If you support our Sonoma County climate change goals and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the local level, the Petaluma Community Guild and Raucous Rooster invite you to write the Sonoma County Waste Management Agency today in support of local municipal compost. Will Bakx and Alan Siegle, the two Sonoma County residents behind…
This conversation between novelist, poet & farmer Wendell Berry (The Unsettling of America) and author Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) is worth viewing in its entirety.
Our focus, notes Berry, must be on far more than fear, guilt and anger over climate change. We must develop strategies built on love.
“We need a broad-fronted economic movement to protect everything that’s worth protecting, to stop damage to everything that’s worth keeping,” said Berry.
“We’ve been talked out of love, mercy, kindness. We’ve got to take those things back.”
Instead of using fear and guilt as motivators, “We all need to find things we love to do, and do them.”
Author, poet, writer and farmer Wendell Berry, in a public conversation with journalist Eric Schlosser, discusses his influences as a writer, his influences as a spiritual person, his connection to Kentucky, the land and more. He begins the conversation with Schlosser by talking about a term he’s coined—industrial fundamentalism—and continues to talk about the agrarian way of life and how to proceed in this new political era.
Why not play in the dirt, or otherwise show your soil some love on World Soil Day? Not only do we need healthy soils to grow the food that feeds us, if we treat our soil right it can help us dramatically reduce the effects of climate change, while increasing yields and improving soil health.…
The Soil Not Oil conference returns to Richmond next weekend, August 6 and 7. This important event – unique in its dual focus on soil-building as a means to mitigate climate change and keeping fossil fuels in the ground – will once again feature an outstanding array of compelling speakers – John Jeavons, Paul Kaiser, Andrew…
With so many of us involved in the ag and food communities in Petaluma and the North Bay concerned about the health and well-being of our soils, we do come across an abundance of important, often compelling news worth sharing on the subject. Tomorrow, for example, Daily Acts is hosting a presentation at the Seed Bank well…
Here’s a must-attend event sponsored by Slow Food Russian River for those interested in how we invest in our soils, our farmers, mitigate the effects of climate change and create a truly sustainable food & ag system. Sunday, March 20, 11am – 3pm Green String Farm, 3571 Old Adobe Road, Petaluma, CA Slow Food Russian…
Ami Gunasekara, PhD, liaison to the Environmental Farming Act Science Advisory Panel of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has put out a call for public comments on an important program of California’s Healthy Soils Initiative. Writes Gunasekara, “Per direction of the Environmental Farming Act Science Advisory Panel, CDFA is making the draft document…
From Will Bakx of Sonoma Compost. Save Our Compost- Last Call to Action If you can make it at all, please come in support Share this message! Thanks to those who packed the room at the Supervisors on Tuesday. What a heartwarming show of support. Please join us at the…
From Evan Wiig of The Farmer’s Guild, via Facebook: Big thanks to the HUGE show of support at yesterday’s Board of Supervisors hearing. The room was PACKED with passionate supporters, eloquent farmers like Paul Kaiser of Singing Frogs Farm and Kaiti Catchmyer of Red H Farm, ag advocates like Carmen Snyder of Sonoma County Farm…
