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Your actual, real-time Odyssey parallels this Summer’s ‘blockbuster’ film

Steven McFadden — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:04:15 +0000

My epic, nonfiction saga -- Odyssey of the 8th Fire -- is drawing increased attention now, as film director Christopher Nolan prepares to release what he says will be one of this summer’s blockbuster films: The Odyssey, the classic tale attributed to Homer.

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New and improved: Classical Considerations

Steven McFadden — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:56:13 +0000

As of May 2026, I've finally gotten around to putting a new cover on Classical Considerations, a small treasure Soul*Spark.

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Behold the Light: Farms, Photons, Futures

Steven McFadden — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:55:01 +0000

Engaging intelligently with light is one quantum key to the destiny of deep agroecology.

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Our Collective Odyssey: Song and Story for the Generations Arising

Steven McFadden — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:45:12 +0000

This blog post marks the 30th anniversary of the Odyssey of the 8th Fire -- a spiritual deed now acutely relevant and resonant.

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Musical Invocation: Odyssey of the 8th Fire

Steven McFadden — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:37:16 +0000

This is a musical rendering for the Invocation: Odyssey of the 8th Fire

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Marvelous Meme Museum Makes Memories

Steven McFadden — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:32:36 +0000

You are cordially invited to visit my museum of marvelous memes.

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Podcast book review of Deep Agroecology (5 minutes)

Steven McFadden — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:08:11 +0000

In a podcast Academia.com recently reviewed my book, Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food and Our Future.

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Half a Century Later: My Odyssey in Journalism

Steven McFadden — Tue, 06 May 2025 09:11:57 +0000

Independent journalist Steven McFadden is still standing, still writing half a century (50 years) after graduating from Boston University. Reflections on the soul value of integrity.

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Key talk about farms and food 2025 – English y Español

Steven McFadden — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:06:17 +0000

A classic and acutely relevant book on CSA community farms - Farms of Tomorrow Revisited - is now available in a Spanish-language edition, Las Granjas del Manana.

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Chiron’s Museum of Marvelous Memes – Gallery V

Steven McFadden — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:32:51 +0000

This is Gallery V - Chiron's Museum of Marvelous Memes. I invite you to take a look.

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Odyssey of the 8th Fire accelerates in 2025

Steven McFadden — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:14:45 +0000

While the upcoming film of Homer's Odyssey is drawing attention, we are all making the challenging, nonfiction, real-time journey Odyssey of the 8th Fire.

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Spiffy new makeover for one of my satellite websites

Steven McFadden — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:12:23 +0000

After 16 years with the same look, my website for Deep Agroecology needed an overhaul... I'm happy to share this glimpse.

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Strategic Wisdom in an Era of Change

Steven McFadden — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 11:06:43 +0000

In a time of profound change, agroecology offers a wide array of sensible, sustainable, just, and strategically intelligent pathways to sustain an uplift our civilizations.

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Time of Transition: Flowers of Possibility

Steven McFadden — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:19:55 +0000

To add to the wealth of speculation about what some qualities of that new state may be, I offer yet another descriptor--one with mythic unifying attributes: the Age of Flowers. The concept qualifies as an aspect of deep agroecology.

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Sparks for the 8th Fire: a podcast

Steven McFadden — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:00:20 +0000

Sparks for the 8th Fire: this is a podcast recording of a talk Steven McFadden gave on March 10, 2024, telling some of the true, epic saga Odyssey of the 8th Fire.

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What are people for? What are farms for?

Steven McFadden — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:41:33 +0000

In a thought-provoking essay published in 1990, Wendell Berry asked, “What are people for?” Now we must also ask, What are farms for?

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Oeuvre Moeuvre: The earthwise works of Steven McFadden

Steven McFadden — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 07:12:56 +0000

A six-minute video surveying some of the books and projects I have created over my 75 years of life.

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Native Knowings: Profound, Eloquent, Soul-stirring

Steven McFadden — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:40:17 +0000

My small-treasure gift book, Native Knowings, has earned high praise from The Reading Bud. Here's the text of the review:

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Deep Agroecology: a slide-show primer

Steven McFadden — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:26:06 +0000

A two-minute slide show with words and images characterizing of some of the basic elements of the agroecological vision, and also a glimpse at deep agroecology.

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Native Knowings now in paperback and eBook formats

Steven McFadden — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:06:41 +0000

Now as these messages are needed, the concise book Native Knowings is available for the first time in a print paperback edition, as well as in eBook format.

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Literary Lights and ChatGPT shine on Deep Agroecology

Steven McFadden — Tue, 02 May 2023 15:21:33 +0000

Thanks to the enterprise and good graces of the New Mexico Book Association (NMBA), I’ve been invited to a reception Celebrating New Mexico Writers at the convention center in our stucco-studded capital city. The New Mexico Writers’ Reception is an opening event for the Santa Fe International Literary Festival. My book Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, […]

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Keys for Adept Aging: a rejuvenated treasure

Steven McFadden — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 14:44:47 +0000

As of February 2023 I'm pleased to announce publication of Keys for Adept Aging. This compact volume—a true Soul*Spark—is an ideal gift for elders, as well as for all who are aging.

