Scott Koepke - Episode 2 Renewable and Sustainable

Have you ever struggled with burnout or overwhelm? Do you ever feel alone, and like everyone else has more emotional resilience than you? This forum is meant to create a conversation that shows that you are NOT alone. The champions and activists for the environment and sustainability all struggle with these things too – join the conversation where they explain how they survive, and thrive, in this challenging, but rewarding world.

Scott Koepke - Scott’s passion for vegetable production and community development germinated while serving as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal. Now his career as a local grower, educator and activist has taken root at ICNC’s Etzel Sugar Grove Farm. Scott founded and directed New Pioneer Food Coop’s Soilmates program, an organic garden education service for children; he co-founded and co-managed Grow Johnson County and taught classes in gardening, soil science and life skills and continues to teach this horticulture therapy content at both Kirkwood Community College’s Continuing Education program and at two correctional facilities, Oakdale Prison and Linn County Juvenile Detention Center. “Gardens Heal People” is Scott’s mantra.

Interviewed by David Gustafson, President of I-Renew