The availability, quality, and integration of water in food production is an overlooked yet central feature of food systems. Leaders in the work of water interfaces are John Todd and his son Jonathan, who combine cutting edge research with dynamic design to restore waterways all over the world as functional, living components of natural and built environments. In this workshop, we will work with Todd Ecological to consider our farm pond as a case study. We will explore the personality of water features, from chemistry to plant and animal life, and the meaning of their interactions. We will then create a design plan with participants as we learn the application of methods the Todd’s have used worldwide – from rehabilitating city sewage treatment to creating resiliency on entire islands. We will envision and plan tangible examples for healing ecosystems at the farm scale and much larger. In part 3, Jonathan starts by explaining how they integrated synergistic relationships in nature to create harmonic in biological systems.
VIDEO: Water & Agriculture: Critical Consciousness for Healing the Planet Part 3
The availability, quality, and integration of water in food production is an overlooked yet central feature of food systems. Leaders in the work of water interfaces are John Todd and his son Jonathan, who combine cutting edge research with dynamic design to restore waterways all over the world as functional, living components of natural and built environments. In this workshop, we will work with Todd Ecological to consider our farm pond as a case study. We will explore the personality of water features, from chemistry to plant and animal life, and the meaning of their interactions. We will then create a design plan with participants as we learn the application of methods the Todd’s have used worldwide – from rehabilitating city sewage treatment to creating resiliency on entire islands. We will envision and plan tangible examples for healing ecosystems at the farm scale and much larger. In part 3, Jonathan starts by explaining how they integrated synergistic relationships in nature to create harmonic in biological systems.
Really like hearing from this guy. More please!
Very inspirational! Restoration and regeneration is hard but very rewarding work. My question is this, why is it often considered low pay ‘volunteer work’ sometimes even performed by chain gangs of criminals while exploitation of the ecosystem and other humans is considered to be ‘progress’ and those in charge of doing so, are rewarded with huge salaries, showered with awards and praise and treated as leaders to be emulated? Until this cultural picture is flipped on its head and the restorers and regenerators are rewarded and viewed as leaders and the exploiters are punished and viewed as criminals, I see little hope for the future of the human species or our world. The best that I and the handful of other regenerative farmers like me are able to do is to make our tiny pieces of land an oasis in a ever expanding desert of destruction.