FOOD, FARMING & HEALING OUR WORLD

The series has now begun but you can still sign up and receive recordings and resources for the sessions you have missed. Otherwise, you can sign up to the individual events.

A unique series of gatherings exploring how food and farming can heal our world. 

By Chelsea Green Publishing and Advaya, two organisations at the forefront of transformative learning and the politics and practice of sustainability

All ticket holders will receive a recording the following day, whether to watch the content again, or to catch up if the session couldn't be attended in person. 

About

We will explore how approaches to food and farming can dramatically transform our relationships with soil, soul and society to create thriving lives for people everywhere. 

Through a series of 4 weekly online events, we will uncover the connections between Food & Farming and: 

• Ecology & Ecosystems; 
• The Economy & Community; 
• Mythology & Our Relationship with Nature; 
• Cultural Narratives & Imagination. 

Participants will have the privilege to learn from farmers, thinkers, nutritional experts and practitioners from around the world. 

We will gain understanding of dynamic solutions that are reviving ecosystems, communities and cultures globally, as well as ecological, cultural and practical approaches to transforming how we live, think and act.

The gatherings are designed to be transformational. Learnings are embedded in traditional practices, science and recent research, and aim to enrich human life in times of ecological crisis. 

Event Breakdown

• Seeding Liberation on the Land 
  • The Economy & Community: Wednesday 27 January 2021
    • Vandana Shiva, author of Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom; 
    • Leah Penniman, author of Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s practical guide to liberation on the land;
    • Chris Smaje, author of A Small Farm Future: Making the case for a society built around local economies self-provisioning agricultural diversity and a shared earth;
    • Abby Rose, host of Farmerama.

• Working with Nature to Heal the Earth 
  • Ecology & Ecosystems: Wednesday 3 February 2021
    • Derek Gow, author of Bringing Back the Beaver: The story of one man’s quest to rewild Britain’s waterways;
    • Judith Schwartz, author of The Reindeer Chronicles and Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth;
    • Martin Lee Mueller, author of Being Salmon Being Human: Encountering the wild in us and us in the wild;
    • Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager: The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter.
      

• Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild 
  • Mythology & Our Relationship with Nature: Wednesday 10 February 2021
    • Martin Shaw, author of Courting the Wild Twin;
    • Sy Montgomery, author of Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind;
    • Isabel Losada, author of The Joyful Environmentalist.

• Imagining Our Futures 
  • Cultural Narratives & Imagination: Wednesday 17 February 2021
    • Rob Hopkins, author of From What Is to What If: Unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want;
    • Jane Davidson, author of #futuregen: Lessons from A Small Country;
    • Gillian Burke, host of BBC Springwatch.

About the Organisations

Advaya is a global platform for transformative education that sits at the intersection of ecology, wellbeing, and spirituality, linking inner transformation with outer change. We are a social enterprise and re-invest all profit into our community-focused work.

Chelsea Green Publishing is recognised as a leading publisher of books on the politics and practice of sustainable living, publishing authors who bring in-depth, practical knowledge to life, and give readers hands-on information related to organic farming and gardening, ecology and the environment, healthy food, sustainable economics, progressive politics, and, most recently, integrative health and wellness.

Learn more about Advaya: http://advaya.co ;