Grounded LLC strives to balance ecological integrity with agricultural resilience by integrating ancient and regenerative farming methods in harmony with natural wild lands. Grounded is owned and operated by Angela Curtes who manages her family’s 80- acre Organic Certified farm in Southeast Wisconsin.  A heat-controlled biodynamic compost system lies at the foundation of the farm. From here all things are possible…resulting in Grounded born medicinal crops for animal and human well being including Alfalfa, Echinacea purpurea (Purple Cone Flower), occasional grains and cannabidiol (CBD)-rich industrial hemp.  GROUNDED produces and sells compost and offers large and small scale compost training workshops.  GROUNDED produces Organic Certified Full Spectrum Hemp Oil selling its products at select locations in Wisconsin and through e-commerce.
 
Historically, the family farm was an organically farmed dairy, free of conventional methods, up until the early 1990’s. The farm returned to its organic roots in 2010 removing all chemicals, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified organisms (GMO) from its slate.  Today, the farm is preserved in perpetuity by a Conservation Easement held by the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust and is Certified Organic through MOSA Certification Agency.  Biodynamic farming principals further shape the farm and are incorporated into all its endeavors.  Restored and managed forests, pollinator prairies, and tree and shrub hedgerow buffers provide the scenic and ecological back-drop and resilience of the farm.
 
Grounded invites local, talented farmers to its large-scale projects and family, friends, colleagues, and volunteers in an educational setting, to its small-scale projects.  Creating and offering community participation opens the door further to all things sacred and worth lived. ​

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Angie Curtes, founder and owner of GROUNDED llc and best pal Cove.

About Grounded Founder, Angela Curtes
GROUNDED llc was created by Angela Curtes in response to what she believes is a strong need for re-building healthy, living, and nutritive soils for long-term farm production, soil and natural ecosystem resilience, and healthy development of the individual.  A native of Wisconsin, Angie has worked for over 30 years in the fields of environmental and wilderness education, natural and farm lands preservation, and soil fertility and compost production and education.  

After graduating in 1992 in Environmental Studies and Alternative Education from Prescott College, Arizona, Angie co-founded and co-directed ‘Common Earth: Educational Adventures of the Earth and Mind’ for 8 years in Marin, California and worked for 4 years as an Educator and Education Director of the Pacific Environment and Resources Center (PERC), an international non-profit.  In 2000, she moved back to her family’s farm in southeast Wisconsin where she began working for the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust as their Lands Specialist and Assistant Director guiding natural area and farmland preservation efforts to preserve over 2,000 acres in 7.5 years.  From 2008 to 2011 Angie was hired as the Program Director & then Acting Executive Director of Yggdrasil Land Foundation, a national biodynamic and organic farm land trust.

In 2012 Angie worked on land preservation efforts in East Troy, WI for Skylark, Inc. and Christopher Mann where she helped to develop a land preservation strategy to protect 900 acres for organic and biodynamic agriculture, research, and education.  Her interest in biodynamic agriculture led to a 2-month intensive study, working with mentors Roland Ulrich and Bruno Follador in southwest Germany where she learned how to make biodynamic controlled heat fermentation compost and further assess them using chromatography.  Angie designed and implemented a large-scale compost pilot project in East Troy on an organic dairy farm.  She set up a chromatography lab to test base farm soils and compost qualities.

​Angie's passion became making the highest quality compost using biodynamic principles to provide the foundation for healthy and highly nutritional food in response to growing national and global illnesses resulting from the toxic, over-industrialized food system.  With growing demand for Angie's Gold Compost, she officially launched GROUNDED llc in the summer of 2015.  She continues to volunteer her time and skills to non-profit organizations including the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust and the Mid Kettle Moraine Partners.

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Angela Curtes Featured on
​Solari Food Series

Listen to GROUNDED founder Angela Curtes discuss, as part of the Solari Food Series, how the turn of the century "green revolution" led to the degradation of our soils.

Solari Food Series - Angela Curtes from The Solari Report on Vimeo.

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The Alchemists Documentary

To all who want to heal and consecrate the Earth.  
Following those on their mission who have been called upon to form the earth throughout four continents.
This film was commissioned by Producer and MFAI Founder Christopher Mann, and filmed by Filmmaker Frigyes Fogel. 
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The Alchemists from Frigyes Fogel on Vimeo.