In Regenerating Earth, Kelsey sets out from his rural Indiana home—where chicken manure fills the air and farm runoff taints local ponds—to explore a hopeful alternative to industrial agriculture. Traveling from the Amazon to Hawaii, Kenya to Georgia, he meets farmers, Indigenous leaders, and activists working with nature rather than against it. Their regenerative practices build soil, strengthen communities, and even help fight climate change. With humor, curiosity, and deep respect, Timmerman shows how our food choices can connect us to land, life, and one another—and offer purpose in a time of ecological crisis.
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In Where Am I Eating?, Kelsey sets out to answer a simple question: Who grows our food? That journey took him from coffee fields in Colombia to cocoa farms in Ivory Coast, where he met a modern-day slave. He picked bananas in Costa Rica, hauled tomatoes in Indiana, and dove for lobster in Nicaragua—all to better understand the lives behind the labels. This book doesn’t preach, but it does invite you to care. By connecting faces and stories to the global food economy, it asks how our everyday choices might shape a food system that works for everyone.
In Where Am I Giving?, Kelsey travels from his hometown of Muncie, Indiana, to Myanmar, Kenya, India, and beyond to explore what it really means to give. Along the way, he meet monks, aid workers, refugees, and everyday people trying to do good—and others trying to make sense of it.He becomes a voluntourist, starts a nonprofit, and wrestles with the messy line between help and harm. This book doesn’t tell you how to give—it invites you to think deeply about why, and how your gifts (money, time, talents, even purchases) connect you to a global community of hope and impact.
In Where Am I Wearing?, Kelsey travels around the globe to meet the people who made his clothes—and what he found changed how he’d see the world. From jeans in Cambodia to underwear in Bangladesh, he traced my wardrobe back to the workers behind the seams. He met mothers, teenagers, and dreamers surviving in factories and fighting for better lives. This isn’t just a book about shirts and shoes—it’s about global connection, inequality, and what it means to be a consumer in a world stitched together by invisible threads. It asks: if you knew who made your clothes, would it change how you wear them?
