Listen To The Land
Connecting people to the lessons of the land. Building community wellness.
Promoting regenerative bioregional economies.
About
MISSION
- Revive the inherent knowledge that humans are nature by creating meaningful opportunities for children and adults to fully experience and actively engage with living systems.
- Promote the reclamation, protection and preservation of natural, historical, and agricultural green spaces.
- Create engaging place-based education programs and tourism opportunities to educate consumers of the environmental, nutritional, and economic benefits of local food networks.
- Engage school groups, institutions of higher learning, and community organizations in place-based, service-learning activities to nurture multi-generational, cooperative communities.
- Facilitate the understanding of regenerative economy to encourage a new generation of green entrepreneurs.
Place-Conscious Education for Sustainable Development: Supporting Diffusion, Transfer, and Creation of Sustainable Technologies (Rhodes, 2016) provides the theoretical framework informing and guiding Listen to the Land‘s mission. The thesis and creative project include lesson plans to demonstrate ways in which the framework can be practically applied.
SERVICES
Listen to the Land provides consultation, design, marketing, development, and implementation of educational, interpretive programs for small farms, schools, universities, NGOs, nature centers, and green businesses.
Services include:
- Ecotourism and Agritourism Consultation
- Environmental Interpretation Program Development
- Permaculture Design Consultation & Education
- Place-Based Curriculum Writing
- Non-profit Development
- Event Planning
- Grant Writing
- Staff Training
- Marketing
Contact Amy Rhodes, listentotheland@gmail.com, to set up a time to discuss how Listen to the Land can support your organization.
PREVIOUS PROJECTS
Garden Tower Project Public Relations & Education
- Instructional Videos YouTube Channel – Garden Tower Project
- International Living Future Institute Living Product Challenge - Project Manager
- Finding Corte Magore (Nicaragua) - Agritourism Consultant
Traders Point Creamery - Director of Tours & Education
South Circle Farm - "Kids Grow Green" Program w/ Concord Community Center
The Good Seed Initiative - Advisory Board Member & Garden Program Consultant
Place-Based Education in Practice
Discovering, recovering, and reconstructing ourselves and our communities in relation to the places we inhabit is the goal of place-based education. It is the ultimate educational challenge of our time to learn to listen to the complex relationships that exist between humans and the non-human world. Programs created and implemented by Listen To The Land provide a bridge for participants to explore, learn and celebrate these relationships on farms and natural settings in Indiana.
We work in partnership with organizations to design programs specific to the place of operation. These programs promote sustainable living practices and a bioregional economy. Contact Amy Rhodes to learn more and discuss how Listen To The Land can help you develop your interpretive program ideas.
Amy Rhodes, Founder & Chief Advisor
Amy grew up in the central Till Plains of Indiana and has lived north to south, state line to state line, in many of Indiana's diverse ecoregions. She and her husband currently reside in the Southern Wabash Lowlands in Evansville. Her career involves over 20 years' experience working as a teacher, ecologist, ag educator, administrator, director and non-profit organizational consultant. She is an A.M.S. certified Montessori Elementary Educator and PINA permaculture design consultant.
Amy launched Listen To The Land in 2011 to provide children and adults land-based, experiential education on small farms and ecotourism operations. She holds a MA in Natural Resources and Environmental Management, specializing in place-conscious education.
In her spare time, Amy enjoys gardening and landscaping, hiking, and traveling. She keeps a journal of her discoveries as she travels, writing with particular attention to cultural relationships found between humans and non-humans.