nature - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-29T11:11:10Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/feed/tag/nature“The Tree Pod Community” – “Resilience with Nature in the Permaculture & Transition Era” by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Mediahttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/the-tree-pod-community-resilience-with-nature-in-the2015-07-25T14:26:25.000Z2015-07-25T14:26:25.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p style="text-align: center;"></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br/>“The Tree Pod Community” – “Resilience with Nature in the <br/>Permaculture & Transition Era” by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com <br/>Media</p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Transition Palo Alto’s Spring Share Faire is March 15 at <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lucie+Stern+Community+Center/@37.444324,-122.145471,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x808fbb1756cbf3b3:0x8a71097bc2a8df5d" target="”blank”">Lucie Stern Community Center</a>, Fireside Room and Patio, Palo Alto, CA. Sunday, March 15, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Included here: Interview with Skill Share presenter Nick Turner of <a href="http://deepnaturegardens.com/" target="”blank”">deep nature gardens</a> by Willi Paul, <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2247" target="”blank”">Planetshifter.com Magazine.</a></strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Bring stuff to share</strong> - garden produce, books, clothes, crafts, toys, etc., AND learn new skills. Plus fun activities for kids!</p>
<p>We're excited to be holding our first Share Faire at Lucie Stern Community Center. The Fireside Room will give us some wonderful indoor space (and a place to hide from the rain, if only!). The Patio will allow us to spread out, holding many skill shares and sharing lots of goods, as usual.</p>
<p>We've had quite a few teachers approach us, some who've shared skills before and who have new things to offer, others who are first timers. You'll want to spend a little time visiting them all. And there's certainly room for a couple more: if you have a skill to share, let us know and we'll see if we can fit you in. Contact <strong>Peter Ruddock</strong> (PeterRuddock at yahoo.com) if you are interested.</p>
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<p><strong>Cecile Andrews</strong>, author of Living Room Revolution, will stir up a little Patio Revolution. She will lead a Conversation Circle about Conversation and Community!</p>
<p><strong>Tom Kabat</strong> will help with bike maintenance, chain oil and adjustment etc. Bring any parts you want to install (e.g. new brake cable, brake pads, inner-tube etc.) Experienced bike fixer / ergonomic adjuster available to work with you.</p>
<p><strong>Emily Rosen</strong> CMT, will facilitate massage, working with people in pairs. Sooooothe and connect. Partner up with a friend and learn some great techniques for 10 minute seated massage. We could all use some TLC!</p>
<p><strong>Amanda Kovattana</strong> will demo simple shoe making skills using readily available hand tools and instructions. As a student shoe maker in her second year, she will speak to her successes and failures and show shoe samples of both.</p>
<p><strong>Nick Turner</strong> of deep nature gardens ( <strong>see interview below</strong>) will offer pre-sprouted "eco-packs" - small pots containing a variety of interesting plants, many of them not available in nurseries, and he will demonstrate how to create them using planting mix, a pot, and the special "eco-mix" seed mixture. People can make up an eco-pack of their own and take it home for sprouting. There will also be eco-mix in small bottles, useful for boosting the diversity of any nature garden, plus more cool stuff as available.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/NeighborsHelpingNeighborsPaloAlto" target="”blank”">Neighbors Helping Neighbors</a></strong> (NHN) will be providing some give-a-ways and sharing information about their programs that benefit the community. NHN has a Backyard Program for Gardeners-Beekeepers-Coopsters. Come see their backyard garden program display, receive seeds and more.</p>
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<p>* * * * * * *<br/> <strong>Interview with Nick by Willi -</strong></p>
<p><strong>Is ecosystem farming also called urban agriculture and/or permaculture?</strong></p>
<p>You can call it that if you want to, but I don't.</p>
<p>Ecosystem farming can be done in an urban environment, but the urban-ness is not important. It is simply the idea of a farm as an ecosystem, meaning that nothing is wasted and everything gets recycled back into the system. This involves good composting, good soil management, proper lighting and microclimate, and a complete nutrient cycle. Nutrients are given to the world in the form of edible or useful products, and they are received from the world in the form of kitchen scraps for compost, along with other input nutrient streams.</p>
