A living laboratory.
A place to build.
Connect the work of a farm to the future of a community.
Ideas, tested in a real setting.
The Demonstration, Research and Training environment brings T&T Organics’ agricultural work into a setting for observation, practical learning and enterprise development. T&T and the separate nonprofit Economic Development Greater East (EDGE) collaborate around the living-laboratory model.
These are tools for examining ideas in a real setting — not substitutes for evidence or promises of results.
Five steps from the field to the community.
Make a practice visible. Show how an approach works in the context of a farm, its landscape and its available resources.
Ask useful questions, document observations and connect community experience with appropriate academic and technical expertise.
Give people a practical route from understanding to capability through guided, hands-on learning.
Connect skills to the requirements of a business: production, costs, infrastructure, quality and customers.
Work toward an agricultural economy in which knowledge, opportunity and value can circulate locally.
Research that returns value to the place.
We welcome conversations with universities, Extension professionals and researchers interested in mountain agriculture and the systems around it.
Potential projects may examine production approaches, enterprise feasibility, training outcomes or regional food-system connections.
Research agreements, student placements and program availability are arranged directly. This invitation does not imply an existing institutional agreement.
Bring a question. Build a partnership.
Tell us your interests, the people involved and what a useful outcome would look like.