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Seeding Hope
- Author
- Jack Algiere
- Narrator
- Jack Algiere
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green Publishing
- Publish Date
- 8 September 2026
- Run Time
- 9 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Connecting philosophical meditations with agricultural expertise, Seeding Hope urges us to reassess our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the vast living systems to which we belong—reminding us tht when we nurture the world around us, we nuture ourselves.
In Seeding Hope, Jack Algiere, Chief Agroecology Officer (CAO) at Stone Barns, shares the wisdom he’s gained in a lifetime of farming, growing, and observing the natural world.
This luminous book is directed not just to farmers, but for all who desire a more connected and meaningful life. By following and examining the stages of a plant’s life cycle, Seeding Hope explores how this botanical pattern is a vital blueprint, offering lessons that inform all aspects of our lives.
**"[Algiere] is a brilliant farmer because he's a brilliant observer; he's spent a lifetime letting plants teach him how to see. In prose as attentive, searching, and grounded as his farming, Jack gathers those lessons into something rare and resonant: a portrait of the natural world as teacher, and an ethic for how to live, drawn from the ground up.
—Dan Barber, Chef, Blue Hill and author of The Third Plate**
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Details
- Author
- Jack Algiere
- Narrator
- Jack Algiere
- Duration
- 9 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 September 2026
- ISBN
- 9781645023722
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green Publishing
Synopsis
Connecting philosophical meditations with agricultural expertise, Seeding Hope urges us to reassess our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the vast living systems to which we belong—reminding us tht when we nurture the world around us, we nuture ourselves.In Seeding Hope, Jack Algiere, Chief Agroecology Officer (CAO) at Stone Barns, shares the wisdom he’s gained in a lifetime of farming, growing, and observing the natural world.This luminous book is directed not just to farmers, but for all who desire a more connected and meaningful life. By following and examining the stages of a plant’s life cycle, Seeding Hope explores how this botanical pattern is a vital blueprint, offering lessons that inform all aspects of our lives.**"[Algiere] is a brilliant farmer because he's a brilliant observer; he's spent a lifetime letting plants teach him how to see. In prose as attentive, searching, and grounded as his farming, Jack gathers those lessons into something rare and resonant: a portrait of the natural world as teacher, and an ethic for how to live, drawn from the ground up.—Dan Barber, Chef, Blue Hill and author of The Third Plate**
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