February 14, 2026: Greening Greenfield, MA, Regenerating the Pioneer Valley’s Soil Sponge and Living Climate
February 6, 2026: Greenfield Recorder – More Than Carbon Sticks, Didi Pershouse Urges a Systems View of Forests
January 23, 2026: Greenfield Recorder – Environmental Health Depends on Soil Health
Jan 6 2025: Ecojustice Radio: “Beyond the Financialization of Nature”
(We are updating these lists, as there are a lot of events from 2022 to 2026 not yet captured here!)
October 15, 2022: Soil Health Success Stories Webinar, Soil Food Web School
November 2021: The Real Organic Project Water, Water, Water, and the Soil Carbon Sponge
August 11, 2021: Healthy Food Healthy Humans, with Elaine Ingham and Dan Kittridge
June 25, 2021: Speaker at Groundwork Gathering at Paicines Ranch
June 25, 2021: Can We Rehydrate California on “Alive” with Christina Redko
June 11, 2021: Soil Health as Public Health on “Alive” with Christina Redko
April 28, 2021: Hanken University, Finland. Regenerating Living Organisations - A Systems View for Change with Didi Pershouse, Daniel Wahl, and Precious Phiri
March 15 - 18, 2021: Speaker at Soil Regen Summit
March 13 and 14, 2021: Regenerating Landscapes Deep-dive
March 9, 2021: Talk at Hardy Plant Club, Northern Vermont
February 22, 2021: “The Soil Water Climate Connection" Walter Jehne & Didi Pershouse at the Living Soils Symposium, Canada
February 21, 2021: “Soil, Your Health, and Climate Change” Radio Ecoshock interview
February 2 & 3, 2021: 6th Biennial Russian River-Friendly Landscaping Event
January 21, 2021: The Remarkable Success of the Natural Farming Movement in India
January 11, 2021: Oxford Real Farming Conference
February 21, 2020: Agriculture and Climate in the Northeast: Soil and Ecosystem Health at Tufts University (Medford, MA).
November 14 - 17, 2019: Bionutrient Food Association conference
February 4 - 6, 2020: Southern Rocky Mountain Agricultural Conference and Trade Fair in Monte Vista, CO.
January 23 - January 26, 2020: Northern Plains Sustainable Ag's 2020 Food & Farming Conference in Fargo, North Dakota.
August 15-18, 2019: Soil Carbon Sponge Strategic Gathering with Didi Pershouse & Walter Jehne, Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT
August 14, 2019: "Understanding the Soil Sponge and Green Stormwater Infrastructure," hands-on, experiential soil workshop with Didi Pershouse, Walter Jehne, and Cat Buxton at a local farm.
June 17 - 20, 2019: Poitiers, France: Food security and climate change: 4 per 1000 initiative new tangible global challenges for the soil,
March 28-31, 2019 Montreal, Canada: Living Soils Symposium.
February 20-24, 2019 Paris, France: International Meeting for a Living Agriculture.
January 19, 2019 Exeter, California: Sequoia Riverlands Trust Soil Carbon Sponge Workshop.
November 28, 2018 Ajax, Ontario: Ontario Excess Soils Symposium.
November 18, 2018 St. Johnsbury, VT: Common Ground for Climate Action. St. Johnsbury's Universalist Unitarian Church (47 Cherry Street), from 1-4pm. Sponsored by Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition (VHSC) and Community Resilience Organization (CRO)
Thanks to a grant from the National Grazinglands Coalition, you can join Didi Pershouse and Cat Buxton for one of our free daylong hands-on Land Listeners workshops at grass-fed beef and dairy farms throughout Vermont. The last session is still available for sign-ups.
September 20, Butterworks Farm, Westfield, VT
Didi Pershouse will also be teaching a live interactive online course on the Soil Sponge on September 10th, 12th, 17th, and 19th. Learn more here.
June 13, 2018: Jamaica Plain, MA, 6:30 - 9:30PM The Soil Sponge: Our Hope for Community and Climate Resilience.
First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist. More info here.
