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Community Forest Gardeners Project

Community Forest Gardeners

What would it be like to see the rise of a Forest Gardener in every community everywhere?

What i mean by that is every community group should train and support a few individuals whose main job is to design Permaculture gardens and habitats and establish Food Forest Gardens in every space they can find.

That means recovering/reclaiming all marginal plots along fence lines on old roads, converting all yards to food production. A bit of hunting, but raising chickens and hogs for compost and food. Sheep will be in there too and cattle not too hard on the land with salad pastures for them to eat

We are permaculturist and are greatly interested in repairing the land and recovering the planet, and Community Food Forestry is one why we are doing that.

Now that is not growing a garden in the forest, but it is growing a garden like a forest, and what I mean by that is, you have your over story of canopy trees like nut and fruit and then dwarf trees of fruit berry and nut. Then bush berries and tall grasses and foliage like fern nettle and other edible ground cover like clover and a variety of leguminous low growing plants, and then a vertical layer of vine like grape and passion flower, right down to the mycelium level with many kinds of mushrooms and fungus.

It take about 3 years to establish and then all you do is prune once a year for mulch and harvest produce when ripened. we see this as one of the strongest methods to feed the future for centuries to come.

We are working on this 900 year project to return the planet to the vernal eden that she really is. If people are going to live into the new age, this is what it’s going to take and more. MUCH MORE!!

Thank you! As I am the forest and you are the garden, let us grow together and be fruitful, much love and a bit more.  Visit our website for more information:

http://www.pierresoleil.com/ourblog/

Facebook’s Lightworkers Community

Facebook's Lightworkers Community

An aspect of “the larger community” which I have not seen acknowledged elsewhere it that “good connections” expand COUNTER INTUITIVELY with large groups (larger than a street, primitive family or tribal circle of a few dozen members)  All communities (mankind in general) share important things in common:

e.g. We who use the Internet (and Facebook’s in particular) tacitly affirm a faith in the possibility that modern literacy, free exchange of ideas, images, information and data is in itself, “a good thing” for self and others.

But the common things which everyone needs and agrees on (good air, good water food and health) however vital, becomes perceived as mundane and uninteresting…
The more we as unique individuals pursue uncommon interests, finding “soul-mates” (or intellectual opponents to argue with on specialist arcane subjects) in a given “small community” becomes less and less likely..

Meeting those who share everyday information and beliefs (however essential) is not at all remarkable in a small town or village. Whereas meeting someone UNEXPECTEDLY who shares one’s “uncommon” and “obscure” minority interests, personal history, ideals, religious values is felt VERY rewarding and it is these SPECIAL CONNECTIONS which seem to most cement people’s deeper loyalties and affections.

Before the internet, being a “Radio Ham” was like this. (about 1 in 3000 of the general population) and a travelling “Ham” would meet unqualified friendship and welcoming friendship and hospitality anywhere in the world being treated by complete strangers as if they were an “old school friend” or “distant relative”..
An ostensible Businessman or Zionist meeting a Muslim, Fascist or Communist might be astounded by the amount they unexpectedly are in the deepest of spiritual motivation and agreement.

The special case of finding delight in discovering “good information” and meeting complete strangers whom one discovers are “soul mates” and “fellow travellers” is accompanied by its PERCEIVED RARITY.

The chances of two people sharing the same day as their birthday is 1 in 365.22 .. We INTUITIVELY think the chances of meeting someone with the same birthday is pretty rare .. (say 1 in approximately 183) Whereas there is a simple mathematical proof that with any random selection of 22 people there is a “1 in 2″ chance of two having the same birthday and with 100 people it is 3000 to 1 PROBABLE..

This arithmetic applies to meeting people in unusual places. The chances of meeting a particular person may be billions to one against, but we often hear of the strangest of meetings. Over 30 years ago a London friend was filming at the Taj Mahal in India when her brother strolled by, both unaware that the other was abroad! Another met a next door neighbour in a Bazaar in Baghdad . A third was walking through woods in Nepal and met a friend from Bath sitting meditating in a small clearing.
The same is true with meeting strangers who share esoteric and arcane views, experience, knowledge and opinions.
With larger communities the chances of meeting “exceptional others” is MUCH HIGHER than we INTUITIVELY expect.

Facebook with +600 million souls has a “minority esoteric community” which even if only 1 in 1000 users, is a huge number to find in one place!

– Henry O’Tani

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfs_Law

http://www.angelsweb.biz/Facebook%20Esoteric%20Community.html

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”  — C.S. Lewis

Lightworker Community Australia

An initiative to create a community of lightworkers in Australia…
Lightworker Community

Lightworkers coming together and joining forces is something that’s been starting to happen all over the globe… faster and faster… lightworker communities are forming everywhere with the intention of helping heal the world.

Australian Lightworker, Arts Eco Community,
wellness center and retreat.

Lightworker Community Australia

The vision for the property is to develop a 100% self sustainable high density lightworker arts eco community, hotel and wellness center in Australia, incorporating its own internal economy and production of a variety of goods, crafts, produce, events and services which can be supplied to the broader community. A community for artists, performers, healers and visionaries. All tools for the trades to be developed and available on-site, such as but not limited to costume production, massage rooms, treatment consulting rooms, and technical trades labs. Regular markets, festivals, performances, and events will be held on site to generate funds for the community and the performers/organizers. Liquor license and our own bar is included.

This is a fantastic initiative that will be of interest to many lightworkers, not only in Australia, but to lightworkers around the world.  May this concept flourish and help inspire other lightworker communities to come together.

The Australian Lightworker community is seeking the interest of spiritually minded lightworkers, health workers, and artists who would like to become a foundation owner and community builder for a new “Community of Light” situated atop Mount Dandenong in Sherbrooke Forest, Australia (Located 30km East of Melbourne, in the Dandenong Ranges.) Approximate shared cost is $200 per room per week.

Learn more about this LIGHTWORKER COMMUNITY