Introduction to Pasture Cropping with Colin Seis
Free recording and transcript of our mini class hosted live by Didi Pershouse Wednesday, August 21st, 2024
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- Australian Conservation Farmer of the Year in 2005.
- Australian Carbon Farmer of the Year, in 2007
- Australian Green Agriculture and Innovation Award 2012 (GAIA), (which is awarded for leading contributions to soil health and sequestration of Carbon)
- Australia's most prestigious farming and environmental award, the National Bob Hawke Landcare Award, September 2014.
- The NSW regional achievement and community award 2015.
- In August 2019, Colin was inducted into the 'Australian Carbon Farmer' Inaugural Hall of Fame.
- In January 2015, the Australian newspaper, "Melbourne Weekly Times," called Colin a visionary and suggested him as one of the world's top 6 most influential farmers.
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Your Instructor
Didi Pershouse is well known as an innovative international educator both in-person and online. She is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative. Her facilitator's guide Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function, is used in over 60 countries.
She became deeply involved in the intersection of food systems and health systems while providing rural health care for two decades at The Center for Sustainable Medicine, and wrote The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities.
Currently she is writing a field training manual for the UN-FAO Farmer Field School Program and the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Initiative in India, involving over 800,000 smallholder farmers. She was a contributing author to The Climate Emergency: How Africa Can Survive and Thrive; Climate Change and Creation Care; and Health in the Anthropocene. She was one of five speakers at the United Nations-FAO World Soil Day in 2017.
She serves on the Planning Commission for her town, is a board supervisor for the White River Natural Resources Conservation District, and is on the board of directors of the Soil Carbon Coalition and the Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition. While serving on the state appointed Payment for Ecosystem Services and Soil Health Working Group, she helped to reorient the program back to its public roots. She led a successful effort to conserve the Zebedee Headwaters Wetland while serving as a Vermont Conservation Commissioner.