Foundations for a Living Campus
An invitation to help establish the foundations for stewardship, participation, and community life for generations.
COMMUNITY
Gather
Belong
STEWARDSHIP
Participate
Care
FUTURE GENERATIONS
Grow
Discovery
Every season at Orkestai reveals the same truth: places become meaningful when they are cared for together.
This campaign is an invitation to make that care enduring.
A Place for Reconnection
Many people today experience land as scenery, food as product, and community as something increasingly difficult to sustain.
Orkestai explores another possibility.
Here, agriculture becomes a shared practice of attention. The land becomes a place to care for together. Children, families, elders, educators, and neighbors participate in work that nourishes both ecological and human relationships.
We have been entrusted with a rare opportunity to cultivate a place where people, land, and community can remain in relationship across generations.
Why Now?
A Rare Opportunity
For years, Orkestai has grown through relationships, experimentation, and patient cultivation.
Today, a rare opportunity has emerged.
Through our partnership with New York State Parks, we have the opportunity to establish the permanent, year-round infrastructure needed to support this work for generations to come.
Moments like this are uncommon. They ask not only for vision, but for the willingness to act while the opportunity exists.
Why Infrastructure?
Our community has grown beyond what seasonal and temporary infrastructure can sustainably support.
Year-round participation, educational partnerships, accessibility and long-term care all depend upon foundational systems that do not yet exist.
This campaign is not about expanding for expansion’s sake. It is about establishing the conditions that allow the work already taking place to endure and flourish.
The Foundational Stewardship Campaign
A once-in-a-generation opportunity to establish a living campus where stewardship, participation, and community life can flourish for generations.
What This Investment Establishes
Three essential foundations work together to establish a living campus that can flourish for generations.
Campus Foundations
A campus designed to welcome every season.
Pavilion & Teaching Kitchen
Climate Battery High Tunnel
Agricultural Support Building
Utilities & Site Infrastructure
$1,000,000
Professional Foundations
Organizational Foundations
Thoughtful planning for lasting implementation.
People and systems that sustain the mission.
Design
Engineering
Permitting
Project management
Legal and accounting
Construction contingency
Program Coorindation
Development Capacity
Administration
Governance
Operational Capacity