Scroll Top

Redesigning Regional Food Traditions

August 24, 2011

Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally celebrated nature writer, seed saver, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist who has been called “the father of the local food movement” by Mother Earth News. Gary spoke at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Oregon on redesigning our local food traditions and deepening out sense sustainable agriculture.

Recorded live at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Oregon on April 14th 2011.

The Renewable Energy & Sustainability Resource Center: depts.clackamas.edu/sustainability

Check out the rest of the Sustainability Lecture Series videos on our Youtube channel or in DVD format at the Dye Learning Center.

 

 

 

Related Posts

Water report suggests diversification for Arizona agriculture

It’s in response to mandatory Colorado River cutbacks triggered by drought. The first major report forecasting Arizona’s mandatory Colorado River…

28 Feb 2023
Mesquite, crucial to Indigenous diets for centuries, works miracles with water and needs no fertilizer. Why don’t we grow more of it?

In a Southwest that’s getting hotter and drier while its population steadily grows, ecologists and Indigenous food activists are increasingly…

13 Oct 2020
Guest Opinion: Heal Arizona’s chasms

Our elections may be over, but one thing is for sure: Arizona remains politically divided, just as much of our…

29 Nov 2018
The Canary Islands Connection

I’m surrounded by date palms. Around them run dry watercourses that look like ones I find not far from my…

15 Jul 2019
KCRW – Good Food – Tucson’s foodways

In 2015, Tucson was named the first UNESCO City of Gastronomy in the U.S. due to the region’s more than…

14 May 2018
Ode to the Old Pueblo

Ya know, we’re still figgering out how to live in “this big bunch of nothin” here in the Stinkin’ Hot…

11 Dec 2021
40th Anniversary Edition: The Desert Smells Like Rain

A little resurrected book showed up at our place in Patta-Butta, AridZona this week, with a new cover by O’odham…

07 Aug 2022
Guest opinion: Cruelty and incompetence on the border

Like most Americans, we have been sickened by the sights and sounds of children torn away from their families at…

21 Jul 2018
Gary Paul Nabhan: The wall with Mexico will come tumbling down

  Few walls last forever. Last winter, part of President Trump’s new border wall wavered toward collapse under the force…

28 Jul 2020
Slow Food Santa Fe Edition with Gary Nabhan

Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg interview author and environmental activist Gary Nabhan. His most recent book is Food From the…

04 Apr 2021
There’s more to agave than tequila

You can sip me, you can eat me and you can moisturize with me—what am I? The agave plant. Today,…

03 May 2018
On this Earth Day, let’s think about agriculture

Farmers and ranchers hold the key to carbon storage. As we celebrate Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, the environmental movement finds…

22 Apr 2020
New Year Poem

I am going to tell you something awe full. If you turn to wild nature in the winter,  Not merely…

31 Dec 2022
Will Work for Dirt

Have you ever tried to grow a garden in your backyard, only to find that the dirt was too worn-out…

24 Nov 2018
Order of Ecumenical Franciscans for the House Committee on Appropriations and its Subcommittee on Homeland Security

I am writing to ask that you rescind all Department of Defense and Treasury fundsfor building more of the border wall.My name is Gary Paul Nabhan and I am an Ecumenical Franciscan Brother whohas lived and worked on the U.S./Mexico border as a seasonal park ranger, farmer,conservational biologist and facilitator of interfaith and intertribal gatherings since 1978.

24 Mar 2020