May 8-11, 2018: Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee Vermont: The Soil Carbon Sponge Seminar with Walter Jehne, Didi Pershouse, and others.
April 16: Fairfax, MARIN COUNTY, CA, 6:00-8:30 pm: "Can we Rehydrate California for the Long Term?" Fairfax Women's Club. Sponsored by Diana Donlon and Larry Bragman.
April 14, 2018: VENTURA COUNTY, CA: Daylong workshop with Walter Jehne and Didi Pershouse.
April 12, 2018: SANTA BARBARA, CA: Daylong "Can we Rehydrate California?" workshop with Walter Jehne and Didi Pershouse at Cachuma Resource Conservation District, San Antonio Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency.
April 5-6, 2018: Waterloo, Ontario, (Canada): Health Systems in the Anthropocene Conference, University of Waterloo.
March 28, 2018: Cambridge, MA (USA). Cambridge Public Library "The Hidden Life of Soil." Presentation and discussion, Sponsored by Mothers Out Front. Details here.
March 25, 2018: Bedford MA: Sunday sermon at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church
February 25-27, 2018, Oklahoma City, OK: "The Living Soil Sponge: Can Soil Biology Prevent Flooding and Drought?" (3-4:15 Tuesday) Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts State Meeting.
February 3, 2018, Essex, MA: "Climate, Water, Soil, and Hope: Soil Biology's Role in Public Health and Climate Resiliency" (1-5 pm) Half day workshop with NOFA/Mass and Essex County Greenbelt Association 82 Eastern Ave, Essex, MA
January 25-26, 2018, Latham, NY: "Soil Health and its Impact on Human Health" (Thursday, 4:30-5:15 pm) The Northeast Pasture Consortium
January 17, 2018 Jamestown, North Dakota: "The Importance of Microbes in the Gut and Soil" (11 am) and "Soil Health and Watershed Function" (2:30 pm) at the North Dakota Grazing Lands Coalition Winter Conference.
January 20-21, 2018, Fairlee, VT: "Understanding Soil Health" (Saturday 1:30-2:45 pm) at the Vermont Grass Farming Association Conference.
January 13, 2018, Worcester MA: “Resilient Leadership: Thinking Together, Listening Deeply, Moving Forward,” (4-5:30 pm) and "Climate, Water, Soil and Hope: A Whole Systems Approach to Landscape Function" (9-10:30 am) at NOFA/Mass Winter Conference at Worcester State University, MA
January 5, 2018, Pocantico, NY, Day-long workshop with Didi Pershouse and Peter Donovan for staff at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.
December 5, 2017, New York City, "Preventing Flooding and Drought with the Soil Sponge: the living matrix that makes life on land possible" address to delegates at United Nations-FAO World Soil Day
November 18, 2017, Cambridge, MA, "The Ecology of Care: Shifting from a Sterile to a Fertile Paradigm" at Harvard University
November 3, 2017, Fairlee VT, "Climate, Water, Soil and Hope: A Whole Systems Approach to Improving Community and Climate Resilience," Wellborn Hub Leadership Conference
October 22, 2017, South Royalton, VT "Connecting Human and Ecosystem Health" at BALE's conference "Localize It: What Resilience Looks Like" at Vermont Law School
October 13 - 15, 2017, Montreal, Canada "Soil Health and Public Health" at Living Soils Symposium,
October 1, 2017: "Healing Generation RX: Supporting Our Young People Without Psychiatric Drugs" Daylong workshop at Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism (Montpelier, VT)
August 26, 2017: "Resilient Leadership: Thinking Together, Listening Deeply, Moving Forward" and "Climate Water Soil and Hope",www.nhpermacultureday.org/ NH Permaculture Day (Warner, NH)
August 19, 2017: Emporia, Kansas "Supporting Each Other As Leaders In the Soil-Health Movement," following Gail Fuller's Field School.
July 19, 2017, Lake Placid NY, 6pm: Reading at Green Goddess Health Food Store in Lake Placid, NY
June 11, 2017, Warner, NH, 2:00 PM: Reading at MainStreet BookEnds of Warner
May 19th 2017 Didi Pershouse and Peter Donovan of the Soil Carbon Coalition at the Citizen Science Conference's "Night in the Cloud" event Saint Paul, MN.
