This year, the "Year of the Woman Farmer" (yes, we agree women farmers should be recognized and celebrated all year, every year) was celebrated extensively in the 6th annual People's Food Summit, on World Food Day, October 16th. The Women, Food and Agriculture Network (WFAN) collaborated with us for 4 inspiring interviews to honor and highlight women farmers.
You can catch them now on our website or at the following links:
Hannah Bernhardt - Transitioning Cropland to Permanent Pasture and Silvoculture in Minnesota - https://t.co/yNDfkhAN6j
Abbie Corse - Regenerative Organic Dairy Farming in Vermont with Intensive Grazing Management and Agroforestry - https://t.co/wSzDHxdSQi
Tamara Deal - Integrating Regenerative Agriculture Practices Into Row Crop Farming In Iowa - https://t.co/P9sV3lKKDm
Dr. JohnElla Holmes - The Wisdom of Black Farmers: Nicodemus, Kansas, Settled By Formerly Enslaved People During Reconstruction Is a Model for Resilient Farming and Local Food Systems - https://t.co/xZ5UzsByLZ
Learn more about this year's People's Food Summit and speakers: https://t.co/dFqW5ZouKE
Trees provide deep-rooting carbon sequestration, nitrogen fixation, erosion control, biodiversity corridors, and long-term soil structure, some of the most powerful regenerative benefits available to any farming system. Meanwhile, the reforestation and forest restoration sector has been scaling rapidly, with satellite monitoring, carbon markets, and nature-based investment funds operating largely in parallel to the regenerative agriculture movement. Locke's piece asks why these two fields, operating on the same landscapes with the same farmers and the same urgent timeline, have not been formally brought together.
Read more: https://t.co/9UOrl7Zk45
"For us to have enough food for the current and future generations, we really need to embrace taking care of our environment, supporting the land managers, who are mainly women. There isn't one best way of doing things, let's embrace all the techniques that are proven to ensure food security."
- Dr. Carol Munini. Africa segment
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Missed this year's 24-hour People's Food Summit or weren't able to watch all of the inspirational talks? You can watch them now! Click the following link and scroll down to the speakers' bios. Below the name of speaker you would like to watch click where it says "link to talk," and enjoy: https://t.co/dFqW5ZouKE
"We all make a choice three times a day, which farmer we choose to support." Carolyn Suggate, ORICoop and SLOW Movement, Australia
Check out our regenerative farm map to support regenerative farmers near you: https://t.co/5W6hiTnbaI
Last Friday, October 16th, we hosted our 6th annual People's Food Summit. For 24 hours we journeyed across the globe to meet with farmers, researchers, activists, and community leaders sharing the inspiring work they're doing in their corners of the regenerative world.
If you missed it or weren't able to watch all 24 hours of it 😅 don't worry, the talks are available on our Youtube and Facebook pages and will be available on our website in the coming days.
Youtube: https://t.co/FXDmg8nxan
Website: https://t.co/dFqW5ZouKE
Facebook: https://t.co/kpmL8ueUD8
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 6th Annual People’s Food Summit: Grassroots Rising! 🌱
For 24 hours we journeyed through every continent to meet with farmers, researchers, activists, and community leaders sharing the work they're doing in their corner of the regenerative world.
If you missed any sessions or want to revisit your favorites, all videos will be available to watch within 48 hours at the link below. Share them with your networks and help us spread the word.
Stay connected by subscribing to our newsletter and following us on social media. We’ll see you again next year on World Food Day, October 16, 2027.
Thank you for being part of Grassroots Rising. 🌍
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🍅 In this week's Organic Bytes Newsletter https://t.co/s4brOeqzPt , we make the case for banning Atrazine. It is the pesticide most often found in American tap water, and it has been banned in Europe for years.
We look at why natural fabrics feel so good, who pays the real price for cheap food, what Indigenous land stewardship can teach us, and why we’re skeptical of Big Food’s new precision fermentation and synbio protein patents.
We hope you’ll read this week’s Organic Bytes Newsletter all the way through, down to the Little Bytes, where you’ll find more good reads and videos.
We also hope you’ll join us at the People’s Food Summit, where farmers, scientists, and organizers are building an organic regenerative future. It’s Free and virtual. October 16, 2026.
Dr. JohnElla Holmes of the Kansas Black Farmers Association joins the People’s Food Summit this Friday. Her great-great-grandparents were among 300 freed enslaved people who settled Nicodemus, Kansas in 1877, building a farming community from the ground up during Reconstruction.
In her talk, Dr. Holmes shares how Nicodemus stands as a model of resilient farming and local food systems, and what its history has to teach us about community, land stewardship, and food sovereignty today.
Free and virtual. October 16, 2026.
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Ryan Zinn, Regenerative Projects Manager at Dr. Bronner’s, joins the People’s Food Summit this Friday. From fair trade olive farmers in Palestine to regenerative organic mint growers in India, Dr. Bronner’s has spent years building direct relationships with farmers and proving that regenerative agriculture and farmer well-being are inseparable.
Free and virtual. October 16, 2026.
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