Podcasts about fairview gardens

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Click HERE to try HVMN's Ketone-IQ™ + Save 20% with the code "JOSH" *Review The WF Podcast & WIN $150 in wellness prizes! *Join The Facebook Group Wellness + Wisdom Episode 521 Mark Tollefson, a mentor and vision quest leader, guiding people through rites of passage into their most authentic selves, joins Josh Trent for the first time on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast to share his journey back to nature and spirituality, and the lessons he learned throughout his life about happiness, wisdom, and wellness. What does it mean to live a spiritual life? In this episode, Mark and Josh discuss the purpose of vision quests and how the modern vision quest has adapted to our society, why living the "right way" won't bring you happiness, and what it means to love without control.   Listen To Episode 521 As Mark Tollefson Uncovers: [01:30] Celebration Of Men's Spiritual Awakening Mark Tollefson The differences Mike sees between California and Austin. 405 Tim Corcoran | Vision Quest: How To Find Your Place In The Ecology of Life, Purpose Mountain & Spiritual Courage His journey to vision quests through a book. Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking by Tom Brown How he faced cultural misappropriation and found a way to make vision quests understandable to modern people. Josh's experience on a vision quest. Traditional Native American quest VS modern quest. How the quest celebrates men's spiritual awakening.   [19:30] Embarking On A Quest The reason why quest participants become a family after only 3 days. Why we should fall in love with people every day and why we don't anymore. The different levels of intensity, mythologies, and types of quests. Why we have to allow ourselves to be claimed by nature. 510 SOLOCAST | Rite of Passage: What Your Ancestors Are Trying To Tell You What it means to live a spiritual life and why people spiritually bypass. The importance of knowing who you are as a human being and the consequences of lying to yourself.   [34:10] Searching For Answers Within Us How the demographics of quests have changed throughout the years. Why people are miserable even when they have lived the "right way." 512 Alison Armstrong: Unconscious Emasculation, What Women Don't Understand About Men + How To Get The Love You Want The three core griefs we have about ourselves, other people, and the world. How we bury the feeling that there is something bigger than you in the world. Why we need to stop believing what other people say about us and start asking better questions and letting the universe reflect back to us what the answers could be. The relational space between people. 416 Ben Stewart | Awakening In The Midst of Crisis How we can put the universe together moment by moment.   [52:40] Self Introspection How talk therapy is a complementary tool in the search for who we are. Why elders never tell you directly what to do. Shortening the cycle of recommitment. Why committing to hard work is often more important than having talent. Essentials for introspection: Going in nature, building an altar, and disconnecting. The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential by David Hawkins How spiritual learning never actually ends. Allowing yourself to stop to be found when you get lost. The essence of committing to something, and why intentions need motivation.   [01:18:10] Healing Generational + Collective Trauma Tim Corcoran 499 SOLOCAST | Emotional Epigenetics: The Missing Link In Holistic Medicine Today Epigenetically we remember what life in a village is like. We are responsible for taking care of our generational trauma. How Mike's work honors and helps heal the collective trauma and why he doesn't work in a binary system. Dancing With a Ghost: Exploring Indian Reality by Ruppert Ross Why we have to come together in order to heal. Alan Watts The reason we have to stop lying to ourselves so that we can collectively heal.   [01:35:50] Love Without Control Why Mike finds commitment to change to be a crucial step in growth. What loving without control looks like. Why expectations kill relationships. How we are conditioned to love with control and how ceremony can help remove this conditioning if we commit to healing. Why we have to build our connection to nature and spirit. How we can find the capacity in ourselves and others to awaken. The prophecy of the elders.   [01:54:00] Transforming Our Emotions Why Josh was angry at the collective. Why it's our responsibility to heal despite our unconscious incompetence. The challenge of having children. E. E. Cummings Four basic emotions: Anger, sadness, fear, and joy. Depression is a combination of anger and sadness. How Mike transformed his hate for the world into something better. Why Mike sees wellness as beautifying relational spaces and making peace. Discovery Sessions Mentoring with Mark Tollefson Vision Quest   Power Quotes From The Show The Wisdom Of Elders "Elders are crystal clear about who they are as human beings. They know their foibles, they know about anger, sadness, fear, joy, and they're able to feel and express those fully and completely in their day-to-day lives." - Mark Tollefson   The Land Will Claim Us "The land speaks. When we are born of this land, the lands will claim us. When we come here and make this land our home, the land will claim us. When we come here and sleep under these mountains, the land will claim us." - Mark Tollefson   Building The Connection "What we have to do with ourselves and our relationships is to be building our connection to nature and spirit as fast as the constructs of technology are being built around us." - Mark Tollefson   Links From Today's Show  Mark Tollefson 405 Tim Corcoran | Vision Quest: How To Find Your Place In The Ecology of Life, Purpose Mountain & Spiritual Courage Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking by Tom Brown 510 SOLOCAST | Rite of Passage: What Your Ancestors Are Trying To Tell You 512 Alison Armstrong: Unconscious Emasculation, What Women Don't Understand About Men + How To Get The Love You Want 416 Ben Stewart | Awakening In The Midst of Crisis The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential by David Hawkins Tim Corcoran 499 SOLOCAST | Emotional Epigenetics: The Missing Link In Holistic Medicine Today Dancing With a Ghost: Exploring Indian Reality by Ruppert Ross Alan Watts E. 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From a young age mentored by people intimately connected to their lineage and nature-based roots, he brings rich life experience and wisdom to his work. Mark has been a survival skills instructor at Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School, and the executive director of Wilderness Youth Project and the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens in Santa Barbara. He has owned a pub and restaurant, worked as a roughneck in the oil fields, helped open an international high school in New Zealand, and founded his own non-profit working to promote sustainable farming with the Maya of southern Belize. He has participated in and started many men's groups and has sat in a circle with men for many years. He has guided hundreds of people through rites of passage into holistic living and thinking, helping those he works with to step into a new paradigm of being that is based on Thriving Life, connected to our true purpose for being alive at this time.

