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Mark Kopecky, state agronomist with NRCS in New Mexico. Small scale farmer and long time land-lover.

Sacred. I feel the land like a friend, a beloved. The land is often how I feel inspired, feel myself and connect with other beings (animals, humans, plants)

How would you describe your relationship to the land? Add a short description of your relationship with the land here.

living

I am so excited to finally own land and be able to start working with the soil and producing food. ‘The land’ as an entity is my happy place and where I go to find comfort and peace.

Mutual sustenance... foods grown on land nurture and sustain me; I work to nurture, steward and sustain the land.

Sometime gardener, all-time mulcher and composter. Love the so-called weeds saving the soil.

Endlessly fascinated by the movement in ecology - biogeochemical cycles, migrations, seasons

When I am walking outside, and connecting with nature, I feel guided by wise ones, held by a deep knowing beyond anything I know consciously, and I feel deeply embedded as a being of Mother Earth.

Land is my source of healing.

The land is my relative

admirer

Restorative. The land provides a place to reflect and reconnect with myself and others.

borrowed from future beings

First and foremost a steward and eater. I need water and food to survive as a human being. The food that I grow, the air that I breathe, the water that I drink come from this land. I also want to fully respect heritage.

Listening to you, I think of the smell of rain, I guess because I'm waiting for rain. We are working hard to improve our soil biology.

Sad and painful. It's like a lost love. As an Indigenous person, we don't have access to the ancestoral lands that we now have to "sneak" and "trespass" to access.

Sangre de Cristo. rooted. feeling innately connected to the land.

I'm a product of the land

It’s all about the health of the soil trying to always improve OM

I enable landowners to be better stewards of thief land focusing on the relationship with biology and how they can facilitate a better envious focused on the soil and the microbe s that live there

I am part of the land

Childhood memories of forest magic of the Catskills Mts, NY State

We are the current stewards of 10 acres of a little patch of prairie in a beautiful valley and all its creatures.

Grateful for my three acres of redwoods, oaks, fruit trees and vegetable garden. I’m it’s steward.

Jan-Willem Jansens: My relationship to the land is similar to relationships with human communities; I try to listen, observe, ask questions, smell, taste, do things together, talk, and organize people to do things together with land (and all that lives and grows) in ways that we learn to communicate with land in a way that is respectful and supportive of land and each other.

I live in a smaller mountain town and it is so beautiful, every day it blows my mind. It snowed the other day and now its sunny so today is getting me excited for winter. I work at some ranches in the Sierra Valley and I’m learning about regenerative ranching to help farmers in that area adopt some regenerative practices

I have felt connected to the land since I was a little. I am now realizing how much I respect it and cherish it and how it heals me. I am very excited to move into my place in honoring the land, possibly through education, production,..

We live on the land through our community Acequia. The people, the culture, the water, and the orchards and gardens are a source of great solace.

it is a relationship to land, like a marriage the relationship grows with effort & work, giving, taking, keeping the relationship in balance

Growing up in coastal Maine, playing in the deep woods on our property. The smells and sounds are vivid in my memories, intertwined in my genetic makeup.

Both a friend and a stranger. Also a place of healing and learning.

Deeply healing and connecting. It encompasses all that I am

I am a steward of the land, a product of the land, a contributor to the land. The land, the cattle, and I are one out here in Wagon Mound.

The land is a part of me and us. We don't exist outside of or separate from the earth, a spiritual being.

Presenter bios:

https://quiviracoalition.org/aubrey-streit-krug/

https://quiviracoalition.org/Sierra-Corona/

yes

https://quiviracoalition.org/valerie-small/

https://quiviracoalition.org/darrell-oswald/

Within the work you do, who do you work with and what collaborations do you support/foster? How do these contribute to land restoration and resilience?

Speakers will invite questions after they’ve spoken, we welcome questions in the chat box as they arise.

BIA=Bureau of Indian Affairs, a bureau within the US Department of Interior (federal)

In your projects, are there discussions about planting trees vs natural regeneration?

Can you tell us the name of that paper again please?

Shannon—we’ll get that for you. Thx for flagging!

