031, Elizabeth West and Lisa Redman: Woodland Harvest Mountain Farm

Soul Soil: Where Agriculture and Spirit Intersect with Brooke Kornegay

Woodland Harvest Mountain Farm is a woman-owned, 16-acre, off-grid educational regenerative agriculture farmstead nestled in the mountains of Appalachia. Since 2004, they have welcomed more than 2500 volunteers, held workshop gatherings, provided respite to activists, held healing space for their beloveds, and organized countless parties for work, teaching, learning and leisure. They have opened their land to hundreds of "strangers" (who they now know and love and honor as their community farm family) who each have helped create this dreamstead space to share. Each season they move closer toward self-reliance and resilience. Elizabeth West and Lisa Redman are activists, homesteaders, permaculturalists, educators and Earth lovers who weave their experience with the opportunities of the present to create an abundant, inclusive alternative to the status quo.

Woodland Harvest isn’t just a place, it’s a state of mind…a place to drop out and tune in!

In this episode…

• About Woodland Harvest
• The impact of off-grid immersion on visitors
• Defining resilience
• Balancing the intellectual with walking the walk
• Early influences
• Nonviolent activism
• Diving into folk medicine
• Planning for relocalization of resources
• Raising children in a new way
• The importance of fun 😊

Resources

• The Empowerment Manual and The Earth Path by Starhawk

• Shelter, Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter, and The Half-Acre Homestead: 46 Years of Building and Gardening by Lloyd Kahn

• Barbara Kingsolver

• Toni Morrison

• Alice Walker

• Octavia Butler

• Howard Zinn

• Noam Chomsky