<p>Permaculture principles are applied in an ecosystem farm because they are valuable basic ideas that have great application in any ecosystem farm, but that does not make every ecosystem farm into a permaculture example. All proper permaculture farms are ecosystem farms, but not all ecosystem farms are permaculture farms. Ecosystem farming also applies to enclosed ecosystems such as bio-enclosed greenhouses where permaculture principles are less prominent.</p>
<p><strong>How do you teach sustainability at the TPA Spring Share Faire?</strong></p>
<p>I do not explicitly teach sustainability at the Share Faires. What I share are ways to introduce greater beauty, diversity, and abundance into suburban and rural gardens and farms, using the principles of deep nature gardening and ecosystem farming. Sustainability is a natural outgrowth of this teaching of beauty, diversity, and abundance.</p>
<p><strong>Species extinction is a huge issue at this time in human history. Are you addressing it at deep nature gardens or other communities?</strong></p>
<p>Deep nature gardening is all about preserving species diversity. In a deep nature garden we are much more interested in unknown sprouts and unidentified species than we are in any kind of "commercial" plants. In a deep nature garden there is no such thing as a "weed." We celebrate unidentified sprouts and nurture them until they can be identified. Many fascinating, unusual species continue to emerge as this wonderful adventure continues, and many of those unusual, sometimes rare plants end up in client gardens. Of course, all these rare plants attract their own kinds of rare insects and other critters, further increasing the diversity of all of the gardens. All of this helps to preserve the species diversity of Gaia here on Planet Earth.</p>
<p><strong>Are there small or big rituals in your approach to a sacred or deep Nature garden?</strong></p>
<p>I do not ever use the word "sacred" in connection with gardens or farms, because there are many people who have various emotional associations with highly colored words like that. Whether a garden is "sacred" is a judgment I leave to the garden's owner. As for rituals, I also leave that up to the garden's owner. What I am all about is preserving and enhancing Gaia's wonderful species diversity, beauty, and abundance. To me on a very personal level that work is definitely "sacred," but I do not force that view onto my clients, and there aren't any particular rituals involved, other than the practical working patterns I use to create and evolve these gardens.</p>
<p><strong>What are the challenges when constructing an enclosed balcony garden?</strong></p>
<p>The answer to this depends on the specifics of the balcony. Whether it is enclosed or open, there may be big issues around microclimate. Balcony gardens in general tend to have problems with light, humidity, wind, and temperature. But every balcony is different. Balcony and patio gardens, whether they are enclosed or not, require careful attention to these factors. Each situation is unique.</p>
<p>Having said that, any kind of container garden has some common issues, including rapid drying, nutrient depletion, and much more. Container gardening can be challenging, especially on a balcony or outdoor patio.</p>
<p><strong>Can a vegetable patch be a Nature garden?</strong></p>
<p>Of course! But most veggie patches are far from nature gardens. For it to be a nature garden, it must feature a full, complete ecosystem, including critters that eat the plants, and critters that eat those critters. Since most veggie gardeners prefer not to have aphids or caterpillars in their vegetable patches, they are not nature gardens.</p>
<p><strong>Is a seed bomb like an eco-pack?</strong></p>
<p>Seed bombs are tossed into vacant lots by "guerrilla gardeners.” A seed bomb is like an eco-pack in the sense that it is a way to introduce new diversity into an area of soil, but it's different in that an eco-pack is a carefully created collection of plants in one container, resulting from a months-long process of thinning and pruning. A seed bomb is a collection of seeds tossed into an area and then (probably!) forgotten, in the hope that some of those seeds might sprout and survive in the area where it is tossed.</p>
<p>Eco-packs are carefully evolved and specifically planted in owner-authorized places where their selected plant species have a good chance of growing and becoming naturalized. Seed bombs are far more haphazard, often illegal, and far more random.</p>
<p><strong>You have many shovels in the ground, Nick! What is a “Local Resilience Ecosystem” vs. a deep Nature garden?</strong></p>
<p>A Local Resilience Ecosystem is a collection of humans who bring various forms of produced abundance to gatherings where they share that abundance with each other without any form of "value accounting." It is a human activity designed to help all of us become more abundantly, sustainably, prosperous by sharing our produced goodness. There is much more <a href="http://www.meetup.com/local-resilience-ecosystem/about/" target="”blank”">here</a>.</p>
