Steven McFadden - Chiron Communications

Keys for the health of people and planet

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Behold the Light: Farms, Photons, Futures

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Native Knowings: A compilation of Turtle Island insights

Native Knowings is Steven McFadden’s original compilation–a small treasure–offering a concise and contemporary compendium of some key North American (Turtle Island) wisdom teachings. “I ask you to listen, not just with your minds. I ask you to listen with your hearts, because that’s the only way you can receive what it is, what we are giving. These are the teachings of our hearts.” – Frank…

Native Knowings: A compilation of Turtle Island insights

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Odyssey of the 8th Fire accelerates in 2025 * Chiron Communications

While the upcoming film of Homer's Odyssey is drawing attention, we are all making the challenging, nonfiction, real-time journey Odyssey of the 8th Fire.

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Farms of Tomorrow - CSA book now in Spanish

As of 2025 one of the classic books about the CSA movement—Farms of Tomorrow Revisited—has been translated and published in the Spanish language as Las Granjas del Mañana Revisitadas: Comnidad apoyada por Granjas, Granja apoyada por Communidades. Nearly 40 years ago I was the Organic Outlook columnist for a rural newspaper when I met a farmer setting down roots the next town over, Trauger Groh…

Farms of Tomorrow - CSA book now in Spanish

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Welcome to my blog for Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future, formerly publishing online as The Call of the Land. My name is Steven McFadden. I’ve been writing about the land since I …

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Spiffy new makeover for one of my satellite websites * Chiron Communications

After 16 years with the same look, my website for Deep Agroecology needed an overhaul... I'm happy to share this glimpse.

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The Strategic Wisdom of Agroecology

Agroecology offers a wide array of sensible, sustainable, just, and strategically intelligent pathways to sustain our civilizations, and help them to progress in ever-wiser way.

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The Strategic Wisdom of Agroecology

by Steven McFadden As cloaks of summer heat settled upon most of North America, and storms raged severe in sky, land, and sea, I happened upon a 2020 academic review of Deep Agroecology. I’d missed the review at the time, as I was reckoning that year with the passing of generational elders, and also a household move from Nebraska back to the mountains of the Southwest. But I’m happy to have come…

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From the Heart for the Heartland: Community Farms Model a Healthy Future

The country’s future depends on its farms and rural communities. CSAs–community farms–are leaders in all good things, models for America.

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From the Heart for the Heartland: Community Farms Model a Healthy Future

by Steven McFadden Whereas industrial agriculture generally embitters both land and water, and also unleashes forces that tend to unravel the fabric of rural communities, CSA farms do something other. They improve soil, water, and diets. They also create hubs of shared interaction that are the basis of healthy community. CSA farms are leaders and models for “all good things.” Those are some of…

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Deep Agroecology Farm Life | Steven McFadden

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Blossoms Unfold In An Age Of Flowers - Spirit of Change Magazine

This excerpt from Legend of the Rainbow Warriors, first released in the 90s, offers speculation about our floral consciousness in the new state of life humans are transitioning towards.

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Linking logically to the Age of Flowers

We’re in transition, that’s for sure. By that I mean the rate of change around the globe–climate, business, education, technology, etc.–is cracking along at a wildfire pace: in our faces. We’re moving decidedly toward some new state of life. To add to the wealth of speculation about what some qualities of that new state may be, I offer yet another descriptor–one with mythic unifying attributes:…

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Blossoms unfold in an Age of Flowers

We are in a worldwide transition, that's for sure. Could an important part of our future be The Age of Flowers?

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CSA farms: Healthy Islands Amid Systems Collapses?

Can CSA community farms help mitigate the difficulties and challenges that may arise during crises, or system collapses. An exploration, and an invitation to contribute to CI – Community Inte…

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CSA farms: Healthy Islands Amid Systems Collapses?

Can community farms (CSAs) help mitigate the difficulties and challenges that may arise during crises or system collapses? This is a 20-minute talk and slide-show I prepared for participation in a Sustainable Roundtable discussion of systems collapses. I was asked to present on the topic of how community farms (CSAs) might ease, or mitigate the harsh condition in the case of economic or…

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Sparks for the 8th Fire: a podcast * Chiron Communications

Sparks for the 8th Fire: this is a podcast recording of a talk Steven McFadden gave on March 10, 2024, telling some of the true, epic saga Odyssey of the 8th Fire.