Beyond the Furrows is a 12 part series on local farmworkers; we explore pesticide regulations, and the education efforts surrounding them. Poet and former principal of San Luis Obispo High School, Will Jones, talks about his new book. You'll get a transportation update from Peter Rodgers of slocog. And finally, a visit to Fairview Gardens, an Urban Farm in Goleta.

In this episode of Solutions News, as we all call in to the show from our respective home or yurt based offices, Rinaldo Brutoco and Kristy Jansen talk with Jon Aimonetti, Executive Director of Fairview Gardens – an urban farm collective in Goleta, CA. They discuss chronic diseases based on unhealthy ultra-processed food, which have been the leading causes of death in the United States for the past several decades, and are still linked to American’s unhealthy bodies. The solution is to reimagine our food culture, reinvest in local, organic farms and gardens, and reorient our food systems to prioritize foods low on the processed food pyramid. In addition, we explore some key skills to master in the kitchen, which might make us all question the assumption that fast and cheap rules out healthy and good. We also enjoy didyaknows! (Produced by Kristy Jansen).

Michael Ableman is a farmer, author, photographer and urban and local food systems advocate. Michael has been farming organically since the early 1970′s and is considered one of the pioneers of the organic farming and urban agriculture movements. He is a frequent lecturer to audiences all over the world, and winner of numerous awards for his work. He is also the founder of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens; co-founder and director of Sole Food Street Farms, and founder and director of the Center for Arts, Ecology and Agriculture based at his family home and farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia. He's an awesome person, and this interview is well worth a listen.

Street Farm Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier By Michael Ableman Categories: Farm & Garden, Politics & Public Policy Street Farm is the inspirational account of residents in the notorious Low Track in Vancouver, British Columbia—one of the worst urban slums in North America—who joined together to create an urban farm as a means of addressing the chronic problems in their neighborhood. It is a story of recovery, of land and food, of people, and of the power of farming and nourishing others as a way to heal our world and ourselves. During the past seven years, Sole Food Street Farms—now North America’s largest urban farm project—has transformed acres of vacant and contaminated urban land into street farms that grow artisan-quality fruits and vegetables. By providing jobs, agricultural training, and inclusion in a community of farmers and food lovers, the Sole Food project has empowered dozens of individuals with limited resources who are managing addiction and chronic mental health problems. Sole Food’s mission is to encourage small farms in every urban neighborhood so that good food can be accessible to all, and to do so in a manner that allows everyone to participate in the process. In Street Farm, author-photographer-farmer Michael Ableman chronicles the challenges, growth, and success of this groundbreaking project and presents compelling portraits of the neighborhood residents-turned-farmers whose lives have been touched by it. Throughout, he also weaves his philosophy and insights about food and farming, as well as the fundamentals that are the underpinnings of success for both rural farms and urban farms. Street Farm will inspire individuals and communities everywhere by providing a clear vision for combining innovative farming methods with concrete social goals, all of which aim to create healthier and more resilient communities. Michael Ableman is a farmer, author, photographer and urban and local food systems advocate. Michael has been farming organically since the early 1970′s and is considered one of the pioneers of the organic farming and urban agriculture movements. He is a frequent lecturer to audiences all over the world, and the winner of numerous awards for his work. Ableman is the author of four trade published books: From the Good Earth: A celebration of growing food around the world; On Good Land: The autobiography of an urban farm; Fields of Plenty: A farmer’s journey in search of real food and the people who grow it, and most recently Street Farm; Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier. Michael Ableman is the founder of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens in Goleta, California where he farmed for 20 years; co-founder and director of Sole Food Street Farms and the charity Cultivate Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia; and founder and director of the Center for Arts, Ecology and Agriculture based at his family home and farm on Salt Spring Island. Street Farm Facts Sole Food Street Farms consists of ve separate sites in Vancouver, including the largest urban orchard in North America. All sites are paved land and crops are grown in soil- lled growing boxes. The overall yield of this growing system is 15 to 25 times higher than conventional “open eld” growing systems. • 4.5 total acres of paved urban land • 75 people employed from 2009 to present • 8,000 containers used to grow fruits and vegetables • 50,000 pounds of food produced annually • $1.7M+ total sales revenue (2009-2016) • $300,000 in annual wages paid to employees • $20,000 estimated annual loss of Sole Food crops due to rodent damage (rats like vegetables, too) • $2.20 estimated savings to the health care, legal, and social assistance systems for every dollar paid to Sole Food employees (Queens University study, 2013) • $150,000+ raised annually to support the Sole Food program • $46M per day of taxpayer money spent to subsidize large-scale industrial farming

