unsloppable
Where we buy
Working ground in four watersheds, chosen for its water first and its soil second.
The fifth fund closes 30 April
We buy tired groundand never sell it.
Nine thousand hectares of overgrazed range and drained wetland, bought at working-land prices, restored, and put beyond development for good.
Join the fifth fundThe trusts, co-ops and farms we work beside
Bellrock TrustMarrow CreekNinebark Co-opHollis RangeSalt ForkAsh Draw Farm
What the landhas given back.
- 9,240
- hectares under permanent easement
- 1.4t
- carbon added per hectare, per year
- 4.6%
- paid out per year since the first close
How we hold it
Title in the fund, easement with a trust that has no stake in either.
What it pays
Grazing leases, timber thinnings and soil credits, distributed twice a year after the survey.
The method
What happens afterwe take the deed.
Field notesEvery parcel runs the same four stages in the same order, whether it is forty hectares or four thousand.
Under offerSpring
Cold Bench1,140 ha
Teal Bottom380 ha
Sedge Flat2,410 ha
Long Draw640 ha
Nine more walked this spring
We look for working land nobody is bidding on: overgrazed range, drained bottomland, orchards past their last good year.
Rights, wells, ditch shares and every claim upstream, read out of the county record before we name a price.
A hundred soil cores, canopy from the air, bird counts twice a year. Everything after is measured against that first spring.
The easement is recorded on the title before the first fence goes up, and it binds whoever owns it next.
Closing 30 April
The land outlivesthe fund.
Every hectare we buy goes under an easement that survives us, the fund, and whoever holds the deed next.
Walk the groundThe people whosign the leases.
Four of the eleven holdings, in the words of the people who work them and the trust that holds the paper.
They walked the whole place twice before they made an offer. Nobody had done that in thirty years.
Ruth AlvarezThird-generation grazier - Ash Draw Farm01/ 04
- Ruth AlvarezAsh Draw Farm
- Peter MullanBellrock Trust
- Dana WhitfieldNinebark Co-op
- Alan ReyesHollis Range
Ways in
What a share ofthe ground costs.
Money goes in for ten years and comes back as lease income, soil credits, and land nobody can subdivide.
- Parcel
For families and small trusts putting one field beyond development.
- The annual field report
- Spring and autumn walks
$50kabout 11 hectaresEnquire - Section
For foundations taking a whole holding rather than a field.
- The annual field report
- Spring and autumn walks
- Named in the deed record
$250kabout 56 hectaresEnquire - Watershed
For endowments underwriting a whole catchment, headwaters to river mouth.
- The annual field report
- Spring and autumn walks
- Named in the deed record
- A vote on new ground
$1Mabout 220 hectaresEnquire
What keeps ithonest.
Every hectare is surveyed by a firm we do not choose and cannot brief, and the easement is held by a trust we do not sit on.
Read the reportsIndependent surveySoil and canopy, measured every spring.
Easement held elsewhereSigned by trustees the fund cannot appoint.
Open ledgerEvery parcel, price and payment, published.
Notes from the ground
Every noteWater back in the Alder Bottom ditch
Wetland - March 2026
What a hundred soil cores told us
Survey - February 2026
The fifth fund, line by line
Ledger - January 2026
Cattle back on Stone Bench
Grazing - November 2025