The Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture invites you to join us for:

"Rewilding Our Communities for Climate Resilience"

with 

Hannah Lewis

Imagine teaming up with your neighbors to plant 600 tree and shrub seedlings of 15-plus native species into an area the size of a tennis court. Prior to planting, you will have loosened up and added compost to what was probably compacted ground lacking in topsoil, and afterward covered the exposed soil with a thick layer of straw mulch. After a couple of years of as-needed weeding and watering, your little ecosystem forms a canopy and - like any other healthy ecosystem - is self-sufficient. This is a mini-forest. We'll discuss who around the world is planting this way and what difference it can make for climate resilience in urban and rural settings alike.

Hannah Lewis graduated from Iowa State University in 2007 with a MS in Sustainable Agriculture and Sociology. She is the author of Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World, published in June 2022 by Chelsea Green. Hannah lives in Minneapolis, where she works for the non-profit Renewing the Countryside to build sustainable local and regional food systems.