Rural Iowa Revitalization Act™
High Paying Jobs Renewing Rural Iowa
Reconnecting Urban and Rural Iowans

The Rural Iowa Revitalization Act will allocate funding to lift off the following three initiatives within the Civilian Restoration Corps program.

🧑‍🌾FarmHire™ will rebuild barns and outbuildings, and provides farmhands to rural Iowans. Click the image below to learn more, or scroll down to continue reading about CRC.

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🥾♿🛠️💲Trail Trimmers™ will revitalizes hiking trials, restroom areas, signage, and canoe, kayak, and boating entry points, and campsites throughout the state in order to bolster our tourism industry and improve the lives of outdoors enthusiasts.

🛠️💪Pothole Patrol™ will be on-call to restore Iowa’s crumbling roads and bridges. Similarly to Housing Helpers™, Pothole Patrol consists of a coalition of CRC-certified businesses. Once certified, they can up their hiring capacity through CRC, and gain access to CRC Vouchers to pay for employee lunches and purchase top-of-the-line, CRC-grade products.

 

This plan pairs perfectly with
Iowa’s Right to Repair Act

This act ensures that farmers and everyday Iowans can repair their own equipment—without being locked out by manufacturers. It mandates:

  • Accessible repair steps for all devices and machinery
  • Open access to tools and parts, not limited to certified dealers
  • Mechanical overrides for digital systems to prevent software lockouts
  • Free, user-friendly manuals and schematics with every product
  • Regulation of planned obsolescence, with clear labeling for short-lifespan items

The goal? Empower Iowans to fix what they own, reduce costs, and break free from corporate repair monopolies… READ FULL PLAN.

 

Other CRC Programs that Benefit Rural Iowa

🚜 Iowa FryerForce™

This bold collective partners directly with farmers across Iowa, buying used fryer grease from local restaurants and transforming it into engine-ready fuel for diesel engines. They bridge rural grit with innovative tech, offering subsidized engine conversions for farmers — revving up the state’s clean energy revolution, one greasy gallon at a time. READ MORE

Sondra explains: “Restaurants sell their used grease to FryerForce, who purifies it using a centrifuge, and then sells it to farmers cheaper than gasoline. This plan fits perfectly with the Right to Repair Act. Here’s how:  we bring manufacturing jobs to Iowa — building and rebuilding diesel engines to run on fryer grease. While doing so, we make don’t lock farmers out from fixing their own equipment. In other words: we create the exact type of equipment farmers want for their fields, and sell them cheap fuel bought from restaurants that would otherwise pay to have it removed from their properties.“
 

🍄 MycoFuel Engineers™

A regenerative team of soil scientists, farmers, and fungal specialists using mycoremediation to clean up contaminated farmland while harvesting mushrooms for fuel pellet production. By turning manure and pollutants into renewable energy, they restore ecosystems and empower rural communities with sustainable heat and power. READ MORE.

Sondra explains: “MycoFuel Engineers works with CFOs and farmers: our product helps quickly break manure down into soil and draws contaminants up from the  soil in order to protect waterways. , and captures them inside the mushrooms. The mushrooms are then dried, ground up, compressed, and used as combustible pellets —similar to coal. Iowa’s waters stay safe: farmers get paid for their byproduct instead of being blamed, and CRC creates jobs through MycoFuel Engineers. It’s a win-win-win.“

🌿 SolarBerry Installers™

A visionary coalition of farmers, scientists, and engineers pioneering solar panels dyed with pokeweed berries and high-efficiency hemp batteries. Their mission: transform Iowa’s agricultural landscape into a clean energy powerhouse. By cultivating fast-growing, regenerative crops, they’re creating homegrown materials for solar and battery tech, boosting rural economies, and reducing reliance on lithium and fossil fuels. READ MORE.

🏡 Housing Helpers™”

In coordination with the Sensible Housing Act, this team will restore and modernize neglected, often out-of-state-owned apartment complexes and private homes of Iowans who can’t afford needed repairs. Their mission: bring housing up to code, improve living conditions (for Iowans who want it) in the ways Frank Schiavo carved the path for, and ensure all Iowans have access to safe, clean, affordable housing. Frank got his energy bill down to $11/mo. in the dead of winter. Although he lived in California, many of the inexpensive, practical upgrades would significantly reduce energy bills for Iowans for generations to come. This team will also work with sustainable design specialists to build the housing for the sustainable villages to help the homeless… READ MORE.

 

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