Category Archives: Environment and Sustainability

Agriculture’s Youth Movement Standing Strong on The Soul Brothers Farm

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Current Evergreen students Alex Mutter-Rottmayer and Ross Finn (left and right, respectively) and Austin Carrier ’12 (center)  on their Olympia farm. Photo by Tony Overman, Tacoma News Tribune Staff Photographer.

Meet the face of farming today. No, not Archer Daniels Midland. The other face: sustainable, local, organic and young.

Austin Carrier ’12 studied architecture at Evergreen. His partners, Evergreen students Ross Finn and Alex Mutter-Rottmayer are studying evolutionary biology and chemistry, respectively. Together, they are The Soul Brothers and they run a farm.

Carrier handles land management and buildings. Finn’s biology & behavior education gives him dominion over the animals. Mutter-Rottmayer puts his chemistry studies to work detecting and solving soil problems. Natives of Tennessee, none of the Soul Brothers have farming experience. They have built the farm with the help of happy accidents, serendipity, and You Tube (short course on how to butcher animals).  Read the full article in the Tacoma News Tribune.

 

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/09/18/2791005/the-accidental-agrarians.html#storylink=cpy

 

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/09/18/2791005/the-accidental-agrarians.html#storylink=cpy

Adam Wicks-Arshack ’10: On the Spokane River for Social Justice

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Editor’s Note: Here is an inspirational example of “theory to practice.” Adam Wicks-Arshack ’10 runs a a river-based environmental education company that offers educational trips in 30 foot voyager canoes. The Spokane’s Spokesman Review covers his latest journey.

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Voyages of Rediscovery uses canoe holding 10- 12 students, with room for a teacher and a guide.

In the 1930’s, the construction of Grand Coulee Dam electrified to the a huge portion of the Northwest. As the lights were going on, members of the Spokane Tribe lost a staple of their diet: the bountiful salmon that each year returned to the upper third of the Columbia River and its tributaries.

Today, Adam Wicks-Arshack, Director of  Voyages of Rediscovery, is leading 25 students from the Wellpinit School District onto the river, in a canoe they built themselves to discover their river-going history and lobby for expanded treaty rights to the fish that shaped their culture. Read the full article.