<p>A deep nature garden is an area of the surface of our beloved planet Earth where one or more humans act to create, preserve, and enhance the beauty, diversity, and abundance of the local biological ecosystem.</p>
<p>Thanks for the good work you are doing.</p>
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<p>* * * * * * *<br/> <strong>Nick Turner's Bio -</strong></p>
<p>After more than three decades as a computer firmware engineer, Nick Turner returned to his deepest roots as an experimental and practical ecosystem gardener. Now he helps people turn ordinary lawns and shrubberies into beautiful, diverse, abundant nature gardens, and he helps to create productive food farms in suburban spaces. The work is called deep nature gardening and ecosystem farming. Nick's current calling as a garden and farm ecology consultant suits his personality far better than cubicle-based software design!</p>
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<p>Nick Turner / <a href="http://deepnaturegardens.com/" target="”blank”">deep nature gardens</a><br/> nick at mindheart.org<br/> land line: 650-323-7864<br/> cell: 650-380-0036</p></div>“Cougar Stalks Deer. Interview with Eugene’s Nathaniel Nordin-Tuininga, Nature’s Mystery Awareness School” by NewMythologist.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/cougar-stalks-deer-interview-with-eugene-s-nathaniel-nordin2013-05-05T15:35:47.000Z2013-05-05T15:35:47.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2">“Come explore our magical world where your child will have the opportunity to learn directly from the land that sustains us. Here we will explore history, ecology, and native lore, as we deepen our nature awareness skills and uncover treasure all around. Our curriculum is specifically designed for families interested in alternative educational models as applied to outdoor exploration. Current programs are based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, Tom Brown, Jon Young, and many Indigenous traditions from around the world. Through our exploration of rhythm and pattern of our inner and outer environment, we will work toward the creation of a peaceful, socially sustainable, and environmentally regenerative future for all.”</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b>Where do you experience the most “deep reverence” in your daily life?</b></span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2">Every morning I meditate, quiet and still, in a hidden parcel of woods, on the edge of town. Here I am approached by many curious animals. I feel the reflection of their movements reverberating through my own blood and in a few precious moments I am able to really feel, on the experiential level, the universal interconnection of life. This is something I feel most deeply when I am able to share it with children.</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b>Is magic spiritual? Is mystery magic? </b></span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2">There is nothing that is unrelated to mystery, magic, or spirit. Of course the each of them are deeply subjective terms. To me the sun rising in the morning is a cosmic expression of divine spirituality, as is the fact that we can draw ancient sunlight out of the earth and use it to power our machines of destruction. Every action we perform is a manipulation of the energy and elements of creation. Every impulse that arises within us is a call to perform an act of magic. Sometimes that impulse is used to satisfy a selfish desire, sometimes it draws us closer to a path of service toward others. A kind thought, a small sacrifice for the benefit of someone in need, anything that tends toward balance and harmony, within ourselves and amongst all living beings, these appear to be expressions of our higher self, which many of us perceive as spirit. Forces of chaos and destruction are equally magical and mysterious to me. Darkness and light are both beautiful and necessary forces in our experience as human beings. Whatever terms we use to describe these forces in our lives, we are working with them at all times. The more important question for me is: “How can we do so to best serve the highest good?”</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b>You write: “Early childhood is naturally a time of great wonder and enchantment.” How do you support and deliver wonder and enchantment at Nature’s Mystery Awareness School? What forces can work against this?</b></span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2">There are many ways to support wonder and enchantment in the life of a child. It is our primary task as instructors of Nature’s Mystery Awareness School to model goodness, love, and reverence for all life. If we ourselves are enchanted by the world around us, we excite curiosity in the heart of the children under our care. We choose to focus beyond the purely material elements of life and place a great deal of importance on the development of the imagination. Einstein once said that “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” He is, of course, not the first to have figured that out. Children are reminding us of this fact on an ongoing basis. Most of us are just too busy, most of the time, to give the matter adequate