Cevan Castle Environment & Design Inc

04/07/2025

From Ann Arbor, Ryan Poe joins the Regenerative Agriculture Coalition to speak about The Hungry Locavore (www.thehungrylocavore.com), his business supporting the hyper-local food system in southeast Michigan. Ryan has developed a twist on Consumer Supported Agriculture (CSA) by integrating value-added products, or artisan goods, into his non-subscription model. This is a master class on no-till and low-till farming, integrating pollinator strips, the benefits of high biodiversity to farming and nutrition, agroforestry and permaculture, school gardens, and the business model innovations that can help foster a circular economy.

The Regenerative Agriculture Coalition is a chapter of The Climate Reality Project.

https://youtu.be/y9AISbtAyI4

The Regenerative Agriculture Coalition interviews Ryan Poe, farmer and founder of The Hungry Locavore, a community supported agriculture and artisan goods (C...

03/23/2025

Happy spring! Ready to get started? Attend this free zoom talk on converting lawn area to meadow! No matter where you are- urban area, suburban area, rural area- this webinar applies to you. Meadows are IMPORTANT resources for the wild birds and pollinators that we all love, they help clean our air, and are the beautiful proof of healthy, living soil.

In April of 2022, Sara and Evan Cooper moved into their new home in a suburban Philadelphia neighborhood. After one spring and summer of consistently mowing their 5,000 square foot...

09/09/2024

Working on the intergenerational Youth Climate + Art Summit with artists of all ages this summer has been pure joy. A VERY EXCITING set of workshops is in store for Winter 2025, but for now, we are wrapping up our 2024 season with poetry, "Dear Human" letters, nature drawings and journaling, and sensory and sound mapping. We invite kids of all ages to join us in our last work sessions before the exhibition in October. Connect with YCAS here: https://linktr.ee/youthclimateartsummit

We officially started today, joining over 200 other Youth Climate Summit sites in 9 countries!

To say we were impressed by the climate knowledge of the participating kids is an understatement!

There is still plenty of fun left - kids & their families are invited to join us for the next events, which are free and open to the public! Links to more info and pre-registration are below (along with the url of our linktree, where you can find all socials and events):

07/06/24 Art in Nature! Exploring the Art and Ecology of Hudson Crossing Park

07/14/24 Writing about Nature with Poet Peaches Gillette at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve

07/21/24 Making Art about Nature with Artist Christa Donner! A Multimedia Art Workshop on Zoom

https://linktr.ee/youthclimateartsummit

Thank you to Hannah Barg of The Wild Center for the amazing presentation on Climate 101!

Thank you to Hudson Crossing Park, Schuylerville, NY and Albany Pine Bush Preserve for being hosts and partners in this Summit!

Thank you to The Climate Reality Project: Capital Region, NY Chapter for supporting this Summit!

07/23/2024

"We must support the return of the insects, and the birds." - Julie Rawson, Many Hands Organic Farm

The methods of no-till, no-chemical organic farming, regenerative agriculture, and conservation agriculture center the health of our environmental and human communities. These principles can be applied across landscapes and scales. We have the tools we need for climate resilience! This interview is a joyful masterclass in the beneficial actions we can all help prioritize, from one of the longest continuously certified organic farms in the United States.

Julie Rawson is the former Executive Director of NOFA/Mass and Jack Kittredge is the former Editor of The Natural Farmer, and together, they are the founders of Many Hands Organic Farm and the Many Hands Sustainability Center. They are recipients of the Northeast Organic Farming Organization Lifetime Achievement Award and the co-authors of Many Hands Make a Farm: 47 Years of Questioning Authority, Feeding a Community, and Building an Organic Movement published by Chelsea Green Publishing

This interview was produced by the Regenerative Agriculture Coalition, a working group of Climate Reality Project leaders and chapter members.

The Regenerative Agriculture Coalition interviews Julie Rawson of Many Hands Organic Farm in Barre, Massachusetts. Established in 1982, Many Hands grows cert...

08/18/2023

Collecting seeds is an inexpensive way to add plants to a yard or landscape. Rutgers Univ has tips for native plant seed collection and a chart for seed ripening period needed and germination technique (including which species need cold stratification): https://njaes.rutgers.edu/fs1329/

07/04/2023

Sometimes the plants come to you! This Mimulus ringens, native from Quebec to the east coast of the US, planted itself in one of my containers.

06/02/2023

Internal documents from chemical giant Syngenta reveal tactics to sponsor sympathetic scientific papers and mislead regulators about unfavorable research

04/13/2022

This will be difficult but is essential to change. We can all help- ask local nurseries to consider alternatives to plastic, such as soil blocking, or compostable, plastic-free pots. Ask farmers markets to set a zero-plastic goal for all vendors. There is no good plastic.

Plasticulture has long-term effects on the environment and our food.

04/13/2022

Regional pollinator seed mixes developed with the Xerces Society - find your conservation mix here

The Xerces Society partners with the native seed industry to produce wildflower seed mixes meeting Xerces specifications, to provide foraging and nesting resources for a diversity of pollinators. For details about species composition, recommended seeding rate, and how to contact the producer, please...

07/09/2021

Entomologists are working to discontinue use of derogatory common names

Entomologists want effective communication with the public, policy makers, and other scientists. Effective communication can help advance science, advance entomology, and increase the flourishing of humans and the environment.

02/14/2021

Important information on improving access to events and spaces. Act with kindness ❤️

There is so much people can do when it comes to accessibility! For some of you, this may be the beginning of thinking more intentionally and expansively about accessibility, while for others this may be an opportunity to deepen your understanding of access (see #10 in our list below) or share m...

02/01/2021

“Akito Kawahara’s message is straightforward: We can’t live without insects. They’re in trouble. And there’s something all of us can do to help.”

Entomologist Akito Kawahara’s message is straightforward: We can’t live without insects. They’re in trouble. And there’s something all of us can do to help. Kawahara’s research has primarily focuse…