@Plough 5/ In practice, creating resilient foodsheds effects and requires a genuinely communal adventure in eco-cultural plenitude, integrity and dynamism accessible, ultimately, only beyond the ontological scope of 'Mammon-driven' or otherwise synthetic constraints, patterns and values.
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We’ve emerged at the forefront of the PNW ‘future heirloom’ intelligence network with a proven record identifying and freely, widely sharing the most promising annual and perennial cultivars in our bioregional midst. We didn’t begin as orchardists. An emergent property of the Eugene Permaculture Guild spring seed swap 25 yrs. ago, we grew into the country’s largest, organics-focused propagation fair; then very deliberately dis-organized into small, distributed, community-based efforts. Admittedly, Oregon’s status as a center of global rootstock production, and our proximity to two of the world’s most diverse fruit collections (4,500 apple varieties, 1K pears, 650 grapes) boosts our eco-cultural chutzpah. And yes, we derive our strength from the power of the local, the personal relationships, co-intelligence and skillsets allowing us access to a spellbinding array of cultivars we've together identified as cornerstone 'future heirlooms'. It's simply not possible to buy what we do.
@sellieyoung @leashless In truth, the 'constructively engaged' folk I move among, insist that our primary imaginary challenge is not lack of vision; rather a majoritarian way of 'not-seeing' what's right in front of us. The resurrective ontology of new world creation simply hasn't been evenly perceived.
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Copy of tweet here: end/ We describe it as a relocalization of experience, in which a grounded, convivial, eco-social realm catalyzes and flourishes around a bio-cultural model of community, lived into manifestation, enriching human life beyond all comparison to material wealth, values and promise.