Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

This past weekend marked the tenth spring propagation fair @AgrarianSharing has hosted in Williams, OR. It was glorious, yet again, to experience the palpable presence of togethered experience, growing from and blending with S. Oregon land. Some call it the deep ecology of love.

Portraits of a packed house at the grange in Williams, OR, at ASN's 10th propagation fair there. Here, our volunteers confer.
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Portraits of a packed house at the grange in Williams, OR, at ASN's 10th propagation fair there. Here, our volunteers confer.

Attendees help themselves to Apple scion.
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Attendees help themselves to Apple scion.

Father and son collect pear scion.
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Father and son collect pear scion.

A long shot of one of our tables full of fruit scion, surrounded by attendees choosing from it.
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A long shot of one of our tables full of fruit scion, surrounded by attendees choosing from it.

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Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing · 4 Mar 2025

A pan-bioregional propagation-fair network was ours to create, but not to originate. Since ancient times, the deep ecology of relatedness, well-being and peace within and between communities has always been acted upon as a fundamentally eco-social project. facebook.com/share/p/19KewyS3y5/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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Quoted byRepeated attendee feedback at @agrariansharing's first propagation fair of the season? The joy and laughter in evidence. This isn't unusual for us. When social initiatives align with reality’s moral and ontic grain, a communal soul shows itself, yoked together in right relation.