Chiron’s Cave is a place
for telling true tales.
In the stillness of the cave you can hear more clearly the urgent call of the land.
Blog & Book
The great, unavoidable challenge of the 21st Century is to respond creatively and wholeheartedly to the urgent call of the land. Our survival depends upon our response, and with creativity we can bring about environmental repair, economic security, and social renewal.
I’ve been writing about the land and the people for nearly four decades. The Call of the Land is the title of my book and my blog in response to the call, as well as a simple description of an essential survival-level relationship (planet and people) that desperately needs our attention.
Both book and blog set out a wide range of models – creative 21st Century agrarian responses – to the urgent call of our land. The full title of the book tells the story — The Call of the Land: An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century – 2nd edition.
The book is concise with theory, and long on actual, practical working examples to show a broad range of possible creative, positive responses. The book is loaded with model after model of ways for families, neighborhoods, communities, schools, and churches to meet the challenge of caring for the land and providing an ample supply of clean food.
My blog for The Call of the Land expresses the urgent call as I and a host of other listeners hear it. In particular it explores positive creative responses to the call of the land, that we might have an abundance of clean food and heal the profoundly distressed environment in which we and our children dwell.
In conjunction with work in the realm of writing and teaching, I pitch in to help build clean, sustainable, equitable community based farm-and-food systems by serving on the Board of Directors for the Open Harvest Natural Foods Coop in Lincoln, Nebraska. The coop serves as a supermarket hub for over 112 local farms. I am also honored to serve on the advisory board for Buy Fresh, Buy Local Nebraska, and as a member of the Iowa Food Systems Council.
Archive of relevant agrarian articles and essays:
Food Coops 2012: Growing Strong.
The Fate of the People is Linked to the Fate of the Land: Wendell Berry.
A Basic Call to Consciousness: Still Resounding.
Outside the Box, But Inside the Hoop:
Community Farms (CSA) at the Turn of the Millennium.
Rivulets of Revelation Flow from Tales of Two Farm & Food Conferences
Latter Day Luther Nails Troubling Thesis to Doors at GMO Farm Citadels
++ Over 108 articles and growing on my blog for The Call of the Land.
