*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow a self-explanatory message from Didi Pershouse
regarding the opportunity to sign up for her six-week, live participatory
online course, *Regenerating the Soil Carbon Sponge for Flood, Drought, and
Wildfire Resilience
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=c66dc5bb35&e=7906f4d8e3>.
It starts on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 (tomorrow!).* Financial assistance
is available for those who need it.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

e-mail: [log in to unmask]
URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca



*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical
application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked
principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance
(no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with
all other farm operations including harvesting);  (ii) permanent
maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops);
and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally
and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations
involving annuals and perennials, including legumes and cover crops), along
with other complementary good agricultural production and land management
practices. Conservation Agriculture systems are present in all continents,
involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual cropland systems,
perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems, agroforestry systems,
crop-livestock systems, pasture and rangeland systems, organic production
systems and rice-based systems. Conservation Tillage, Reduced Tillage and
Minimum Tillage are not Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its
own* (more at: www.fao.org/ag/ca).
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From: Didi Pershouse <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 at 21:02
Subject: A few hours left to join our online course.
To: Amir <[log in to unmask]>


Regenerating the Soil Sponge for Flood, Drought and Wildfire Resilience


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Didi Pershouse*

*Author • Soil Sponge Strategist • Educator*

*Founder of the Land & Leadership Initiative*
Author of *The Ecology of Care* and
*Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function*
Dear friends,
I've safely landed back in North America, and wanted to give you a quick
reminder that if you want the tools to make lasting change in the
resilience of your farm, community, or region now's the time to sign up for
my six-week, live participatory online course, *Regenerating the Soil
Carbon Sponge for Flood, Drought, and Wildfire Resilience
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=c66dc5bb35&e=7906f4d8e3>.
It starts on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 (tomorrow!).* Financial assistance
is available for those who need it. Classes are recorded if you need to
miss some.

No matter where you live, this course offers an entirely new way of seeing
and working with the land around you: whether it is your urban backyard, a
small farm, or a large ranch.

If you join us, you will learn a step-by-step blueprint for improving soil
health, public health, and resilience to extreme weather events, while
helping to cool the climate. This is the strategy I was invited to
present on World Soil Day at the United Nations last year, and the one I'm
outlining as a lead author of the "Future Directions" chapter for the
upcoming UN-FAO technical manual on soil carbon management.

Most importantly, this course provides a tremendous opportunity to *build
working relationships with people around the world who share your goals of
land regeneration. *

My teaching style is to find and convey "*the simplicity beyond
complexity."* I want people who study with me to have a clear scientific
understanding of soil biology's role in the carbon, water, and nutrient
cycles--framed in ways that are easy to remember, and easy to pass along. *I
do this through hands-on demonstrations, photographs, videos, interesting
discussions, and activities* *that you can use to teach others*. In
particular, I will show how we can create conditions so that nature's
biological workforce--plants, animals, fungi, and other microbes--can
rebuild the natural "soil sponge" infrastructure that all life on land
depends on for food, water, and safety.


*"Didi is a remarkable educator and has been inspiring students from around
the world." --Judith Schwartz, author of *Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a
Thirsty World
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Click here if you are ready to dive in, or read on for more details...
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*WHY AM I DOING THIS?*
My aim is to bring together a group that can effectively change the
direction the world is going, over the next three years--by helping people
understand that soil is the basic infrastructure that makes all life on
land possible, and that we can address many of our major challenges through
regeneration of healthy soil.

Thanks to the last four courses, *we now have a growing international
community of deeply motivated people from all walks of life *who are
beginning to collaborate in their work towards land-based strategies for
community and climate resilience.

This is an emergent, grass-roots strategy--offering solid principles, and
bringing people into a shared language--and trusting the collaborations
that come out of our work together, (rather than trying to control or
manage them.) This is what is needed for true change. By working together,
I know we can continue to build communities of people around the world who
will lead  and inspire soil health initiatives in their own neighborhoods
and regions, in their own ways, by demonstrating that *simple changes in
land management can literally change everything around us.*

Will you join us?


Click here so we can save you a spot!
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*“If you want to learn how to make your farm more resilient to droughts and
floods, then here is your chance! Didi is fantastic at explaining how to
fix our broken water cycle.” — Gail Fuller, Kansas Farmer and Field School
Organizer “I recommend this class to anyone interested in learning more
about soil health.”*
*— Kristin Ohlson, author of The Soil Will Save Us
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I'll be explaining why these five soil samples, all of the same soil type,
behave so differently when it rains. Why do some fall apart and erode,
while others stay together? Why does rain soak in to some--refilling the
local water table with abundant clean water--while it runs off the surface
of the others, taking soil (and any pollutants in the soil) with it?

Imagine if all the soil in the landscape around you was as absorbent,
healthy and functional as the sample on the far left. What would be
different? Simple inexpensive changes in management make the difference
between devastation and resilience. We can build resilience in just a few
years. Or we can continue to watch our landscapes fail from flood, drought,
wildfires, algae blooms, and economic collapse.
Shelter from the storm...want to join us?
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*Six-Week Course Details:* Participants will gather on Zoom Video
Conferencing (by computer or phone) from 12:00 - 2:00 PM EST (New York,
USA) on the following Tuesdays:

   - *February 26 *
   - *March 5*
   - *March 12*
   - *March 26*
   - *April 2 *
   - *April 9*

*(Please note: There is no formal class on March 19th.) *If these dates or
times don't work for you, please complete *this online form
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*so
we can let you know if we offer it again.

*Extra discussion time for an hour after each class from 2:00 -3:00
Eastern. This is a great way to develop connections with people working on
regenerative projects around the world, learn from each other's wisdom,
experiences and resources; and dive into more detail on specific questions.*

*Classes will be recorded and made available to course participants if you
need to miss a class. *There will also be recommended reading, videos, and
journal-writing exercises between classes.

*The course costs $375 (or three monthly payments of $125).  *

*Scholarships: A few spots in every course are reserved for participants
who need to pay less. **Contact us if this is you. We are particularly
interested in saving spots for farmers and current and emerging leaders
from the Global South.*

Please respond to this email with any questions about this course, or if
you would like to participate but cannot afford the full price.

We have a sweet group coming together for this course, I hope you will be
part of it.
*Didi*
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*“Didi Pershouse is an awesome teacher and I highly recommend studying with
her if you're interested in regeneration and what this means for building
resilience to drought, fire, floods.” — Rebecca Burgess, Founder, Fibershed
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*My upcoming in-person events:*
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*February 27, 2019* in Randolph, Vermont, Bethany Church, 6:30 PM - 8:30
PM: "Soil Health and Human Health."
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*March 28-31, 2019* in Montreal, Canada: *Living Soils Symposium
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*April 11, 2019* workshop in Greenwich, NY 10 am - 4 pm. Farm location
TBD.  Sponsored by the Agricultural Stewardship Association (
www.agstewardship.org
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)

*June 18-20, 2019* in Poitiers, France: Food Security and Climate Change:
4p1000 new tangible initiative for the soil."


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