Gidon Eshel

AgroEcology and Feeding Ourselves: Tensions, Promises and Future Potential

Hawthorne Valley and the Institute for Mindful Agriculture presents a public talk by Gidon Eshel, Research Professor, Environmental and Urban Studies at Bard College. Agroecology offers examples of solutions to the related crises of climate, soil, food, and health in many localities, but can it offer solutions at the global scale? Considering planetary boundaries such as erosion, topsoil loss and land degradation, how do we scale up local, ecologically minded agriculture? How do we think about the basic conundrum of finite land with rising population and standards of living?  Taking the Northeast as a case study, could we feed ourselves while tending to the resilience of climate, soil, food and our own health?

Respondent: Will Brinton, soil scientist and founder Woods End Laboratories

Location: Hawthorne Valley School, music room

Time: 7 pm

Cost: Donations Welcome