Rand Burkert is a founding member of the non-hierarchical eco-action group, Food Forest Initiative of Cape Cod. Since 2016, FFI has planted and tended public food forests, inspired by yhe vision of permaculture and its outgrowth, Restoration Agriculture. Rand will give practical knowledge to enable home gardeners to apply these approaches. He will also present the global scope of the method and its usefulness in mitigating climate change and building local food security, with some discussion of its application in Africa. 

Rand Burkert is a folksinger and children’s author, and a middle school teacher of applied ecology at Nauset Middle School. In the 1990’s with his friend Mark Shepard,  he helped jumpstart a farm in Wisconsin, New Forest Farm, that proposed large scale applications of permaculture, the approach now called Restoration Agriculture — and chronicled in Shepard’s book of that name. After farming in Italy, Rand returned to Cape COD to start, with friends, the eco-action and food sovereignty group, Food Forest Initiative of Cape COD.    

Learn more at 10 a.m. on Sunday, March 29, 2026. All are welcome.

• At the Chapel in the Pines, 220 Samoset Road in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30.
• Also on Zoom via this Zoom program link.