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Somewhat depressing and somewhat inspiring, you decide. If anything can offer us hope for the future it will be an assembly of humanity that is representative but not centralized, because no single ideology can ever heal the wounds of this world. History demonstrates all too eloquently that no ideology has ever amounted to more than [...]
First independent permaculture job
In June Jon and I started our first independent permaculture design. We are designing a large circular key hole garden for some neighbors and additionally have plans to create permanent beds where we will plant berries and other edible shrubs and just north of these we have plans to plant several fruit and nit tree [...]
Reading
Guided by the Moon: Living in harmony with Lunar Cycles by Johanna Paungger and Thomas Poppe and thinking a lot about biodynamic farming… which is ” is a method of organic farming that treats farms as unified and individual organisms, emphasizing balancing the holistic development and interrelationship of the soil, plants, animals as a self-nourishing [...]
Adjustment
When people learn that I have recently moved out of NYC after a nine year residency to take up camp in rural Massachusetts they usually say, “That must be quite the adjustment.” And I say, “I haven’t really noticed.” Well, sometimes I feel this way. You see unlike some city dwellers I always had and [...]
New Farmers
It’s been one month since Jon and I started working at Earthlands and in this month we’ve planted over an acre of vegetables and herbs to feed the Earthlands community. We had been training to be farmers for months and now we are putting what we learned into practice and feel pretty good about it. [...]
Gulf Oil Spill, not another one.
The other night I had a conversation with some fellow community members about the BP oil spill that has devastated the Gulf and is likely to have long lasting detrimental effects on the coast’s ecosystems and people who make use of these. One member of the group stated that he hoped this would be the [...]
Local
Moving temporarily to a place where I would need a car turned out to be very stressful. I have not owned a car in over ten years (well I’ve never really owned a car until now, but lets just say I haven’t consistenly needed to drive a car since I was in high school). It [...]