Perennials, Pollinators, and Permaculture: Planning A Climate Resilient Campus

Eric Toensmeier is an award-winning author, whose books include Paradise Lot,  Perennial Vegetables,  The Carbon Farming Solution, Trees with Edible Leaves, and Edible Forest Gardens (with Dave Jacke). He ran a seed company, managed an urban farm, served as an appointed lecturer at Yale University, and was part of the team behind the NY Times bestselling book  Drawdown. Eric has also published a number of peer-reviewed science articles. He has been passionate about perennial crops and agroforestry since 1990. Since 2009 he has focused on climate change mitigation in the food system. Eric’s consulting clients range from individual farms to NGOs to states and provinces. His new farm in Southampton, MA, USA demonstrates farm-scale agroforestry and ecological home-scale edible landscaping.

This is a pre-recorded presentation provided by the Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group - ESRAG, whom we have our pollinator pledge with.