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Farming

Wendell Berry on Agriculture

Wendell Berry always hits the nail on the head. A brilliant and perspicacious advocate for the small family farmer: “… if you’re going to have sustainable agriculture, it has to be adapted locally. Local adaptation means that you observe in the economic landscape the same processes that you find in healthy natural landscapes: You must [...]

From Wendell Berry

Extracts from an interview with Wendell Berry from the current issue of Humanities journal (sent to me by Richard Flatau): “I have realized, more and more, that the impulse in my work is the impulse of local adaptation, which puts the burden squarely on my own life. It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to [...]

A Lecture From Wendell Berry

“It may seem plausible to suppose that the head of the American Tobacco Company would have imagined at least that a dependable supply of raw material to his industry would depend upon a stable, reasonably thriving population of farmers and upon the continuing fertility of their farms. But he imagined no such thing. In this [...]

George Washington Says

“I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world”

More Young People See Opportunity in Farming

Things are changing rapidly in our world. Young folks are making their way back to farming. The average age of the American farmer is 57 years old. Over the past few years this is beginning to change. Also, the practice in which farming has been mired, specifically habituated to the Green Revolution, is taking a [...]

The Man Born to Farming by Wendell Berry

The Grower of Trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn. His thought [...]

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    Wayne Weiseman's 2013 Course Schedule

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    George Mason University
    Washington, D.C.
    March 9-16
    PDC

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    Accoceek
    Accoceek, MD
    March 23-29
    PDC

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    Accoceek
    Accoceek, MD
    March 30
    Biodynamic Intensive

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    KAAP
    ( Kinstone Academy of Applied Permaculture)
    Fountain City, WI
    May 18-19
    Cordwood Construction
    Workshop
    (with Richard Flatau) 

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    May 25-June 2
    PDC 

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    June 22-30
    Plants

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    July 13-14
    Cordwood Construction
    Workshop
    (with Richard Flatau) 

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    July 20-July 29
    Natural Building with Straw-Clay Slip

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    SouthWoods Permaculture
    Prior Lake, MN
    July 29-August 4
    Advanced Permaculture Design and Project Management

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    Crazy Rooster Farm
    Mondovi, WI
    Aug 3-11
    Animals in a Permaculture System 

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    KAAP 
    Fountain City, WI
    Aug 3-11
    PDC

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    Center For Deep Ecology
    Albert Lea, MN
    August 26-September 2
    PDC

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
     Sept 21-29
    Water and Earthworks

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    Fort Worth TX
    October 3-6 and 24-27
    PDC 

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    October 12-20
    Permaculture in the Urban Environment

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    Koinonia
    Americus, Georgia
    Early 2014
    PDC

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    January 2014
    Advanced Design

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    January 2014
    Advanced Farming

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    January 2014
    Advanced Teacher’s Training

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