Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church-goers and the HEART Road Trippers received these words and now you can too. Here is the introduction below and the link to the sermon! While here in Kentucky, Dr. Davis had a chance to visit Wendell…

Last night our group had a presentation that looked at a different aspect of conventional agriculture: unethical labor practices. We heard a presentation by Emily Drakage from the Association of Farmworker Opportunities Programs (AFOP) about the 400,000 recorded children working…

We toured Liles Organic Acres Farm in Maryville, where Kelly took this daring photo. When we arrived at Highland Presbyterian Church for a local foods potluck, there was Sheri Liles again to greet us, plus she made the best potato…

See the photos taken by the Road Trippers so far.

HEART visited Oxmoor Farm and learned about the farmer-owned Grasshoppers local food distributer in Louisville and the history of the farm. Then we weeded between the Brussel Sprouts and harvested garlic for putting in 400 CSA shares for distribution the…

Land, Life, and the Poetry of Creatures, is adorned with a photo of dirt-covered bare feet. Biblical scholar Ellen Davis is helping to shape a new approach to thinking about human domination of the Earth and its creatures. With her friend, the farmer poet Wendell Berry, they speak to our collective grief at destruction of the natural world and nourish a “chastened” yet “tenacious” hope.

The Agrarian Road Trip is completed. No lives were lost, much gas was combusted (which will be offset through Native Energy), great food was eaten, so much was learned, and hope was generated and shared! See below for HEART reflections,…

It isn’t exactly the magical candyland of Willy Wonka, but it just so happened that when my parents and I were travelling in Peru, they were consistently amazed at the fierce flavors of seemingly commonplace foods. They remarked that they…

When my 76-year-old mother, 19-year-old nephew and I joined four high school juniors and leaders David and Sam T., they had already paddled 439 miles from Lake Itasca at the headwaters of the Mississippi to St. Cloud, Minnesota. We joined…

In the coming days, Senator Murkowski (AK-R) will bring a bill to the floor of the Senate that, if passed, will undermine the Clean Air Act and prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases. Senator Murkowski’s bill…