Resources from Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW)

Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW) produces a quarterly newsletter called BeFriending Creation. Most issues include material on food and/or regenerative agriculture. You can have a print version mailed to you or receive it via email.  

QEW also offers videos, over 30 pamphlets, and a couple of Earthcare curricula, all available at their website, quakerearthcare.org.

QEW offers a wide range of workshops. Here are a few most relevant to Mindful Eating:

Equality or Equity? What is Our Testimony?:  Beverly Ward examines Friends’ equality testimony, the concepts of equity and justice, and the relationship of these to Earthcare.

Permaculture is Not Just Agriculture: Beverly Ward introduces permaculture design and domains and ways to bring these practices into Earthcare.

Project Drawdown, Introduction and more: Beverly Ward presents information on actions that “drawdown” carbon emissions and ways to promote drawdown choices as individuals and communities.

Regenerative Agriculture: Sustainable Is not Enough: Carol Barta discusses what it will take to produce nutrient dense food on healthy soil. “Over the course of the last four decades a growing number of farmers and ranchers have risked, stumbled and learned how to build healthy soil and healthy profits for their farms by going against the conventional wisdom. Along the way they discovered that healthy soil is the basis for a healthy ecosystem and potentially a healthy planet. We’ll explore the component parts of regenerative agriculture and discuss why whole-system-thinking is the best way to feed the world.”

Restoring Life and Hope: Jim Kessler shares “powerful and inspiring stories of how creating native plant habitat has positively impacted the mental, physical, and spiritual health of our Quaker family. The presentation also describes how songbird, pollinator, and wildlife populations have dramatically increased in response to the introduction of native plants.”