{"id":15666,"date":"2020-12-17T02:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T06:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mofga.org\/meet-mofga-volunteer-josiah-orm-hansen-copy\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T06:26:10","slug":"meet-mofga-volunteer-michial-russell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mofga.org\/meet-mofga-volunteer-michial-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet MOFGA Volunteer Michial Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"15666\" class=\"elementor elementor-15666\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-11be93e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"11be93e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-12a5d6f\" data-id=\"12a5d6f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81ba530 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"81ba530\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mofga.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Volunteers-Michial-Russell.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-15611\" alt=\"Michial Russell\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Meet MOFGA Volunteer Michial Russell<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">March 2017<br>\nBy Betsy Garrold\n<br><br>\n\nMichial Russell is many things: Father, homesteader, permaculturist and coordinator of the Agricultural Demonstrations (or Ag Demo as it is popularly known) Area of the Common Ground Country Fair. This wearer of brightly colored shirts and of a constant smile brightens things wherever he goes.\n<br><br>\nIn his \"real\" life Russell manages Pearson's Town Farm at Saint Joseph's College. There he practices permaculture and teaches not only students from St. Joe's but opens the farm to the public to learn how to marry agriculture of scale with permaculture. He is trying to demonstrate that permaculture can be added to an economically viable model. Russell has met with resistance in the academic world because of the prevailing mindset at some big agricultural universities that are funded to research large-scale, monoculture agricultural models.\n<br><br>\nHe feels fortunate to be in Maine with its vibrant permaculture movement, and he attributes a lot of that vitality to the training programs that MOFGA sponsors. In an interview with Dr. Lisa Belisle on Love Maine Radio (http:\/\/themainemag.com\/radio\/radio-guests\/michial-russell\/), he noted that being an educator working in permaculture informs his world view about such diverse topics as climate change and food safety. He says permaculture teaches about the circle of life and conservation of resources \u2013 two things he feels are important for young people to learn if we are to have any hope of sustainability.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet MOFGA Volunteer Michial Russell March 2017 By Betsy Garrold Michial Russell is many things: Father, homesteader, permaculturist and coordinator of the Agricultural Demonstrations (or Ag Demo as it is popularly known) Area of the Common Ground Country Fair. 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