Adrian Fielder

In this first episode of "Forest Radio" (a special new Farm Talk mini-series), Adrian Fielder meets Aviram Rozin, author of Humanity 2.0: Ten Principles for a Compassionate Society and founder of Sadhana Forest, a bold, multi-continent project to regenerate forest and community in ways that provide abundance of food, health and well-being for everyone. Across eight locations in India, Kenya, Namibia and Haiti, Sadhana Forest communities have turned the tide on aridification and erosion by installing permaculture design interventions called “Earthworks” (especially swales) to catch precipitation and allow precious water to soak into the Earth where it can feed the web of life from the ground up. The dramatic results of their efforts, as seen in the images above (showing the first Sadhana Forest site in Auroville, India over the last twenty-three years) demonstrate the relevance of these strategies to the urgent work of rehabilitating land in other arid and semi-arid climates such as those on Colorado’s Western Slope – especially in our increasingly common post-fire landscapes. Just as urgent as regenerative land stewardship is the need to re-center community life in the human heart, and Sadhana Forest does both simultaneously. Indeed, Aviram and his co-regenerators tend both to the land and to their communities with compassion and commitment to restoring the balance of life: all meals they serve are vegan, and they peacefully co-exist with animals as relatives throughout Sadhana Forest. They invite you to come visit them at any of their locations, where they receive thousands of volunteer visitors per year. To whet your appetite, Humanity 2.0 is available here as a free download, or you can request a free print copy at the Sadhana Forest website.

Gretchen Hoffman and Karen Crownhart talk to Adrian Fielder and Cody Lee about their stewardship of the Roaring Fork High School grow dome/garden, the story of how it started and how the community can get involved.

My Own Two Hands co-founder Adele Craft returns from London with a Masters Degree in Positive Psychology and shares about her experience with co-host Adrian Fielder.

This month's episode of My Own Two Hands is a special hour-long feature with Dr. Tina Evans, Professor of Integrated Sustainability at Colorado Mountain College (CMC). Adrián and Tina discuss the evolution of Sustainability (globally) as a career field and (locally) as a guiding light for CMC, which after launching its bachelor program in the field back in 2011, has recently adopted the AASHE STARS rating system as a way to track its progress toward accomplishing its mission.

On this episode of My Own Two Hands, host Adrián Victór is on a field assignment in Camuy, Puerto Rico, where regenerative farming innovators Stephanie Syson and Dan Whitney have just founded a 35-acre jungle homestead and an exciting non-profit called the Caribbean Agroforestry Institute.

This month’s episode of My Own Two Hands features mushroom cultivator Matthew Mateo Rader, founder of Toadstool Traditions. Mateo shares his knowledge and insights about the many health benefits of "functional mushrooms."

On this month's episode of My Own Two Hands, host Adrian Fielder continues his investigation of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict by circling back with Will Hodges, community organizer and co-founder of the local group CeaseFireNowRFV, which has generated much public dialogue in the Roaring Fork Valley since last month's episode.

On this month's episode of My Own Two Hands, Adrian chats with Hamilton Pevec about the history of medicinal uses of fungi, a new film project Hamilton is working on about the role of fungi in making cheese, and a special event on micro-dosing hosted tomorrow night by the Western Colorado Mycological Association in the Carbondale Library.

This episode introduces Andrés Better (Andy), a current student of Colorado Mountain College’s Bachelor of Science program in Ecosystem Science and Stewardship, and a graduate of the college's Permaculture Design Certificate. Over the years, he’s developed a passion for documenting biodiversity in his home country of Ecuador and in Colorado where he grew up.