Down to Earth: Nourishing Change in the Champlain Valley - Conversation on Ag and Culture - The Land Institute

Open to the public.

Keynote: “Caring for the Ecosphere” – Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of Ecosphere Studies at The Land Institute

Panelists:
Thomas Jackson, Mind-Body Medicine
Nancy Winship Milliken, Artist
Corie Pierce, Bread & Butter Farm
Matt Schlein, Walden Project & Willowell Foundation
Sr. Gail Worcelo, Green Mountain Monastery

Join us in imagining our perennial future at the 2nd annual conversation on regeneration, reciprocity, relationship, and recovery, in the Champlain Valley and beyond.

Sponsored by the Franklin Environmental Center, the Environmental Studies program, and the New Perennials Project at Middlebury.

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