Wes Jackson. Wes Jackson (born 1936) is the founder and current president of The Land Institute.
He is also a member of the World Future Council. Early life and education[edit] Jackson was born and raised on a farm near Topeka, Kansas. After earning a BA in biology from Kansas Wesleyan University, an MA in botany from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in genetics from North Carolina State University, Wes Jackson established and served as chair of one of the United States' first environmental studies programs at California State University, Sacramento. Jackson then chose to leave academia, returning to his native Kansas, where he founded a non-profit organization, The Land Institute, in 1976. Work with The Land Institute[edit] The Land Institute has explored alternatives in appropriate technology, environmental ethics, and education, but a research program in sustainable agriculture eventually became central to its work.
Current and future work[edit] Author[edit] Works[edit] Selected Bibliography. Wendell Berry. Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.
A prolific author, he has written dozens of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berry has been named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.[1] Life[edit] In 1965, Berry moved to a farm he had purchased, Lane's Landing, and began growing corn and small grains on what eventually became a 125-acre (0.51 km2) homestead. In the 1970s and early 1980s, he edited and wrote for the Rodale Press, including its publications Organic Gardening and Farming and The New Farm.
Activism[edit] On June 3, 1979, Berry engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience against the construction of a nuclear power plant at Marble Hill, Indiana. Will Allen (urban farmer) Will Allen (born February 8, 1949) is an American urban farmer based in Milwaukee and a retired professional basketball player.
Will Allen was a high school state champion in basketball at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Maryland.[1][5] Allen played collegiately for the Miami Hurricanes at the University of Miami, where he was on basketball scholarship.[6] He was the first African-American to play basketball for the University of Miami.[1] Allen retired from basketball in 1977, when he was 28.[8] Upon retirement, Allen moved to Milwaukee, his wife Cynthia's hometown.[1] Will Allen’s parents were sharecroppers in South Carolina until they bought the small vegetable farm in Rockville, Maryland, where Allen grew up.[9][10] Will Allen appears in the documentary film, Fresh.
The film refers to Allen as "one of the most influential leaders of the food security and urban farming movement Growing Power. Joel Salatin. Salatin giving a tour of his farm Joel F. Salatin (born 1957) is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain't Normal; You Can Farm; and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic management methods of animal husbandry, free of potentially harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley.
Meat from the farm is sold by direct-marketing to consumers and restaurants.[1] Biography[edit] In high school, Salatin began his own business selling rabbits, eggs, butter and chicken from his family farm at the Staunton Curb Market.[2] He then attended Bob Jones University where he majored in English and was a student leader. Tired of "having his stories spiked," he decided to try farming full-time after first getting involved in a walnut-buying station run by two high school boys.[5] Salatin's grandfather had been an avid gardener and beekeeper and a follower of J.
Salatin's farm[edit] Criticism[edit] Awards[edit]