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EcoGather ™
Written By
Nicole Civita, Vice President
for Strategic Initiatives
EcoGather is a collaborative learning network facilitated by
Sterling and dedicated to the vitality of ecosystems, communities, and economies. It brings remote learning to life by grounding its offerings in community-centered design, place-based
pedagogy, and experiential application. This virtual space is for
learners to experience pluralistic exchange and resonant connections across geographies, cultures, identities, worldviews,
and lifeways. We gather to learn from and transform our relationships with each other, the rest of the natural world.
Meet our partners:
FrontLine Farming
Colorado, USA
FrontLine Farming is a BIPOC & womxn-led farmer and food justice advocacy organization that operates as a multi-plot farm
committed to providing food to people of all income levels by
sustainably growing affordable local food in the Denver Metro
Area. FrontLine engages its communities through education on
growing food, promoting healthy, active lifestyles, beautifying
neighborhoods with edible landscapes, reducing the distance
from farm to plate, and supporting fair wages and working conditions for farmers.FrontLine Farming operates its farms for
the purposes of education, production, and community vitality.
As educators, FrontLine engages a range of individuals from
elders to toddlers in ethical and sustainable growing practices.
Together, Frontline Farming and EcoGather will create courses and content that explore seed saving, food sovereignty,
commons management, labor justice, and geographies of
exclusion and reparation.
Photo: Compliments of FrontLine Farming
Puerto Rico Science,
Research & Technology Trust
Puerto Rico, USA
The Puerto Rico Science, Research & Technology Trust invests,
facilitates and builds capacity to continually advance Puerto
Rico’s economy and its citizens’ well-being through innovation-driven enterprises, science and technology, and its industrial base. Some of the ways the Trust does this include Recuperacion Agricola, which provides recovery assistance and
resources to farmers affected by hurricanes, and the Academie
del Cacao, which teaches smallholders to produce cacao in
agroforestry systems. The Trust brings both its work in tropical
agroforestry and its expertise in the use of GIS, mapping, and
unmanned airborne vehicles to EcoGather and will be contributing to courses in Appropriate Technologies for Human Scale
Farms, Seed Saving for Food Sovereignty, and Agroforestry.
Photo: Compliments of Puerto Rico SRT Trust