Heinberg inspired farmer in Southwest Michigan’s Second Wave
September 12, 2013
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s book The Party’s Over was cited as one of the key inspirations for Gina Wertz to become a farmer, and a horse and ox teamster.
From the article:
Gina Wertz is a horse and ox teamster. Her animal-powered market vegetables and herbs are grown at Under the Stone Garden on the grounds of Tillers International, a Kalamazoo County working farm and learning center dedicated to the preservation and training of inexpensive methods of food production in rural areas around the world…
Schooled in social work, Gina found her way to farming in 2008 after reading The Party’s Over, Richard Heinberg’s portent of epic proportions: modern industrial societies are completely dependent on finite fossil fuel-based resources, the inevitable and dwindling supply of which is having increasingly catastrophic, global economic and political consequences…