Climate Anxiety: Navigating Uncertainty & Building Resilience

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Many people are suffering from emotional consequences associated with anticipated or actual environmental changes and reacting with despair, grief, or uncertainty. Farmers, ranchers, and food producers have uniquely intimate relationships to places and landscapes, and as a result, are especially vulnerable to climate-related anxiety.

Berkshire Agricultural Ventures will host this introductory session with Maud Powell on the notion of climate anxiety and eco-distress. Participants will be encouraged to explore specific things they have lost to climate change, and identify and share with each other healthy strategies they are currently using to cope with climate-related stress.

• Date: Monday, September 22, 10am-1pm
• Location: 2715 US-44, Millbrook, NY 12545

Contact Ben at Berkshire Ag Ventures with questions.

This event is designed for farmers and land stewards in the Berkshire-Taconic and Hudson Valley region. Another session of the training will be offered in Sunderland, Massachusetts on September 23. Click here for details.

Speaker: Maud Powell, Oregon State University 

Maud Powell is a Professor of Practice in the Small Farms Extension program at Oregon State University and serves as Oregon’s co-coordinator for the Western SARE’s professional development program. For the past seventeen years, she has designed and delivered educational programs for farmers and ranchers in Southern Oregon. Additionally, she and her family have owned and operated a vegetable seed and produce farm, Wolf Gulch, for twenty-five years. 

This event is part of Climate Change and Farming Week 2025. Click here for more information!