide variety of water soluble minerals.
  3. Re-energize by vortexing.

With that, the non-living, leach-inducing water becomes much more suited for organism nourishment and growth.

Clean Air

Food Church will provide clean air featured within and around the grounds of Food Church locations.

Food Church Clean Air will be enhanced and filtered through extensive plants and trees growing on each Food Church property and available immediately.

Plants clean air through a process called photosynthesis, where they absorb light, carbon dioxide, and water to manufacture sugar. This chemical process creates oxygen as a byproduct, which is released into the air. This “oxygen” is a vital element of clean and healthy air. In addition to producing oxygen, plants can also absorb and remove certain pollutants from the air. These pollutants include: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs): Plants can absorb VOCs such as benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene, which are found in common household products, pesticides, and cigarette smoke. Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air, which is a byproduct of human respiration and other activities.

Food Church aims to start tree nurseries on all properties, to vastly increase the number of trees available for planting in-house or for the local communities.

Free Store

Food Church will provide an on-site Free Store which will contain available harvested and produced items, free wifi, and community-collected donated items.

Harvest surpluses are available at no cost, and all other items in Free Store are available by suggested donation. The Free Store will be unsurpervised but provide adequate instructional signage.

Resident Stewardship

Food Church locations will be primarily operated by Resident Stewards. Residency through Food Church is available through a work-trade program (<20 hrs / week). Residency capacity will be determined by natural limits of the land and by property owner.

Food Church will provide meals, adequate housing structures, communal kitchen, toilet, and shower for Resident Stewards. The Resident Steward program is accepting applications now, click to find out more. 

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