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Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow and announcement from Didi Pershouse about a New Course Dec 28-Jan 1: Regenerating Landscapes for Community and Climate Resilience.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

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Conservation Agriculture is an ecological approach to regenerative sustainable agriculture and ecosystem 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/or perennials, including legumes and cover crops). These practices are complemented with other 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 Agriculture systems operate regeneratively at multiple levels to harness a range of productivity, economic, environmental and social benefits as well as address local and global concerns related to food and water security, climate change, land degradation, biodiversity and smallholder agricultural development.

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From: Didi Pershouse <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 15:48
Subject: [Healthy Soils] New Course Dec 28-Jan 1: Regenerating Landscapes for Community and Climate Resilience
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Hello Friends, 
(Apologies for cross posting on several lists...)
Happy Solstice! I've decided that we all need a very meaningful transition as this year comes to a close and we welcome in a new one. In that spirit, I am offering a deep-dive course on living systems thinking that will run for 5 days in a row, December 28 through January 1st, 9:30 to 11 AM Eastern Time USA (New York). 

It's called Regenerating Landscapes for Community and Climate Resilience: The Soil Sponge as Essential Infrastructure. I think that it will offer some new perspectives for all of you, even those who have studied with me before. I never teach any material the same way twice--so that I keep developing my mind along with all of you. (besides...who wants to do the same thing twice? BORING. Even viruses feel that way.)

Each session will be recorded and made available to those who sign up, in case it's being offered at times you can't make it, but I have scheduled it so that it should work well for folks in North and South America, India, Africa, Europe, and parts of Asia. 

These courses tend to fill up quickly, so do register soon if you are interested. Some financial assistance is available. 

Read more about the course here

Scroll down for other news in the latest newsletter from the Land and Leadership Initiative. 
Please DO share on social media and with your networks. You can link to the course here: https://lali.teachable.com/p/regenerating-landscapes-for-community-climate-resilience  

With gratitude for your work and care.
Didi

Didi Pershouse  
Author • Soil Strategist • Educator
www.didipershouse.com  (603) 252-1930

I acknowledge the people of the Abenaki nation upon whose land I live and work. I recognize that their sovereignty was never ceded and pay my respects to elders past, present and future.


Deep Dive Dec 28-Jan 1, and other events coming right up 
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
Hello friends, 
As usual, there are a few things on my list...
  1. Snow and gratitude
  2. Deep dive, coming right up! Dec 28-Jan 1.
  3. Supporting regeneration while stuck at home
  4. Introducing the Seed Media Project
  5. Sneak Preview for January and February events
  6. Other Species are Essential Workers whose Economies Enfold Our Own
  7. Free webinars
Read on for details...
Well, we have a huge pile of snow here in Vermont, and the chickens aren't happy, but I'm grateful for all the living systems around me that depend on an insulating blanket of snow that slowly melts into the soil sponge to keep life going. I will send some pictures in my next email. I'm trying to get this one out before you all head off to your (um...couches?) for the holidays.
 
Deep dive, coming right up...
I've decided that we all need a very meaningful transition as this year comes to a close and we welcome in a new one. In that spirit, I am offering a deep-dive course on living systems thinking that will run for 5 days in a row, December 28 through January 1st, 9:30 to 11 AM Eastern Time USA (New York). 

It's called Regenerating Landscapes for Community and Climate Resilience: The Soil Sponge as Essential Infrastructure. I think that it will be a change in perspective for all of you, even those who have studied with me before. I never teach any material the same way twice--so that I keep developing my mind along with all of you. (besides...who wants to do the same thing twice? BORING. Even viruses feel that way.)

Each session will be recorded and made available to those who sign up, in case its being offered at times you can't make it, but I have scheduled it so that it should work well for folks in North and South America, India, Africa, Europe, and parts of Asia. 

My courses fill up quickly, so check it out soon. 
Read more about the course here
You can support large scale regeneration right from where you are sitting...
Financial assistance for all our Land and Leadership Initiative courses is available to our partners in India, Africa, and other regions in the Global South, as well as farmers anywhere who can't otherwise afford it. I strongly encourage you to donate to our scholarship fund if you are able, even if you can't take a course. 

I've been working this past year with local agricultural leaders running training programs in multiple African countries, and I have been developing curriculum and teaching the lead trainers for the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Initiative that has gotten close to 800,000 farmers to transition to truly regenerative agriculture (and off pesticides, fertilizers, and corporate owned seeds) while improving farmer's yields, incomes and health.

Watch this recent webinar on the successes of the Andhra Pradesh project, (and this one from last year as well.)  Dr. Elaine Obalijoro, who is bringing this same work to Rwanda, called it "The most hopeful webinar ever!"

You can support our scholarship fund and trainings by
  • adding onto course fees when you check out for a course or webinar
  • donating at www.landandleadership.org
  • sending a check to:
Land and Leadership Initiative
PO Box 277
Thetford Center, VT 05075
  • or letting us know you want to make a larger tax deductible donation to our umbrella non-profit. Contact us here.
Introducing the Land and Leadership Initiative's
Seed Media Project 
I also invite you to check out the first few articles and fact sheets we have posted in the Land and Leadership Initiative's Seed Media Project. I will be uploading more every week over the coming months. Our team's aim is to provide clear, accurate information about how the living systems around us really work, and what we can do to grow cool, moist, green, diverse biosystems--in farms, suburbs, cities, and forests--that provide abundant water, food and health for all of life. This restores a livable climate through nature's own regulation of carbon, water, and methane cycles, and through them, regional and global temperatures.

The project got underway through generous support from The No Regrets Initiative, and Vermont Community Foundation's Sustainable Future Fund.
 
Coming soon in January and February!
The deep dive I'm offering will be a great foundation for the Regenerative Design Strategies for Regional Resilience course/conference coming up in January that I'm teaching with Australian mega-mind Walter Jehne (Stay tuned for details next week! 5 people have already signed up without it being launched yet....)

That will lead right into a very detailed look at the practicalities of soil regeneration with Gillian Julius in February, as you start planning your plantings. Gillian showed up as a participant at our annual conference last year, and knocked everyone's socks off. She has since become a trusted thinking partner for me, and is launching her first course with us in February "Waking Up the Dirt: Lessons in Soil Regeneration."

We will offer discounts to people who want to sign up for all three. 
 
New article: "Other Species are Essential Workers whose Economies Enfold our Own"
My recent article has been reposted on multiple sites, and is getting all kinds of great reviews--including an invitation to write a chapter for a new book on Climate Change and Creation Care from Cambridge Scholars Press, in the UK. Read the article here, and please share it widely and give it 50 claps if it gives you a new and useful perspective.

I invite you to join my new Patreon community if you want to participate in quarterly gatherings related to the articles I'm writing. 
All of the Land and Leadership Initiative's past webinars are now available for FREE (though if you can afford to pay, please do.)
I hope to see you soon!!!
Love,
Didi
          
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