Nance Klehm

Session seven - August 13 – 19

Nance Klehm (she/they) has been an ecological systems designer, consultant, and agroecological grower for more than three decades. Her approach is centered on instigating change by activating already existent communities, and her work demonstrates her lifelong commitment to redefining the way human populations coexist with plant, animal and fungal systems on this planet.

Nance is internationally respected for her work on land politics and soil heath. Her work has received extensive national and international media coverage and has been mentioned in over 30 books. She is the author of The Soil Keepers: Interviews with practitioners on the ground beneath our feet (2019) and The Ground Rules: a manual to reconnect soil and soul (2016).

She currently splits her time between Little Village, a densely packed, diverse urban neighborhood in Chicago, and fifty acres in the Driftless Region, where she runs Chop Wood Carry Water Residency and cultivates and forages medicinal and edible plants, keeps bees and a fruit orchard, raises ducks and native quail, and grows for several indigenous seed banks.

Learn more about Nance Klehm at www.socialecologies.net

'Sun + Soil Herbarium', Nance Klehm, 2017 Los Angeles, CA