Food & Farming:
How Farming Impacts Our Water, Wildlife, Climate, Health & Economy
February 6 – March 27, 2025
12 noon -or- 7 pm ET
Plus, see our Free Introductory Class below!
Free Introductory Class:
10 Powerful Ways You Can Change Our Food System
Tuesday, February 4
12 noon -or- 7 pm ET
Course Description
Food & Farming is an eight week online course (Feb 6 – Mar 27) that explores the impact of farming on our water, our wildlife, our climate, our health and our economy.
Unfortunately, much of the impact of farming today has been detrimental to our climate, our water and our wildlife. The purpose of Food & Farming is to explore how this works and talk about how we can make changes in our role as citizens and consumers, and also in our home landscapes.
We will study the Five Principles of Soil Health, as set forth by North Dakota rancher Gabe Brown, in Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture. We will learn the DO’s and DON’Ts of building healthy, carbon-rich soil. This will help us be better gardeners, shoppers and citizens.
Our farms could be carbon sinks, absorbing massive amounts of excess carbon dioxide. Instead, most farms emit carbon. Our farms could be water-rich oases of biological diversity preventing both flooding and drought. Instead, many contribute to both flooding and drought.
And only good soil is capable of delivering nutrients to our food efficiently and consistently. We will study how nutrients flow from our soil to our bodies, via plants and animals.
We will visit regenerative farmers such as Bryan and Anita O’Hara of Tobacco Road Farm in Connecticut and Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser of Singing Frogs Farm in California. And we will explore the world of Will Harris of White Oak Pastures in Georgia and Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm in Virginia.
What are these people doing, and why should we value it? How does it work? How can we apply the principles of soil health in our own gardens and home landscapes?
Finally, we will compare regenerative agriculture with organic agriculture, take a close look at how legislation impacts farming practices, and also how climate change is affecting our food supply.
Food & Farming reimagines our relationship with our land. No single industry impacts our world more than farming. And we can change our world decisively by how we connect with our land.
As an introduction to the course and to provide you with a set of powerful takeaways as a small sample of the depth of knowledge you will learn in this course, we are hosting a Free Introductory Class when we will uncover 10 Powerful Ways You Can Change Our Food System. It takes place on Tuesday, February 4 and you can choose either the 12:00 noon or the 7:00 pm ET class.
During this Introductory Class, we’ll take a deep dive into the connections between our farming practices, our environment, and our health. You’ll discover eye-opening strategies you can use to create real change in your food choices and your community.
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Format
- FREE INTRODUCTORY CLASS:
10 Powerful Ways You Can Change Our Food System
Tuesday, February 4
12:00 noon or 7:00 pm ET
THE COURSE:
Food & Farming: How Farming Impacts Our Water, Wildlife, Climate, Health & Economy - February 6 – March 27, 2025
- Online via Zoom for 8 weeks
- Thursdays at 12:00-1:30 PM -or- 7:00-8:30 PM (Eastern Time, US)
- Recordings available to students
- In between classes, connect with the instructor and other students via an exclusive email group
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Your Instructor
Hart Hagan is an educator, a native plant expert, an Accredited Organic Land Care Professional certified through the Northeast Organic Farming Association, and he has been trained by the Savory Institute in the ecological evaluation of pastures through a process known as Ecological Outcome Verification.
Hart is also an environmental reporter who has produced nearly 400 radio shows and over 250 videos since 2018. He is the founder of Water & Climate, a Facebook group with over 4,500 members. Six years as a climate reporter has led him to focus on the value of ecosystems and water cycles as a key driver of climate, and the primary means of curbing extinction and providing habitat for our fellow species.
Hart is passionate about educating people that in order to understand flooding, drought, heatwaves and wildfires, we must look beyond CO2 and examine how we treat our land. He is an avid gardener with a focus on native wildflowers and creating landscapes that capture all the rainfall.
To review and subscribe to Hart’s important work, visit his:
YouTube Channel: @harthagan23
Blog on Substack: harthagan.substack.com
Facebook Group: Water & Climate
Whether this is your first course or your tenth course, please join us if you are curious about nature and its power to restore the soil and other ecosystems to abundance. Everyone has much to learn and share, and there is much to be done. We are all on a journey of expanding our knowledge on nature’s climate solutions, and we each bring something valuable to the conversation.
If you have any registration or general course questions, email us at staff@bio4climate.org. If you have specific questions about the course for Hart Hagan, you can contact him at nhhagan@gmail.com.