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Jan Alexander sitting on fallen 'nurse' tree

Living well with forests: learning with forests —with Jan Alexander at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon for International Womens Day, 7 Mar.

"Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength." GD Anderson I'm delighted to share my dear friend and Close-to-Nature forestry mentor Jan Alexander, will be speaking at the Dock, this coming Saturday for a special event for International Womens Day. We'll be going…Read more Living well with forests: learning with forests —with Jan Alexander at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon for International Womens Day, 7 Mar.

Whose Woods These Are: Wendell Berry’s A Good Forest economy–with Cathy Fitzgerald

Poster by Helen McDonnell The following is the 2nd post in which I reflect on Wendell Berry's ideas of a 'Good Forest Economy'– from an essay he wrote in 1995 (the reason why I chose to discuss Wendell's forest ideas are in the previous post here). https://videopress.com/v/ZLvfb9mh?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata My talk for the Arboreal Book Club for…Read more Whose Woods These Are: Wendell Berry’s A Good Forest economy–with Cathy Fitzgerald

‘Reflecting again on Wendell Berry’s– ‘the forest is the basis of a culture’

This is the first of two posts (my talk recording is in the 2nd post here) reflecting on ideas from writer-philosopher-poet Wendell Berry that influenced my art-forest-policy work over the last two decades. The next post details the odd coincidence in that I have been invited by curators to talk about a forest text that…Read more ‘Reflecting again on Wendell Berry’s– ‘the forest is the basis of a culture’