Increasingly I am coming to believe that the answer to all of the major issues facing civilization today is to do what YOU can do to cultivate resilient regenerative community locally. Arguing, debating, bickering or living in fear or hatred. Please determine what you can do personally, in your neighborhood, and/or locally and go do that. The impact will be tangible and real. Thank you!

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The Seed Academy’s mission is to increase network capacity, collaboration and synergy in the Seed Freedom Movement in the Rogue Bioregion and beyond.

Learn with experienced seed farmers to gain the essential skills you need to harvest & process seed. Training is workshop style with different modules and lectures throughout the weekend and oriented towards farmers, gardeners, educators, entrepreneurs, permaculturalists & anyone interested in becoming a part of the Seed Movement. Many people leave this course transformed, inspired and energized!

WHEN: A 3 day event taking place in May (Spring Seed Academy) or in October (Fall Seed Academy). The event begins at 9:00 am on a Friday and runs through 4pm on the Sunday. Friday and Saturday are 9am-6pm with dinner to follow and a more open, salon type format after dinner. People travelling from out of town can arrive Thursday evening if they are camping onsite by prior arrangement only.

WHAT: We invite you to join us for one or both of these a 3 day intensives!

Don Tipping is the lead instructor who brings over 30 years experience in organic farming, seeds, permaculture and enthusiastic on-farm education. There are always expert guest instructors included as well. Check out this years' event listings for the guest instructors!

Curriculum includes:

• seed saving
• basic botany & reproductive biology in plants
• understanding selection,
• planting seeds & soil mixes
• seed germination & germination testing
• isolation, crossing,
• seed libraries & storage
• field trip to another small farm that produces organic seeds.
• whole systems, permaculture, regenerative agriculture, and solutions oriented action
• step-by step tools, strategies & inspired vision required to start or upgrade a seed business, or implement a seed system to you farm or homestead.

VISION: The journey with connecting more deeply with seeds as a source point of life begins with seed saving, then progresses to seed growing on a farm or garden preservation scale. The master level is seed stewardship, cultivating a deep relationship with the species and all of its potential for bioregional adaptation to climate, pests, disease and agronomic & culinary preferences.

We visualize interconnected Community Seed Hubs that are capable of doing breeding, selection, stewardship and improvement that work with bioregional centers that can do finish cleaning, climate controlled storage, marketing and distribution of high quality, open-pollinated organic seeds. In this way we can co-create a sustainable seed system that will support organic food production for local markets and resilient local food systems.

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Farmer Don Tipping shares a brief synopsis of the often used term Permaculture and how it is a term to describe a whole systems way of seeing and interacting with the worl.

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Currently there is a whole lotta buzz around the the term "Regenerative Agriculture", which is encouraging, however, why might we be wary of embracing this newfangled buzzword? I invite you to listen in and glean from farmer Don Tipping's insights from over 30 years of being an organic farmer trying to implement permaculture/biodynamic/regenerative practices on his farm.

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I recently attended the 45th EcoFarm conference at Asilomar in Pacific Grove (near Monterey, CA) and wanted to share some observations and thoughts as a full time farmer for the past 30 years about what I perceive as the state of the west coast organic farming movement.

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Agrobiodiversity refers to the biodiversity of edible crop species. Of the estimated 585,000 total plant species globally, it's estimated that 7000 humans use for food but only 200 are in widespread use and 3(corn, wheat, & rice) comprise 70% of total global caloric intake. This is an unfortunate trend that puts people, regions and nations in danger of starvation and breakdown of global food supply chains due to climate change, natural disaster and war. Agrobiodiversity is foundational to our health and wealth and human civilizations.

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The Agrarian Renaissance Episode 13: Homestead Movie Reaction Salon with Jonah Mesritz, James Teepe & Don Tipping.

We watched the Homestead movie from Angel Studios recently and were intrigues to see how Hollywood would depict an post apocalyptic scenario. What did they get right?
And what was overlooked?
What did we like & appreciate?

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Some friends and I recently saw the movie from Angel Studios called Homestead out in the theaters right now. We all generally liked the movie (and are looking forwards to what the ensuing series has in store) and it's nice to see this topic which has risen in popularity in recent years getting some mainstream attention.
However.....
As a homesteader and organic farmer for the past 30 years I was disappointed that they got some significant things wrong, or failed to devote more attention to these important details:

1) The movie centers on an enormous mansion in the mountains. This is just not realistic and creates a distorted view. If they had the money for this house then they could have set up a better homestead in terms of food production, which is the main point of homesteading!

2) Your Food storage is more important than your armory. I mean what do you need all those guns to defend if your root cellars and walk in coolers are inadequate and lacking?

3) Minimal gardens shown. There's no long rows of corn, potatoes and root vegetables. There should be at least an acre plus garden if you aim to feed over 80 people!

4) Lack of Livestock. Besides chickens there does not appear to be larger livestock like cows, sheep, goats for milk and meat. Animals are central to any functional homestead for feed, grazing and manure for making compost.

5) Idealized Fall Abundance. The movie is shot in what appears to be the height of harvest season around the Fall equinox with grapes, peaches and apples ripe. This is the easy time to eat from the land. Going into winter, it would have been nice to see more canning, drying and preserving.

6) Firewood! To heat and cook with fire in that huge mansion and the tent village you would need A LOT of firewood. It would have been nice to see woodlots being tended and big sheds full of wood and all the associated firewood management equipment.

7) Insufficient Infrastructure. There were minimal barns and sheds and cabins. Once again the movie centers on a huge (10,000 sq. ft. minimum) mansion and most people are left outside sleeping in tents!

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