"Remarkable People" in ag and wildlife

[awr...@mountainsongschool.com]

Greetings! I am the Ag Arts teacher for a K-8 school in Colorado. I am planning Pt. 2 of a "Remarkable People" unit for my 2nd grade students that focuses on influential figures in the world of agriculture, wildlife, and nature. Some of the people we studied last semester include George Washington Carver, Temple Grandin, Jane Goodall, Rachel Carson, and Chef Jose Andres.

Does anyone have any ideas for other influential figures that we might include in this unit? My co-teacher and I are using this unit as a way to focus on diversity, so we are especially interested in women and people of color. Thanks!

Adam Wright

Ag Arts Program Coordinator

Mountain Song Community School

[Kathryn Brignac]

Hi Adam,

Sounds awesome! A few folks who come to mind are - I noted if there are kid's books that I know about them!

- Rowen White, indigenous seed keeper network

-Sean Sherman, the Sioux Chef

-Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil rights activist and founder of Freedom Farm Cooperative

-Shirely Sherrod, New Communities land trust, Federation of Southern Cooperatives

-Will Allen - urban farmer (Book: Will Allen and the Growing Table)

-Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez -United Farm Workers union (Book: Lado a Lado /Side by Side)

-Dr. Vandana Shiva, environmental activist and food sovereignty advocate

-Isatou Ceesay -Gambian environmental activist (book: One Plastic Bag)

Hope some of those are helpful :)

Best,

Kathryn

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[Patti Berryhill]

Hi All,

While this restaurant is closed now and looking for a new home, the founders had created a wonderful experience for their guests. The Ohlones live in the San Francisco Bay Area and it is their homeland. I have been studying them and have spent some time with their tribal leaders. The narrative about the "Mission Period" is changing. They also want us to know that their elders were not hunters and gatherers. They were Land (and Ocean) Managers. They knew the seasons, the migratory patterns of animals. They knew how to do controlled burns. 

This is a very interesting email thread! Thank you!

Patti

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[Amy Sidran]

Leah Penniman, Farming While Black author and Soul Fire Farm founder

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[Arlene Marturano]

Contemporary well-known black birders: J. Drew Lanham and Jason Ward and David Lindo

Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) Dakota naturalist

May Theilgaard Watts - naturalist

Booker T. Washington - agriculture

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[Katherine Pryor]

I am loving all of these lists! I would add Wangari Maathai. There’s a lovely picture book about her called “Wangari’s Trees of Peace”.

Katherine Pryor

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[Erika Kuhr]

David Fairchild was a huge person that supported the US DOA and went around the world collecting potential plants that farmers/cropping could grow in USA. 

There's a great book out about him and the includes the wealthy man that paid for David Fairchild's sailing around the world and almost all the voyages. There's probably a good bit about him on the Botanical garden he founded or named after him in Florida. 

Good luck. 

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[Karen Wagner (OR GEM)]

Loving this thread!  Here are a couple of on-the-ground ag & nature operations, not necessarily run by diverse characters but definitely promoting and practicing diverse nature-centered agriculture, perhaps useful in another section of your ag & nature class.

Apricot Lane Farms - https://www.apricotlanefarms.com/  - showcase & stars of The Biggest Little Farm documentary

TomKat Ranch - https://tomkatranch.org/mobile-homepage/ - holistic ranching using Nature as the teacher

Karen

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[Bruce Ferguson]

Hi Adam, you might want to have a look at some of the speakers in the U of Michigan's Food Literacy for All series...several have already been mentioned in this thread. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/category/food-literacy-for-all/

-Bruce

[Pamela Flory]

Mary Oliver - poet

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[Monica Gehrig]

Hi everyone,

I am also really appreciating this list! Thank you all for sharing these amazing resources. 

I'd like to add these two:

Masanobu Fukuoka - http://f-masanobu.jp/en/

Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer - https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/

[Laurie Taylor]

I would add Alice Watters- Edible Schoolyards, The Garden Project, and Slow Food pioneer, and also, Will Allen- "Good Food Revolution" and the work he accomplished with Growing Power, Inc. in Milwaukee.

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[Judith Rice-Jones]

Add Bob Cannard, Green String Farm

“Creating peace one garden at a time.”  Tammi Hartung

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[Pam Hosimer]

Hi Adam,

This is a wonderful collection of ideas! I would also add:

Stephen Ritz, founder of the Green Bronx Machine. It's an inspiring story.

Ira Wallace, owner of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.

Also I would suggest this NEW book that was published in 2020:
The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants by Jennifer Jewell and published by Timber Press.
This book will give you lots of information about women working to make a difference in our food system. (Ira Wallace, who I mentioned above, is profiled in this book) 

Stay safe and healthy,

Pam

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