Spontaneous Vegetation

Stephen is an interdisciplinary, independent scholar, polymath, and author or 23 books (and working on others), numerous articles, and essays and have achieved some mastery in a variety of subjects a few being bacterial ecology, resistance dynamics; plant intelligence and ecology, human psychology and psychotherapy, biological self-organization; nonlinearity; contemplative spirituality, transcultural epistemology and more. www.stephenharrodbuhner.com

Contains mild profanity. An edited version of this interview was aired on Lumpen Radio, in two parts.

Stephanie Gottlob is a somatic improvisational movement artist. In 2019 she bought a truck camper and has been on the road for three years, exploring movement improvisation, somatic experience, and creative process throughout the various natural biomes of North America - deciduous forest, lake, tundra, swamp, grasslands, river, desert, temperate rain forest, and boreal forest.

Angela is the current supervisor of the Onondaga Nation Farm. The farm practices all aspects of Food Sovereignty for their community. She is also one of the original organizing members of Braiding the Sacred, an all indigenous group of Traditional Corn Growers across Turtle Island. Her many passions include Haudenosaunee Traditional Agriculture, Seed Caring, Bee Keeping, Foraging, Traditional Cooking Methods, Knowledge Sharing, Haudenosaunee Nutrition Education, Youth Mentorship, & Traditional Hide Tanning.

Uncle Bear Klein is a Content Creator, Trainer, Life Coach, and Designer of Powerful Life Transformational curriculum. He/they have over 20+ years of experience leading workshops in Chicago and across the country. Uncle Bear seeks to facilitate and witness transformation and unite the head with the heart while at the same time savoring the honey of Life! He strives to live and create work honoring his five Core Values: Connection, Courage, Compassion, Curiosity, and Creativity.

Cover image via http://www.unclebearsrodeo.com

School for the Ecocene hosts programs and is also an eco-social network for sharing resources, inspiration and actions for planetary liberation. The Ecocene is an emergent geologic era where all beings are living in relation and reciprocity with their ecosystems again. Sarita and Este are two of its stewards transforming the School into a worker-owned Cooperative www.ecocene.net

Margaret Bardell and her husband manage Chestnut Cliff Farm. The farm aims to raise the highest quality specialty organic produce, maple syrup, free-range eggs, grass-fed beef, herbs, foraged foods such as mushrooms and wild plums, unique cut flowers, and more. They are located in Freeport, Illinois at the edge of the Driftless and are converting to no-till, regenerative methods to support soil biology. Chestnut Cliff Farm - Bardell Family - Market Garden - Organic @chestnutclifffarm

George Johnson is a 96 year old elder who has had a long practice of native prairie restoration and preservation. He is a library of history of the confluence of human use of land, native prairie and agriculture in northern Illinois.

Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson is an artist based in Chicago, living where the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois Nations have called home. She animates out of devotion to the fluidity and multiplicity of everything, focusing on sensations and experiences of isolation that are avoided by dominant culture. As a depressive person, the animation process is a crucial, steady reminder that nothing is really stuck or alone. Every project is a spell to transform the violence of isolation, and celebrate each other as interconnected, weird phenomena. She has presented work in galleries, forests, and empty lots around the northern hemisphere.

https://gwynethvzanderson.com/section/89319.html

Cathi Schwalbe is a maker of objects including mixed media, sculpture, found objects, bronze & iron, installation & site specific works, and a deep social practice, all centered around issues and aesthetics related to food systems, water, agriculture, reuse, connection, and being human. @casbah3d and www.casbah3.com

Nance speaks with four staffers of Chicago's independent newspaper, South Side Weekly: Editor-in-Chief Jacqui Serrato, Managing Editor Martha Bayne, Imigration Editor Alma Castillo and Politics Editor. www.southsideweekly.com