Tag: Community
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Following the Chestnut Tree: Exploring the connection between Global Generation and Wilderness Wood
“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.” — Richard Mabey, Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees (2007) “He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.” — Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732) “I started off down the ride from Deer Path to the moat, with the rain rat-a-tat-tatting on…
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Black Mountains and Beyond 2: Hedgelaying, Ancestry, Narratives and thoughts about Back-to-the-Land movements.
At the end of a splendid week on the road with my Canadian friend Andrew Millward visiting the Black Mountains College (see previous post) we connected with my old buddy Nigel Adams in Oxford. Nigel took Andrew and I for a days hedge-laying in Henley. It was supposed to be two days, but at Nigel’s…
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The Schoolhouse in the Woods: An Earth Day Long Read
Happy Earth Day! Despite my best intentions for a monthly long blog this is only my second of 2023! This wasn’t intended as an Earth Day blog, but its seems apt to be publishing this today as a story about connection to place, love of natural landscape through art and community, and renewal. I have…
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The Certainty Merchants
In the past year or so I have been undergoing a transition in my thinking and practice away from conservation ecology into a more socio-ecological position. there are no wildlife problems after all,only human ones right? Ive always been interested in systems thinking and complexity ever since reading Fritjof Kapra’s Web of Life, but I’m…
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The Ontario Rural Skills Network finds a new home at Mount Wolfe Farm: Poppa’s Workshop. Just needs a tidy.
A major frustration to putting on any outdoor workshops this time of year is the inclemency of the weather. The site where we held our first spoon-carving workshop in September last year is now under a thin blanket of snow (which is thickening even as i write!) and the temperature with wind chill is -4…
James T Jones 