May 15 - 16, 2017: Teaming with Microbes: Soil Health Seminar with New Zealand agroecologist Nicole Masters.
April 25, 2017 at 7:00pm: Reading at the Royalton Memorial Library (South Royalton Village, VT)
April 10, 2017 at 6:30pm: Reading at the Blake Memorial Library (East Corinth, VT)
March 23, 2017 from 7-9 pm: Reading and Discussion at the Robbins Library (Arlington, MA)
March 22, 2017 from 7-9 pm: Reading and Discussion in Lincoln, MA (hosted by Jane Hammer)
March 15, 2017 at 7:00pm: Reading at the Chelsea Public Library (Chelsea, VT)
February 24-25, 2017: Healthy Soils Symposium
January 14, 2017 "Microorganisms: the Unseen Workers of the World." 2017 NOFA/Mass Winter Conference in Worcester, MA.
November 30-December 2, 2016 at the Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee Vermont:
"The Soil Carbon Sponge: Intensive Seminar with Didi Pershouse and Walter Jehne."
October 26, 2016: Guilford, VT, Guilford Church, 7 PM
"The Commons of Care," Discussion and book reading from The Ecology of Care with Didi Pershouse
November 11-12, 2016: El Reno, Oklahoma. "Agriculture, Water and Climate: Teaching Soil Health Principles and Whole Systems Landscape Function." A workshop for formal and non-formal educators with Didi Pershouse and Clay Pope. Blue STEM AgriLearning Center.
Sept 16-18, 2016: Land Listeners Workshop: Monitoring and Teaching Whole Systems Landscape Function, Cedar Circle Farm, East Thetford, VT
August 25, 2016: Soil Symposium, Center for Transformational Practice, White River Junction, VT 5:30-7:30
August 22, 2016: Norwich Public Library Reading from The Ecology of Care, Norwich, VT
August 20, 2016: "Microorganisms: Unseen Workers of the World," New Hampshire Permaculture Day
February 6, 2026: Greenfield Recorder – More Than Carbon Sticks, Didi Pershouse Urges a Systems View of Forests
January 23, 2026: Greenfield Recorder – Environmental Health Depends on Soil Health
Jan 6 2025: Ecojustice Radio: “Beyond the Financialization of Nature”
(We are updating these lists, as there are a lot of events from 2022 to 2026 not yet captured here!)
October 15, 2022: Soil Health Success Stories Webinar, Soil Food Web School
November 2021: The Real Organic Project Water, Water, Water, and the Soil Carbon Sponge
August 11, 2021: Healthy Food Healthy Humans, with Elaine Ingham and Dan Kittridge
June 25, 2021: Speaker at Groundwork Gathering at Paicines Ranch
June 25, 2021: Can We Rehydrate California on “Alive” with Christina Redko
June 11, 2021: Soil Health as Public Health on “Alive” with Christina Redko
April 28, 2021: Hanken University, Finland. Regenerating Living Organisations - A Systems View for Change with Didi Pershouse, Daniel Wahl, and Precious Phiri
March 15 - 18, 2021: Speaker at Soil Regen Summit
March 13 and 14, 2021: Regenerating Landscapes Deep-dive
March 9, 2021: Talk at Hardy Plant Club, Northern Vermont
February 22, 2021: “The Soil Water Climate Connection" Walter Jehne & Didi Pershouse at the Living Soils Symposium, Canada
February 21, 2021: “Soil, Your Health, and Climate Change” Radio Ecoshock interview
February 2 & 3, 2021: 6th Biennial Russian River-Friendly Landscaping Event
January 21, 2021: The Remarkable Success of the Natural Farming Movement in India
January 11, 2021: Oxford Real Farming Conference
February 21, 2020: Agriculture and Climate in the Northeast: Soil and Ecosystem Health at Tufts University (Medford, MA).
November 14 - 17, 2019: Bionutrient Food Association conference
February 4 - 6, 2020: Southern Rocky Mountain Agricultural Conference and Trade Fair in Monte Vista, CO.
