Join Greenhorns at Cafe Ohlone for the release of The New Farmer’s Almanac Vol. VI: Adjustments and Accommodations on March 17 from 4-6pm pst (with readings beginning at 4:15pm.)
Enjoy author readings from the book and celebratory foods courtesy of Cafe Ohlone and writer Leke Hutchins, plus leave with seeds from writer and artist Alex Arzt. The afternoon weaves together tales of plant and human connections made while seeking to heal from colonial forces. Each centers a personal relationship to place such as queer Indigenous Hawaiian farming traditions, the relational seed breeding of volunteer cabbages along the California coast, and Indigenous Ohlone foodways.
Join us in exploring resilience, responsiveness, adaptation, and accommodation!
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Our newest volume of The New Farmer’s Almanac Volume VI: Adjustments and Accommodations seeks to recognize our own collective agency in the face of sizable uncertainties. The morphing climate, ongoing culture of land dispossession, continuing global pandemic, shifting and intensifying weather patterns, and migrations of all species—spurned by political and environmental upheaval—are considered within. There is adaptability in each bloom of algae; tiny particles of inspiration can enliven lives and farm systems; the natural currents and connected sentience of the living earth moves genetic material. Dynamic flux and rapid change remain possible.
This compendium of ideas, strategies, and arguments honors the almanac tradition in featuring archival and contemporary words and artwork by over 100 contributors. Photos, maps, prints, drawings, and gems from the archives rest—and agitate—among personal essays, reports from the field, poetry, and interviews.
We can't wait to share this work with you!
