Planet Drum

and La Via Campesina

Ecology Emerging

What approach can we take to live sustainably wherever we are located?

It was during the late 1960s that activist, writer, and liberation theater artist Peter Berg began to reconsider the environmental movements of the day in terms of a "life-place" ecology that would earn the title of "bioregionalism". With the support of friends, colleagues, and lifelong partner Judy Goldhaft, Berg's approach in 1973 would give birth to San Francisco's Planet Drum Foundation, a learning, action and gathering center with outreach efforts that continue to shape place-based communities around the world.

To learn more, visit the Planet Drum Foundation's website at: planetdrum.org/

Regenerate the Bioregion: Grown in Cascadia

David R. Montgomery is professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle where he is also a member of the Quaternary Research Center. Over the decades, as an acclaimed author, he has addressed topics diverse as the history of salmon and environmental sustainability. Most recently he has been an active proponent of regenerative agriculture and its potential as a revolutionary means of replenishing - not eroding - earth's precious agrarian soils while also providing a sound approach to healthy food production that goes well beyond the label "organic". Among his books that contribute to the here featured videos:

Dirt ( 2007 )

The Hidden Half of Nature ( 2015, with Anne Bikle )

Growing a Revolution ( 2017 )

What Your Food Ate ( 2022, with Anne Bikle )

Related Websites:

Cascadia Food Guild, visit: www.secretlifeofseeds.com/p/from-seeds-to-sovereignty-the-birth

Regenerate Cascadia, visit: regeneratecascadia.org/about/

Green? Clean? Biodiverse?

Food Sovereignty: Around the Biosphere

La Via Campesina is an international movement of peasant farmers, fishers, pastoralists, and landless agrarian workers who preserve their local culture and ecology by promoting food sovereignty. Founded in 1993, LVC has given influential voice to the practices of the biosphere's smallest food producers. To learn more about La Via Campesina, click: viacampesina.org/en/international-peasants-voice/

Hearts and Hands at Home in the Garden visit: sites.google.com/site/ocascadia/hearts-and-hands-at-home-in-the-garden

Depth of Field is a series of 40 short documentaries produced and presented by Canada's National Farmers Union and March Forth Creative. These films highlight diverse Canadian farmers and agrarian workers who practice sustainable food production both on and off the land. To learn more about Depth of Field, click: youtube.com/playlist?

Words and Watersheds

Imagine:

Being given the gift of a song or poem that honors a specific tree, a particular brook, a hidden glade or emerging beaver lodge.

Thus you are chosen to carry it with you to share with others you meet on your way in a place that welcomes you day after day as living, breathing kin of the homeland.

Maine coast poet Gary Lawless on bioregional arts and the "mapping" of a watershed.

From the Planet Drum Foundation on YouTube.

Header Illustration: Cascadia Food Guild www.secretlifeofseeds.com/p/from-seeds-to-sovereignty-the-birth

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