Earth Literacy Program

Since 1990 Genesis Farm has offered programs in Earth Literacy to awaken our capacity to "read" the book of the natural world and to "hear" the voices of its community of life. The specific content of the programs is organized primarily around the insights of geologian Thomas Berry, particularly as set forth in his ground breaking works, The Dream of the Earth and The Great Work.

The focus of these programs is to integrate our intellectual understandings with the primary experience of the natural world. This process is surrounded and supported by reflection, journaling, field trips, art, ritual, natural foods cooking and gardening, as well as studies in history, science and ethics.

The programs are a response to Brian Swimme's call: "We need a common and compelling vision of the nature of the universe and the role of the human within it. Such a new cosmology must be grounded in the best empirical, scientific understanding, and must be nourished just as deeply by the vibrant cores of our planet's wisdom traditions. Only such a vision has a chance of awakening the deep psychic energies necessary to shape a new era of health, well-being, true prosperity." Our Earth Literacy programs are an invitation to ponder and experience the significance of the Sacred Universe Story as a new transforming context for our lives.