@FlowerdewBob The aesthetic of rootsy, messy, 'post-economic' holism sits wholly at odds with a dominative civilizational paradigm, its media complex included, actively driving its own extinction and irrelevancy. Some of us are neither pretty nor party nor profitable to it. And so it goes.
The contrast cuts to the existential bone. On the day empire reached for destruction, its grassroots chose the opposite: rooting deeper in place, each other, and the peacework of regeneration. That choice—what we build or what we destroy—is the fundamental divide of our moment.
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Folks sorting and parse out scion to each of our seven spring prop fairs.
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Tracking the dizzying array of the material we collect and distribute takes a rich mix of technological and ecological savvy. Here, geeks at a computer injections our sorting process.
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There's a quality to deep eco-social work that's naturally joyful. Smiles abound.
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Oregon is a global center for rootstock production. We may be a rootsy, grassroots effort, but our team is well dialed in and connected to the world's finest reproductive germplasm.