As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing into dormancy, beginning to consider next season through the lens of the last season, of forward planning, this week Cultivating Place explores some big thinking for our shared future in conversation with Severine Von Tscharner Fleming, one of the women featured in The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants.
From her base at Smithereen Farm, a certified organic farm in downeast Maine, Severine is a founder and leading voice for The Greenhorns, a collective who believe “humans must reform agriculture to survive on this planet” and whose mission is to “create a welcoming cultural space and a practical professional resource for those new to ecological farming.”
The Greenhorns' many diverse projects include spearheading The New Farmers Almanacs, and Earthlife, a digital magazine and podcast for the intrepid young farmer. The newest edition of the The New Farmers Almanac is their 5th and is themed "Grand Land Plan”. It "serves as an antidote to therepeating story of helplessness in the face of climo-politico-econo-corona-chaos" all around.
In our conversation, Severine shares her life’s work of collectively envisioning and growing a more fractal and very fertile future. Listen in!
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