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S1E12MFL3 – The Journey of Mary
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The Swander inspiring view!
On this Episode of My Fulfilled Life we talk with Mary Swander who is a poet laureate from Iowa. She speaks about these topics on her journey:
- Change Food Festival in New York -Performed two plays
- Ag Arts – a group design imagined to promote healthy foods through Art
- Create residencies for artists
- Came from a farming family and currently had a small plot
- Started worked with students on a farscape play about farming and it took off!
Mary Swander
- Created a small theater company
- We are experiencing a changing consciousness of people with the connection of food
- The history of Victory gardens. U.S. homes grew 40 % of our foods during world war II
- World wide network of farming. Wolfing – travel around the world interning at different farms.
- Smaller rural communities looking to renovation
- Desire to address the social justice issue through plays
- Loss of farms in the rural area to big companies
- Moving from family farms to contract farming
- The connection with the loss of the way of life from farmer’s. miners, urban large manfucturers
- Became extremely chemically sensive to the air, toxins, everything (1938)
- Extremely difficult to find food without it
- Move to Amish county and learned new gardening techniques
- Challenges to moving into a different way of life and environment. How it affected her career
- How to get over the obstacles of supporting yourself living your writer’s dream
Amish neighbor’s Fruit & Veggie cart
Swander Lambs
How to Find Out More About Mary
More about Mary: http://www.maryswander.com
AgArts: http://www.agarts.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mary.swander.7
AgArt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agartgraphic/
Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/mary-swander#poet
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