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4/ We hosted free 'Permaculture Design Certificate' training. Everywhere, the verges between road and sidewalk were put to use. We borrowed homeowner ground. Artful gardening propagandists, we were early to the web, too. Soon, FNL blossomed into a global movement. Then, a book.

Copy of Heather Jo Flores' book, Food Not Lawns: How to Turn your Yard into a Garden and your Neighborhood into a Community
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Copy of Heather Jo Flores' book, Food Not Lawns: How to Turn your Yard into a Garden and your Neighborhood into a Community

Garden theater for adults and children.
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Garden theater for adults and children.

Copies of various zines we published.
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Copies of various zines we published.

Art shows, music gatherings, and vaudeville and circus events were a constant theme in our outreach, fundraising and community-building efforts. Here, a poster advertising an event at our local pub-venue.
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Art shows, music gatherings, and vaudeville and circus events were a constant theme in our outreach, fundraising and community-building efforts. Here, a poster advertising an event at our local pub-venue.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 23 Sept 2023

@RizomaSchool Fwiw, here's what attendees of the Food Not Lawns 2001 PDC in the Whiteaker neighborhood of Eugene, OR (then in the midst of a community renaissance, since co-opted by the Boomtown it helped attract) envisioned for the future of their hood 10-100 years out.bugs.scribble.com/permiecourse.html

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @NatureSchoolSU @aquinasheard23 That's splendidly avant-garde! Was it a national first, I wonder? FNL certainly made a mark when we picked up a $10K grant from the city to provide free PDC training to the town's poor. In so many urban-biodynamic-permacultural ways, Heather and the collective broke new ground.Quoted by@NatureSchoolSU @aquinasheard23 That's splendidly avant-garde! Was it a national first, I wonder? FNL certainly made a mark when we picked up a $10K grant from the city to provide free PDC training to the town's poor. In so many urban-biodynamic-permacultural ways, Heather and the collective broke new ground.