We’re so excited to announce that Bryan Welch will be speaking at this year’s Piedmont Green Gala! We’ve been friends with Bryan a long time – and most recently saw him at that Mother Earth News Fair in Asheville, NC.

Bryan Welch, Biography

Bryan Welch runs Ogden Publications, Inc., the owners of Mother Earth News, Mother Earth Living, Utne Reader, GRITand several other category-leading media brands focused on sustainability, natural health and rural lifestyles.

For the past 10 years Mother Earth News has been the fastest-growing major magazine in North America. Last year it was also the magazine with the longest time spend reading by its audience; and the magazine most likely to be a reader’s favorite according to MediaMark Research.

Ogden Publications is a certified B Corporation and winner of several awards for corporate environmental stewardship.

Bryan’s award-winning book, Beautiful & Abundant: Building the World We Want, appeared in 2011.

He and his wife, Carolyn, raise organic, grass-fed cattle, sheep and goats on a 50-acre farm near Lawrence, Kansas. Bryan is a former member of the SVN board of directors.

Beautiful and Abundant: Building the World We Want

We are unique and brilliant creatures.

We are alive at a definitive moment for humanity.

In this presentation, thought leader, entrepreneur, organic farmer and author Bryan Welch inspires a process of collective visualization and invites audiences to imagine a beautiful, abundant and desirable future for humanity and the rest of God’s creation. Based on his award-winning book, Beautiful and Abundant: Building the World We Want and inspired by the blockbuster success of his Mother Earth News magazine, Bryan preaches a gospel of optimism and positive energy backed by a farmer’s pragmatic knowledge of how things get done.

Beautiful and Abundant recently received a Nautilus Award for promoting spiritual growth, conscious living and positive social change. Welch is the founder of Ogden Publications, publishers of Mother Earth News, Utne Reader, Mother Earth Living, Grit and many other media brands. Available on Amazon.com