Getting Back to Nature™ (Obiora and Irucka Embry)

Getting Back to Nature™ @ Martin Acres is a collaboration between twin brothers: Obiora’s EConsulting™ and Irucka’s EcoC²S. Please refer to About Getting Back to Nature™ for more information on our collaboration.

Getting Back to Nature™ in Action

The Winchester Sun: Heritage Food Festival showcases climate-smart food preparation By Matt Cizek, October 18, 2023

Getting Back to Nature™ Reviews

I’m a conscious consumer, are you? By Andrea Beaman

Getting Back to Nature™ Interviews

NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council): Regenerative Agriculture: Farm Policy for the 21st Century: Policy Recommendations to Advance Regenerative Agriculture By Arohi Sharma, Lara Bryant, and Ellen Lee, March 2022, R: 22-02-A. Although Obiora and Irucka were interviewed separately, their ideas have been incorporated in the final report. — [Requires PDF Software]
On 29 June 2021, Irucka Ajani Embry had a radio interview — [Requires audio playback software (.mp3 file)] — with Monica Clark of Dig This!
The Brothers are featured in an article entitled: “Martin Acres is the Place to Be” By Lee Morgan in the Middle Tennessee Local Table Magazine’s 2020 Annual Guide. The article begins on Page 18 of the PDF document. The article discusses the history of their maternal family farm called Martin Acres and the regenerative agriculture that they are doing on 2 acres of land. — [Requires PDF Software]

That article was also re-published at resilience

National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) Foundation-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Historically Underserved Farmers Grant Presentations (Obiora and Irucka Embry)

Diverse Farmers Leading Innovations Across Rural and Urban Water Quality. Presentation on behalf of Cherokee Historical State Resort Park of Aurora. — [Requires PDF Software]

Interviews with Irucka Embry of EcoC²S

Land Access Panel at the 11th Annual Tennessee Local Food Summit

Land Loss in the Middle Tennessee Region (for the Land Access Panel). Irucka was a panelist on Thursday, 27 January 2022, during the Tennessee Local Food Summit. Irucka prepared that document to guide his discussion at the Panel and also to share with people globally. That Discussion was streamed to YouTube and it can be viewed here: TN Local Food Summit FB Live Land Access Panel Ursula King moderating

Irucka created the following document to share with the organizers and attendees of the 11th Annual Tennessee Local Food Summit so that we can craft an encompassing vision for this local food movement:

Questions for the Local Food Movement (Our Future Vision) — [Requires PDF Software]

Race and the Food System

2011 publication of Race and the Food System, a partnership between Food Grower and Justice for All Initiative (GFJI) and WHY Hunger Year. It was a Growing Power, Inc. Race and the Food System Security Learning Center Project.

Irucka Embry’s Brief Biography — Requires PDF Software
Irucka Embry’s Background and Perspective on Race and the Food System — Requires PDF Software
Irucka Embry’s Phone Interview Responses — Requires PDF Software

Can We All Eat?

Dr. Jermaine Ware of HEROH Publishing Co. interviewed Irucka Embry (Can We All Eat?) on Thursday, 23 October 2014, and the podcast interview was posted on 5 November 2014 — [Requires audio playback software (.m4a file)]
2014 personal statement for the interview — Requires PDF Software

Edible Forest Garden Resources

Agroecology, Forest Gardening (“Permaculture Gardening”) & Agroforestry

Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 1: Ecological Vision, Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture. Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeier. ISBN# 978-1-931498-79-1

Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice For Temperate-Climate Permaculture. Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeier. ISBN# 978-1-931498-80-7

Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. Second Ediiton. Toby Hemenway. ISBN# 1-60358-029-8

Documents authored By Irucka Embry, EIT, EcoC²S Principal

Decentralizing the Food System @ Tennessee Local Food Summit 2022

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Useful Thoughts on Fermentation and Beyond

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Sankofa: Rethinking Growing Food in the South Quotes

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Global Transport, Fate & Exposure to Various Ecological Pollutants

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Articles authored By Irucka Embry, EIT, EcoC²S Principal

Why We Want to Grow Healthy Plants: The Case of the Emerald Ash Borer

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Organic Questions and Answers

The greatly expanded article (beyond the updated and revised HTML version below) appears in Tuning to the Soil-ed Seed Vibrations For Our Collective Health Edited & Written By Irucka Ajani Embry With Obiora Embry.

Original article as appeared in The Lockeland Springs Neighborhood Association June/July 2010 Newsletter on Page 5 — [Requires PDF Software]

The updated and revised article is available below:

HTML format [Only the HTML version has been updated with additional links in October 2023.]
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Shelby Park Discovery Garden

This article was submitted for The Lockeland Springs Neighborhood Association August/September 2011 Newsletter, but it was not accepted to be printed.

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The Shelby Park Discovery Garden Needs Your Assistance

Original article as appeared in The Lockeland Springs Neighborhood Association April/May 2011 Newsletter on Page 4 and continued on Page 9 — [Requires PDF Software]

The updated and revised article is available below:

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Grand Challenges for Engineering

Grand Challenges for Engineering (rethink, reimagine, & reFeel our profession) By Irucka Embry, EIT; EcoC²S Principal

Social Sustainability and the Pursuit of Design in Engineering

Towards a New Vision of Social Sustainability By Helene Hilger, M. ASCE and Irucka Embry, EIT, on behalf of the EWRI Sustainability Task Committee, EWRI Currents, Volume 12, Number 4, Fall 2010 — Requires PDF Software
Social Sustainability and the Pursuit of Design in Engineering By Irucka Embry, EIT, EcoC²S Principal on behalf of the EWRI Sustainability Task Committee. The article originally appeared in EWRI [Environmental & Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)] Environmental and Water Engineering Practice, Volume 1, Number 1, Page 5, 2011; however, that publication is defunct. I have included the submitted article in PDF format. — Requires PDF Software

Towards a New Model of Medicine

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