Many of John’s films and published works can be found at: https://knaw.academia.edu/JohnDLiu

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The Flourishing Path

• Hope in a Changing Climate
• Green Gold – Regreening the Desert
• Lessons of the Loess Plateau
• A Steppe Ahead
• Line in the Sand
• Women of the Gobi
• Finding Common Ground – The Art of Healing the Earth

Websites:

• https://www.commonland.com/
• https://knaw.academia.edu/JohnDLiu

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Through his background in Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice, Phil Warsaw will help us imagine beyond our current economic structures, so we can consider structures that are more equitable and sustainable.

• Article: Farm-to-hospital programs and public health
• Article: Manager and vendor perceptions of farmers’ markets’ impacts on communities: evidence from Michigan

Sarah K Mock is an agriculture and food expert—writing, podcasting, researching, and advising on everything from farm production, strategy, and marketing to ag history and economics to logistics, supply chains, and climate impact. She’s worked in and around agriculture across the country and around the globe; including with non-profits, the US Department of Agriculture, Silicon Valley companies, the national news media, and directly with farms.

Raised on her family’s farm in Wyoming, Mock’s passion for agriculture runs deep, as does her yearning to prove that it is possible to farm without exploiting farmers, farmworkers, the environment, or communities. You can learn more about Sarah on her website at https://www.sarahkmock.com

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Writer & Agriculture Food Expert

• Book: Farm (and Other F Words) 
• Book: Big Team Farms
• Big Team Farms Newsletter 
• Podcasts include; Escaping 1980, Corn Saves America, Field Posts, End of Ag

Linda Faillace is a culinary teacher, cheesemaker, writer, food & farm consultant, and author of Mad Sheep: The True Story behind the USDA’s War on a Family Farm. With her husband, Dr. Larry Faillace, she owns Three Shepherds Farm in beautiful Warren, Vermont. Over the past 30 years they have imported dairy sheep from Europe & New Zealand, established a sheep dairy & artisan cheesemaking business, taught cheesemaking & culinary classes around the world. Food & farming has taken them on many exciting adventures throughout the United States, Central & South America, and Caribbean to help kindred spirits launch successful cheese and food businesses. Three Shepherds Farm has been featured in numerous publications/television shows including The New York Times, Gourmet, Wall Street Journal, “The Today Show”, “The Food Network” and “Martha Stewart.”
Linda believes that organic, grassfed, locally-grown food is a key to health, and that healthy soil and ingredients from nature hold the secrets to a long happy life. She is passionate about astrology, foraging for wild edibles, mushrooms, and medicinal plants, and working in her large organic vegetable & flower garden.
Linda and Larry are the proud parents of three children (who the farm was named after), four grandchildren, and Touis, their black lab who lives for travel, foraging, and, of course food! Linda contact info and Three Shepherds’ latest cheese and culinary classes can be found at www.ThreeShepherdsCheese.com

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Cutting-Edge Producer

• Book – Mad Sheep: The True Story behind the USDA’s War on a Family Farm 
• Movie – Farmageddon
• Movie – Sacrificial Lambs