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Engage the heart of the earth with deep agroecology

Farms and food are the foundation of our corrupted present. They also embody the practical promise of a wholly balanced and healthy destiny on earth for human beings, animals, and plants...That's why I wrote Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future

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Experience is an arch wherethro gleams the light of the untraveled world

Odyssey of the 8th Fire

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I invite you to participate in a great adventure. Begin now.

My magnum opus, Odyssey of the 8th Fire is a freely available epic, nonfiction, contemporary saga of The Americas (Turtle Island). Within the true, unfolding physical and spiritual adventures of Odyssey of the 8th Fire, many of the learned elders of the Americas make a great and generous giveaway of their teachings. I cordially invite […]

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Harken to the Wisdom Ways of Agroecology

The international report based on the work of 450 researchers from around the world and 15,000 scientific and government files—warns of immediate, grave danger...The late Algonquin elder Grandfather William Commanda was among the many native elders offering explicit, and enduring guidance on how to reckon with this

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Deep Agroecology 2020: Wise, Noble, Gallant

“Agroecology is the future of farming, and its principles cannot be practiced soon enough. Agroecology is a major global force or movement that’s going to be gaining recognition and increasing credibility.”  —John Ikerd, agricultural economist As I came to appreciate while learning about agroecology, the subject has depth, breadth, and sophistication. Agroecology offers a penetrating […]

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The Mandatory Morphing of America’s Family Farms

While multitudes of America's traditional family farms are swirling down the drain of oblivion, there are positive possibilities...Reality, not ideology, makes morphing of the family farm mandatory.

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“Hard-hitting. Powerful. A step further.” – A review of Deep Agroecology

"Deep Agroecology goes beyond farming systems to probe the philosophical, spiritual, and moral roots of human relationships with the land."

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What’s your moral obligation in response to our climate emergency?

According to the Alliance of World Scientists, as professionals they have a moral obligation to warn humanity about what they see evidenced. On November 5, 2019, over 11,000 of the group’s allied scientists warned us all again, this time via a formal statement in the journal BioScience: “Planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.” Now […]

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Agroecology is a dynamic response to climate change

My new book — Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future — offers an introduction to the subject of agroecology, and then takes this critical subject wider and deeper.

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Go agroecological or go extinct

… Based on the multitude of hard realities engendered by corporate chemical agriculture, it’s time to uproot the “get big or get out” farm slogans of Earl Butz and Sonny Perdue, and to supplant those damning words with something both wise and realistic: “Go agroecological or go extinct” … The rest of my latest blog […]

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