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By my having them collapsed it reduces the time for you to load my site.

I Will Respond to My Mail & Requests at Least Once a Month and Usually Weekly.
Thank You for your Patience

You can solve the problems of the world in a garden
- Geoff Lawton



Mitaku Oyasin! We are all related! (Lakota language)

Gardeners Sharing Observations of Nature in the Garden or Farm, and While Traveling to Other Gardens/Lands, Observing Ecological & Permaculture Principles. . . .
Greetings All My Relations Worldwide!
Would you help us grow this network by joining?
tribes.tribe.net/earthcaregardeners
Please click on the link or cut & paste into your browser.

See also the local tribal guild for Bellingham & beyond :
Earthcare Gardens – Bellingham & Beyond at:
tribes.tribe.net/earthcare which is for those living in the local Bellingham, Whatcom county, state of Washington, north america area.

Other Key Search Words: Organic,. Nature, Gardening, Farming, Ecology, Environmental, Agriculture, Sustainable, Gardens, Farms, Edible Forest Gardens

Society for Barefoot Living:
www.barefooters.org/

DeClutter &Simple Living with Fly Lady:
www.flylady.net/index.asp

www.communitygarden.org/
Community Gardening - National Organization

Our Grandmothers & Sisters:

www.grandmotherscouncil.com/

WE, THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THIRTEEN INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS, represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come. We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. We look to further our vision through the realization of projects that protect our diverse cultures: lands, medicines, language and ceremonial ways of prayer and through projects that educate and nurture our children.

Local People Caring for the Earth Through Gardening or Harvesting Using Sustainable, Organic, Permaculture Principles. . . . A Bellingham & beyond Network to Gather Together Monthly in our Local Gardens for Garden Work-Parties, Potlucks, & Educational Sharings in person & online.

Welcome! We are organizing local gardeners interested in helping each other in their home gardens, community garden, & organic farms..

All My Relations, Please join with us to help build an online site for Earthcare Gardens-Bellingham & Beyond, to gather together locally and strenthen our community earthgardens
Click on this link to join: tribes.tribe.net/earthcare
Then on tribe page click on "join tribe" in upper left. corner. Or just send me a message.

There is also a global tribe called
Earthcare Gardeners Worldwide, at a different site: tribes.tribe.net/earthcaregardeners

Other Key Words: Gardens, Ecology, Cascadia, Farming, Agriculture, Whatcom county, Washington state, Edible Forest Gardening

Here's part of an essay of Ran Prieur

> 9. Save human knowledge. When people of this age
> think about knowledge worth saving, they usually
> think about belief in the Cartesian mechanical
> philosophy, that dead matter is the basis of
> reality, and about techniques for rebuilding and
> using machines that dominate and separate us
> from other life. I'd like that knowledge to die
> forever, but I don't think it works that way.
> Humans or any other hyper-malleable animal will
> always be tempted by the Black Arts, by
> techniques that trade subtle harm for flashy
> good and feed back into themselves, seducing us
> into power, corruption, and blindness.
>
> Our descendants will need the intellectual
> artifacts to avoid this -- artifacts we have
> barely started to develop even as the Great Bad
> Example begins to fall. In 200 years, when they
> are brushing seeds into baskets with their
> fingers, and a stranger appears with a new
> threshing machine that will do the same thing
> with less time and effort, they will need to say
> something smarter than "the Gods forbid
> it" or "that is not our Way."
> They will need the knowledge to say something
> like:
>
> "Your machine requires the seed to be
> planted alone and not interspersed with
> perennials that maintain nitrogen and mineral
> balance in the soil. And from where will the
> metal come, and how many trees must be cut down
> and burned to melt and shape it? And since we
> cannot build the machine, shall we be dependent
> on the machine-builders, and give them a portion
> of our food, which we now keep all for
> ourselves? Do you not know, clever stranger,
> that when any biomass is removed from the land,
> and not recycled back into it, the soil is
> weakened? And what could we do with our "
> saved" time, that would be more valuable
> and pleasurable than gathering the seed by hand,
> touching and knowing every stalk and every inch
> of the land that feeds us? Shall we become
> allies of cold metal that cuts without feeling,
> turning our hands and eyes to the study of
> machines and numbers until, severed from the
> Earth, we nearly destroy it as our ancestors
> did, making depleted uranium and polychlorinated
> biphenyls and cadmium batteries that even now
> make the old cities unfit for living? Go back to
> your people, and tell them, if they come to
> conquer us with their machines, we will fight
> them in ways the Arawaks and Seminoles and
> Lakota and Hopi and Nez Perce never imagined,
> because we understand your world better than you
> do yourself. Tell your people to come to learn.
> "


