What's the connection between climate action by farmers and ranchers and more nutritious diets (foods)?  

What opportunities are there for communities to lead the great transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world that is energized by the abundance of creation?  

We are in a time of transitioning into a new way of living together on Earth. We won't run out of the sun, the wind, gravity, AND the almost limitless power of biology--living things.)  

What have we learned this past year during the COVID pandemic that can help us shape public policy and public institutions to empower families, small businesses, farms, communities, and our whole state to get to the outcomes that both science and our own desires for success invite us to embrace?  

Matt Russell is the Executive Director of Iowa Interfaith Power & Light. Matt and his husband Patrick Standley operate Coyote Run Farm, a 110 acre farm in rural Lacona, IA. They market fresh produce, eggs, and grass-finished beef at farmers markets and other local outlets. Matt and Patrick do what they call retail agriculture. Everything that comes off the farm is a branded product that is sold primarily to single individuals and families. Some goes to restaurants. Most of their clients are in the Des Moines market or local in Marion and Warren Counties