January 23 - January 26, 2020: Northern Plains Sustainable Ag's 2020 Food & Farming Conference in Fargo, North Dakota.
August 15-18, 2019: Soil Carbon Sponge Strategic Gathering with Didi Pershouse & Walter Jehne, Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT
August 14, 2019: "Understanding the Soil Sponge and Green Stormwater Infrastructure," hands-on, experiential soil workshop with Didi Pershouse, Walter Jehne, and Cat Buxton at a local farm.
June 17 - 20, 2019: Poitiers, France: Food security and climate change: 4 per 1000 initiative new tangible global challenges for the soil,
March 28-31, 2019 Montreal, Canada: Living Soils Symposium.
February 20-24, 2019 Paris, France: International Meeting for a Living Agriculture.
January 19, 2019 Exeter, California: Sequoia Riverlands Trust Soil Carbon Sponge Workshop.
November 28, 2018 Ajax, Ontario: Ontario Excess Soils Symposium.
November 18, 2018 St. Johnsbury, VT: Common Ground for Climate Action. St. Johnsbury's Universalist Unitarian Church (47 Cherry Street), from 1-4pm. Sponsored by Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition (VHSC) and Community Resilience Organization (CRO)
Thanks to a grant from the National Grazinglands Coalition, you can join Didi Pershouse and Cat Buxton for one of our free daylong hands-on Land Listeners workshops at grass-fed beef and dairy farms throughout Vermont. The last session is still available for sign-ups.
September 20, Butterworks Farm, Westfield, VT
Didi Pershouse will also be teaching a live interactive online course on the Soil Sponge on September 10th, 12th, 17th, and 19th. Learn more here.
June 13, 2018: Jamaica Plain, MA, 6:30 - 9:30PM The Soil Sponge: Our Hope for Community and Climate Resilience.
First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist. More info here.
May 8-11, 2018: Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee Vermont: The Soil Carbon Sponge Seminar with Walter Jehne, Didi Pershouse, and others.
April 16: Fairfax, MARIN COUNTY, CA, 6:00-8:30 pm: "Can we Rehydrate California for the Long Term?" Fairfax Women's Club. Sponsored by Diana Donlon and Larry Bragman.
April 14, 2018: VENTURA COUNTY, CA: Daylong workshop with Walter Jehne and Didi Pershouse.
April 12, 2018: SANTA BARBARA, CA: Daylong "Can we Rehydrate California?" workshop with Walter Jehne and Didi Pershouse at Cachuma Resource Conservation District, San Antonio Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency.
April 5-6, 2018: Waterloo, Ontario, (Canada): Health Systems in the Anthropocene Conference, University of Waterloo.
March 28, 2018: Cambridge, MA (USA). Cambridge Public Library "The Hidden Life of Soil." Presentation and discussion, Sponsored by Mothers Out Front. Details here.
March 25, 2018: Bedford MA: Sunday sermon at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church
February 25-27, 2018, Oklahoma City, OK: "The Living Soil Sponge: Can Soil Biology Prevent Flooding and Drought?" (3-4:15 Tuesday) Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts State Meeting.
February 3, 2018, Essex, MA: "Climate, Water, Soil, and Hope: Soil Biology's Role in Public Health and Climate Resiliency" (1-5 pm) Half day workshop with NOFA/Mass and Essex County Greenbelt Association 82 Eastern Ave, Essex, MA
January 25-26, 2018, Latham, NY: "Soil Health and its Impact on Human Health" (Thursday, 4:30-5:15 pm) The Northeast Pasture Consortium
January 17, 2018 Jamestown, North Dakota: "The Importance of Microbes in the Gut and Soil" (11 am) and "Soil Health and Watershed Function" (2:30 pm) at the North Dakota Grazing Lands Coalition Winter Conference.
January 20-21, 2018, Fairlee, VT: "Understanding Soil Health" (Saturday 1:30-2:45 pm) at the Vermont Grass Farming Association Conference.