From Melissa's blog site:
>
> Fri, February 23, 2007 - 12:46 PM — permalink -
> 3 comments - add a comment Excerpt from
> ranprieur.com/essays/saveearth.html
> I stumbledupon this page and was *WHOA*ed.
> it was like a slap in the face in the best
> possible way.

excerpt found on Melissa's blog at:
people.tribe.net/b57e62fa-...8c67ee83ef

ranprieur.com/essays.html
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www.lakotafreedom.com/
Haumikole! Hello my friend!
Mitaku Oyasin! We are all related!

Lakota Sioux Indian representatives declared sovereign nation status Wednesday Dec 19,07 in Washington D.C. following Monday’s withdrawal from all previously signed treaties with the United States Government
Go to link to read more.

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Ethnosphere online video by Wade Davis, a National Geopgraphic Explorer.: www.ted.com/talks

This video is excellant and and worth listening to. Wade is also coming to Seattle to give a talk this February. If you want more details post me a question on my blog module on my tribe page.

Wade talks about the ethnosphere as being the sum of all the "thoughts and dreams, ideas and myths, institutuions and aspirations, brought about by the human imagination."

He is speaks passionately about preserving the ethnosphere especially through the indigenous languages. He sais "every language is an old-growth forest of the mind....an entire ecosystem of spiritual possiblities"

It is worth the time to listen to this free online video that runs about 15 minutes or so.

Dancing Earthwalker

(posted Permi-Seattel & Fairy Congress, & permaculture))
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To anyone going tropical this winter, there is a

Permaculture Design Intentive In Hawaii February 2008 with Penny Livingston-Stark

Aloha ‘Aina - A Holistic Permaculture Design Intensive
February 3rd-19th, 2008
At The Resonance Project Community
Big Island, HawaiiRaw Permaculture
www.livingmandala.com/living_...edu.html

The following week there is a 5 day hands-on practicum that includes Raw Food with Bruce Horowitz, Founder and Director of The Sun Kitchen and R.I.P.E (Raw Institue of Permaculture Education). February 24th-29th, 2008

www.livingmandala.com/living_...ure.html

(posted seatt-permi guild, maui raw, earthcare worldwide & earthcare gardeners tribe)

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Bellingham & Whatcom County Gardnerers Welcoming You:

Greetings Seattle Gardeners: There are a bunch of us up here in Bellingham that are utilizing permaculture principles in our lives.

If anyone is interested in coming up here for an extended weekend sometime this upcoming year, to do a combination workshop/garden project/permaculture talks/and a local tour, send me a message and I'll pass you on the info when we organize something locally.

Its very subdued up north here, but it is out of the city. We also have a local tribenet site being developed ( at tribes.tribe.net/earthcare) and another local group site on yahoo.

I occasionally get down to Seattle, if anyone is willing to host me a place to sleep, in exchange I can work with you in your garden, or share my gardening permaculture knowledge.....over 25 years experience. Dancing

(Posted Seattle Permaculture tribe: )
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New to tribe net Seattle Permaculture Guild tribe:

I'm new to this tribe.net Seattle Permaculture Guild. I would love to know if there are any others on this city guild that actually live further up north in the bioregion like I do - Bellingham & beyond area?

I'm a long time organic gardener, an ecologist, explorer, educator & counselor, and ongoing student of permaculture and life.

I would enjoy any feedback on my personal page that I'm Slowly trying develop and would enjoy making connections to folks that either need a place to camp in a garden when traveling north, or that enjoy having other traveling gardeners camp in their garden or greenhouse when I travel to the city.

I have worked in Botanical Gardens, Community Gardens, Childrens Gardens, College Gardens, Historic Restorations, and done numerous work trades at communities......I'm a traveling garden/guardian fairy that has finally found a home garden after caring for the soil, plants, & creatures all over north america for many years.

I'm the caretaker and gardener at Heartsong Garden Sanctuary, our small acre homestead close to the lake. Thanks so much for your time!
Dancing Earthwalker
(posted permaculture-seattle guild)