Take a visual tour with us through some favorite snapshots so far from this year’s Fall Rising Earth Immersion. From friction fire, to growing organic food, to permaculture courses, to heart circles, this group goes deep.
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Permaculture
What an honor to co-teach with Dan Wahpepah, Ojibwe Anishinaabe Kickapoo Sac & Fox Song Carrier and Permaculturist. Our students engaged with ecological design principles, while thinking critically about how the term “permaculture” is a colonizer-coined term representing knowledge from first nations peoples in relationship with their places.
We sang a gratitude song before the meal, thanking the Earth and each of the meals’ contributors for their acts of generosity. It felt like a homecoming. I started attending the bi-weekly garden volunteer days, buoyed by the laughter and peace that come from the simplest of tasks in community: spreading mulch, pulling out tomato vines, or struggling to build a greenhouse. I showed up to the story nights, fire circles, and potlucks, reveling in this way of being so dramatically different and more fulfilling from what I had known before…
The reality is, there are few people who want the rainforest deforested, or racial injustice, or the deepening of poverty. But our economic structure, in which corporations have power over both the economy and the government, allows for limitless destruction.
In this post, you will find a sample of programming for the Rising Earth Immersion. First you’ll get a sense of the core curriculum, followed by guest programming, which varies session to session. Many of these examples are drawn from 2020, a year that brought a lot of curricular articulation and response to the cultural events of our times.
How do permaculture principles apply to social issues facing intentional communities?