Didi Pershouse

Didi Pershouse is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative, and the Center for Sustainable Medicine. She developed a practice and theoretical framework for systems-based ecological medicine—to restore health to people as well as the environmental and social systems around them. After 22 years of clinical work with patients, Pershouse now travels internationally as a speaker, educator, and consultant. She was one of five speakers at the United Nations-FAO World Soil Day in 2017.

You can learn more about her work at: www.didipershouse.com.

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Pershouse is a skilled facilitator, who brings conservative and liberal organizations together into effective working groups with common goals: improving soil health, public health, food and water security, and regional resilience through simple changes in land management. Both online and in-person, her participatory workshops engage the public, farmers and ranchers, policy makers, investors, and scientists in living-systems thinking and mutual resourcing, to help them find effective interventions.

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In 2018, she founded the Land and Leadership Initiative, and the "Can we Rehydrate California?" Initiative. She is a Planning Commissioner for her town, a member of the Vermont State-appointed Payment For Ecosystem Services and Soil Health Working Group and is on the board of directors of the Soil Carbon Coalition and the Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition. She led a successful effort to conserve the Zebedee Headwaters Wetlands while serving as a Vermont Conservation Commissioner.

She is currently working on projects with the UN-FAO Farmer Field School program, and the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Initiative (APCNF) in India (involving over 700,000 farmers).

She is the author of The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities; and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function: A Teacher's Manual (available as a free download at www.landandleadership.org). She is a contributing author for the Regenerative Economy Collaborative (on Medium.com); Health in the Anthropocene (Univ. of Waterloo); the upcoming Barefoot Guide to Climate Change; and the upcoming volume Climate Crisis and Creation Care (Cambridge Scholars.)

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