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This weekend the final race of the triple crown unfolds in New York and the Belmont Stakes. Once those trained athletes have raced, and bred, what's next? For some - retirement. Bob Bosold visits with Tom Beatty, a volunteer at a farm called "Old Friends". It's the retirement home for over 300 horses in Georgetown, KY, that may have raced in one place or another, or are just a valuable part of someone's family. Beatty explains how the farm got its start, and who some of their famous stablemates are. Measurable rain is on the way for most of Wisconsin today and tomorrow, slowing down planting progress. Stu Muck explains where it's coming from and where it will be heaviest. Wisconsin is finally in the final leg of preparation to join the national testing campaign tracing H5N1 in dairy. Although the states been testing for the virus since last fall, becoming a part of the national USDA effort has brought challenges. Stephanie Hoff visits with WI Ag Secretary, Randy Romanski and WDATCP Administrator of the Division of Food and Recreational Health, Adam Brock. Wisconsin farmers kept rolling on spring planting chores. Pam Jahnke reports that 73% of the states corn and 66% of the soybeans were in the ground as of Sunday. Plus, about 5% of the first cutting of alfalfa hay has already been harvested. Markets are talking rain delays in the eastern corn belt. John Heinberg, market advisor with Total Farm Marketing in West Bend says the planting progress numbers intrigued traders. Meanwhile, watch cattle. A bubble burst in the market on prices last week, but consumers keep visiting the beef showcase at the retail level.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the entire interview transcript, please ⁠click ⁠here⁠.In this episode, we're joined by Juan Cortés Arango. He is a Colombian composer, orchestrator, and music producer based in Los Angeles, known for blending unconventional sounds with traditional composition to create emotionally resonant scores. He is the composer ofFunny Birds, his second collaboration with directors Marco La Via and Hanna Ladoul, following the 2018 romantic dramaAnywhere With You. With contributions from vocalist Elline and lyricist Adam Brock, Cortés crafted a beautifully authentic score forFunny Birds, drawing inspiration from its multigenerational tale of family and tragedy, showcasing his continued evolution as a storyteller through music.What You'll LearnIn this episode, Juan Cortés shares his journey from overcoming tendonitis to becoming a successful film composer, the importance of genuine relationships in creative growth, and the value of patience and continuous learning. He discusses how success is an ongoing pursuit of personal and professional growth, emphasizing the need to adapt and evolve over time.Things We Discussed- Juan's early challenges and pivot from performance to composition- The pivotal role of friendships and mentorship in his career- Insights into film scoring and working with renowned composers- His philosophy on success, growth, and the importance of authenticity- How patience and consistent study shape a fulfilling careerConnect with JuanLinkedInInstagramFacebookWebsiteConnect with Jason TonioliWebsite FacebookYouTube InstagramSpotifyPandoraAmazon MusicApple Music

Wisconsin's in a pretty good spot when it comes to detection of animal disease, communication about that disease, and mitagating movement of the disease.  Stephanie Hoff talks to two state experts.  Julie Sweney from the unique Wisconsin Livestock Identification Consortium, and Adam Brock, food safety director at the WI Dept. of Ag., Trade and Consumer Protection. Sometimes when you work with livestock, there's questions you can't find answers to.  The WI Farm Center is there to help.  Dr. Lynae Schott is a veterinarian that helps diagnose problems in dairy herds and work toward resolution.  She explains how farms can access the free service.Members of the Wisconsin Farmers Union are taking issue with how some check-off dollars are being spent.  Darin VonRuden, president of the WFU, tells Pam Jahnke that they believe there's discrepancies between federal guidelines on how money is to be spent versus how it ends up being used.  They're meeting on the subject Wednesday.This weekend temps will soar into the mid 80's.  That's going to put stress on livestock.  Joel Roltgen, Focus on Energy Advisor, speaks with Pam Jahnke about rebates available for tuning up those barn fans and making sure everything runs smoothly and efficiently this summer.  Paid for by Focus on Energy/CESA.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is impacting more farm animals than poultry. Dairy cows in several states have also contracted the virus, and it has people concerned about the safety of dairy and meat. Adam Brock joins us, Administrator of the Division of Food and Recreational Safety. he says he's been getting phone calls about whether eggs, milk, and meat are still safe to eat. He says yes, you can eat all of those things thanks to robust food safety measures.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(Titus 3:1-2) Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone. (Titus 3:3) At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11) I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. (Titus 3:4-7) But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:8) This is a trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone. (Titus 3:9) But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. (Titus 3:10-11) Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them. You may be sure that such people are warped and sinful; they are self-condemned. (Titus 3:12-15) As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, because I have decided to winter there.Do everything you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way and see that they have everything they need.Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order to provide for urgent needs and not live unproductive lives.Everyone with me sends you greetings. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.

(Genesis 4:1-11) Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.” Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?” And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. (Isaiah 1:10-17) Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. “When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts? Bring no more vain offerings;  incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. (John 4:23-24) But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. (Psalm 51:1-4) Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. (1 Peter 5:8) “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” (1 John 3:11-18) For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous. Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

(Titus 2:11-15) 11For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. 12It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. 15These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.   The RESCUE of Grace   The REQUIREMENTS of Grace   The EFFECTS of Grace   (Romans 5:6) You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.   (2 Corinthians 5:21) God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.   (Matthew 20:28) just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

1You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. 2Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. 3Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. 6Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. 7In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 8and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us. 9Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, 10and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.

(Mark 10:35–45) Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”  “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked.  They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.”  “You don't know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”  “We can,” they answered.  Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”  When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and John. Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”   Being a disciple is about Submission, Not Status.   “Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.” ― D.L. Moody   (Galatians 2:20) I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.   Being a disciple is about Sacrifice, Not Comfort.   (Jeremiah 25:15) This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.   (Mark 14:36) “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”   (Matthew 16:24-25) 24Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.   “Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.” -Mark Batterson   (Luke 9:57-58) 57As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”   (Philippians 3:7-11) 7But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. 10I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death   Being a Disciple is about being a Servant, Not a Lord.   (Ephesians 4:29) Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.   (Mark 10:45) For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.   Consider the Cost Consider the Urgency Consider the Worth   “He is no fool that gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” -Jim Elliot

(Titus 1:4-16) 4To Titus, my true son in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. 5The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you. 6An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. 7Since an overseer manages God's household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. 8Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. 9He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. 10For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group. 11They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain. 12One of Crete's own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.” 13This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith 14and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth. 15To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.   The Great Task: Invest In Leaders   Family Matters   Character Matters   Convictions Matter   The Great Task: Showcase the Truth   (Philippians 4:8-9) 8Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

(Titus 1:1-4) Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness— in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior, to Titus, my true son in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.   THE MEASURE OF GRACE   (2 Corinthians 5:17) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!   THE MEASURE OF GRACE God's grace transforms!   THE MEANS OF GRACE The transformation comes through Christ!   THE DURATION OF GRACE This transforming grace can never be exhausted!   “Rest is not in knowing but in trusting. Asking yourself why something happened won't always give you rest, but reminding yourself who is in charge of what happens will.” -Paul David Tripp   THE EFFECT OF GRACE A spiritual family is produced!

(John 17:1-5) After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:  “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.   Jesus prays an UPWARD Prayer   Our Prayer Must Be Motivated By God's Glory   (John 17:6-19) 6“I have revealed you u to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 12While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. 13“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.   Jesus prays an INWARD Prayer   (John 16:33) “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”   Our Prayer Must Be Family-Focused   (John 17:20-26) 20“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—23I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”   Jesus prays an OUTWARD Prayer   (Romans 5:8) But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.   God wants to use you to reach those who are close to you but far from Him!   Our Prayer Must Be For A Kingdom Legacy

(Ephesians 3:14-21) 14For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.   Paul Prays For Strength And Power   Paul Prays For Depth   (Colossians 2:6-7) 6So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.   Paul Prays For A Growing Understanding Of God's Love   (Romans 8:38-39) 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.   Paul Prays For Fullness   Paul Prays For More   Paul Prays For God's Glory And For Our Good

(Acts 4:23-31) 23On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. 25You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: “Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?" 26The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed one.' 27Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. 28They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. 29Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. 30Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” 31After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.   It Was A Real Life Prayer   It Was A United Prayer   It Was A Rooted In Truth Prayer   It Was A BIG Prayer   It Was A Glorifying Prayer   It was an Empowering Prayer

