Improving Environment By Changing The World : Tree of Knowledge - Tree of Life: Towards an Agriculture of Relationships

Agriculture, or industrial farming, as it is practiced today, may be the single most destructive human activity against the Earth that we currently employ. In response, a movement toward Restorative Farming, that looks to nature for its direction, is gaining momentum. The hunger for organic foods has never been greater. Millions of consumers are creating the demand that supports farm biodiversity and a healthy food supply. 

Bio 

Joel Salatin is a third-generation authentic food farmer promoting food production that is environmentally sound and economically viable for both producer and consumer. He has authored four books on the food production system. His columns regularly appear in ACRES USA and Stockman Grass Farmer magazines. 

Fred Kirschenmann is president of Kirschenmann Family Farms, a 3,500-acre certified organic farm in Windsor, North Dakota, where he also was president (1990-1999) of Farm Verified Organic, a private organic certification agency. He is a leader of the organic/sustainable agriculture movement, and has served on many boards and advisory committees of such organizations. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles and book chapters dealing with ethics and agriculture. 

Wes Jackson is the founder and director of the Land Institute, an experimental research and educational organization located in Salina, Kansas. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992. His books include Becoming Native to this Place and Altars of Unhewn Stone. 

Bioneers Series II: Improving Environment By Changing The World includes the following programs: 

• BN201 Part 1: Re-Imagining Design: Becoming Tools of Nature
• BN202 Part 2: Gaian Wonders of the Co-Evolutionary Dance
• BN203 Part 3: Environmental Justice – Rising from the Flames
• BN204 Part 4: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
• BN205 Part 5: Tree of Knowledge - Tree of Life: Towards an                            Agriculture of Relationships
• BN206 Part 6: Rewilding The Earth: Nurturing The Web Of Life Lunch
• BN207 Part 7: Globalization: The Environment and Living Toward                   the Local
• BN208 Part 8: Knowledge From Intimacy: Revaluing The Feminine
• BN209 Part 9: Honoring the Heritage of Black Farmers on the Land
• BN210 Part 10First Nations and the Future of the Earth
• BN211 Part 11: Global Green Plan and Urban Design
• BN212 Part 12: The Age of Extinction and the Emerging                                     Environmental Health Movement
• BN213 Part 13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Alive

The Bioneers series consists of three sets of 13 programs each:

Bioneers Series I: The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Bioneers Series II "Improving Environment By Changing The World
Bioneers Series III

 Inspired by the philosophies of the Deep Ecology movement, the Bioneers are heroic examples of people living as if nature mattered. Join us as we look deeply into the magic and mystery of the convergence between leading-edge science and ancient wisdom for a Declaration of Interdependence for the new millennium. Though these programs were produced in the 1990s the contents of this series are timelessly relevant. 

HOST: Michael Toms     INTERVIEW DATE: 2000          PROGRAM NUMBER: BN205