Remaking the Village18thFebruary
Humans were born to live in families connected to the land around them. I'm not talking about small nuclear units of two, three or five people on a postage stamp lot. Instead, I'm referring to great houses where their relationship to an epic landscape once found root in livelihood, hearth and survival.
This is a story of when what feeds us grows just outside our door, of where a house is built from trees we knew as saplings and how the wisdom of Aunt Rosie is a simple walk to the fire outside on a starry summer night. It may be a story of fiction, an ancient tale spun to remind us of where we've been. It may also be roadmap of what we can create together.
Yet while this "vision" is a great place to start, we need creative and practical steps to bring any dream to life. We need the right people for the job. We need crafters to help create the great house, gardeners to sow the seeds that feed the village and even entrepreneurs capable of reshaping an economy into an ecology.
Who are these people? They have to be us: you, me and all of our neighbors. No one else is qualified for the job. It’s up to one another to cultivate the gifts required to remake the village. How do we do that? No one person, school of thought, or leader has the answer. Instead, we begin by slowing down, seeing and celebrating the very family and land we seek to save.
Join us...
For a day to celebrate the Homestead This "taster day" is for those interested in our full-time Immersion programs. We transport you to our beautiful homestead in Sandy, Oregon. You help finish a hand built rocket stove, track animals and learn the arts of wilderness survival. Try a day of TrackersTEAMS
For a term or one year The TrackersTEAM program teaches permaculture and village skills for spring term, sets off on 10-weeks of expedition learning for summer term and offers 1-year of living in learning in Portland, Oregon or Costa Rica from fall to summer.
Upcoming courses...
Healing Teas: Trees of Life Feb 28, 2010
Paleolithic Primer: Primitive Tech Series Mar 27-28
Edible Wild: Spring Greens Mar 28, 2010
