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Climate Stress and Grief: Building Understanding & Resilience
Join CISA and University of New Hampshire Extension for an event exploring how farmers and others working in food systems are experiencing and coping with climate grief.
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 losses and grief.
This session will offer an introduction to the notion of climate grief or 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.
Light dinner will be provided at the beginning of the event.
- Date: Tuesday, September 23rd, 5-6:30pm
- Location: Sunderland Public Library, 20 School Street, Sunderland, Massachusetts 01375
This event is aimed at farmers in Massachusetts, and will be hosted in Sunderland, MA. Another session of the training will be offered in Millbrook, NY on September 22. 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!
Contact Stephen at Stephen@buylocalfood.org with questions.
This material is based upon work supported by USDA/NIFA and Northeast Extension Risk Management Education (NERME) under Award Number 2023-70027-40447 and Award Number 2024-70027-42540.