Factors that support Indigenous involvement in multi-actor environmental stewardship: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/9/52/files/2012/10/Reo-et-al-factors-supporting-Indigenous-participationALTERNATIVE2017.pdf

Thank you!

<3 <3 <3 yes!! Thank you!!

CARE WORKDreaming Disability Justice https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Care-Work

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

That book is also available at our conference bookstore, conference attendees get free shipping!

https://www.bkwrks.com/book/9781551527383

code: FREESHIPPING

Natural regeneration is often not possible in the ecosystems we work, particularly in the Southwest with high intensity fires that have reduced specific tree species beyond their ability to regenerate naturally.

What impact has the changing climate already had and how you are adapting to the new normal?

We welcome questions you have in the chat box!

A question that came in from a participant on audio only: Darrell, do you work with the Johnson-Su Bioreactor and in collaboration with David Johnson from University of New Mexico? And if so what are the benefits you’re seeing from that collaboration?

For Rodrigo: Are perennial native species returning under your grazing management?

For Darrell, How long has the demonstration farm taken this holistic soil health approach? And how did you build the interest and will within the district to take this approach? What advice to you have for others interested in seeing this model replicated in other states?

In your projects, are there discussions about planting trees vs natural regeneration?

Can we please get a copy of that list of reading material on Darrell’s last slide?

For Rodrigo: Are perennial native species returning under your grazing management?

Thanks Val!

Brenn, sure thing! We’ll plan to post all those slides and materials onto the Virtual Conference Center within the next few days

https://event.crowdcompass.com/regenerate2020

Thanks, Leah!

For Darrell, How long has the demonstration farm taken this holistic soil health approach? And how did you build the interest and will within the district to take this approach? What advice to you have for others interested in seeing this model replicated in other states?

For all speakers: How can we bring our conversation and insights to people who are not part of our circle? How can we bring the regenerative approach "across the fence"?

Great question, Jan-Willem!

For Valerie: In your introductory presentation, you introduced us to your philosophy, in which you presented a dichotomy such as regenerative vs. sustainable. Why such a division rather than seeking integration of these concepts?

May we have the link to crowd map now?

GroupMap Link: https://join.groupmap.com/971-963-6DB

As sensemaker, I’ll be bopping around breakouts hearing snippets here and there to further our conference collecting of themes and key takeaways, don’t be surprised to see me jump in and out!

When you arrive in your breakout room, please take the first couple minutes to introduce yourselves (name and where you’re from), identify the VOLUNTEER as they are responsible for sharing their screen and putting your group’s response(s) into GroupMap. If there is no VOLUNTEER in your breakout room, please nominate someone to take on this role.Enjoy your conversation and please use the last 5 mins (we’ll let you know!) to add your response(s) to GroupMap.

how could deepening my relationship with different people strengthen my work on the land?

How can we bring the regenerative approach “across the fence”?

Speak in a kind way, avoid being judgmental, be engaged—Rodrigo

We need to walk in the other person's shoes . . . talk in a kind way, not being overly judgmental, being engaged.

an ethos of ongoing learning

Playing off Thanksgiving Dinner….share something grown regeneratively with your neighbor. Share how excited you are about what you are learning and something about what challenges you……..

invite people to have first-hand experiences

have courage and stick with it

Check your own intention: are you there to learn or teach/preach? Invite people into experiences, hands-on; have courage and stick with it, not as a heroic individual—Aubrey

have heart, be there for oneself and other people

I love the concept of "perennial relationships"!

And, listen, listen, listen

Leave the door open . . . eventually they'll walk through it. Darrell

Principles of soil health are universal; its all about the information and education, open-door policy to invite others to walk through and join a safe place for discussion; and its about collaboration and developing insights from and with those who see things differently, remembering that some of our own strengths are also our weaknesses—Darrell

Connect community members, especially youth, the ambassadors to and of tomorrow, to engage the broader community and take on on-the-ground projects—Valerie

thanks!!

Thank you all!

I appreciate the opportunity to participate. Thanks Panel. Thanks everyone.

Great discussion and questions, with thanks to all the panelists and to everyone who joined. Cheers!

Gather: https://story-spaces.com/events/gather-qihql0

Thank you everyone!