Adventures in Dirt and Honey Resources

Adventures in Dirt and Honey: Notes and Resources

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” 
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something”
Max Lucado

  1. Watch Gabe Brown’s TEDx Talk “Regeneration of Our Lands: A Producer's Perspective” and read his book, Dirt to Soil

  2. Watch “Unbroken Ground” a Patagonia Film on YouTube, other ones to watch, “Gather,” “Biggest Little Farm,” and “Kiss the Ground.”

  3. 3.Read The Unsettling of America, Think Little, and Gift of the Good Land by Wendell Berry

  4. Read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer – consider reciprocity

  5. Follow along with my progress on Instagram #regenerativebeepasture #beefriendlyvineyards #ODOTpollinators & my blog @ beegirl.org/blog

  6. Drive the market!!  Support farmers who are using regenerative methods (with time, your dollar, your vote) and eat locally and seasonally. See “Kiss the Ground” and “Regenerative Organic” for ideas to support through your everyday choices at work and at home.

Small Group Discussion Topics:

Think beyond carbon sequestration for cash, how else can we support farmers and ranchers to improve soil health?

“Non-bilogical N is a wound we must repair” – Rupa Marya (what does this statement make you feel, think?)

How do you practice reciprocity?

What does being in right relationship with the land mean to you?  

In what ways to you see soil health as the foundation for human mental, physical, and community health?

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