Located on one of the oldest organic farms in California, The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens, is an internationally respected model for urban food production, agricultural preservation, and community supported agriculture. Education Director, Tiffany Cooper Carpenter, speaks with Jill Cloutier about the importance of urban agriculture, the programs at Fairview, and how a 12 and a half acre farm survives and thrives in the middle of an urban landscape.

This is an audio tour of a Seed Exchange at Fairview Gardens in Goleta, California. The exchange was the culmination of a workshop by Heather Flores, author of the book, Food not Lawns.

Michael Ableman is the founder and executive director of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens, a non profit organization based on one of the oldest and most diverse organic farms in southern California, where he farmed from 1981 to 2001. The farm has become an important community and education center and a national model for small scale and urban agriculture. Under Ableman's leadership the farm was saved from development and preserved under one of the earliest and most unique active agricultural conservation easements of its type in the country. Michael lives in British Columbia on Salt Spring Island where he is developing a long-term master plan for Foxglove Farm. The farm will include mixed grain, livestock, and fruit and vegetable production. The 75 acres of forest will be managed using strict eco-forestry principles. Harvested trees will be milled and furniture products produced on-site. His most recent book "Fields of Plenty" describes the growing community of farmers and food artisans, who are producing sustainable nourishment that is respectful to the land and rich in heritage, flavor and commitment. Michael spoke to an audience in November, 2005. This event was produced by Necessary Voices Society and the Vancouver Public Library.

Bioneers was conceived to conduct educational and economic development programs in the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, traditional farming practices, and environmental restoration. Their radio programs are heard in over 200 cities. Series IV, PART 4: ORGANIC AND BEYOND – TOWARD THE DE-INDUSTRIALIZATION OF AGRICULTURE. The biology of farming is complex and requires attentiveness to nature’s own ways of doing things, characterized by interdependence of relationships. Author and attorney Andrew Kimbrell is leading the Organic and Beyond Movement—a food revolution that offers health and food security for future generations and rejects the destructive industrial food production model. Andrew is the Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based Centre for Food Safety. Series III, PART 6: SOIL AND SOUL – THE FUTURE OF FARMING. What are the hidden costs of agribusiness, with its chemical dependent mega farms? Poor nutrition and physical and mental illness, connected to poor nutrition, are on the rise in North America. Farmers Michael Ableman and Joel Salatin express the soul that is returning to farming the land. Michael Ableman is the founder and executive director of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens. Michael farms in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia. Joel Salatin is a fulltime farmer in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.

Michael Abelman is a farmer, educator, founder and the executive director of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens, Ca.. Abelman is also author/photographer of From the Good Earth, On Good Land and Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It. He is also the subject of the award-winning PBS national broadcast Beyond Organic.Abelman talks about the huge affect that the industrial age has had on the earth. We might not think that farming is the industry that uses possibly the most oil-- in terms of fertilizer, processing soil and plants, moving the food, and on and on. And organic food uses just as much oil since it too is shipped long distances. It is also the case that, due to industrial agriculture, the minerals have been taken out of the soil and the soil is incredibly depleted thus making the food much of the population eats extremely lacking in nutritional value. Soil is the basis for life in many ways and sustainabilty means keeping in balance what is taken out of the soil with what is returned. This is not what's been happening for the most part in the industrial world. Since cheap oil is soon to end, thus changing dramatically much of what we're used to in the industrial world, it is extremely important that we compost and improve our soil everywhere from the city to rural areas.He discusses the options available for changing our ways such as gray water and compost toilets and the wonderful ways to grow a lot of food in urban areas. There is the example of using the heat from an urban cleaning establishment to heat the green house on the roof of the city building in the winter. There are many great and good aspects of dry farming with very little, if any, water. However, government agencies often make these totally sensible approaches more difficult rather than easy. Abelman says about sustainability and "organic" that it means much more than just eliminating toxins (though, obviously, this is crucial!) and it builds community which is so important for our health, well-being and survival.