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Flowing into 2023

Steven McFadden — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 13:48:27 +0000

My wife Elizabeth treated me to a movie for my birthday just before 2022 came to a close: three hours of the new Avatar film in 3-D at an I-Max theater. Great beauty we beheld in The Way of Water. Although I have to say that as is true for me with most modern adventure […]

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Does Breakthrough in Fusion Parallel an Evolutionary Leap?

Steven McFadden — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:30:48 +0000

“All the prophecies of the world, all the traditions, are converging now. There is no time for games…High magic is at work on both sides, the light and the dark.” – Carlos Barrios At precisely 1:00 a.m. on December 5, 2022, America initiated an act of nuclear fusion. That act within the National Ignition Facility […]

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Our Main Chance: Agroecology

Steven McFadden — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:48:07 +0000

Our main chances for advancing into a clean, healthy, just, and sustainable future are the pathways of agroecology and deep agroecology.

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New cover, renewed spirit for Tales of the Whirling Rainbow

Steven McFadden — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:23:27 +0000

Dear Readers, I’m pleased to announce a facelift for an old book that is, I feel, acutely relevant to all that’s going on in the world. It’s the slimmest of volumes, but it still goes right to the heart of the matter. As of today the new cover and format edition is readily available as […]

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Council Circles: a perennial way to mark Earth Day

Steven McFadden — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:10:37 +0000

In 1993 I had the honor of serving as National Coordinator for the annual Earth Day USA observation. When appointed to the position, I reached out to the Seventh Generation Fund. We formed a project partnership, and together we developed a plan and a protocol for community council circles. People came together with their neighbors in […]

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2022: The Year of Agroecology

Steven McFadden — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 14:22:43 +0000

By the authority vested in me (and everyone else) by virtue of being someone with something important to say, I hereby declare 2022 to be The Year of Agroecology. Someone needed to do it. It’s time. I hope the other 7.8 billion human beings on the earth are listening—not to me necessarily, but rather to […]

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Light 2022: Notes of the Holy Ones

Steven McFadden — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:52:12 +0000

In this season so busy—things changing so fast—I happened upon this dark passage: the cautioning utterance of a spirit long departed: Everywhere the wasteland grows; woe to him whose wasteland is within. ~ Thus Spake Zarathustrua (Nietzsche) Stark words. From one vantage as we head into 2022, […]

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Code Red for Humanity, Code Green for Earth

Steven McFadden — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:28:42 +0000

by Steven McFadden My primary work throughout the rest of 2021 is dedicated to researching and writing the biography of a man who was a kind, knowledgeable, and skillful leader for the Navajo people, as well as for people around the world. Having died in 2008, he left a legacy of insight into the well […]

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A message from Messenger

Steven McFadden — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:14:53 +0000

The eagle Messenger bears messages about the legend of the rainbow warriors.

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Farms and food riled by a host of factors and forces

Steven McFadden — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 21:20:37 +0000

Colossal forces—social, financial, technical, environmental, governmental, and climatological—are whirling emphatically this year, directly engaging, disengaging, and impacting our farms and food. Each human being on Earth has a stake in how it all settles out. It’s that basic. Among the forces: climate extremes, environmental breakdowns, food security threats, the Covid-19 pandemic, all accompanied by a […]

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My Monumental Vision: The Sower and The Huskers

Steven McFadden — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:49:02 +0000

My wife Elizabeth and I are on our way out of Nebraska, work having summoned us once again to the southwest. In parting from this stalwart state, I want to share a vision. The Lincoln Journal-Star, the paper of record for the state’s capital city, recently published an article about the intention of some local […]

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Extreme factors set the stage for Global Food Systems Summit 2021 – Your pantry is in play

Steven McFadden — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:35:23 +0000

by Steven McFadden You may imagine that your involvement with the food system begins and ends with your refrigerator, your pantry, your local supermarket, and your backyard garden, if you are lucky enough to have one. But that fantasy would be tragically misleading. The inescapable facts: at this passionate, volatile, hotly contested moment of history, […]

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INVITATION: Engage a heroic journey along a wisdom trail

Steven McFadden — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:47:38 +0000

Now that I’ve finished telling the tale a second time, via the supplemental medium of memes, I’m happy to invite you (one and all) to engage the Odyssey of the 8th Fire. Through following the journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific you will meet and learn from traditional wisdom keepers of North America. What […]

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Ginawaydaganuc: A concept to guide us through troubled times

Steven McFadden — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:05:15 +0000

According to the UN, and common observation, "We are at an unprecedented moment in the history of humankind and in the history of our planet." The Algonquin concept of ginawaydaganuc, as expressed through deep agroecology, offers an intelligent and effective response.

