*Welcome Dr. Ashley Colby of Rizoma Field School - Home Ec 101 Giveaway!

More and more people are becoming interested in self-reliance and home production. Join Rizoma Field School to learn how to ferment and can food, bake sourdough, make herbal remedies, repair and build furniture, make natural cleaning products, and more! This online course starts August 22nd, 2022, and sessions will be recorded if you can't make it live.
Read more on the instructors and course material here.



Dr. Ashley Colby is currently interested in and passionate about the myriad creative ways in which people are forming new social worlds in resistance to the failures of late capitalism and resultant climate disasters. As a qualitative researcher Ashley tends to focus on the informal spaces of innovation. She earned her PhD focusing on environmental sociology from Washington State University in 2018. Ashley is the author of Subsistence Agriculture in the US: Reconnecting to work, nature and community, where she explores the social and political aspects of small scale food production in Chicago. Ashley has travelled to over 30 countries on 5 continents, and founded the Rizoma Field School, which focuses on experiential learning on the area of sustainability and agroecology. Ashley on the Executive Board of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) based in North America, on the Steering Committee of the Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production Network for FutureEarth, and has founded a collective working toward a sustainable future called Doomer Optimism. Ashley’s writing has been featured in Nature Sustainability, Environmental Sociology, Return.life, and forthcoming in the edited volume Menu B: Planet Saving Food Solutions. Her work has been featured on the Jim Rutt Show, and The Stoa.

 
At the end of this week, we'll make a drawing for 1 lucky winner to win a spot in Home Economics 101! From now until Friday, all new posts in the communication forum are eligible to win.
 
To win, you must use a name that follows our naming policy and you must have your email set up to receive the Daily-ish email.
 
When the winner is selected, they will be announced in this thread and their email address will be sent to Rizoma, and they will sort out the details.
 

Posts in this thread won't count as an entry to win the course, but please say "Hi!" to Ashley and make her feel welcome!