Daniel's Prayer Daniel 9:1-19   (Daniel 9:1-3) (1)In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes t (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom— (2)in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. (3)So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.   DANIEL'S PRAYER WAS GUIDED BY SCRIPTURE   (Daniel 9:4–14) I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed: “Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws. We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land. “Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you. We and our kings, our princes and our ancestors are covered with shame, Lord, because we have sinned against you. The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him; we have not obeyed the Lord our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets. All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. “Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you. You have fulfilled the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster. Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem. Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth. The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster on us, for the Lordour God is righteous in everything he does; yet we have not obeyed him.   DANIEL'S PRAYER INCLUDED A FULL AND HUMBLE CONFESSION   Confess = Agree   (Daniel 9:15-19) (15)“Now, Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand and who made for yourself a name that endures to this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong. (16)Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, turn away your anger and your wrath from Jerusalem, your city, your holy hill. Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn to all those around us. (17)“Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, Lord, look with favor on your desolate sanctuary. (18)Give ear, our God, and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears your Name. We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy. (19)Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, hear and act! For your sake, my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name.”   DANIEL'S PRAYER WAS GROUNDED IN GOD'S CHARACTER

The Disciple's Prayer Matthew 6:9-15   (Matthew 6:9–15) “This, then, is how you should pray: “ ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.' For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.   Prayer reminds us of the Gospel   Prayer helps us to think rightly about God   Prayer is how we invite his rule and reign into our lives   Prayer teaches us to desire His Kingdom purposes   Prayer is how we invite God into our basic needs   Prayer helps to keep our spiritual family healthy   Prayer is how we walk in victory   Prayer reminds us of the importance of community          

We talk to Alan Borsuk again about the new bill the could reform how reading is taught across the state. Then we learn more about what it takes to become a Master Cheesemaker. Even if you don't have what it takes to get your PhD in cheese, doesn't mean you can't be paid to be a cheese and pizza taster. Guests: Alan Borsuk, Adam Brock, Mike Matuchesk

Muralist Adam Brock Ciresi on community practice, public art, and working personal narrative and illness into healing art.

So much of our modern story of rugged individualism is based around our personal needs, strength and skill. What about the truth of our belonging? What about the bigger stories that we are a part of? What about the relationships that define us, invite us, feed us? How do we step into these communities of accountability with intention, consent, and sovereignty?In this episode, we explore some examples of what intentional accountability might look like. I also recommend the book Change Here Now, by Adam Brock, as a model for this kind of living-which could change everything. 

On this episode Mike Wagner, Brian Ward and Special guest Adam Brock discuss rally racing, roll cages, listener submitted questions and talk about life, and building cool stuff.discussion questions 1: how has the cost of steel and other material effected business?2: What's your procedure for laying and calculating your bends for doing chassis and cage work?3: Are there any other forms of racing that you're interested in?4: Where do you see this part of the industry going in the future with the state of current economy and political climate?

Abrah Dresdale is a cultural artist, visionary educator, and consultant in the fields of regenerative social design, prison food justice, and Jewish earth-based traditions. She has a new book, out within the last couple of weeks, called Regenerative Design for Change Makers: A Social Permaculture Guidebook. It’s an essential guide for organizational changemakers, consultants, higher education students, and transdisciplinary educators pursuing a regenerative future for the 21st century. Adam Brock is a Denver-based cultural artist practicing regenerative social design. For over a decade, he’s worked to create the conditions for regenerative relationships among individuals, grassroots initiatives, and institutions throughout the country. Adam also has a book, published in 2017, called Change Here Now: Permaculture Strategies for Personal and Community Transformation, a recipe book for social change inspired by the more-than-human world. Their extended bios can be found in the show notes for this episode. In this discussion, Abrah, Adam, and Brandi talk about the intersections of Fractals + Free Will, including: How Abrah and Adam practice and teach a kind of “social biomimicry.” What Abrah calls the “principle of positive contagion”—a way we create our own weather patterns and exhibit personal agency, power, and free will, even when living inside oppressive systems. How healing can ripple to the past, another example of fractals. How we can create a “yes” where the world has told us there’s a “no,” like one beautiful story about a man locked in prison who nonetheless found a way to run the Boston Marathon. How tender and exhausting it can feel to constantly have to reassert your own agency in spaces where your whole humanity isn’t seen. The alienation we’ve all experienced in our early spiritual traditions, but how we’ve each grappled with reintegrating “ancient technologies” in ways that reflect ourselves and our values today—including the ability to critique how some of our “new” traditions, even permaculture, often include problematic practices. And so much more. Listeners can find Abrah and Adam’s work with Regenerate Change online, at regeneratechange.org, and on Instagram @regeneratechange. Get more This Plus That: Sign up for the newsletter. Check out this episode's show notes. Follow along on Twitter: @thisplusthatpod Follow along on Instagram:

The growing season may be brief in Alaska, but the 24 hours of sunshine helps many plants excel.  Bob Bosold visits with produce farmer, Candi Darinfeld, about the challenges and rewards of farming in Alaska. Another successful Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival concluded Sunday in Jefferson.  Interest in fiber arts remains high after the pandemic.  Aaron Zimmerman visits with Kevin Kitchen, sheep producer from Augusta, about how breeds influence the quality of fleece and wool produced. Quality control is critical in the dairy industry from the farm to the food plate.  Adam Brock from Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin joins Pam to focus on all the partnerships engaged in making sure Wisconsin dairy products remain safe and wholesome, and what's in development for the future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The final episode features co-hosts Hannah Perez-Postman and Adam Brock and their guest speakers, Candi Cdebaca and Yoshi Silverstein. They discuss environmental justice and how to create equal access and rights to a healthy environment, including land, water, air, and food through the lens of Shmita. You will also hear what brought them to their work as activists and what we all can do to contribute to and organize for a more just society for everyone. Candi Cdebaca- Member of the Denver City Council, 9th District. CdeBaca is a proud fifth-generation native of northeast Denver, Colorado, and a graduate of Manual High School and the University of Denver. Raised by a single mother and grandparents, Candi understands the importance of tight-knit communities and stepping up for neighbors in need. Candi is also the first LGBTQ Latina and first Democratic Socialist to serve on Denver City Council. She is a fierce advocate for justice and against the criminalization of poverty, environmental racism, and the displacement of Denver's black and brown communities. Yoshi Silverstein- Founder and Executive Director, Mitsui Collective. Yoshi is a Chinese-Ashkenazi-American Jew and an educator, coach, speaker, husband, and father. Yoshi was Director of the JOFEE Fellowship at Hazon from its launch through its first four cohorts, catalyzing the growth and leadership of over 60 emerging professionals working across the US and Canada in the realm of Jewish relationship to land, food, culture, climate, and community. He holds over two decades of experience in both Jewish and secular outdoor, food, farming, and environmental education.

A product of the PMEA festival system, Adam Brock, details that experience and how it shaped his life in his new book "My Song To Sing." Adam joins us to discuss the book, his experiences in PMEA events, and his advice for students considering participating in PMEA events.

Enjoy this fifth episode, featuring co-hosts Hannah Perez-Postman and Adam Brock and their guest speakers, Renee Millard-Chacon Youth Program Development Coordinator at Spirit of the Sun, and Leora Cockrell, Organizer with Jews on Ohlone Land. They discuss Indigenous rights through the lens of Shmita, during which our guests will speak about what brought them to their work as activists and what we all can do to contribute and organize for a more just society for everyone. Renee Millard-Chacon - Youth Program Development Coordinator, Spirit of the Sun Writer, educator, Danzante Azteca, Xicana activist, and most importantly the mother of two sons. She is an indigenous womxn of Dine/Mexica decent, fighting for future generations and committed to relating climate justice to social justice. She has worked with the International Indigenous Youth Council, 350.org, Four Winds American Indian Council of Denver, Womxn From the Mountain, and Earth Day Live 2020, in hosting, organizing, and leading marches, workshops, and educational resources for social justice and environmental justice. She welcomes any respectful correspondence to start doing the tedious but powerful work of creating better relations in spaces that deserve to be healed because of the trauma from historical inequality and environmental racism. Leora Cockrell - Organizer with Jews on Ohlone Land. Leora grew up on Wopumnes-Nisenan-Mewuk land in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California. Leora received their bachelor's degree in Sustainable Agriculture and minor in Gender Studies at UC Davis. Leora is now in the Masters of Social Change Program at Starr King School for the Ministry on Lisjan, Ohlone land studying and working on right relationships with land and Indigenous people as part of the diasporic Jewish community.