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Review of my Soul*Sparks book, Classical Considerations

Steven McFadden — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:57:16 +0000

Reviewed by Steve Leshin for Readers’ Favorite Classical Considerations by Steven McFadden brings focus to the ancient Greek philosophers and culture that have influenced our modern society in the arts, mathematics, politics, and philosophy. This is accomplished by introducing the reader to the lectures of Harvard professor John H. Finley, Jr., a popular classicist who taught a […]

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Telling the Tale: Lincoln Journal Star reports on Odyssey of the 8th Fire

Steven McFadden — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:32:04 +0000

I’m pleased to report that my nonfiction saga Odyssey of the 8th Fire is getting some publicity this week, in both formats: online journal and the work in progress slide-show of memes. Both of those formats for engaging the tale are currently live and freely available for readers around the world. Columnist Cindy Lange-Kubick at our […]

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The Call of the Land: A video conversation about our food, farms, and future

Steven McFadden — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:37:15 +0000

My video conversation with Brooke Medicine Eagle about The Call of the Land and the accompanying slide show, is freely available now on Youtube. To learn more about deep agroecology and the possibilities for our food and farms, follow this link.

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Part 4 – Odyssey of the 8th Fire Memes now live on Youtube

Steven McFadden — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:59:34 +0000

Part 4 of the Odyssey of the 8th Fire Memes – Days 120-160 slide show is now live and freely available on my Youtube channel. The memes at this link tell a shorthand version of the longer true, epic saga available at 8thFire.net. In invite you to undertake this adventure, to check out the tale, […]

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The third part of the journey: slide show of memes for Odyssey of the 8th Fire

Steven McFadden — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:02:04 +0000

STREAM THE MEMES As the days unfold through 2020 and on into 2021, I’m creating memes commemorating the 25th anniversary of the cross-continent walk at the heart of a true, epic saga of North America: Odyssey of the 8th Fire. When I complete a group of 40 slides, I assemble them into a […]

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Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future wins top National Indie Excellence Book Award

Steven McFadden — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:30:35 +0000

I’m pleased to share some good news via this press release from my publisher (and wife), Liz Wolf of Light and Sound Press: Lincoln, Nebraska, October, 2020—Independent journalist Steven McFadden was named a winner of the 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA) for Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future. Deep Agroecology won the top […]

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Deep Agroecology harvests a five-star review

Steven McFadden — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:10:32 +0000

My award-winning book on farms, food, and the future has earned a 5-star review from Kimberlee J Benart at Readers’ Favorite. If you’re interested in integrating modern sustainable agriculture with ancient native wisdom to meet our future food needs while regenerating our planet, Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future by Steven McFadden is for […]

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The unSecrets of my Stupendous Sunflower

Steven McFadden — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 18:36:16 +0000

The only thing special about my sunflower is the way it turned out: stupendously.

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Check out my 6-minute slide-show: Odyssey of the 8th Fire

Steven McFadden — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:35:42 +0000

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the epic Sunbow 5 long walk from the Eastern Door at the Atlantic Ocean, to the Western Gate at the Pacific, I’m creating memes that suggest some of the teachings that were found along the side of the trail. To make the memes more coherent, since they are part […]

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Follow along day by day: Odyssey of the 8th Fire

Steven McFadden — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 14:50:21 +0000

I invite you to follow along online on an epic journey to engage North America's wisdom keepers as they offer guidance for all in our era of turbulent transition.

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Walking under the Whirling Rainbow: 25th Anniversary

Steven McFadden — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:23:26 +0000

A quarter of a century ago—June 23, 1995— a band of long walkers gathered at First Encounter Beach on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. They came on behalf of all the people, plants, and animals of the Earth. From this place of sand and sea at America’s Eastern Door, this intercultural band of pilgrims took the first […]

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The Ecologist publishes my essay, Towards Deep Agroecology

Steven McFadden — Wed, 06 May 2020 10:11:58 +0000

Agroecology presents a powerful vision of what is necessary and possible as we strive to re-organize our food chain in response to this pandemic, and to pollution, climate breakdown, and the intensifying hegemony of multinational chemical, drug, and industrial corporations.

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Help Build the Wave of Affirmative Agroecological Responses to Coronavirus

Steven McFadden — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 13:21:25 +0000

Driven by the shuttered economies and supply chain disruptions provoked by the Coronavirus, and our basic human survival instincts, people have churned up a tsunami of affirmative agroecological activity toward securing garden seeds, growing food cooperatively, and otherwise connecting with local farms. Good thing. Pay attention. On March 26 the Director General of the UN’s […]

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Encourage Courage: Pollen’s Perils and Promises

Steven McFadden — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:41:20 +0000

In our time of coronavirus, as we all contend with the pandemic swirling through our lives, it strikes me that many people could benefit from engaging the essence of one flower in particular, borage. Borage can help lift feelings of heavy heartedness, encourage the quality of courage, and generally add a note of buoyancy to the soul.

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