THE ESSENCE OF THRIVING with DR. GARRETT LILES, CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE CSU, CHICO
For the next conversation in our intermittent series on what regenerative cultivation looks like in our world-at many levels–Cultivating Place is speaking this week with Dr. Garrett Liles, cofounder and faculty affiliate of The Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems at California State University, Chico.
The Center is all about caring cultivation of place, understanding and supporting better systems, and training the next generation in this ethos and its practices. The Center is directed by nationally recognized regenerative agriculture leader, Dr. Cynthia Daley, an educator, researcher, and advocate, who joined CSU Chico’s faculty in 1998. Between 2016 and 2019, Dr. Daley, along with Dr. Tim LaSalle and Dr. Garrett Liles, created the Center for Regenerative Agriculture & Resilient Systems. Today, the Center is a nationally respected hub for interdisciplinary research, producer education, student engagement, and policy outreach.
Dr. Liles has been mentored by and is a colleague of Dr. Daley and Dr. LaSalle, expanding on and adding to the longstanding work of sustainable agricultural practice at Chico State–past, present, and future-for the benefit of all people and places.
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Thinking out loud this week...
Hey, it's Jennifer—
Thinking out loud this week is all about the Autumnal season here in the
Northern Hemisphere – and the many lessons of our places at such
thresholds in the cycles of time all pointing us VIBRANTLY to the
concepts and lived examples of what regenerative means in action. The
green leaves losing their access to chlorophyll and showing their colors
and carbon to be cycled back into the soil when they fall – the flowers
from feeding the birds and the bugs fullness turning to fertilized and
seed formation to ensure the next cycle. The water from storms cleaning
the planted and the land, absorbed into the land and the roots of the
plants, flowing from slopes into creeks, into rivers, into deltas and
oceans – the largest of the planets reservoirs besides the soil itself.
What we do begets what comes next – what are we and our gardens and our
cultivations of place and our engaging and educating, encouraging and
empowering others ensuring will come next???
Community too can and should be regenerative – and dynamic. Gathering, growing, learning, adapting, together! With that I can’t wait to gather together around the first chapter of Robert Macfarlane’ epic newish book Is a River Alive? It is a big book, a dense consideration, and worth savoring. We will engage around the first chapter only for now at our Monthly Communing this
month a Book Club gathering. Registration is now open for both this October 20th gathering, and for our annual #100daysinplace engagement, kicking off like last year, on the seasonal marker day of October 31st! I hope you can join us for one or both of these communal engagements!
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