Adam Brock, executive vice president, and Matt Brock, executive director, of Brock Built join the Atlanta Real Estate Forum podcast to discuss upcoming Brock Built developments, as well as how they navigated through changes the home building industry underwent during the pandemic. They join hosts Carol Morgan and Todd Schnick for the All About Real Estate segment. Adam Brock has been working in the real estate industry for 16 years and specializes in land acquisition and government finance. Matt Brock's specialties include business administration and working with systems and processes. Both are kept busy outside of work with their families. Brock Built is frequently recognized for its visionary development on the Westside since its founding as a family business in 1984. Through the years, they have expanded from a family company and a home builder to a land developer and utility contractor. Taking projects from land to final home sales and owning real estate brokerage, Brock Built has tools that enable them to do a lot in the real estate industry as well as expand into business sectors outside of Georgia. "Homebuilding is more of a manufacturing business whereas development is more of an art. You get to be more playful," said Adam Brock. "You take a blank pallet, and create what you want to see there, and watching it come to life is very rewarding." The current crazy market has brought unprecedented demands and disrupted the supply chain in the home building industry, making it difficult for home builders to keep up with demand and aggressive pricing. There are aspects to the industry that have gotten easier but also many that have gotten harder. The Coronavirus forced everyone to work virtually which has freed up time for those who no longer have to worry about travel. On the difficult side of things, every municipality had to retool its processes in terms of approvals which will ultimately benefit the industry but currently comes with growing pains as everyone learns to work together again. "It's just different now, but still very good. It's definitely harder in Atlanta to find good land deals. People are willing to pay a lot more money for a property," said Adam Brock. Matt Brock's advice for homebuyers navigating this tumultuous market is to be prepared and make sure to have good representation. Being pre-qualified makes it easier to strike while the iron is hot once you have found a home suitable for your family. It's more important than ever to have a great agent that sets appropriate expectations around the current homebuying process as even real estate agents are struggling to navigate the current market. Brock Built is excited about several projects currently being completed or breaking ground in and outside of Georgia. The community of West Town in West Midtown is a 75-unit development that is nearly sold out. Predominantly featuring three-story single-family detached products, a neat thing that has recently been added to this development is a new style of modern homes. It has had a great reception in the market, and the team is sad to be winding down on such an exciting project. Ten92 West, also in West Midtown, is near the new Microsoft campus coming soon to Atlanta. This community is in a great location in a fast-growing area of the city. There has been a lot of excitement ever since information on this townhome development was released, causing prices to rise due to high demand. The magnificent product features rooftop living, a spacious owner suite, three bedrooms and three baths. The location and the prospects of Ten92 West have homebuyers very excited. Named after the historic streetcar line, Riverline is a 52-unit townhome community in the Riverside neighborhood that will be open for sale in the next 30 to 60 days. The interior layout is almost identical to Ten29 West but will not feature rooftop living to keep it affordable and obtainable.

Adam Brock, executive vice president, and Matt Brock, executive director, of Brock Built join the Atlanta Real Estate Forum podcast to discuss upcoming Brock Built developments, as well as how they navigated through changes the home building industry underwent during the pandemic. They join hosts Carol Morgan and Todd Schnick for the All About Real Estate segment. Adam Brock has been working in the real estate industry for 16 years and specializes in land acquisition and government finance. Matt Brock's specialties include business administration and working with systems and processes. Both are kept busy outside of work with their families. Brock Built is frequently recognized for its visionary development on the Westside since its founding as a family business in 1984. Through the years, they have expanded from a family company and a home builder to a land developer and utility contractor. Taking projects from land to final home sales and owning real estate brokerage, Brock Built has tools that enable them to do a lot in the real estate industry as well as expand into business sectors outside of Georgia. "Homebuilding is more of a manufacturing business whereas development is more of an art. You get to be more playful," said Adam Brock. "You take a blank pallet, and create what you want to see there, and watching it come to life is very rewarding." The current crazy market has brought unprecedented demands and disrupted the supply chain in the home building industry, making it difficult for home builders to keep up with demand and aggressive pricing. There are aspects to the industry that have gotten easier but also many that have gotten harder. The Coronavirus forced everyone to work virtually which has freed up time for those who no longer have to worry about travel. On the difficult side of things, every municipality had to retool its processes in terms of approvals which will ultimately benefit the industry but currently comes with growing pains as everyone learns to work together again. "It's just different now, but still very good. It's definitely harder in Atlanta to find good land deals. People are willing to pay a lot more money for a property," said Adam Brock. Matt Brock's advice for homebuyers navigating this tumultuous market is to be prepared and make sure to have good representation. Being pre-qualified makes it easier to strike while the iron is hot once you have found a home suitable for your family. It's more important than ever to have a great agent that sets appropriate expectations around the current homebuying process as even real estate agents are struggling to navigate the current market. Brock Built is excited about several projects currently being completed or breaking ground in and outside of Georgia. The community of West Town in West Midtown is a 75-unit development that is nearly sold out. Predominantly featuring three-story single-family detached products, a neat thing that has recently been added to this development is a new style of modern homes. It has had a great reception in the market, and the team is sad to be winding down on such an exciting project. Ten92 West, also in West Midtown, is near the new Microsoft campus coming soon to Atlanta. This community is in a great location in a fast-growing area of the city. There has been a lot of excitement ever since information on this townhome development was released, causing prices to rise due to high demand. The magnificent product features rooftop living, a spacious owner suite, three bedrooms and three baths. The location and the prospects of Ten92 West have homebuyers very excited. Named after the historic streetcar line, Riverline is a 52-unit townhome community in the Riverside neighborhood that will be open for sale in the next 30 to 60 days. The interior layout is almost identical to Ten29 West but will not feature rooftop living to keep it affordable and obtainable.

Please enjoy this fourth episode, featuring co-hosts Hannah Perez-Postman and Adam Brock and their guest speakers, Paul Sherman, Outreach Manager for Mazon, and Dr. Damien Thompson, Co-founder of Frontline Farming in Colorado and Director of the Center for Food Justice and Healthy Communities. They discuss food justice and food sovereignty through the lens of Shmita, during which our guests will speak about what brought them to their work as activists and what we all can do to contribute and organize for a more just society for everyone. Damien Thompson, PhD Co-founder, Frontline Farming in Colorado and Director, Center for Food Justice and Healthy Communities. Damien is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Criminal Justice at Regis University where he directs the Community Food Systems program. In addition to his training in anthropology, Dr. Thompson also holds certification in Permaculture Design and a 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teaching Certification. Paul Sherman Outreach Manager, MAZON. Paul has more than six years of experience in community organizing with both Jewish and anti-hunger organizations. After founding theUniversity of Denver's chapter of Food Recovery Network, he completed a fellowship at theirnational office in College Park, Maryland. Paul has a B.A. in Religious Studies and International Studies from the University of Denver. Paul implements MAZON's priorities on the East Coast by identifying and developing relationships with Jewish community-based organizations, including synagogues and anti-hunger organizations.

Please enjoy this third episode, featuring co-hosts Hannah Perez-Postman and Adam Brock and their guest speakers, Siena Mann, Campaign Manager for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, and Rosa Sabido, an activist and leader in the Sanctuary movement and founder of the organization Rosa Belongs Here. This hour-long conversation will be a discussion of immigrant rights work through the lens of Shmita and the Torah's wisdom on treating "the stranger", during which our guests will speak about what brought them to their work as activists and what we all can do to contribute and organize for a more just society for everyone. In this season, we are sharing the recordings of a six part speaker series called Acting for Change, Creating Justice produced by Ekar Farms, an earth-based Jewish urban farm in Denver, CO. We will look at how to use ancient Jewish traditions, like Shmita, to catalyze conversations that inspire individual and collective actions to work towards justice. Each episode will have a new speaker to explore the interwoven themes of Judaism, connection to land, and modern social justice movements. We hope this series will inspire you to take action on some of these issues during the upcoming Shmita Year. You can learn more about this series and other programs at www.ekarfarm.org/shmita. This series is produced in partnership with the Shmita Project. The Shmita Project is working to expand awareness about the biblical Sabbatical tradition, and to bring the values of this practice to life today to support healthier, more sustainable Jewish communities. Learn more at www.shmitaproject.org. Featured Guests: Siena Mann: Campaign Manager, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition Siena has been active in justice movements since graduating from Haverford College with a B.A. in Spanish Literature in 2014. Siena moved back to Colorado and became an active local organizer in Colorado Springs in the deportation resistance movement. She helped found the Colorado Springs Sanctuary Coalition and was an active member of CIRC’s member group Grupo Esperanza. Siena joined CIRC as the South Regional Organizer from 2018-2019. As one of CIRC’s Organizing and Campaign Managers, Siena's work now focuses on making improvements to the SB251 Driver’s License for All program, coordinating the I Drive/Yo Manejo Coalition and fighting for data privacy for all. Rosa Sabido: Founder, Rosa Belongs Here. Rosa has lived in the United States for more than 30 years. She works as the Secretary at the Catholic Church. For the past six years, Rosa has been granted a Stay of Removal by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) until May 11,2017, when the agency declined to grant her most recent request. Facing deportation Rosa sought “sanctuary” while she works to remain in her community in the country she calls home, and to care for her U.S. citizen parents.

