Learning heaps in Eugene, at Common Circle's two-week Urban Permaculture course.
Spent the last 4 days listening to Larry Korn, a 25-year veteran landscaper who studied with Masanobu Fukuoka in Japan, creating a sustainable and productive edible forest. Read more at One Straw Revolution.
Check out this great Permaculture Resource list at Toby Heminway's website, writer of Gaia's Garden. There's everything from soil to water management and aquaculture, Design and methodologies, plant guilds, and composting.
Got to go to Eugene's Center for Appropriate Transport (CAT), where they make custom cargo bicycles (because when peak oil passes and the economic shit hits the fan, we won't be able to source foreign parts anymore) in a youth apprenticeship program. Super cool.
CAT recently got funding in $10 and $25 personal checks as a result of the Superhero ride. Pedal power to the people!
It's halfway through the course and we're all tired, crabby and, apparently, dehydrated. We've also been on a low- to no-fat diet for 8 days. It's remarkable how my relationship to food has changed. I eat like a dog. I don't give it any thought, and then whatever is put in front of me I devour. It's been noted that our living conditions - highly communal with little time for personal reflection; sleep deprivation; very low-calorie diet - maps pretty well to what makes people susceptible to brainwashing. At least we know the course will end, and we'll all go home. Unless someone asks us to lace up the purple sneakers...
Peace and love to all. It's raining in Oregon and the frogs are quiet.
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