DFI draws on both innovation and tradition, honoring the historically and culturally informed practices that have sustained farming in water-limited environments for generations, while building new tools and community for the challenges ahead. Your investment helps growers build resilience, preserve natural resources, and continue feeding our communities.
As climate pressures intensify, those lessons are increasingly relevant. Today, dry farming offers one potential pathway toward thriving with less water.
At the Dry Farming Institute (DFI), our work is shaped by growers’ lived experiences, informed by research partnerships, and grounded in a deep respect for the agricultural knowledge that continues to guide water-wise farming around the world.
Your support helps us strengthen and amplify this collaborative effort.
Grower-Informed, Community-Driven
Your gift helps DFI:
- Convene grower learning circles across the region
- Support on-farm demonstration projects
- Steward regionally adapted dry farming seed exchange
- Develop practical water resilience tools
- Share farmer-led innovations through case studies and education
Together, these efforts strengthen agricultural communities and expand access
The funding landscape has changed. Individual investment has never mattered more. When you give to DFI, you’re building the foundation that makes this work sustainable.
WAYS TO GIVE
Make a One-Time Donation
Give when and how you can. Every contribution strengthens our ability to support farmers and grow this vital work. Every dollar directly fuels farmer education, peer-to-peer learning opportunities, and the research that makes our work sustainable.
Become a Monthly Sustainer
Join our community of supporters by giving $10–$100 per month. Sustaining gifts provide reliable funding that allows us to plan and expand our programs and show up for farmers season after season, not just when a grant comes through.
Join the Groundswell Giving Group
For those able to make a deeper commitment, consider pledging $5,000–$50,000 annually for 3–5 years. Your philanthropic support at this level can help sustain and transform our work. Groundswell members give us the runway to scale, deepen our reach across the Pacific Northwest, and provide expanded support and programming in our bioregion.
Interested in joining? Reach out to Gabrielle to start the conversation about funding priorities.
Gabrielle Roesch-McNally, Executive Director, Dry Farming Institute gabrielle@dryfarming.org | 360-631-8489