Current World events have the topic of petroleum on everyone's minds. While not widely understood well over half of all agriculture is only made possible because of the Haber-Bosch process of converting atmospheric nitrogen into urea, anhydrous ammonia and nitrate fertilizers. The disruption of natural gas supplies in the Persian Gulf stands to impact the global food supply sooner than later. Here in Episode 22, farmer Don Tipping provides a basic overview of the role of Nitrogen in the environment as it applies to plant growth and maintaining fertility of agricultural lands. The existential threat to our food systems compels us to develop and strengthen local food production, distribution and storage to ensure resilient Agrarian communities. Be the solution!

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The Party's Over, by Richard Heinberg
https://richardheinberg.com/bookshelf/partys-over

World Fertilizer Use:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fertilizer-total-use

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The Spring Equinox invites us to embrace new growth, ideas, paradigms and concepts. Current events compel us to redefine wealth to usher in an Agrarian Renaissance in your local community. What resources/assets can you contribute?

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Check out the following books by Ursala Le Guin:
The Dispossessed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed
Alway Coming Home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_Coming_Home

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Welcome back to the Agrarian Renaissance Podcast after a brief hiatus! In episode 20 Don Tipping aggregates a brief history that leads us to the current new North Star for humanity of best described under the term "Solarpunk". No AI agents were used in the writing of this original piece!

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SHOW NOTES:

Links, Books and Websites mentioned in order:

https://workthatreconnects.org/

https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceWeatherNewsS0s

https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/

https://agreaterapplegate.org/

Regenerative Chamber of Commerce

Douglas Rushkoff & Distributism

https://republicofthebees.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/from-steampunk-to-solarpunk/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollyanna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mollison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller

https://www.permacultureintl.com/jenny-pell

https://www.gameb.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization

Vertical Farming fails

BOOKS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_Coming_Home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing

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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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