Episcopal Diocese of Virginia 

Old Growth Forest Network

Sacred Grove at Eden Seminary

Miyawaki Forests 

Miyawaki Forests 2

Cornell Bird Lab

Faith Alliance for Climate Action

Center for Spirituality in Nature

Lanni Lantto is a Yooper, fashion redesigner, curator of UP (as in Upper Peninsula of Michigan) Wild and much, much more. She with her family are currently breaking cycles of generational dysfunction and helping others do the same through community healing circles. 

UP Wild is a diverse faith community that cultivates the roots of Christianity recognizing that the wilderness has always been and still is a place of holy connection, revelation, wonderment, & healing. A non-profit 501(c)3 collaboration with funding support from the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan and the ELCA Northern Great Lakes Synod.

Feature article on UP Wild in the Detroit Free Press. Bummer that it’s behind a paywall. Michiganders with a Free Press subscription, take note. You can always subscribe, it’s $1.00 for the first month. Make sure you cancel if you are out-of-state and have too many subscriptions. Or, send a message to UP Wild and they will send you the article - [email protected] 

Lanni’s story about the Uber driver, milkweed seeds, and monarch butterflies is worth repeating.

Friend of Lanni (FOL) - We move at the speed of trust.

Coldplay - I see God in my garden, but I don’t know what he said.  Cemeteries of London. 

Episcopal Church Creation Care Gathering at the Proctor Center in London, Ohio, September 23-26

Church of the Transfiguration, Point aux Pins on Bois Blanc Island in Lake Huron. Church and island have moved onto my bucket list.

Wild Church Network 

Center for Spirituality in Nature

Forest Therapy School

Tony Jones aka The Reverend Hunter

Why I Ump Town Ball

Son of Helena - Tony’s latest book and first novel

Minnesota Baseball Association

2026 Field of Dreams Game - Twins vs. Phillies in Dyersville, Iowa and on Netflix

The Farmer’s Game: Baseball in Rural America by David Vaught

Baseball and Agrarianism (short version of Vaught’s book)

Dr. Courtney Cowart is the Executive Director of the Society for the Increase of Ministry, she currently splits her time between Atlanta and Mississippi Delta in Greenville. 

A few of the mentions from the Podcast:

Julia Reed was a dear and close friend of Courtney going back to their time at the Madeira School on Virginia. She was an author, columnist, and speaker, Julia was a figure in the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher and Edith Wharton. She was a writer of great range whose subjects included corrupt but charming Southern politicians, first families, food, art, architecture, gardening, decorating, and the triumphs and the tragedies of the American South.

Church Goin’ Mule aka Marshall Blevins “grew up listening to the blues (Robert Johnson is her favorite), and later devoured Southern authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner, resulting, she says, in a ‘gritty fictive world made in my imagination.’ All these influences come to bear in her work, which combines colorful, energetic portrayals of the landscapes and animals she grew up around, with strong dashes of delta mythology and Southern Gothic symbolism.”

Mike Wagner, 2022 Mississippi Farmer of the Year, is the owner of Two Brooks Farm in Sumner, Mississippi. “Two Brooks Farm is rooted in conservation and grows in excellence.  Our single estate rice is ecologically grown in the boondocks of the Deep South's Mississippi Delta, mindful of the needs of the exponentially increasing human population. Our family believes you should not have to choose between the needs of nature and those of mankind, and our unique rice cultivation system conscientiously attends each by balancing nature with needs. We farm with nature's rhythm, lending to and taking from nature, to put whole, healthy, glycemic friendly, gluten-free, non GMO food on your table.”

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram “stands at the crossroads of legacy and innovation. A native son of Clarksdale, Mississippi — a city steeped in blues history — he channels the spirit of the Delta while fearlessly reshaping its future.” Check out my favorite Kingfish is Catfish Blues.

American Dream Safari. “From a 1955 Cadillac, Tad Pierson takes you on a journey like you’ve never experienced. His American Dream Safari company offers themed rides, including Juke Joint Full of Blues, a Delta Day Trip and a soul-soothing Road Therapy Tour. Tad has done personal tours for some very influential folks, as his car's autographed door panels would indicate, and his rich historic and cultural knowledge are as vast as the Mississippi River is long.”

Canon Stephanie Spellers - check out recent SpadeSpoonSoul Podcast with co-hosts Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows and Brian Sellers-Petersen along with her hot-off-the press book, Church Tomorrow?: What the 'Nones' and 'Dones' Teach Us About the Future of Faith.

Sam Chamelin

St Mary’s United Church of Christ, Westminster, Maryland 

2026 4-H & FAA Fair Podcast, Carroll County, Maryland 

The Need for an Environmental Creed by Sam. Collegeville Institute

The Food and Faith Podcast

SpadeSpoonSoul Podcast

Baptized with Soil: Christian Agrarians and the Crusade for Rural America by Kevin Lowe

A good summary of Baptized with Soul in Christian Century - The Kingdom of God is Like a Farm

Kathleen currently serves as associate at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Ketchum, in the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho. She brings a background from being a shepherd and sheep ranch proprietor to her current vocation. For a bit of her background, check out this article in the Idaho Mountain Express. 

Links to mentions in the pod:

Harvesting Abundance: Local Initiatives of Food and Faith, especially section with Kathleen’s Eucharistic Prayer 

The Community Garden at Church of the Ascension, Twin Falls, ID

Seeds of Hope Garden at St. Andrew’s Church, Fullerton, CA

Ellen Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School

Kathryn Jefferts Schori, amongst many things, the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

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Rev Kevin Lowe bio

Baptized with the Soil: Christian Agrarians and the Crusade for Rural America by Kevin Lowe

The Kingdom of God is Like a Farm by Shannon Jung. Review of Baptized with the Soil

Soil and Soul: Our Protestant Agrarian Past

Stephenson School for Ministry

Episcopal Diocese of Susquehanna 

SpadeSpoonSoul Podcast (Isaiah 2:4) with Rev. Jennifer Mattson referenced in podcast 

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Founding Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University 

The Holy Earth: The Birth of a New Land Ethic by Liberty Hyde Bailey

Aldo Leopold

Wendell Berry

Forest Therapy School

Spiritual Guidance Training Institute

Episcopal Creation Care Gathering Online Deep Dive with Derrick Weston, Creation Justice Ministries on the Canopy of Creation - June 11 @ 7:30 pm ET. Information and Registration. 

Episcopal Creation Care Gathering, Proctor Center, London, Ohio - September 23-26, 2026. Information and Registration. 

A few links related to Episode 2 

Rogationtide

Robigalia

Contemplative Gardening 

St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Davis, CA