In this season, we are sharing the recordings of a six part speaker series called Acting for Change, Creating Justice produced by Ekar Farms, an earth-based Jewish urban farm in Denver, CO. We will look at how to use ancient Jewish traditions, like Shmita, to catalyze conversations that inspire individual and collective actions to work towards justice. Each episode will have a new speaker to explore the interwoven themes of Judaism, connection to land, and modern social justice movements. We hope this series will inspire you to take action on some of these issues during the upcoming Shmita Year. You can learn more about this series and other programs at www.ekarfarm.org/shmita. This series is produced in partnership with the Shmita Project. The Shmita Project is working to expand awareness about the biblical Sabbatical tradition, and to bring the values of this practice to life today to support healthier, more sustainable Jewish communities. Learn more at www.shmitaproject.org. Please enjoy this second episode, featuring co-hosts Hannah Perez-Postman and Adam Brock and their guest speakers, Greg Watson of the Schumacher Institute for a New Economics and Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster of T'ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. This hour long conversation will be a discussion of economic justice through the lens of Shmita, during which our guests will speak about what brought them to their work as activists and what we all can do to contribute and organize for a more economically just, and equitable society. Featured Guests: Greg Watson, Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. His work currently focuses on community food systems and the dynamics between local and geo-economic systems. Watson has spent nearly 40 years learning to understand systems thinking as inspired by Buckminster Fuller and to apply that understanding to achieve a just and sustainable world. Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, Deputy Director, T’ruah. Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster has spent nearly fourteen years at T'ruah: The Rabbinical Call for Human Rights, most recently as Deputy Director. At T'ruah, she has been the lead strategist on T’ruah’s human rights campaigns and heads the organizing and training of more than 2,000 rabbis and cantors. Rachel is the original #tomatorabbi, spearheading T’ruah’s critical partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida, and leads Jewish community in worker-led campaigns for corporate accountability.

In this season, we will be sharing the recordings of a six part speaker series called Acting for Change, Creating Justice produced by Ekar Farms, an earth-based Jewish urban farm in Denver, CO. We will look at how to use ancient Jewish traditions, like Shmita, to catalyze conversations that inspire individual and collective actions to work towards justice. Each episode will have a new speaker to explore the interwoven themes of Judaism, connection to land, and modern social justice movements. We hope this series will inspire you to take action on some of these issues during the upcoming Shmita Year. You can learn more about this series and other programs at www.ekarfarm.org/shmita. This first episode features co-hosts Hannah Perez-Postman, Adam Brock, and their guest speaker, Nati Passow, who will share about a framework for understanding the history of Jewish agriculturalism and how the practice of Shmita developed. This series is produced in partnership with the Shmita Project. The Shmita Project is working to expand awareness about the biblical Sabbatical tradition, and to bring the values of this practice to life today to support healthier, more sustainable Jewish communities. We’ve recently launched the Shmita Prizes – a chance to create new ritual & meaning around the ancient practices of the sabbatical year. Submissions are being accepted through May 19, 2021. Learn more at www.shmitaproject.org.

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Welcome back to another episode of the Seed of Tao Podcast, this week with not one, but two return guests who we know and love, Adam Brock and Marie-Pierre (MP) Bilodeau. This week is a unique episode, MP is sharing her community food forest project in a diverse neighborhood, and the struggles she is finding along her way, and Adam is weighing in with his extensive knowledge of social permaculture.    If you’d like to get in contact with Adam or MP, they are both in our Slack community, or here are their individual contact resources…   Adam Brock: His website is adambrock.me His book is Change Here Now is available through his website or on amazon.   Marie-Pierre Bilodeau: Her organization, Refarmers can be found on her site at https://refarmers.org/ (the images in this post are from Refarmer's work in Africa) MP is also a frequent attendee of our weekly MOKR Mastermind First, Build Relationships In the episode this week there is just an abundance of wisdom and insight from the conversation, but a really important place the conversation started was with relationships. MP was sharing about the other two people who are spearheading this community food forest project with her, and Adam chimed in to emphasize the importance of relationships in the success of our projects. He related, “If the group doesn’t really trust each other, all the shadows within that group will be projected outward, into all of the things that group does together.” Sometimes we will band together with people because we share a common vision, and yet if we’re not working on that interpersonal relationship with them, we’re undermining the potential for that vision’s success... (Read more on the Seeds of Tao Podcast)

On the first episode of Motor Racing Passion, Adam & Brock give first hand accounts of online sim racing through competing in the National Sports Sedan eSeries. Daniel goes retro with his favourite racing sims, while despite Luke's Protestations, a chat about racing liveries becomes a Holden admiration club.

In this episode of the RallyCast presented by Oz Rally Pro we welcome back Chris Greenhouse. Although not seen as frequently on the American rally scene of late, Chris is one of the fastest 2wd competitors out there. We talked about social distanced rallying, his overall win at Central UP, and how he's looking forward to the depth of competition at the upcoming Southern Ohio Forests Rally. We even helped plant the seed of a potential run at the ARA Open 2WD championship. Grab a cold one and  enjoy a chat with us at the virtual rally pub we call the RallyCast.       Official Central UP Press Release: Greenhouse tops field at Central UP Rally Powers, MI, USA Chris Greenhouse and Ryan Scott took their Dodge Neon SRT4 to the overall win at their first attempt at Central UP Rally. Heavy rain created treacherous road conditions, but the team was undeterred and took the win not only against the 2-wheel-drive cars, but also against all of the much higher spec all-wheel-drive cars. For Chris, this was his second 2WD victory this season, but also his first ever overall win. Chris has competed exclusively in the 2WD class and scoring an overall victory in a 2WD car is a feat that's almost unheard-of in modern rally. "Conditions were not favorable at all," said Chris after the event. "Friday was absolutely gorgeous with clear, blue skies, but then the rain started and left a lot of mud and standing water on the stages, which do not drain well. We had to carefully choose our spots to push hard and our spots to be conservative. We had a few mistakes, including one on the last stage where we nearly rolled the car about 11 miles from the end of the event. Luckily for us, we escaped without damage." Ryan Scott was the recipient of the Diane Sargent Memorial Award, which was given to the fastest 2WD co-driver of the event. "I am honored to have been presented the Diane Sargent Memorial Award. Though, I was not fortunate enough to have met her, everything I have learned about her proves she was not afraid of a challenge and that she embodied the 'press on regardless' spirit we should all diligently work to cultivate in our own lives" The team would like to thank the organizing committee and volunteers who created new procedures to conduct the event under COVID-19 safety protocols. Chris and Ryan are now busy preparing for Southern Ohio Forest Rally next month, where they hope to extend their class winning streak to 3-in-a-row. Chris would like to thank the following: Adam Brock of 9HIO MotorsportsDavid Morrisette of Platto MotorportsAngry Sheep MotorsportsA1CVTechRacersEdge411Paul Eddleston of Team Illuminata MotorsportsMotodecals.com

Constant questions from dairy farmers, consumers, retailers - about where's the milk and why can't we use it - keep Adam Brock with Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin, busy these days.  Brock gives us the latest update on what's being done to try and find a home for all the milk currently being dumped in Wisconsin.

As farmers are looking for ways to diversify many looked to hemp this past year, but finding help in the banking world wasn't easy.  Scott Birrenkott is the assistant general council for legal matters at the Wisconsin Bankers Association and shared more about bankers and their attempt to work with industrial hemp producers. State Rep. Todd Novak had a quick update on the governors water quality task force, and what they are looking at for the next steps. Adam Brock is the director of food safety for the Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin and gives more insight into how diary check off dollars are being put to good use in the state.  

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Living Permaculture welcomes Adam Brock back to the show to discuss and celebrate his new position as Western Program Director for the National Young Farmers Coalition. Adam will also lead a 72-hour permaculture design intensive, the internationally-accredited syllabus and certificate, at the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute on July 15 to 27.

When I wrote a post lamenting the difficulties of forming and sustaining groups I got an email from Adam Brock, author of Change Here Now, a book which uses architect Christopher Alexander idea of a “pattern language” to find solutions to the many challenges in front of us. A large section of the book develops […]

Victor Mitchell, one of the candidates for the Republican nomination for governor, broke rank with other members of his party and said Trump should resign following developments with Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort. Also, Breaking Bread returns to Sandy Russell and Adam Brock, as the two visit his urban farming nonprofit to talk partisanship.

