John Hershey: The TVA & the Downingtown Food Forest

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

Bleav + The Poor Prole’s Alamanac

Home & Garden, Science, Nature, Leisure, Education, How To

5 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

John Hershey and in particular the Downingtown Food Forest are pointed to as examples of what the tree crop and permanent agriculture movement can create, given the opportunity. That said, very little about John Hershey the man has been written or compiled, despite ample writing and close relationship with folks like J. Russell Smith. In this episode, we dive into John Hershey's story and contextualize his lasting legacy: the Downingtown Forest and the tree crops that are tied to this landscape. Check out the corresponding substack article for resources, citations, and more information! https://poorprolesalmanac.substack.com/p/john-w-hershey To support this podcast, join our patreon for early episode access at https://www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac For PPA Writing Content, visit: www.agroecologies.org For PPA Restoration Content, visit: www.restorationagroecology.com For PPA Merch, visit: www.poorproles.com For PPA Native Plants, visit: www.nativenurseries.org To hear Tomorrow, Today, our sister podcast, visit: www.tomorrowtodaypodcast.org/

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0:00.0	Great. So welcome back. This is the Port Pore Pals on Manac. I'm Elliot here with Andy and Matt.
0:24.0	And today we're talking, what, tomatoes?
0:25.2	We finally going to talk tomatoes?
0:26.5	Oh, hell yeah.
0:29.0	Well, it's about time because I was thinking, you know. No, it's a metaphorical tomato of the tree crops.
0:34.9	Jesus Christ, we was so close.
0:38.5	What does that even mean?
0:40.8	He sounds like Joe Biden.
0:47.4	It means that John Hershey provided the sweet, sweet beautiful fruit the permanent agriculture movement drew from.
0:49.1	That's as close as I can get to a Joe Biden impression.
0:51.3	It's not good.
0:52.0	It's not great.
0:53.0	Say that.
0:53.4	And then just, listen.
0:58.7	Yeah, okay.
0:59.8	Jack.
1:01.2	Sorry, I forgot the Jack.
1:02.9	Yeah, yeah.
1:03.7	I don't love the direction of this episode is taking, and we're only, what, 30 seconds
1:07.9	in?
1:08.7	Do we have a poor pro's record for like these sorts of things?
1:12.3	Because I think this is the quickest we've crashed and burned.
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