Tag: communities
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The I and the We
For this week’s post I wanted to share this poem by Adrienne Rich which came to me via Nora Bateson’s facebook timeline (thank you Nora), and speaks to me about one of the tragedies of modernity- the fixation on the individual. In Those Years In those years, people will say, we lost trackof the meaning…
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Grasping The Sparrow’s Tail: Thoughts on Inviting Movement Back into our Lives.
I let my intuition explore connections between shifts in seasonal farming patterns, Graber and Wengrow’s ‘The Dawn of Everything’, Tai Chi and Panarchy, and the importance of metaphors, stories and narratives in understanding and action.
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Creating Rural ‘Complete Communities’
Last Wednesday I attended a Greenbelt Foundation Workshop on Creating Complete Communities in Rural Municipalities at Gellert Community Centre in Halton Hills. As an independent researcher, I’m collaborating with Waterloo and Queens Universities, Save The Oak Ridges Moraine (STORM) Coalition and Mount Wolfe Farm in the development of the Oak Ridges Institute of Applied Sustainabiity…
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TRCAmazing! Another New Hedge Planting at Mount Wolfe Farm!
Its Autumn! Its Fall! Its Hedge-Time! I love this time of year as the leaves lose their chlorophyll pigment and the anthocyanins and carotenoids reveal a harvest of ochre, carnelian, caramel, crimson, and ruby. Perhaps its my conservation background that makes me feel its a time to tinker, or maybe its just a revealed…
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Hedge Canada 3: The Planting
“I bequeath myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love; If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles.” – Walt Whitman On an unseasonably warm and sunny Thanksgiving Weekend (6th October 2017) visitors to the Open Day at Mount Wolfe Farm in Caledon, Ontario were able to take…
James T Jones 