Soul Fire Farm’s 2016 Sustainable Farming and Food Justice Course In Collaboration with Goddard College Syllabus Instructors: Leah Penniman Jonah Vitale-Wolff Guest Facilitators TBA Credits: 2 credits available for students who enroll at Goddard College after successful completion of…
Love Notes December 2015
Dear Family; Soul Fire Farm is trust falling into community. We are widening our definition of “self” – no longer just a single family and the sacred land that we steward, but a community sharing power, decision-making and responsibility.…
Love Notes #10 – August 28, 2015
Announcements Join us for our fall community workdays and potlucks, Saturday September 26 and October 17. We have our hands on the land together from 8am – 1pm and share a potluck meal from 1 – 3pm. All are welcome…
Love Notes #9 – July 5, 2015
“Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.” ~Malcolm X, 1963 Raise the Roof for Food Justice Update: 10 Days Left! It is hard to…
Love Notes from Abroad #8 – May 25, 2015
If you’ve been wondering what we’ve been up to in the past month, we decided to map it to give an idea of the vast area we covered, serendipitously a giant spiral from coast to coast of southern Mexico. We…
Upcoming Speaking Events
2015 Conferences June 16: Presenter at Environmental Justice Faculty Institute, East Alstead, NH July 23 and 24: NTAC – presenting curriculum on indigenous sustainable agriculture, Fulbright project, Chicago IL July 25, 4-5:15 PM EST Becoming the Earth You Walk On,…
Love Notes from Abroad #7 – May 2, 2015
We arrived home at Soul Fire Farm at 3 AM early in April, under a brisk starry night and crunching through stale snow. The house was so familiar and so completely strange. Despite the late hour, the children tore from…
Love Notes from Abroad #6 – May 2, 2015
Welcome spring! On the official day of season’s turn we joined agroecologist friends for a tequio (collective work party) in the small town of Huayapam, famous for its sacred water well and the birthplace of a frothy delicious almond…
Love Notes from Abroad #5 – March 17, 2015
If one were tempted to romanticize and essentialize indigenous life in Oaxaca, Santo Domingo del Estado, a Triqui community etched into the mountains of the Mixteca region, would be such a place to indulge oversimplification. Close to 8000 feet…
Love Notes from Abroad #4 – February 26, 2015
While some pueblos are almost emptied of their young people, gone to work the fields in the USA or to schools in the urban centers, others have youth like Aurelia and Eduardo. They carry cacao beans 3 hours on donkey…