Adam Brock, author of Change Here Now , applies concepts from permaculture to help achieve more resilient and sustainable communities, both urban and rural.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Avery Ellis, of Colorado Greywater, joins me to talk, in a conversation recorded live at a local coffee shop, about aquaponics, water harvesting, and his entry into the world of community politics when he joined the stakeholder process that changed the laws around how people can collect and use water in Colorado. From these experiences, he created the foundations for a pattern language, which he shares with us, that we can use to remove the restrictions placed upon permaculture designers, homeowners, and businesses that practice sustainability and build resilience. Find out more about Avery and his work at ColoradoGreywater.com -- I mentioned near the end of the conversation about some allies in our work to change the laws that restrict sustainable practices. The two you'll find linked to in the show notes are Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and National Community Rights Network. The National Community Rights Network also has state chapters in Colorado, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. If you're involved in any kind of community engagement around the use of natural resources, definitely check out those two organizations. I really appreciate people like Avery, or Adam Brock or Karryn Olson-Ramanujan, who continue to develop various pattern languages, drawing on the earlier work of Christopher Alexander and team in the book A Pattern Language. I find that pattern languages extend the core principle of permaculture design and apply this language and thought process to specific problems. Karryn works on issues for women in permaculture. Adam on how to create change, here and now. For Avery, it is to be involved in the stakeholder process and politically engaged on the things we care about and lend our expertise, which lead him to his patterns. The ones he explicitly identified that we walked through in our conversation today were: allies on the inside, stakeholder cohesion, speaking legalese, CYA, people power, immutable force, and grit. Have you been involved in the process of political change? Are there patterns you would add to this list? Let me know. Leave a comment in the show notes or get in touch. Email: The Permaculture Podcast Write The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast You can also use those ways to reach out if I can ever help you with your project or permaculture path. I keep my door open to lend a hand in whatever way I can. From here, the next episode is my conversation with Karen Lanier about her book, The Woman Hobby Farmer. Until then, spend each day creating the world you want to live in, but getting involved, changing the laws, and taking care of Earth, yourself, and your community.   Support The Podcast Become an on-going Patreon subscriber Make a one-time donation via PayPal Resources Avery Ecological Design Colorado Greywater Colorado Aquaponics Boulder Permaculture Sandy Cruz High Altitude Permaculture Living Routes (Now defunct. Reorganized as CAPE - Custom Academic Programs in Ecovillages) Auroville Ecovillage - India Master of Ecological Design - San Francisco Institute of Architecture Greywater Action Harvesting Rainwater and Brad Lancaster Allies in our work for change Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund National Community Rights Network Other Interviews on Pattern Languages 1723 – Change Here Now with Adam Brock 1433 - A Pattern Language for Women in Permaculture with Karryn Olson-Ramanujan

Attuning our minds to social permaculture solutions. In This Podcast: When given the opportunity to make an abandon greenhouse become useful Adam Brock and a few friends created the GrowHaus.  He has traveled many places focusing on the invisible structures of permaculture design and has crafted a course that teaches how to see the needs and make a difference in your community. He tells us how this came about and why he was encouraged to write a book on a topic that is not well known. Adam helps explain many permaculture concepts that are important but often left undeveloped when discussing the stages of design.     Don't miss an episode! Click here to sign up for weekly podcast updates or visit www.urbanfarm.org/podcast Adam is a facilitator, author, and designer working at the intersection of urban agriculture, sustainable business, and social change. As co-founder of The GrowHaus, Adam helped transform an abandoned half-acre greenhouse in Colorado's most polluted zip code into an award-winning hub for urban agriculture. The GrowHaus engages thousands of low-income residents per year, grows 1500 heads of lettuce per week, and has a million-dollar annual budget. A certified permaculture designer since 2008, Adam is active in the local and national permaculture communities. In May 2017, Adam released his first book, Change Here Now: Permaculture Strategies for Personal and Community Transformation (North Atlantic Books). It is a “recipe book” of solutions for social change grounded in ecological principles. Go to www.urbanfarm.org/adambrock for more information and links on this podcast, and to find our other great guests.

Permaculturalist, educator, and my guest today Adam Brock dives head-first into this question with his new book Change Here Now. Drawing from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over, Change Here Now presents 82 proven solutions for building resilient and empowered communities. The book offers answers for permaculturalists, organizers, activists, nonprofit directors, social entrepreneurs - and anyone else looking for meaning in a chaotic world.  Read the book: Change Here Now   View the show notes for this episode and all past episodes. If you enjoy the show, support content I have created. Support while you shop at Amazon.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Visit Our Episode Sponsor: Harvesting Rainwater How do we create the world with the social and economic structures we desire? How do we distill the problems that we see over and over again in that context so they are easy to understand, that lead solutions with a universal application? By creating a pattern language, an idea first coined in 1977 by Christopher Alexander in the book A Pattern Language: Towns - Buildings - Construction. My guest today, Adam Brock, took that lens, originally applied to architecture and structures, and used it to examine our invisible structures, which resulted in his book Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation. During the conversation today we talk about the development of the book and some of his process on going from concept to published manuscript. We also touch on some of the challenging conversations that arise from looking broadly at we apply permaculture and these patterns to our communities, including some of the dialogues we should consider engaging in as neighbors or leaders. We close of course with Adam final thoughts, but not before he shares some of the patterns he developed, including Dynamic Pricing and Nurtured Networks. You can find out more about Adam and his book, including upcoming events, at AdamBrock.me. Do this quick introduction to Pattern Languages and the conversation with Adam make sense? Can you see using this kind of patterning and a pattern language in your own work? Will you be picking up a copy of Change Here Now to get a better understanding of these ideas and how to apply them? Email: The Permaculture Podcast Write: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Returning to The Gift Fundraiser Donate today! Become a Patreon supporter. Win a Permaculture Design Course at VerdEnergia Pacifica in Costa Rica. Resources AdamBrock.me Overton Window (Wiki)

Playing for Team Human today is permaculturalist Adam Brock, author of Change Here Now. Adam joins Douglas for a conversation about how humanity is integrally connected to natural ecosystems. “Nature is a textbook,” Adam explains, and so by paying close attention to ecological systems, we can better understand ourselves as part of a greater whole. It’s a theme that serves as the springboard into a conversation not only about the ways we grow food, but also about community, trust, and the deeper sense of connection that comes from a permaculture mindset.Rushkoff opens today’s show with a monologue about Amazon’s recent purchase of Whole Foods and how scaling up in the digital economy threatens to leave humans behind. Rushkoff's most recent book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity was just released in paperback with new expanded material last week.Adam Brock's new book Change Here Now is available at Amazon and Indie Bound.Adam founded www.thegrowhaus.org and works with The Wild Green Yonder. Also check out the Denver Permaculture Guild.Music in this episode: Mike Watt: beak-holding-letter-man , Joshua Sitron and the Team Human Band play Growth Trap, R.U. Sirius: President Mussolini Makes The Planes Run On Time, Fugazi : Foreman's DogEpisode Photo: By Susanne Bollinger (Susanne Bollinger) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest for this episode is Peter Michael Bauer, who returns to share with us his thoughts on the distinction between human versus conservation rewilding, and a critique of what they get right and what they get wrong as we develop the understanding and language to discuss these broad, far reaching views on how to undo domestication of people and of the land. Peter also shares a bit more detail on the nature of rewilding, how people come to this subject through different movements, and how the nature of un-domesticating humanity is still something being explored, because each of us exists in the modern world and with that face different choices framed by the larger culture we are a part of. Quite a bit just to introduce where the conversation goes, while still barely scratching the surface of what we cover. You can find more of his work at his personal website, Urban Scout. Peter is also a regular contributor to rewild.com and the Rewild Facebook group, and his educational nonprofit is rewildportland.com. A few announcements, before my thoughts that close out this episode. The first is that in order to make mobile browsing easier, especially through podcast apps like iTunes, there is now a resource section in this episode with clear links to all the information and offerings mentioned in the episode so you don't have to look for in-line links to find anything. You can expect to find this as a regular feature in episodes moving forward, and I'll backfill older episodes as time allows. As this show comes out there are just over three weeks remaining until the drawing for the permaculture design course at Joshua Peaceseeker's farm, Verdenergia, in Costa Rica. You can still enter, but the drawing is limited to not more than 50 entries, so get yours in soon. www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/costa-rica I am also running a listener only crowdfunding campaign to support a trip to The Possibility Alliance (should I call it The Possibility Handbook?) where Ethan Hughes and I sit down to record tens of hours of audio for the creation of a book that digs in deeper to his philosophy and perspective. If you like Ethan's interviews support this project by making a pledge today. www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/book Adam Brock is also writing, People and Pattern, which has a crowdfunding campaign that ends on Friday, November 6. Let's push his goal way over the top by supporting this project. You can find out more about his work on social and economic permaculture by listening to our interview from 2013, Invisible Structures with Adam Brock. If you'd like to get in touch with me and the show, call or email: The Permaculture Podcast. Final among these announcements, there is a bit of swearing near the end in this conversation, just to let you know in case you listen at work. I entered this conversation with only a cursory knowledge of conservation rewilding and speaking with Peter reinforced a simple point that is made self-evident with permaculture: people are a part of all the systems we design. Even as we might work to design ourselves out of direct impact, the act of design is a human practice. So is reintroducing wolves to the American Midwest. Yes, they were once native there and we removed them, but we also changed the environment they are returning to. The place they came from will never be what we might project onto it through our vision and actions. This kind of influence is not limited to the modern era. We have an anthropological and historical record that stretches back for tens of thousands of years that shows that humanity modified the environment for our use. We are social animals and tool makers with big brains and an intelligence that allows us to change the world. Let's use that gift for the benefit of all life, starting with our own. Question the cultural stories you hear, including the news and the beliefs you grew up with. See how those narratives serve the hierarchies that seeks to keep you tame. Reconnect with the land, even the heavily modified city environments. Find what lives there, what grows there. Get to know the names of the plants, animals, and fungi so you can learn more about them, including the yields useful to you and other life, but remember that the name is not the subject being named and there is more than we can hold in our thoughts. As you do this, tend to that space, care for the life that inhabits the area, including your family, friends, and neighbors. Share food and new stories together. Take action in the ways you are able, but put yourself out there. Make some noise. Show others what they are capable of. Show how they can tend themselves and the land. We are more than the worst decisions our culture ever made. Let's go make some better ones, that takes care of earth, ourselves, and each other. Resources Episode 1513: Rewilding Permaculture with Peter Michael Bauer Urban Scout Rewild Rewild Facebook Page Rewild Portland Costa Rica PDC Giveaway The Ethan Hughes Book Project (The Possibility Handbook?) People and Pattern Crowdfunding Campaign Invisible Structures with Adam Brock Rewilding North America by Dave Foreman The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson Restoring the Pacific Northwest Feral by George Monbiot Keeping it Living, edited by Doug Deur and Nancy Turner Tom Brown, Jr. Anarcho-Primitivism (Wikipedia) Reclaim Rewild (scribd)

