Note: All times listed are in the US Central Time Zone (unless otherwise noted).
Upcoming Events
- Getting Back to Nature™ @ Martin Acres will lead a hands-on fermentation workshop at the 2nd Annual Heritage Food Festival on during 8 - 10 November 2024. Irucka, of EcoC²S, created the Useful Quotes on Fermentation and Beyond document — [Requires PDF Software]
Past Events
- Getting Back to Nature™ @ Martin Acres presented the Soil & Seeds Wprkshop [1st of the Seed to Table: Strategies for a Healthier You series] on Saturday, 30 March 2024, from 1 PM - 5 PM. Advance registration and payment are required for this event. In October 2024, Tuning to the Soil-ed Seed Vibrations For Our Collective Health Edited & Written By Irucka Ajani Embry With Obiora Embry will be published.
- Obiora of EConsulting™ and Irucka, of EcoC²S, presented Diverse Farmers Leading Innovations Across Rural and Urban Water Quality on Thursday, 16 November 2023, at 2:00 PM EST at the Kentucky State University (KSU) Small, Limited-Resource, Minority Farmers Conference in Frankfort, Kentucky. They presented on behalf of Cherokee Historical State Resort Park of Aurora through the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) Foundation-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Historically Underserved Farmers Grant. — [Requires PDF Software]
- Getting Back to Nature™ @ Martin Acres lead a hands-on fermentation workshop at the Heritage Food Festival on Friday, 13 October 2023 at 2 PM EDT. Irucka, of EcoC²S, created the Useful Quotes on Fermentation and Beyond document — [Requires PDF Software]
- Participated in the Cumberland River Compact (CRC) Cover Crop workshop at Southall Farm in Franklin, Tennessee, on 19 September 2023.
- Getting Back to Nature™ @ Martin Acres lead a hands-on fermentation workshop at the Black Walnut Botanical Conference on Saturday, 12 August 2023.
- Participated in the 2023 Kentucky Black Farmers Conference on 4 March 2023 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
- Getting Back to Nature™ @ Martin Acres spoke about Sankofa: Rethinking Growing Food in the South on Saturday, 28 January 2023, at 3:15 PM EST at the Organic Association of Kentucky (OAK) Annual Conference at Kentucky State University (KSU) in Frankfort, Kentucky. Obiora of EConsulting™ and Irucka, of EcoC²S, created the Sankofa: Rethinking Growing Food in the South handout while Irucka crafted the useful quotes document. — [Both documents require PDF Software]
- Tennessee Local Food Summit Moderator/Panelist for the Decentralizing the Food System Panel Discussion on Saturday, 5 December 2022 @ 9 AM. Irucka created this document: Decentralizing the Food System @ TN Local Food Summit 2022 — Audience Handout to inform his questions as the moderator, to include useful information from in his responses as a panelist, and to spark much-needed conversations about the global food system {seed to seed} at all levels (local to global and back to local again). In addition, Obiora Embry and Irucka crafted this resources document. — [Both documents require PDF Software]
- Getting Back to Nature™ @ Martin Acres will be hosting a Table to Farm Dinner: A Martin Acres Foodscape Experience on Saturday, 24 September 2022, from 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM.
- Getting Back to Nature™ @ Martin Acres lead a class about Wildin’ Out at the Black Walnut Botanical Conference on Saturday, 13 August 2022.
- Participated in the 2022 Organic Seed Growers virtual Conference. Created the Useful Quotes and Resources — Requires PDF Software
- Tennessee Local Food Summit Panelist on the Land Access Panel on 27 January 2022. Irucka created this document: Land Loss in the Middle Tennessee Region (for the Land Access Panel) to guide his discussion at the Panel.
- Getting Back to Nature™ @ Martin Acres will be speaking about their Agroforestry project at the Harvest Fest on Saturday, 18 September 2021, at 2 PM. This event will be held at the Mahr Park Arboretum in Madisonville, Kentucky.
- Getting Back to Nature™ Reconnecting With Nature: Walking Tour on Saturday, 7 November 2020, from 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM. Getting Back to Nature™ is a collaboration between EConsulting™ and EcoC²S.
- Attended the Protect Wealth Academy 3-Day Asset Protection & Wealth Creation Summit from 24 - 26 February 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.
- Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SSAWG) Conference Participant
- Tennessee Local Food Summit Speaker and Vendor through Getting Back to Nature™ held 6 - 8 December 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. EcoC²S began attending the Tennessee Local Food Summit beginning around 2010 - 2012(?).
- Holiday Vendor Marketplace at the Embassy Suites Hotel Nashville Airport; 10 Century Boulevard; Nashville, TN 37214, from 9 AM - 1:30 PM
- Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SSAWG) Conference Participant
- Getting Back to Nature™ 2018 Fall Fundraiser: A Celebration of Nature and Family on Saturday, 10 November 2018, from 11 AM - 2 PM. Getting Back to Nature™ is a collaboration between EConsulting™ and EcoC²S.
- EcoC²S participated in the 9th Lexington Peace Fair (www.lexingtonpeace.org) on Sunday, 20 September 2015 (the day before International Day of Peace), on the campus of Bluegrass Community & Technical College.
- EcoC²S attended the Small, Limited-Resource/Minority Farmers Conference hosted by Kentucky State University (KSU)
- EcoC²S attended the “Third Thursday Thing” hosted by Kentucky State University (KSU).
- EcoC²S participated in A Night to Remember: A Multi-generational Family Book Signing, Photo Exhibit and Presentations on Wednesday, 17 June 2015, in Nashville, Tennessee at the West End United Methodist Church. EcoC²S sold organic and/or heirloom seedlings and gave away free pollinator-friendly native seed packets from Roundstone Native Seed Company during Pollinator Week 2015.
- Nashville Food Day Participant
- Shared an information table Obiora Embry of EConsulting™ for the showing of Soul Food Junkies on 26 March 26 2013 at the Lyric Theatre in Lexington, Kentucky.
- Participated in the “Growing Healthy Communities”: A School and Community Gardening Event sponsored by the Glencliff High School Garden Project on 9 April 9 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee.
- Participated in the Nashville: Naturally: Creating, Enhancing and Preserving the Places That Matter: Mapping the Future Group: Shaping Future Development and Conservation on 3 June 2010.
- Was an exhibitor at Do the Green at The Mall at Lexington Green on 25 July 2009.
- Participated in the Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee Partner Meeting on 19 May 2009.
- Participated in the Peace & Global Citizenship Fair in Lexington, Kentucky, on 16 May 2009. Irucka had a Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) demonstration and a Sustainability Exhibit.
- Was a co-Sponsor of the Winter Green Convene in Lexington, Kentucky, on 21 February 2009.
- Participated in the Green & Healthy Schools Regional Summit: GRowing our Ecological Education Networks on 1 March 2008.
- Irucka Embry participated in the Low Impact Development (LID) Short Course: Rain Gardens Revisited on 31 October 2007.
- Lecture Title: Residential and Commercial Trends from a Chamber of Commerce Perspective
- Lecture Title: Bioswales and Rain Gardens
- Lecture Title: Sustainable Landscape Architecture: Stacking Systems In a Landscape
- Lecture Title: Pervious Concrete: Pavements for a More Livable Environment
- Irucka Embry participated in the GROW Nashville Fall Gardening Workshop on 13 October 2007.