Ecotopia
A Vision for Thriving on Planet Earth
Contributors
By Evan Marks
Preorder from Retailers:
- On Sale
- May 4, 2027
- Page Count
- 320 pages
- Publisher
- Timber Press
- ISBN-13
- 9781643267555
Imagine a place where gardens feed families and neighbors, where children learn with their hands in the soil, where chefs cook from the day’s harvest, where music gathers the community, and where the ordinary practices of growing, eating, making, and finding peace become a way of life.
This is the world of Ecotopia.
At the center of the book is The Ecology Center, a 28-acre regenerative organic farm and ecological education center in San Juan Capistrano, California. Set on a historic agricultural property now surrounded by suburban sprawl, The Ecology Center has grown from a one-acre dirt lot into a thriving community ecosystem: farm fields, orchards, a Farm Stand, Cafe, chef-led farm-to-table dinners, artist collaborations, seasonal festivals, wellness practices, and an outdoor school for children and families. Founded by surfer, farmer, and agroecologist Evan Marks, The Ecology Center is both a working farm and a living demonstration of another way to build culture around food. Its philosophy is simple: grow, eat, make, and peace. Through these four practices, Ecotopia offers a window into a place where regenerative agriculture, ecological education, local food systems, beauty, community life, and environmental stewardship are treated as part of the same living system. Ecotopia tells the story of a farm becoming a village, and a village becoming a model for what the future can feel like when people come back into relationship with land, food, and one another.
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“Food has always been about so much more than what we put on the table. It's about the people who grow it, the land it comes from, and the communities we build around it. What Evan and The Ecology Center have created is a beautiful example of what happens when we bring those things back together.”Joshua McFadden, author of Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables
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"The Ecology Center is a beautiful demonstration of the work we need to see worldwide- creating direct relationships between regenerative-organic farmers and their local chefs, communities, and schools in order to build a food system that mitigates climate change and supports the people who are taking care of the land."Alice Waters, author of We Are What We Eat
