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Episode 43: Michael Hunn, Episcopal Bishop of the Rio Grande. All about permaculture.

Co-hosts, Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows and Jerusalem Greer talk permaculture with the Rt. Rev. Michael Hunn

Michael is the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rio Grande which includes New Mexico and western edge of Texas.

 

So what does permaculture have to do with the church and a bishop? For that matter, what is permaculture? 

Episode 42: Chuck and Sandy Dailey from Growing Common Ground Farm

Triple S co-hosts, Brian Sellers-Petersen and Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows sit down (virtually) with Sandy and Chuck Dailey from the Growing Common Ground Farm at St Peter’s Episcopal Church in Lebanon in the Diocese of Indianapolis. Jennifer’s Diocese! 
An amazing story of growth and transformation of around 8 acres of churchland, including 3 acres farmland. 

• Conventional tilled plots for vegetables and no-till areas for sustainable farming methods
• Apiary and pollinator gardens
• Junior Master Gardeners
• Partnerships with Indy Urban Growers, Teen Challenge, St Vincent de Paul…
• Boys & Girls Club “Caring Hands” camps
• Large bioswale rain garden

Episode 41: Ragan Sutterfield about his latest book, The Art of Being a Creature: Meditations on Humus and Humility

Co-hosts, Jerusalem Greer and Brian Sellers-Petersen talk humus with Rev. Ragan Sutterfield.

Ragan is a priest in the Episcopal Church and serves a parish in his native Arkansas. His writing has appeared in a variety of places including The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Oxford American, Plough, and The Englewood Review of Books.

Ragan's writing and interests are focused at the intersection of spiritual formation and ecology where he brings his background in birding, permaculture, and soil ecology into conversation with philosophy, theology, and the Christian spiritual tradition. 

Ragan is the author of The Art of Being a Creature: Meditations on Humus and Humility (Cascade), Wendell Berry and the Given Life(Franciscan Media), This is My Body (Convergent/Random House), Cultivating Reality  (Cascade),  and the small collection of essays Farming as a Spiritual Discipline.  

Ragan seeks to live the good life with his wife Emily and daughters Lillian and Lucia.

Episode 40: Kill Your Lawn (or Churchyard)

Join co-hosts Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows and Brian Sellers-Petersen for a conversation with Derek Miller, Rector of St Peter’s in Ellicott City MD and Dina van Klaveren, Canon for Development in the Diocese of Maryland. Conversation centers around St Peter’s “killing their churchyard” with the help of Kill Your Lawn on EarthxTV and Howard Ecoworks. 

Episode 39: The Just Kitchen: Anna Woofenden and Derrick Weston

Join the Triple S Team (Jerusalem, Jennifer, and Brian) for a conversation with Anna Woofenden and Derrick Weston, co-authors of The Just Kitchen: Invitations to Sustainability, Cooking, Connection, and Celebration. 

Episode 38: Rev. Meghan Murphy-Gill, author of The Sacred Life of Bread: Uncovering the Mystery of an Ordinary Loaf

Join co-hosts, Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows and Brian Sellers-Petersen for a yeasty conversation with Rev. Meghan Murphy-Gill, author of The Sacred Life of Bread: Uncovering the Mystery of an Ordinary Loaf. 

 

Episode 37: Tony Jones aka Reverend Hunter, author of The God of Wild Places

Triple S co-host, Jerusalem Greer and Tony Jones talk about Tony’s new book, The God of Wild Places and much more. 

https://reverendhunter.com 

Episode 36 - Rev. Anna Shine, priest and chaplain in the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina

Lively conversation with Anna Shine, Missioner for Creation Care and Social Justice at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and campus minister for the Presbyterian Episcopal Campus Ministry (PECM) at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. 

Episode 35: St Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Sebastopol, CA with Rev Christy Laborda Harris and Liza Brickey

A great conversation about all the ways a congregation stewards and shares its land in the wider parish and community. From permaculture to playground! Join co-hosts Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows and Brian Sellers-Petersen along with Rev Christy Laborda Harris and Liza Brickey for ideas and inspiration. 

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church - https://www.ststephenssebastopol.org/

Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

The Playground Community Cafe

Sebastopol Community Seed Exchange and Garden

 

Episode 34: Order of Naucratius with Sarah Smith and Christian Baron

Order of Naucratius Redux. Our first time bringing back a previous guest, Rev. Christian Baron from Episode 06 on Saint Andrew's Day in 2021. He is joined by Rev. Sarah Smith from Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Together they will talk about the Order of Naucartius and their ministry of gathering hunters and fishers who share their harvests with those who are hungry. Christian and Sarah are joined by Triple S co-hosts, Jennifer Baskerille-Burrows and Jerusalem Greer.