Bell Independence Project

Adrienne Redd, faculty and Wayne Skilton, co-founder of the maple sugaring program at Wyncote Academy left to found first the Bell Agriculture School, which evolved into the Bell Independence Project and is currently focussing on the cultivation of the Schatz-St. Paul’s Community Farm at 7827 Old York Road, Elkins Park, PA Along with the late Mark Linkins, Adrienne Redd co-founded the urban agriculture program at Wyncote Academy. She also served there as coordinator of outreach and development, and director of online and individualized learning. Wyncote was a school for students with learning differences in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. She is also a fundraiser for environmental and progressive causes, a political campaign consultant, and an adjunct professor of sociology and anthropology at the Community College of Philadelphia. She is an environmental advocate, outdoors-woman and nature girl. She is also one of the foremost authorities on the trajectory of the nation state in a globalized world and author of Fallen Walls & Fallen Towers: The Fate of the Nation in a Global World (2010), and numerous articles and lectures on film, education and the globally independent, yet fragile bullshit capitalist and profiteering planetary economy and international system.