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. My guest today is Lisa Rose, author most recently of Midwest Foraging, which was supposed to be the basis of our conversation and we do touch on that some, but also spend our time telling stories about family traditions; place and the lands we each feel connected to; and how foraging and food can return seasonality to our lives, along with a host of new flavors, once we leave the grocery store behind. There's also a digression in the middle about nocino, an Italian sipping liquer, which you can find a recipe for at Lisa's site, Burdock and Rose, and pick up a copy of her book at Timber Press. When it comes to Midwest Foraging I agree with the quote from Sam Thayer that graces the cover, “A beautiful book that any forager in the Midwest will want to own.” As there is an overlap in plants from this book to where I am in the Mid-Atlantic, it's a good addition to those book shelves as well. The layout and format leads to a book that you can, as Dan De Lion recommended, spend time with to leisurely browse and read to build a familiarity with plants which you can then begin to recognize as you go about your daily walks or journeys into the landscape.The entries, which are arranged alphabetically around a common name, include the latin binomial name, very important for proper discussion and identification, along with which parts are edible, a short introduction, and one to a few color pictures. Common features you'll find in many field guides include descriptive text, how and what to gather, how to eat the plants, and, where necessary, cautions about poisonous plants that have similar identifying features. Where this book stands out from some earlier field guides is the inclusion of information on where and when to gather, very important for knowing the right time of year to look for a particular plant; and notes about future harvests. This latter portion in particular caught my attention because using those entries we can wildcraft ethically to insure plants are available for ongoing use and so we can tend to Zone 4 and the wild places. With 115 plants included, Midwest Foraging covers a lot of ground and is a good first choice for a beginning forager in the region covered. For more experienced folks with a larger library this is a valuable companion to include with your other field guides. Add a copy to your library by ordering from Timber Press or your local retailer, where the book lists for $24.95. If you enjoyed this conversation with Lisa and would like to add your thoughts to the discussion, or your own review of Midwest Foraging, leave a comment below. You can also contact me if you have any questions or if there is a way I can assist you on your permaculture path by emailing The Permaculture Podcast or calling . As this episode comes out a reminder that there is less than a month until the drawing for the Permaculture Design Course at Joshua Peaceseeker's farm Verdenergia in Costa Rica. You still have time to enter, but as this is limited to not more than 50 entries, get yours in today! An update on those show notes for mobile users. Whether you use iTunes, Stitcher, Podcast Addict, or another podcast catcher, thanks to some feedback from listeners you will now see the complete show notes in the episode feed. That includes links to make browsing and connecting easier when you are on the go. Part of that update did required a change to the RSS feed for the podcast, so if you go into your app you will now see it includes the 75 most recent episodes available, or a little over a year of content. If you want to explore deeper into the past shows, you will find the available past episodes on the archives page. If you haven't heard the episode yet, I recently announced more information about the book I'm writing with Ethan Hughes. If you like his work and want to support that creation, more information is available at www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/book. Another book in need of our assistance is from past guest and good friend of the show Adam Brock who is writing his treatise on social permaculture, People and Patterns. That campaign is at: https://igg.me/at/peoplepattern From here for the next interview Peter Michael Bauer returns to discuss human versus conservation rewilding. Until then, eat some wild foods, learn about plants, and spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Become a Patron. The guest for this episode is Adam Brock, a past guest of the show, who joins me to talk about his role as a guest editor for an upcoming issue of Permaculture Design Magazine. This is a follow-up to my conversation with John Wages about the art and craft of producing a print permaulture publication. During the discussion Adam and I get straight to the point and talk about the contents of the issue he is editing, the process of contacting authors to collect articles, the importance of magazines as current sources of information, and how this assignment as an editor is accessible for anyone with an interest in writing, permaculture, or both. You can find out more about his work at thegrowhaus.org. If you would like to contact John Wages and propose a subject for an issue you would like to edit, email editor@permaculturedesignmagazine.com. After Adam and I wrapped up the episode, he wanted me to share an article with you that is currently available, and he is republishing in the issue on Decolonizing Permaculture. That piece is Towards a Racially Inclusive Permaculture Community. One of the things that initially attracted me to permaculture was the broad range of voices from so many different people around the world who, as we've heard time and time again when I ask for it, come from backgrounds that do not readily seem like they should intersect. Perhaps the only tenet that ties us all together is a spark that rose up and caused us to care enough for the world we live in to seek a different way, and in our search we found permaculture. It could have been anything else, but this was it. With permaculture we found a home and a community. Wherever you come from, whatever you've known, whatever you do, you can practice permaculture. In that process, and through the path that you are on, you've learned something that matters and can make a difference in someone else's life, and that of the community and the world, by sharing it. You can write articles for Permaculture Design Magazine. If you are comfortable with the idea, you can guest edit an issue. All you need to do is take that first step: contact John Wages and let him know your interest. Along the way, if you have something you'd like to share with me or via the podcast, get in touch. Email: The Permaculture Podcast . If you leave a message with a question or comment, I can include it in an upcoming episode of the podcast. Or, if you'd like to you can even send me a letter or postcard in the mail. The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Two final notes as I draw this to a close. First, the show depends on listener support, particularly ongoing monthly contributions that allow the space and time to go do live recordings like the recent trip to talk with Eric and Victoria of Charm City Farms, or the round-table discussion with Charles Eisenstein, Dave Jacke, and Ben Weiss. Sign up at Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast for $5 a month and enjoy unique benefits including patron only episodes, and discounts to permaculture oriented businesses, including 25% off at Chelsea Green publishing, and 10% at Field and Forest Products, my favorite retailer for all things mushroom spawn. Second, It's nearly August and that means my journey to Radicle Gathering in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is getting closer. I'll be there for all four days of the event, August 20 - 23, with a discussion on Friday, workshop on Saturday, and the Saturday keynote address on building community. Eric Puro and ThePOOSH will be there as well, as Eric is the Friday night keynote. I look forward to seeing you there, and you can find out more at radiclegathering.com. Until the next time, take care of Earth, yourself, and each other.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Become a Patron. My guests for this episode are Eric and Victoria of Charm City Farms, a permaculture based urban agriculture initiative that focuses on educating and supporting individuals and communities in and around Baltimore, Maryland. During the conversation today we open by talking about the development of a quarter acre food forest in Clifton Park, and the requirement for grant funding and organizing volunteers in order to be successful with the project, and the permaculture and primitives skills classes they offer. The second half we dig into one of those courses in detail, The Forager's Apprentice program Victoria is running, which leads to a discussion about the role of blending academic rigour with hands on experiences. Throughout this conversation we move between the practical and the philosophical and how both play an important role in practicing permaculture and creating deep experiences. You can find out more about what they are doing, including the Food Forest Journal at CharmCityFarms.org. If you are in the area I recommend getting in touch with Eric and Victoria and going to visit the food forest when they are having one of the regularly Friday field days. If you can take a class with them, including The Forager's Apprentice when it re--opens next year, I highly recommend it. You'll find a complete listing of the different kinds of classes they offer in the show notes. If the course you are interested in isn't listed on their website get in touch and let them know. Also sign up for their newsletter so you can see what is happening when. I've known Eric for sometime through email exchanges and following his work through the Charm City Farms website. Knowing that he had a viable project going was why I wanted to sit down and interview him in person. After going down and spending a day with Victoria and Eric I was left with a positive impression of both Victoria and Eric, as well as what it is they are doing and the authenticity of their work. The food forest is in really good shape and as we walked through they were naming the various plants using both the common name and latin binomial. They also pointed out not only the successes, but also the failures. They raised questions about why one plant did well as an outlier, but then did not thrive in what should be, by all accounts, the ideal space for that same species and cultivar. When questioned about community engagement, it came with a humility and understanding of the difficulties of coming in as an apparent outsider and the need to integrate into a place to find out who the real leaders in a given neighborhood are in order to get the right buy-in. I asked about population and demographics and Eric was able to answer them immediately and in great detail. We talked about organizations and people and various initiatives in the city that went well beyond what you heard in the interview and what Victoria and Eric could bring to bear while we were casually walking around and discussing the two sites they are working with was encyclopedic. They've done the groundwork and really integrated themselves into what they are doing and taken on the roles they've decided for themselves and continue to look for ways to make the changes necessary to be more effective, including considering buying and renovating a home in the community near the second site they are looking to develop, where the red brick barn is located so they can be close to the space and also members of the community. We all find inspiration in different places for the work we do. I know Ethan Hughes is an inspiration for many as he and his community are able to live within the gift economy, without gas or electricity. In conversations I've had with Ethan off the air he knows, however, that the Possibility Alliance model isn't something that most people can do. It is too radical of a shift to accomplish in one lifetime. What Eric and Victoria are doing in the city, in place, is a path many many more can follow. I'm reminded of Bob Theis and his comment, which I'll paraphrase, that there are plenty of good places we can repair and restore that already exist, rather than inflicting ourselves on some place that doesn't need us. Now that worldwide the majority of people live in cities and metropolitan areas, urban permaculture practitioners are more vital than ever. If you are in a place that needs you and we can work together to build the place you want to live, let me know. Get in touch. Email: The Permaculture Podcast Send me a letter: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Up next week is Adam Brock to discuss the role of a guest editor with Permaculture Design Magazine. Until then, take care of Earth, yourself, and each other. Charm City Farms Classes and Workshops Permaculture Design Certification Course (72 Hours) Wild Plant Food & Medicine (30 Hours) Wild Edibles Workshops Forage Report Forage Plant ID Botany for Foragers Mushroom ID 101 Wild Edibles Cooking Demo Wild Tea Party Woodscraft Friction Fire I - Bow Drill Friction Fire II - Hand Drill Tracking 101 Working With Bone Utility Plant Walk Cordage from Plant Fiber Fresh Materials Vine Basket Mugwort: Craft, Medicine, Food, Smoke Cooking + Poison: Milkweed, Pokeweed, and Bamboo Traditional Bow Making Kids Programs Primitive Skills & Nature Studies Hunter Gatherer Summer Wild Ones Nature Exploration Farm and/or Homestead Tree Grafting Holistic Orchard Management Integrated Forest Garden Design Cubic Inch Food Garden Intensive Mushroom Log Inoculation Homeskills Herb, Fruit and Flower Wines Fathers Day Ale Making Cheese Making Class Round One Cheese Making Class Round Two Bread Making Soap Making Personal Care Products Make Your Own Cleaning Supplies Salves, Syrups, and Tinctures Canning Demystified Knife Sharpening 101 Rabbit Processing Basic Vehicle Repair Resources Foragers of Baltimore (Meetup Group) Baltimore Orchard Project Charm City Farms (Meetup Group) Baltimore Green Space Olivia Fite (Clinical Herbalist)

