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Independent journalist Steven McFadden is the author of 15 non-fiction books. He’s also the author of an epic nonfiction saga of North America: Odyssey of the 8th Fire. The 8th Fire tells a true story arising from the deepest roots of our land, but taking place in the present and the future. In it, circles upon circles, elders make a great and generous giveaway of the teachings they carry. Steven founded Chiron Communications in the early 1980s to serve as a conceptual umbrella that would unity his diverse work as a writer, speaker, consultant and healer. He rested the enterprise in the 1990s to serve as National Coordinator for the annual Earth Day Celebration (1993) and later as director of The Wisdom Conservancy at Merriam Hill Education Center in Greenville, New Hampshire, as a participant with The Balaton Group, and as one of the pilgrims on a great universal prayer walk from the eastern sea across Turtle Island (North America) to the western gate at the edge of the Pacific. As the land calls out ever more powerfully, Steven maintains an active interest in farming and gardening in general, Food Co-ops, and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in particular. He has reported on the growth and development of CSA farms in America since their inception in 1986, striving to articulate The Call of the Land. My most recent book on the subject is Awakening Community Intelligence: CSA Farms as 21st Century Cornerstones (2015, Soul*Sparks Books).