From Regenerated Soil to a Child's Hands

For over eight years we have grown hemp as a way of healing land. That work now lives under one roof as Hasat Cooperative, a community-based cooperative rooted in Anatolian soil and nature-aligned production. Funds raised here will turn our regenerative hemp fields into a closed cycle that carries the plant from soil to fiber to craft to art, and finally into the hands of children who learn the whole of it by doing.

Hemp is one of the most regenerative plants we know. Its deep roots break up and aerate tired soil, it needs no chemical pest suppression to thrive, it draws down carbon as it grows fast and dense, and it can pull contaminants out of damaged ground. Over eight years we have cultivated it across more than 900 decares of Anatolian land, sowing over 20 million hemp seeds and growing every field without chemical inputs. As a cooperative we have also carried out regenerative work on more than 4,270 decares of cotton, applying the same chemical-free, soil-first approach at scale. The result is what you would hope for: living soil, returning insects, and ground that holds water instead of shedding it. From our harvests, we have been supplying raw materials for research and development on construction, textile, art, cosmetics, animal and human health.

Our aim is simple: to make hemp visible and useful to be seen. Restoration that no one believes in does not spread. So we set out to put the proof directly into people's hands.

This is where the cycle closes. The hemp we grow becomes raw material we process by hand: fiber drawn from the stalk, paper made with recycled hemp and linen content, natural canvas prepared for painting, oil-based paints made without acrylics. Nothing in the chain leaves the plant and nothing depends on synthetic shortcuts. What began as a seed in regenerated ground becomes a surface a person can paint on, an object a person can keep. From soil to canvas, from seed to art, with no hard boundary between the field and the studio.

We have already proven this cycle works. The Dreaming Seed (Düş Gören Tohum), our exhibition built entirely from hemp grown, processed, and made into art through this same loop, has been staged and seen. It showed what the words above can only describe: regenerated soil carried all the way to finished artwork on the wall, the field and the studio joined in one continuous line. The exhibition is both our proof of concept and the namesake of this project. We now want to deepen it, put it in children's hands, and let the next generation make the next one.

Use of funds will support the full cycle: seed and regenerative inputs for the fields, the simple equipment needed to turn fiber into paper, canvas, and paint, the materials for the children's workshops, and the people who guide them. Every line goes toward making the loop turn and turn again.

Our challenge is the one the project itself answers. The fastest way to protect a regenerative plant is to let people see it work, hold it, and make something true with it. Eight years in the fields taught us that the soil responds. Now we want to show it, hand to hand, child to child, until the most regenerative plant we have is no longer hidden but plainly, usefully, beautifully seen.