Donate to The Permaculture PodcastOnline:via PayPal Venmo:@permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Support it on Patreon. My guests for this episode are David Blumenkrantz and Jen Mendez. They share with us the idea of youth and community development through rites of passage. This is a conversation that encompasses education, teaching children permaculture, community development, what it means to grow up, and four of the major life experiences shared by most cultures. Those include birth, adolescence, marriage, and death. This is something that David has worked on for 50 years in various forms before coming to examine how rites of passage and initiatory experiences influence education and community, and how reintroducing these ideas paired with indigenous wisdom and ways of knowing and scientific understanding can create a new narrative. Jen has been adapting these ideas and applying them to education design through her work and how to use them to develop new models for raising children in a way that includes care for the earth, care for ourselves, and care for others. If you enjoy this episode or any others in the archives stretching back to 2010, I need your support to keep things going. I can't do this without the help of each and every listener, and that includes you. Take two minutes and go over to Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast and sign up to become an ongoing listener-patron. Depending on the level you select you can receive a number of unique benefits including early access to episodes, patron only podcasts, and a discounts to different vendors. The latest providing a discount is Chelsea Green press, who are offering 25% off your order. Should you prefer to make a one time contribution you can do so via the Donate button on the right hand side of this page. You can find more of David and his work at Rope.org, and Jen is at Permiekids.com. I also recommend checking out the recent video I posted that provides an overview of this work on rites of passage and what David and Jen are collaborating on. This is a great way to share this idea with people you know interested in children, education, and community building to help spread the word about their project to return rite of passage and initiatory experiences to education, living, and growing up in community. You can find more information about the course David and Jen are offering this fall from the link below. If I'm able to, with everything else going on, I am planning to participate in that course as I am able in order to examine and apply these ideas to secondary education. https://www.permiekids.com/oursharedstory/ With all that written, one of the things that really stood out to me is when David said that this work is “the confluence of the sacred and the profane” and the blending of traditional indigenous wisdom and ways of knowing with the scientific way in order to create a new narrative and educational system for children that come together to develop our communities. Part of that is because it touches on the need for informal, yet rigorous, education. To begin telling stories that weave together more than just the facts, that include the emotions and cultural touchstones of the things we and others around us connect with. I like this approach because it provides a big picture for a number of related though disparate parts I've been mulling over and working on the past few months when it comes to my own work of establishing a sense of place for myself and my children, and how that influences my understanding of self and my permaculture practices, teaching, and creating a community. One of the biggest influences on my perspective when it comes to permaculture and the other parts comes from the environmental education field and the writings of David Orr and David Sobel. Both work heavily around the idea of establishing a Sense of Place that roots each of us into a given biome. This is then used as both the classroom and as a teaching tool by connecting students with resources that further integrate them into the community by using examples that are close at hand to discuss various disciplines from math to science to history to language. Once a certain core proficiency is established, such as being able to read, write, and do basic math, students progress in a non-homogenized way through their further studies by integrating things such as the local biota, climate, and geology into history classes about biology or earth science. History includes conversations about how the place where one lives fits within the greater context of national or world events. An example of that might be how during WWII the Enola Yard, a local rail yard, was receiving shipments from all over the allied territories, including the USSR, because of the risk of transport via ships to Europe. We can use examples from sports played in the area to teach math and physics. Around here most children play soccer, baseball, or softball. It makes more sense to ask them, “If Monique runs at 30 feet per second, how long does it take her to round the bases of a baseball field, a total distance of 360 ft.?” Yes it is a word problem and what is being asked for is abstract, but it's something that can be seen. Then during recess or a gym class children can go run the bases and be timed, seeing if they can beat Monique's time, or find out that she runs fast. As adults this sense of place provides a community for us to get involved in. To be active in politics and be on planning commissions or various advisory boards. We can go and have our voices heard. We can work with business owners, people we can get to know, to bring permaculture into their lives, or contract with a landscape design firm if we are designers, or teach after school programs through local organizations such as the boy and girl scouts or a boys and girls club, or if one is so inclined through a church, mosque, or synagogue. Taking this back to what David and Jen shared here, this also allows us to begin to recreate those rites of passage and initatory experiences as a community that help children and the people they call their friends and neighbors to develop the connections needed to increase the yields of all kinds to create the world we want to live in. Together we can look beyond the immediacy of the now and the fear and separation that is fed to us every day and cast off that wrong story and have the space to create the right one. The beautiful this is that we don't have to do this alone. We can do this in community. Start with the virtual camp fires and those people near you. Get to know people who are your allies, wherever they are, and use what you learn through these processes to start applying it where you live. Create conversations and dialogs to change the narrative, provide space for others to self-empower and find productive rites of passage and initiatory experiences, including and especially for children. Throughout your journey if I can assist you in your efforts, let me know. Give me a call: or email: The Permaculture Podcast You can also follow in the conversations at facebook.com/thepermaculturepodcast, or see what I'm up to with short form updates via twitter where I am @permaculturecst. With all these shout-outs and ways to connect, I've begun moving the podcast to soundcloud as part of a move to a new website and server later this year. Soundcloud.com/permaculturepodcast. Next week is an interview with Victoria and Eric of Charm City Farms about their work establishing an urban food forest in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and after that is Adam Brock talking about the role of a guest editor with Permaculture Design Magazine in case anyone listening here would like to assist John Wages by doing so in the future. Until the next time do something each day to create the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Support it on Patreon. My guest for this episode is David Bollier, author of numerous books about the commons. This is a topic that initially was a little hard for me to wrap my head around, so rather than try to define it here, I'll let David's description a few minutes into the conversation do this subject proper justice. In addition to defining what the commons are we also discuss property and property rights, the role we have in managing shared resources both finite and renewable, and how permaculture practitioners can work to create mainstream change through grassroots efforts and alliances. One thing I bring up during the interview is The Tragedy of The Commons, an article written by Garrett Hardin in the 1960s, which was my first named introduction to this idea of commons, what they are, how they can be damaged, and what we can do to protect them. I recommend reading that article because of the impact it has had on several generations of conservationists, land managers, environmentalists, and ultimately permaculture practitioners. When you do read it don't hold on to what is written in that piece too tightly, however, as things change pretty quickly in this conversation with David. As we get started if you enjoy this podcast become a listener-member on Patreon. Your support is vital to the continuation of this program. You will find more about David's work and a series of articles at his website, Bollier.org. While you are there you can also see his of books on The Commons and pick some up to expand your understanding of all the resources we share together and should manage in community with one another. Before heading to my thoughts and other announcements, a reminder that Dave Jacke is teaching a 9 day intensive course on Forest Garden Design from October 2 - 11, 2015 at Feathered Pipe Ranch, near Helena Montana. This is the first time in three years that this course has been offered in the United States. This all inclusive class allows students to learn how to mimic forest ecosystems that include a number of valuable characteristics including stability and resilience. As with the recent interviews with Dave this have expressed, you can also expect this course to explore the human side of design including the social and economic elements. Participants will also have the opportunity to design multiple forest garden, including one