Screenshot of updated Deep Agroecology blog.
After 16 years wearing the same internet face, my website for Deep Agroecology needed an update. My steady-state blog about food, farms, and our future has been online since 2008. For several years its messages made their way through the digisphere as The Call of the Land. But the blog now bears the name Deep Agroecology. That may sound abstract or academic, but the words actually represent what I regard as one of our main chances for navigating safely and wisely through the cascade of earth changes now unfolding,
My thanks to Tim Hill of Draft Horse Studio for expert web support, making the transition smooth and straightforward for Deep Agroecology.
Chiron Communications–upon whose pages you now gaze, dear readers–is my main, umbrella website, hosting a range of subjects that have drawn my interest over the years.
But to give emphasis to particular subjects, I long ago created and two satellite web sites. They remain alive and active.
The first website is my blog for Deep Agroecology, which has now undergone a facelift. The focus on that blog is the intelligent, and proactive response of farms and communities around the world to establish clean, just, sustainable food systems in the face of ongoing climate change.
My second satellite web site is Odyssey of the 8th Fire. That site tells at epic length the true saga of a great, long pilgrimage on foot from the Eastern Door at the Atlantic Ocean, toward the Western Gate at the Pacific Ocean. The 8th Fire relates a nonfiction tale about a quest arising from the deepest roots of our land, but taking place in the present and the future. In it, circles upon circles, elders make a great and generous giveaway of the teachings they carry.
My 8th Fire website could use a facelift as well, no doubt. But that will have to wait for the right moment. For now, I’m pleased to be able to shine a light upon the new look of Deep Agroecology — a main chance for us all.
As it happens there’s a great debate underway about that system—about the people, values, politics, and profits that influence our farms, our people in the fields and packing houses, our farm animals, and ultimately our food and our health. That debate will reach a crescendo this coming October at the UN’s global 
The United Nations has declared the years 2019-2028 to be the “Decade of Family Farming.” With this declaration the UN intends to create opportunities for people to transform existing food systems around the world so they are clean, sustainable, and just both economically and socially.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA—Inspired by a casual conversation with a UNL professor of agronomy and agroecology in 2012, independent journalist Steven McFadden penned the new title 
As baldly stated in one of the 
Although mass media paid minimal attention, on July 5, 2019 The UN’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS) released a notable report, 
