Right Livelihood
Reality Sandwich, July 2017
The Sacred Activist must negotiate the paradox of finding the right livelihood in a wrong world. For the time being, we’re compelled to walk a seemingly impossible line, with one foot planted in the present exploitative reality and another in the regenerative future. But while there are few perfect solutions to this paradox, plenty of committed and thoughtful changemakers have found clever strategies of handling it.
The Permaculture Perspective: A conversation between Adam Brock and Nelson Harvey
Local Food Shift Magazine, March 2016
“What lasts? What will endure, and what will cause us to thrive?”
In Denver’s local food movement, Adam Brock is a true doer. He’s a co-founder of the urban farm and education center the GrowHaus, a mastermind of the Denver Permaculture Guild, and a member of the Denver Sustainable Food Policy Council—to name but a few of the feathers in his cap. Yet Brock is also a deep thinker about the sometimes-perverse economic incentives that have shaped our food system, and he’s constantly searching for ways that permaculture can help rebalance those incentives to favor resiliency, health and abundance. Brock recently sat down with environmental journalist and Local Food Shift contributor Nelson Harvey to talk about investing in the software of society, his passion for ecological education and obstacles to unlocking the local food movement’s true potential.
Zagat's 2015 30 Under 30: Denver
Adam Brock, 29
Co-Founder, The GrowHaus
After studying ecological design at NYU, Brock returned to Denver determined to make a difference. He and friend Coby Gould set their sights on an indoor farm and educational classroom that, says Brock, "shows folks that alternative systems to agriculture, economics and community development can really work." The nonprofit farm, which grows and dispenses food to the underserved Elyria-Swansea neighborhood, also offers hands-on workshops and volunteer opportunities. "The best part of my job is witnessing the tangible changes that I've had a hand in creating," says Brock, who's publishing a book on social permaculture in 2017.
Colorado’s top thinkers of 2013: Environment
Denver Post, February 2014
WINNER:
Adam Brock, executive director of The GrowHaus in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood of Denver. The GrowHaus is a non-profit indoor farm, marketplace and educational center with a goal of providing healthy, affordable food for the surrounding community. In 2013, Brock, who calls himself an urban permaculturist, presented a TedxMileHigh talk on locally appropriate agriculture.
Faces and Visions of the Food Movement: Adam Brock
Civil Eats, December 2012
“What keeps me excited is seeing firsthand the change we’re making in people’s lives – especially young people. We’ve worked with some of the same neighbors for years; we’ve seen people take on cooking and permaculture as a career path and watched it become a core part of who they are and how they want to transform their communities."