Independent journalist Steven McFadden is the author of 15 non-fiction books.

His newest book  Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future is written not for geeks, but rather for the general public. The book has been drawing strong, positive reviews since publication in late 2019

Steven is also the author of an epic nonfiction saga of North America: Odyssey of the 8th Fire < 8thFire.net >.

The 8th Fire tells a true story arising from the deepest roots of our land, but taking place in the present and the future. In it, circles upon circles, elders make a great and generous giveaway of the teachings they carry.

Steven founded Chiron Communications in the early 1980s to serve as a conceptual umbrella that would unity his diverse work as a writer, speaker, consultant and healer. He rested the enterprise in the 1990s to serve as National Coordinator for the annual Earth Day Celebration (1993) and later as director of The Wisdom Conservancy at Merriam Hill Education Center in Greenville, New Hampshire, as a participant with The Balaton Group, and as one of the pilgrims on a great universal prayer walk from the eastern sea across Turtle Island (North America) to the western gate at the edge of the Pacific.

A Reiki Master of long standing, Steven taught the Reiki healing techniques to hundreds of students across North and Central America. He helped John Harvey Gray and Lourdes Gray, Ph.D. write Hand to Hand: The Longest Practicing Reiki Master Tells His Story.

As the land calls out ever more powerfully, Steven maintains an active interest in farming and gardening in general, Food Co-ops, and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)  in particular. He has reported on the growth and development of CSA farms in America since their inception in 1986, striving to articulate The Call of the Land. To generate wider public interest, he authored Awakening Community Intelligence: CSA Farms as 21st Century Cornerstones (2015, Soul*Sparks Books).