Welcome to
Fuller Field School | Circle 7
Fuller Farms
We are farmers Gail Fuller & Lynnette Miller:
We bring people together to heal the earth.
“Fuller Field School was started as a way to push the envelope of soil health, so to speak. The first year (2012) was a cover crop workshop with a twist. We served locally sourced food and Dr. Jill Clapperton did a presentation on food and nutrient density. It was the first time I had ever heard food mentioned at an ag workshop, at least in this context. After that, the school became a deep dive into the water, carbon, and mineral cycles, energy flow, and how they relate with soil and animal (human) health.”
— Gail Fuller, Co-Founder, Fuller Field School
Registration for Fuller Field School 2025 is now open!
“Soil to Soul”
Optimizing Our Terrain
Keynote speaker Dr. Nasha Winters
October 3 - 4 in Severy, KS
“Fuller Field Schools are life-changing.
After hearing Don Huber’s presentation about the effects
of glyphosate, I couldn’t in good conscience continue regular no-till practices. The sprayer has been parked ever since.”
– Daniel Deepe, Farmer
Farming in partnership with
Mother Earth
After decades of dependency on synthetic
chemicals and tillage, we have forgotten that agriculture depends on a complex biological web.
At our farm, we partner with the natural world:
soil, insects, fungi, and, pollinators. It’s so much more fulfilling to farm in partnership with
Mother Earth!
Eat delicious clean grass-fed and grass-finished beef and lamb, pastured chicken and pastured pork, eggs, and other goodies by signing up for our monthly CSA or placing a custom order!
Enjoy a Farm Tour on the beautiful grounds at Fuller Farms. We love sharing our story and we can’t wait to share it with you!
Unwind at our farm – From a spacious home on Airbnb to campsites on Hipcamp and HarvestHost, let our farm be your therapy. Come visit us!
The Story Behind Fuller Field School
Back in 2012, long before soil health, regenerative agriculture or carbon farming became cool, farmer Gail Fuller and soil scientist Dr. Jill Clapperton invited a fringe group of farmers, researchers and community leaders to share ideas, innovate, and build relationships. This informal gathering of renegades came to be known as ‘Fuller Field School.’
Photo: Dr. Jill Clapperton speaking at Fuller Field School in 2020
What do they say…
about Fuller Field School
“The tiny town of Emporia, Kansas has become my favorite gathering place to eat good food and meet like-minded people. Gail Fuller and his partner Lynnette Miller are innovative farmers who challenged federal crop insurance rules in order to farm in a way that can regenerate land. Every year they round up an odd mix of 100 or more local farmers and ranchers, agronomists, policymakers, a few investors, and an assortment of other passionate folks from Australia, South Africa, Canada, and the US for a two-day field school in Emporia.
We all get together in a Catholic parish hall where a bunch of church women serve up incredible organic, regenerative, and grass-fed meals (imagine thick grass-fed raw cream spooned into your coffee….) while we listen to some of the most revolutionary talks you could ever find at an ag conference. It is a great place to go to see grown men cry—this year I saw many tears shed both by speakers and those listening to them. When everyone is done crying, we all go outside and play at the farm, sit on hay bales, and eat more amazing food.
I love seeing conservative Christian farmers in cowboy hats stand next to permaculture folks in rainbow bandanas, and investors who made it big in the dot-com boom in California next to Mennonite women, all brought together by a shared passion for soil microbes, human health, photosynthesis, and grazing animals.”
“It’s hard to explain just how and why Fuller Field School is life-changing, but ask anyone who has attended and you’ll hear it again and again…A combination of the highest quality of inspiring and yet practical information, a chance to connect with a tremendous community of supportive people, delicious and nutritious farm-grown food, and a chance to see great practices and principles in action on the farm, the Field School is a highlight of any year. The lessons learned extend far beyond farming into all areas of life, and although I’m always sad to see the Field School come to a close, I can never wait to get home so I can put into practice all the amazing things I’ve learned.”
We too started our farming careers as conventional ‘industrial’ farmers.
But now we see ourselves as
stewards of the earth.
‘Ecological Doctor’ is a term coined by Fred Provenza, one of Fuller Field School’s most beloved speakers to describe farmers who have been through a soil health awakening.
