Birke baehr wikipedia

When year-old Birke Baehr says he wants to be a farmer, he is only telling half of the truth — he also wants to change the way the world farms. A homeschooler from Knoxville, Tenn. He promptly gave up drinking soda, and encouraged his family to do the same. Soon after, he dove into learning about genetically modified foods, pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

Birke practices sustainable gardening by growing okra, collard greens and other vegetables in a small 10 by foot garden. He hopes to make a career out of public speaking on the subject, but his biggest goal is to own a small farm and actually provide people with fresh, organic food. Ashley Phykitt. Daniela Berry. This speaker has now been added.

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Sending your message… Please wait, this can take a moment. Message sent… Close. Discover other speakers. In a way, we owe it to them to share the facts, and of course, to educate ourselves about the covert corruptions of our day in order to share with them, especially when it comes to what we feed our children. And we owe it to ourselves too, perhaps for reasons we may not yet recognize.

I bet, given the chance, our ever-more-awake children and young adults have important input, if not better solutions altogether, than we adults do for a sustainable future, and more energy to make the shift! Birke Baehr certainly does. While writing the above article I took the path of first questioning whether we should educate our younger generation about the difficult facts of our food supply.

By then end of the article I was cautioning all of us not to underestimate our children. I then stretched as far as to consider that perhaps our children can educate us in many ways that we may not realize. Here is her word-for-word email to me:. He educated his mother and father and insisted that they shift from purchasing conventional foods to local, sustainable, organic food supporting small local farmers.

He is an inspiration to his family and others. The only thing his father and I did was give him the freedom to learn and the we had the sense to listen. Thank you for sharing his message!