Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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RT @AgrarianSharing: Today we were back to Eugene, OR, where we got our start as a single, tiny seedswap, decades ago. It's fair to say our volunteer team has been taken aback by the abiding, meaningful, loving friendships birthed and deepened through the years. We know it's of the work and special.

Amy and Adrienne, working the rootstock table.
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Amy and Adrienne, working the rootstock table.

Attendees check out apple scion.
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Attendees check out apple scion.

Attendees check out fog and quince scion.
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Attendees check out fog and quince scion.

Our grafters wed scion to rootstock for folk.
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Our grafters wed scion to rootstock for folk.

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Quoted by23/ “If you dream of Paradise, you must work for it,” Nund Rishi averred. The Kingdom isn't a theory. It's a method. Jesus the carpenter, Kabir the weaver, Nund Rishi the farmer. Their theology came with calluses. The praxis of the poor—one loaf, one coat, one sapling at a time.