What a hope-filled celebration we had at our Seeds of Hope Celebration on November 4 at Taliesen! Our Seed Money recipients outdid themselves with wonderful slides and presentations. The room was abuzz from the minute people arrived to their final farewells - all reconnecting with friends and eager to connect with new faces. We basked in the energy that comes when surrounded by like-minds, all united by their love of the earth and its people. The occasion was exactly what our logo states “Connecting Community, Land and People”. The Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa can rejoice that we gave witness to the intent of their mission when they founded Churches’ Center for Land and People in the 1980s.
We thank our recipients for living their lives with purpose and a passion for rejuvenating the land and its people.
Check out the video of the Celebration here. There were a few technical glitches with the video but be patient. The content is great and the video gets better as it proceeds.
While the playlist shows a number of parts, the video flows from one part to the next seamlessly and the content in each part is indicated in the panel directly below the video. If you can’t find that, below is the part and approximate start time for each of the speakers.
Also, the start of Roger Williams’ Introduction to Food, Faith and Farming Network is missing but the text is included in the panel directly below the video.
Welcome and Prayer
Welcome--Trudi Jenny, Food, Faith and Farming Network
Prayer--Rev. Nick Utphall--6:00
Project Presentations--Part 1
Introduction--Roger Williams, Food, Faith and Farming Network --transcript included when video was not on.
Rufus Haucke, Driftless Curiosity (9:37)
Colin Treiber, Mandaamin Institute (15:45)
Start of Shelly Brenneman, Valley Stewardship Network (22:38)
Project Presentations--Part 2
Continuation of Valley Stewardship Network
Kori Blumer, Monona Grove School District (5:14)
Julia Gerlach, Fields of Sinsinawa (12:31)
Start of Chris Marion, Michael Fields Agricultural (18:17)
Project Presentations--Part 3
Continuation of Michael Fields Agricultural
Leslie Schroeder, Midwest Linen Revival (2:44)
Project Presentations--Part 4
Roger Williams for Woollets
Penny Molina, Food Is Medicine for ADHD Families (6:54)
Liam McGilligan and Jacob Hundt, Thoreau College (14:55)
Start of Joseph Childs, Crawford Stewardship Project (23:20)
Project Presentations--Part 5
Continuation of Crawford Stewardship Project
Lincoln Morris, Little Platte Catholic Worker (6:00)
Emma Kloes, Holy Wisdom Monastery (15:50)
Questions & Answers/Conclusion