Articles About Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions

• After Council, life goes on for Marianne MacQueen

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 31, 2024

  

  Since Village Council reconvened in 2024 without Marianne MacQueen, the lifelong Yellow Springs resident has spent her January days looking back and looking ahead — even beyond her new aquamarine workplace.

• Agraria reopens, moves forward

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 21, 2023

  

  In the six months since operations were suspended at the Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice, the 138-acre educational farm has been quieter than it had been previously — but not silent.

• Board of Zoning Appeals says no to Agraria barn rental

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 16, 2021

  

  School group visits are OK. Renting out a historic barn for weddings and other social or community events is not. Setting up a farm store or stand is fine. Renting a conference room to other groups is questionable.

• At Agraria— ‘Nourishing Life’ conference set

  By YS News StaffJune 17, 2021

  

  Agraria will present a free, virtual conference, “Nourishing Life,” Friday and Saturday, June 18 and 19. The conference aims to inspire and inform those attending to imagine regenerative solutions to climate crises, chronic disease and major threats to the worldwide food supply.

• Village to buy land for bike path

  By Megan BachmanDecember 4, 2020

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs is moving forward with plans to purchase three acres of land at Yellow Springs High School for a bike trail to Agraria, Community Solutions’ farm west of the village.

• Community Solutions to host restorative conference

  By Reilly DixonNovember 11, 2020

  

  This year’s conference, the organization’s 66th, is titled “Pathways to Regeneration: Restoration, Resiliency and Reciprocity,” with a particular focus on food growing and preservation. It will be conducted online this weekend, Friday through Sunday, Nov. 6–8.

• Lending local farmers a hand

  By Megan BachmanJuly 4, 2019

  

  Over the last few weeks, the News interviewed farmers who raise livestock and grow produce for the local market. They spoke to the joys and challenges of farming, both brought into sharper detail with this season’s stormy weather. This week, the News covers what local organizations are doing to grow the local food movement.

• Local agriculture conference — A growing green movement

  By Megan BachmanMarch 14, 2019

  

  Unless new farming practices are adopted, the world has only 60 years of harvests left, the United Nations announced a few years ago. 

• New grants for Agraria —  Kids get the dirt on soil education

  By Megan BachmanNovember 15, 2018

  

  The architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller often used a metaphor to illustrate how small targeted actions can move massive systems. Fuller noted that the “trim tab,” a tiny mechanism of a ship’s rudder, can change the ship’s course with a minute movement. At the Agraria Center for Regenerative Agriculture, soil is seen as that “trim tab.”

• Grounding vision of resilience at Agraria

  By Megan BachmanJuly 26, 2018

  

  On the property Community Solutions purchased last year, the 75-year-old local nonprofit wants to model regenerative agriculture as part of its mission to create resilient communities in the face of climate change.