Lift Off Episode 5 – Philip Ackerman Leist

Philip Ackerman-Leist is an author, farmer and educator. He has spent the past 35 years exploring sustainable agricultural practices both with his students and his family, framing his teaching and academic research with farming experiences in the Alps, North Carolina, and Vermont. He is the author of “A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement”; “Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems”; and “Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader”. He is the Dean of Professional Studies at the School of the New American Farmstead at Sterling College in Vermont, nestled in the northeastern corner of the United States.

Lift Off is a series of dialogues, hosted from Michelberger’s courtyard in Berlin. We engage in discussions with people who offer an outlook, a way forward, by example and by knowledge. People who are reflective, confident and clear. Who are ready, have practices, ideas and solutions, ready to shape what comes next. Connecting and bridging people that offer lighthouses to their communities and beyond.

Hosting tonight: Nadine Michelberger & Solène Wolff

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