YORK, Neb. – Kerry Hoffschneider, writer, and co-founder of the Graze Master Group, has published a book to inspire healing of the land and people – “Hope Stories for the Heartland.”
“America’s soil is sick, but with a commonsense, responsibleapproach to farming and ranching hearkening the wisdom of the past and the innovative imagination of today’s leading agriculturists, the world’s breadbasket is already beginning to recover,” Hoffschneider said. “Hope Stories are an effort of the Graze Master Group to bring rural stories to life. They’re stories lived by entrepreneurs, innovators, farmers, ranchers, global business leaders, optimists, realists, thinkers, and doers who have one important thing in common: an understanding of how sick our soil, water, and rural communities have become and how to start to heal the land and people.”
“Partners of the Graze Master Group have an inherent understanding of the serious issues facing farms, ranches, agribusinesses, the greater community, and the natural world we depend on for sustenance and all life,” she went on. “Each and every one of our partners are doing something constructive to solve problems in the areas they are conducting business: farming, ranching, producing products, designing equipment, building community, serving as civic leaders and more.”
“This isn’t just a book, it’s meant to inspire action,” Hoffschneider said. “We are offering workshops and discussion group opportunities around the book. We’re doing this in addition to our work directly on the frontlines with the farmers and ranchers across the nation we serve every day. We want to share what we are learning and learn from others’ experiences. Hope Stories are an ongoing journey and everyone who eats has a role to play in constructing solutions.”
“The plains have been a place of both pain and promise,” Hoffschneider relayed in closing. “We are the descendants of families who have experienced both of those things. Combined, all these stories are written to the future, a future we hope and pray our descendants will see if we get this right. We invite everyone to take this journey with us. Let’s not give up hope.”
Learn more at: www.grazemastergroup.com/hope-stories or call/text Kerry Hoffschneider at (402) 363-8963.
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