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Farming the Woods

2/20/2017

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An Integrated Permaculture Approach to
Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests
~ by Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel

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BOOK REVIEW BY PEGI EYERS
Localization means developing strong cooperative relationships with the farmers in our area, as well as developing new practices of sustainable permaculture, agroforestry and forest gardening. Farming and forestry are seen as mutually exclusive in the modern world, but Farming the Woods demonstrates how forest farms can be extremely productive beyond our delineated garden spaces and plowed fields.  

The local bioregion offers an abundance of native fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, vegetables, mushrooms, leaves, flowers, shoots, roots, herbs, barks, sap and wild rice, plus other wild foods and medicinal plants that contribute to our healing and well-being. Learning First Nations knowledge as related to nature’s gifts, and foraging the local foodshed or cultivating and caring for a diversity of plant communities can enhance both human and ecosystem health.  In co-creation with forest ecology and sustainably-managed woodlots, forest agriculture can also be a form of much-needed rewilding.

Restoring the heirloom or foundational varieties and well-adapted native plants that are part of a region’s biodiversity (plus integrating new crops) will stabilize the soil, provide food and shelter for native wild animals, and offer incredible beauty.  Farming the Woods is an essential guide for farmers and gardeners who have access to woodland spaces and are interested in “filling the forests with food” by cultivating specialty crops, and harvesting and marketing these wonderful, healthy (and delicious!) wild foods.


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Pegi Eyers is the author of  "Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community," an award-winning book that explores strategies for intercultural competency, healing our relationships with Turtle Island First Nations, decolonization, recovering an ecocentric worldview, rewilding, creating a sustainable future and reclaiming peaceful co-existence in Earth Community. 
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Dreaming the Future

2/17/2017

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Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature
by Kenny Ausubel

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BOOK REVIEW BY PEGI EYERS
Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature is an excellent collection of inspiring essays by social entrepreneur Kenny Ausubel, cocreator (with Nina Simons) of the partnership non-profit Bioneers, provider of  environmental and social justice leadership and host of the world-renowned conference of the same name.  In the face of massive change, he outlines the radical personal, political and cultural changes we need to make to build a better future, and that many of the solutions are already waiting for us in the natural world.
 
Divided into three parts, Part One “It’s All Alive” introduces us to the clash of civilizations,  old/new concepts of earth connectivity, cocreation stories, the reenchantment of the Earth, “nature’s operating instructions” and resilience thinking.  In Part Two “Hungry Ghost Stories” Ausubel describes solutions to the reprehensible and criminal practices of Empire including ecocide, the toxicity of consumerism, public relations wars and corporate greed.  With Part Three “Value Change for Survival” he rounds out his discourse with essays on clear thinking, shifting worldviews, the “law of love,” restorative justice, penal reform, peacemaking, clean energy, earth rights, the healing of nature and culture, and the Great Mystery as seen through the eyes of poets and seers. 
 
In Dreaming the Future, Kenny Ausubel introduces us to diverse ideas, proposals, change-makers, visionaries and ecopreneurs from what he calls “a revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart.”  Highly recommended.  www.bioneers.org 

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Pegi Eyers is the author of  "Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community," a brand-new book that explores strategies for intercultural competency, healing our relationships with Turtle Island First Nations, decolonization, recovering an ecocentric worldview, rewilding, creating a sustainable future and reclaiming peaceful co-existence in Earth Community.  
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