January 13, 2018, Worcester MA: “Resilient Leadership: Thinking Together, Listening Deeply, Moving Forward,” (4-5:30 pm) and "Climate, Water, Soil and Hope: A Whole Systems Approach to Landscape Function" (9-10:30 am) at NOFA/Mass Winter Conference at Worcester State University, MA
January 5, 2018, Pocantico, NY, Day-long workshop with Didi Pershouse and Peter Donovan for staff at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.
December 5, 2017, New York City, "Preventing Flooding and Drought with the Soil Sponge: the living matrix that makes life on land possible" address to delegates at United Nations-FAO World Soil Day
November 18, 2017, Cambridge, MA, "The Ecology of Care: Shifting from a Sterile to a Fertile Paradigm" at Harvard University
November 3, 2017, Fairlee VT, "Climate, Water, Soil and Hope: A Whole Systems Approach to Improving Community and Climate Resilience," Wellborn Hub Leadership Conference
October 22, 2017, South Royalton, VT "Connecting Human and Ecosystem Health" at BALE's conference "Localize It: What Resilience Looks Like" at Vermont Law School
October 13 - 15, 2017, Montreal, Canada "Soil Health and Public Health" at Living Soils Symposium,
October 1, 2017: "Healing Generation RX: Supporting Our Young People Without Psychiatric Drugs" Daylong workshop at Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism (Montpelier, VT)
August 26, 2017: "Resilient Leadership: Thinking Together, Listening Deeply, Moving Forward" and "Climate Water Soil and Hope",www.nhpermacultureday.org/ NH Permaculture Day (Warner, NH)
August 19, 2017: Emporia, Kansas "Supporting Each Other As Leaders In the Soil-Health Movement," following Gail Fuller's Field School.
July 19, 2017, Lake Placid NY, 6pm: Reading at Green Goddess Health Food Store in Lake Placid, NY
June 11, 2017, Warner, NH, 2:00 PM: Reading at MainStreet BookEnds of Warner
May 19th 2017 Didi Pershouse and Peter Donovan of the Soil Carbon Coalition at the Citizen Science Conference's "Night in the Cloud" event Saint Paul, MN.
May 15 - 16, 2017: Teaming with Microbes: Soil Health Seminar with New Zealand agroecologist Nicole Masters.
April 25, 2017 at 7:00pm: Reading at the Royalton Memorial Library (South Royalton Village, VT)
April 10, 2017 at 6:30pm: Reading at the Blake Memorial Library (East Corinth, VT)
March 23, 2017 from 7-9 pm: Reading and Discussion at the Robbins Library (Arlington, MA)
March 22, 2017 from 7-9 pm: Reading and Discussion in Lincoln, MA (hosted by Jane Hammer)
March 15, 2017 at 7:00pm: Reading at the Chelsea Public Library (Chelsea, VT)
February 24-25, 2017: Healthy Soils Symposium
January 14, 2017 "Microorganisms: the Unseen Workers of the World." 2017 NOFA/Mass Winter Conference in Worcester, MA.
November 30-December 2, 2016 at the Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee Vermont:
"The Soil Carbon Sponge: Intensive Seminar with Didi Pershouse and Walter Jehne."
October 26, 2016: Guilford, VT, Guilford Church, 7 PM
"The Commons of Care," Discussion and book reading from The Ecology of Care with Didi Pershouse
November 11-12, 2016: El Reno, Oklahoma. "Agriculture, Water and Climate: Teaching Soil Health Principles and Whole Systems Landscape Function." A workshop for formal and non-formal educators with Didi Pershouse and Clay Pope. Blue STEM AgriLearning Center.
Sept 16-18, 2016: Land Listeners Workshop: Monitoring and Teaching Whole Systems Landscape Function, Cedar Circle Farm, East Thetford, VT
August 25, 2016: Soil Symposium, Center for Transformational Practice, White River Junction, VT 5:30-7:30
August 22, 2016: Norwich Public Library Reading from The Ecology of Care, Norwich, VT
August 20, 2016: "Microorganisms: Unseen Workers of the World," New Hampshire Permaculture Day