The community around the farm lies within a national forest reserve, and the nearest state-operated school is far enough away that attendance becomes a daily calculation rather than a given. Restoring land is a decades-long commitment; it needs families who can stay.
The farm operates a school for the children of the workforce and the surrounding community, stepping in where state provision does not reach. It is part of the same argument as the soil work: land recovers over decades, and so does a place worth living in.
