Bill Vitek is a philosopher, educator, author and musician.  For thirty years he has collaborated with Wes Jackson--co-founder and President Emeritus of The Land Institute--on projects of mutual interest, including two co-edited books (Rooted in the Land and The Virtues of Ignorance) and, since 2011, an educational framework informed by perennial, regenerative agriculture. Bill is a Scholar in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA, and directs the New Perennials Project for Rockefeller Family Fund.