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We are actively engaged in creating a "sustainable" environment in the form of a completely self-sufficient "HOMESTEAD"! We've moved beyond the frequent "hands-on" activities and workshops in areas such as:
- Soap making (using easily available animal fat and lye or wood ashes)
- Shoe making (learning to walk and still feel the ground under us)
- Firewood processing (cutting down dead or diseased trees, chopping, splitting & stacking the wood for use)
- Preparation of indigenous soil for Organic Gardening
- Food storage and preservation for off-season consumption
- Clothing manufacture (not just purchasing cloth and sewing it into an outfit)
- Animal husbandry and behavior (understand a particular animal's behavior, habitat and needs, as well as using harvestable parts, such as hair, meat, etc.)
… to the PRACTICAL implementation and total utilization of thise skills.
These are not designed or presented to be weekend activities that you discuss with your friends about someday integrating into your lifestyle. These things cannot be fully learned from books, videos, or lectures. This information does no good if it lives only in your head! It is now time to demonstrate the problem-solving for integration of this information and to provide a framework for possibilities within each process. It needs to be a physical experience. These activities MUST become "body knowledge" and not be performed "in a vacuum"!
We are (re-)learning rural skills and being fully "present" in Nature. Being "part" of Nature, not just being "in" Nature!
Join Us!
We seek to connect with like-minded individuals whose skills and experience enhance and compliment each other. We believe that each person's needs and abilities are unique. It is that uniqueness to which we seek to enhance. Therefore, weavers, food canners and preservationists, shelter (esp. Cob structure) builders, Taoists, and others are encouraged to join this group.
It's not necessary to create community. Community happens, naturally. It's a Personal Choice! Are you INTERESTED??
Does THIS (movie) move you to change:?
"The Green Beautiful"…