Regenerative Farming Course with Rachel Lindsay

Winter Moon Roots, Hadley MA | Credit: Rachel Lindsay 

RDG Associate Designer Rachel Lindsay will be teaching a Regenerative Farming course this Spring through the Wesleyan Institute for Lifelong Learning! Rachel, a Wesleyan alum, will draw on her experience in ecological design, food and farming, and community development to explore the relationship between sustainable farming and healthy communities. Discussions over Zoom will be enlivened by an inspired reading list (shared below) and supplemented with a field trip to Forest City Farms in Middletown, CT.

Course Title: Regenerative Farming – Sustainable agriculture and its ties to global well-being

Date: Thursdays, April 15-May 13

Time: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm via Zoom + field trip

Cost: $95

More Info Here

Required Reading List

Project Drawdown, “Farming Our Way out of the Climate Crisis,” PDF available for download at https://drawdown.org/.

Nicole Masters, For The Love Of Soil: Strategies To Regenerate Our Food Production Systems (Waitakere, NZ: Printable Reality, 2019)

Daniel Mays, The No-Till Organic Vegetable Farm: How to Start and Run a Profitable Market Garden That Builds Health in Soil, Crops, and Communities (North Adams MA: Storey Publishing, 2020)

Read Chapters 1,2,4, and 14

Text available at RJ Julia: https://wesleyan.verbacompare.com/comparison?id=30179