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How can you create a purposeful farm culture in the middle of a city?
On today\\u2019s episode of the Thriving Farmer Podcast, Evan Marks is joining us from Orange County, California. He is the Founder and Executive Director of The Ecology Center, which is not only a farm but a nonprofit education center that is passionate about putting the culture back into agriculture.\\xa0
Located on a historic agricultural property that is today surrounded by urban sprawl, The Ecology Center is a 28-acre Regenerative Organic Certified\\u2122 farm and education center that serves as a hub for southern California\\u2019s ecological movement. With over 100,000 visitors a year, their farm produces everything from CSA boxes, flowers, and ferments to farm experiences, including educational classes and camps, an apprenticeship program, and weekly community dinners with world-class chefs.\\xa0
Tune in to this episode to hear all about how this thriving non-profit farm and education center conducts business!\\xa0
From studying Agroecology to working in Indigenous and traditional agricultural systems around the world to founding The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano in 2008, Evan Marks has dedicated his life to finding creative solutions for the most urgent problems facing our food system.\\xa0
Website: https://theecologycenter.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theecologycenter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theecologycenter/
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