Organization Profile

<p>The Center for Rural Livelihoods (formerly Aprovecho) is a nonprofit education and retreat center on a 40-acre forested campus in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Founded in 1981, the center creates and strengthens pathways to rural livelihoods that advance social, economic, and ecological resilience. Its agroforestry program works across Oregon to grow a more equitable, biodiverse, and climate-adaptive farm and forest economy. The center offers free silvopasture advising, develops an open-source Pacific Northwest Handbook for Agroforestry Planning and Design, and hosts educational workshops and work-trade programs. The property is home to one of the Pacific Northwest's longest-running ecological forest stewardship experiments.</p>