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SUMMARY:“Seeding Hope” Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:This event is a co-presentation with Kingston WritersFest ( https://www.kingstonwritersfest.ca ), which runs October 1-4, 2026 at the Kingston Marriott.\n\nConnecting philosophical meditations with agricultural expertise, Seeding Hope urges us to reassess our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the vast living systems to which we belong—reminding us tht when we nurture the world around us, we nuture ourselves. \nIn Seeding Hope, Jack Algiere, Chief Agroecology Officer (CAO) at Stone Barns, shares the wisdom he’s gained in a lifetime of farming, growing, and observing the natural world.\nThis luminous book is directed not just to farmers, but for all who desire a more connected and meaningful life. By following and examining the stages of a plant’s life cycle, Seeding Hope explores how this botanical pattern is a vital blueprint, offering lessons that inform all aspects of our lives.\n“[Algiere] is a brilliant farmer because he’s a brilliant observer; he’s spent a lifetime letting plants teach him how to see. In prose as attentive, searching, and grounded as his farming, Jack gathers those lessons into something rare and resonant: a portrait of the natural world as teacher, and an ethic for how to live, drawn from the ground up.\n—Dan Barber, Chef, Blue Hill and author of The Third Plate\nBUY THIS BOOK ( https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/seeding-hope/?srsltid=AfmBOoobUWa-YkeTZKXKkFf6IvQ1TETXr_ZC5vM9QI_mFDgzfwvdxI0p ) in advance!\nAbout the Author:\nJack Algiere is Advisor & Chief Agroecology Officer at the Stone Barns Center. As the organization’s first official employee back in 2003, he brought a critical skill set in diversified, regenerative farm practice to the Stone Barns landscape. Since then, he has built an integrated farming operation rooted in land stewardship, innovation, and community, which also serves as a training campus for young farmers, chefs, changemakers, and the public.\nJack has been actively farming for more than two decades and has trained a generation of young farmers in organic and biodynamic farming practices. He oversees the extensive farming operations at Stone Barns, integrating a holistic farm team that works together on multi-species grass-fed livestock, grains, field crops, greenhouse, fruit, flowers, wild landscapes, and compost in a four-season regenerative system. Jack leads programming in innovative tool design, breeding and monitoring work that supports the efforts of small- and mid-size farmers, and was part of the core team that developed the Conservation Action Plan that led to the management of 350 acres of public lands in the Rockefeller State Park Preserve. He is a frequent public speaker and has appeared at food and farming conferences and summits across the country. He holds a B.S. in horticulture from the University of Rhode Island.\n
URL:https://hotelwolfeisland.com/events/seeding-hope-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Garden Party 2026,Literature
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