for the course site as well as for the 6th Ward Forest Garden Park to be installed in Helena. During the last several weeks I've been combing through my library and getting back into reading some of the books I consider classics in preparation for working my way through some new to me material on permaculture, the environment, and education. It is in that last place that I was brought back to David Orr's writing in Earth in Mind, a collection of essays that focus, “On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect.” If you've never read it, though it's been over 20 years since the first edition, I recommend getting a copy. Mr. Orr looks at a variety of issues using education as the common language, similar to permaculture using the landscape, but what really frames the various pieces are the environment and communities, that human element. At one point David Orr looks at how, just as David Bollier points out, the industrial revolution changed our interactions with the environment, one another, and the connections that we share by being in community. Though we've always used resources as a species the last several hundred years have changed the scope and scale of our ability to extract materials from the environment and in turn to change the world around us. What once took generations can now be accomplished in less than a human lifetime. Where before we had to rely on one another, the culture we live in now allows us to disconnect as much as we can afford to do so. We don't have to build long-term relationships with Earth or the people near us, we can take from some far off place or hire the service and skills of anyone willing to do the work and feel insulated, and isolated, in our personal castle, whatever the form it takes. With that many of us also have the social and economic mobility to pick up and go somewhere else if the place we currently inhabit doesn't suit us any longer. But based on this conversation with David Bollier, and re-reading David Orr, I'm reminded that there are no externalities, as much as that phrase may get used to label pollution and other unaccounted for costs of industrial production, and it is our disconnection from place and each other that allows for so much environmental and ecological devastation. Society and culture move forward at a scale that still sees the world as infinite and allows ongoing extraction of resources and economic subjugation of others, so that the resources we care about go unmanaged for the rest of us and the dirty work of developed society can be cast off to those less fortunate by virtue of forces they have no control over simply by being born in a different situation. There is a systemic roadblock that leads to mountain tops being removed to extract coal, giant strip mines being sunk into the land creating scars on the landscape, water being polluted or sequestered for hydraulic fracturing, and waste being dumped in foreign lands or indigenous cultures being forced to change by economic forces. All in the name of market forces and capitalism, which creates a narrative hegemony as the story we are told and accept is the only way, yet feel very deeply that something isn't right. We as permaculture practitioners have a way to show the world what can be done to make a world where all can live and thrive, abundantly and more locally. We know the land and the landscape. That's a part of the initial attraction for many to permaculture. That's great. Let's keep that up for those of you who are good at getting your hands into the earth and producing food. But there are so many other places for us to plug-in. The community organizers can go and begin forging alliances with our neighboring and related movements. Pull in the transition towners, the slow foodies, the slow money investors. The engineers and architects can design systems that have life cycles that make . Doctors and nurses, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, how can caring for our health be made more accessible, and use less non-renewable resources. I ask because a recent new reports on local talk radio addressed how many plastics and disposables are used in healthcare. What about sterilizing and recycling after use? Lawyers, how can we create laws and systems that allow permaculture to be practiced more readily and to make the things we want to do legal? Where are the leverage points where we can work outside the system without risking everything we have? For those who work in service sectors, from food to entertainment, how can the work you do be made to fall more in line with the ethics of this system of design? As a community of practitioners we are not alone in our practices and have a wide variety of talents, skills, backgrounds, and experiences to pull from, but we cannot do this as individuals. Together, however, we have the ability to elevate this work into a broader grassroots movement that can change the world for the betterment of all life and Earth. Join me. Let's do this. Get in touch. . Email: The Permaculture Podcast As I prepare to end this episode, a few announcements. First, I'm moving the regular release day for the show to Thursdays rather than Wednesdays, with “Best Of,” permabytes, and other supplementary material appearing on Mondays. Second, I am heading to Baltimore on July 11 to record an interview with Victoria of Charm City Farms to discuss the work she and her partner are doing to bring Permaculture to Baltimore. July 13 I sit down with Adam Brock as a follow up to the recent interview with John Wages about Permaculture Design Magazine and to talk about Adam's role as a guest editor. July 29th, Toby Hemenway and I are scheduled to talk about his latest book, The Permaculture City. If you have any questions for these upcoming guests let me know by the usual ways. Finally, August 20 - 23 I'll be at Radicle Gathering in Bowling Green, Kentucky, running a Permaculture question and answer session on Friday afternoon, a community vision workshop on Saturday morning, and delivering the Saturday night keynote address. Eric Puro of ThePOOSH will also be there as the Friday night Keynote speaker. If you are in the area come out and join in the fun of workshops, live music, and a whole bunch of people coming together to explore how to build resilient communities. radiclegathering.org. Up next week in a two-person interview are Dr. David Blumenkrantz with Jen Mendez of PermieKids to discuss Rites of Passage and Initiatory Experiences in community development and education. Until then, take care of Earth, your self, and each other.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest for this episode is Dave Jacke a designer from Massachusetts and author, along with Eric Toensmeier, of Edible Forest Gardens Volume 1 and 2. Today he joins us to discuss Ecological Culture Design. Dave is a returning guest to the show. You can hear about his background and how he came to do this work in his initial interview. If this is your first time listening to Dave I recommend you start there to get a feel for the level of candor you'll hear in this episode. This is an open and honest conversation about the four components of Ecological Culture Design: Technology Resources Social and Economic Structures Cosmology We discuss how we must include these elements in our designs for permaculture systems. These areas matter because these are the pieces we must work with in order to bring the so-called “Invisible Structures” of permaculture to the forefront. Dave and I end the conversation with a constructive critique on what it means to organize, practice, and teach permaculture. In preparing this episode Dave and I both listened to the audio before it went out on the air and he asked that I correct his statement about Tantric philosophy. In the interview he said, “the perceiver, the perceived and the object of perception are one.” What he meant was “the perceiver, the perceived and the process of perception are one ,” a subtle but big difference. I agree with much of what Dave has to say in this episode. We cannot keep calling the non-landscape portions of our design invisible, or they will remain there, on the outside, away from view. We need to communicate about them differently in order to understand them and make them a part of our larger designs so that what we do can continue long after our ability to maintain or consult on a system is gone. For much the same reason the Designers' Manual only the beginning. Yes, every permaculture designer should have a copy in their library as a reference, and to understand some of the early vision as expressed by Bill Mollison, but in additional to that book we need a large library of materials to reference and cross reference and research to create good designs. With that I would like to see a new edition of the Designers' Manual written every decade or so as an encyclopedia of permaculture that can include more information about what we've learned over the years, but written as a collective cooperative piece by the community that takes the best of what everyone has to offer, and focuses on their areas of specialty, to create a book with multiple perspectives and voices. Get Dave Jacke and Ben Falk to write about formal design, Jude Hobbs and Andrew Millison about permaculture education, Marisha Auerbach and Rachel Kaplan to cover urban permaculture, and Karryn Olson-Ramanujan and Adam Brock on social permaculture. Those are just the names and topics off the top of my head. The Designers' Manual as written by Mollison is over 500 pages. There's room for many authors to contribute to such an effort. If you'd be interested in contributing to something like this, maybe we can get a proposal together and create a new manual for the 21st century. Whatever your permaculture plans, I'm here to help. Email: The Permaculture Podcast Write: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Resources Ecological Culture Design: A Holistic View (PDF) Dave Jacke Edible Forest Gardens and Permaculture with Dave Jacke (Dave's first interview on the podcast.)

Recent American Idol top 24 contestant Adam Brock joins us on this edition, and we also sit down in studio with Dhati Lewis, lead pastor of Blueprint Church in Atlanta and founder of the Rebuild Initiative.