skyharvest Newsletters
Thanksgiving Newsletter and 2025 Annual Report with 2026 Preview!
Hi, dear Friends and Family,
SkyHarvest is excited to share our 2025 Annual Report, reflecting a year of deepening roots in Bowie, AZ and expanding our reach across Cochise County. From our growing pre-Thanksgiving community dinner to work in gardens, arroyos and meeting rooms, SkyHarvest continues to build trust-based relationships grounded in care for people, land and wildlife.
Guided by our newly adopted Strategic Plan and a clear Vision and Mission, we remain committed to restoring degraded arid landscapes through community-driven solutions that weave together science, traditional knowledge and innovative practices.
This year we launched Project Oasis in Bowie with support from the Arizona Community Foundation, advancing a repeatable model for rainwater harvesting and community food gardens. Local leadership is at the heart of this effort with neighbors co-creating raised and in-ground beds using local materials and regenerative soil amendments, while partners like Benji Bridges and the Giving Tree Stewardship School prepare to bring youth programs and permaculture training to the site. Across our programs—from the Third Annual Ecological Summit at Diamond Mountain focused on endangered Mexican long-nosed bats, to volunteer exchanges through WorldPackers, to religion-and-ecology inspired ethics projects—SkyHarvest is cultivating the next generation of stewards, and sharing practical models that can travel globally to other communities and cultures.
Financially, SkyHarvest remains lean, transparent and impact-focused, with a 2025 operating budget keeping administrative costs well within healthy nonprofit benchmarks.
Looking ahead to 2026 and beyond, we are developing scalable, ecological and economic sustainability models, including biochar production from gleaned biomass, waterless sanitation solutions for a water-constrained world, land-stewardship consulting, the manufacture of sapling planting aids, and innovative fundraising tools such as carbon-offset calculators and the Marble Mala campaign.
We offer the attached report in gratitude to our donors, partners, volunteers and neighbors, whose support makes it possible to imagine—and steadily build—a future where restored landscapes sustain thriving communities, and all beings have a place in the circle of beauty and abundance.
Please stay close, please come, and I always hope to see you here!
For all our relations,
Kat