Fearless Woman Learn to Change the World
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I love this town. We are capable of holding space for our community to have challenging conversations and learn with each other in an evolving time. Let us learn together, question through different lenses, and act with wisdom. We are one family with many branches but held together with the same roots.
My dream is to create an educational experience for our community operating under the philosophy "Learn. Question. Do." These are the 3 pillars under which we hope to foster intelligent dialogue, distribute information, and facilitate action in our local community.
“Learn To Change The World” hosted its first film in November 2021 - Kiss The Ground is a
documentary-turned-agricultural-movement that explores the core ideas of regenerative agriculture, including responsible management of land through reduced tilling, limits on nitrogen fertilizers, use of cover crops, and prioritization of animal and plant diversity. Following this film was a question and answer session with two very important people - the film’s producer and founder of the Kiss The Ground movement, Ryland Englehart, as well as the owner of Be Love Farm, Matthew Engelhart, who utilizes biodynamic and regenerative farming practices happening in Vacaville and the greater California area.
Question: Townhall-style forums to distribute real and timely information.
The goal of questioning is to facilitate challenging conversations in order to come away from each forum with a better understanding of an issue so that we may make educated decisions for our families. In October and December of 2021, a group of inspired local leaders held a town-hall forum, gathering experts in the field of infectious disease, county regulations, pediatrics, and educational leaders to help us understand the mandated Covid-19 vaccinations for children. The result was a living example of our ability to come together to have difficult conversations in an unbiased safe space about issues that affect local families. The goal is to host more dialogues about issues facing our community, not limited to vaccinations, but any issue with the threat of misinformation that may create polarization in our community.
Do: Actionable steps to apply this information on a local level.
We embody the information learned through the other two pillars with “Think Globally, Act Locally”. To date, we have held biodynamic composting classes to implement in our own backyards and at Ballygrennan Farm, created a demonstrative food forest in partnership with Sustainable Solano, provided letters and ways to communicate with Solano County and California State representatives about issues important to our community, provided maps of where to buy locally-sourced food from farms using regenerative practices, and will have more activities and information throughout the upcoming year. We will continue to engage and provide opportunities related to the information learned through the other two pillars of this educational experience.
As Covid has forced our kids to rely on technology more than ever, "#KidsOnTech" looks at the impact on children's developing bodies and brains, and asks: "How might we better prepare our kids for this digital world?" Voices from India to the U.S., France to China, Mexico to Japan explore what children need to truly to navigate this new world.
Today's children are growing into a world increasingly steered by artificial intelligence. The question of how they can learn to use this epochal technological revolution creatively, discerningly and in the interest of people and nature, instead of being enslaved by it, is one of the most important questions of our time.
The new 57-minute documentary "#KidsOnTech" grapples with this very question. It addresses parents in particular, but also educators, teachers and policy-makers. The film does not pretend to offer a "silver bullet"; instead, it helps parents to better understand and accept their options - without shame or blame. It shows how big our influence is on our children's experiences with digital media, and how we can address this global generational problem ourselves on a grassroots level.
Going Circular dares to imagine a future where humankind not only survives, but flourishes, by rethinking global paradigms and respecting the limits of our planetary resources.
Meet four groundbreaking thinkers who navigate environmental, economic, and social crises of the modern age. They each discover that the solutions for creating a circular economy and planet have already been perfected in nature itself.
An Off the Fence production for Curiosity Studios in coproduction with ZDF Enterprises, ZDF and Arte. Executive Producers Robert-Jan van-Ogtrop, Thomas Anthony and Allison Bean. Produced by Ellen Windemuth and Sam Barton- Humphreys, Directed By Nigel Walk and Richard Dale.
Released in September of 2020 on Netflix, Kiss the Ground the movie narrated by Woody Harrelson is a full-length documentary shedding light on a “new, old approach” to farming called regenerative agriculture, a practice with the extraordinary ability to balance our climate and feed the world.
Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that sheds light on an “new, old approach” to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.