attention. Otherwise we would be much more careful about the type of environment we allow to fuel our children’s imagination. </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font-size-2">Busyness, or distraction, is perhaps the greatest threat to our work as environmental educators, as well as to the health and vitality of the human being. If we were able to create the time and space to deeply consider the impact of each of our daily actions, we would certainly not be committing the absolutely insane level of ecological destruction that we are currently engaged in and finding the other essential source of support for our children’s development, exposure to the beauty of a naturally complex ecosystem, would not be so great a challenge. Nature’s Mystery is very fortunate to have many supportive friends and neighbors in our community who support our work and allow us access to their land. We have the ability to explore small parcels of wetlands and watersheds, meadows and woodland, in town as well as farms, old-growth forests, botanical sanctuaries, and permaculture communities in the surrounding area.</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b>Can you tell us more about how mystery works: In Nature? In daydreams? In play?</b></span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2">A few days before I launched my pilot program: “Blue Heron” (named after a nature program I had the great privilege to experience in my younger days); I had one child enrolled. I needed five students just to cover the cost of the insurance and the company wanted their check that day in order to have the policy in place in time. On my way to check my email on the morning I was thinking perhaps the time wasn’t right when a Great Blue Heron swooped down out of the sky just over my head. A few moments later, I received a phone call from a parent wanting to register two more children. I ended up with ten kids by day one. Some people call such synchronicities coincidence, but they happen in my life far too often to dismiss. We’ll be playing a game of Cougar Stalks Deer with the kids, where I take on the role of the deer and they try to sneak up on me a kid will see an animal sign they think might be a cougar, we’ll stop to look and a deer will come bounding out of the forest. Someone will be telling a story about a raptor and we will look up to see a bald eagle flying over head. The more you stop to give it your attention, the more you will see these kind of things are happening all the time.</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b>How do your instructors and programs ‘foster a infinitely deeper attunement of our natural senses to the world around us?’</b></span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2">Through a wide variety of daily practice. We use a number of games and activities that stimulate and activate different senses in different ways. There are for anyone interested in developing their own awareness skills I highly recommend the Kamana Naturalist training, put out by Jon Young. I also owe a great deal to the work of Tom Brown, Rudolf Steiner and many of my own mentors and teachers. If you happen to be in the Eugene area, you can contact me for personal nature mentorship opportunities for any age. Check out <a rel="nofollow" href="http://naturesmystery.org/" target="_blank">naturesmystery.org</a> for more information.</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><strong>Bio – Nathaniel Nordin-Tuininga</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span class="font-size-2">A long-time Environmental Educator, Instructor with Whole Earth Nature School, and Waldorf Teacher-in-Training, <strong>Nathaniel</strong> spent much of his childhood wandering 1200 acres of meadows and forests, learning from his elders and developing a deep reverence for the more-than-human world. His life has been an ongoing exploration of alternative educational models including those in “developing” nations, which rely heavily on the interaction between children and the natural world. <strong>Nathaniel</strong> holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon and an Ecovillage and Permacultural Certification from Lost Valley Educational Center. He brings patience, joy, and an intimate appreciation for the ecological interdependence of life.</span></h3></div>2013 Northwest Permaculture Convergence: Let's Grow Together!https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/2013-northwest-permaculture-convergence-let-s-grow-together2013-07-04T14:04:04.000Z2013-07-04T14:04:04.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
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<p><strong>The 2013 NW Permaculture Convergence features a special <a href="http://openmythsource.com/myth-lab/" target="blank">Myth Lab Presentation</a> by <a href="http://newmythologist.com/" target="blank">NewMythologist</a> Willi Paul</strong></p>
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<p>The 2013 NW Permaculture Convergence is an inclusive annual event which unites communities for a weekend of intensive focus on a common goal: to design sustainable habitats in accordance with nature for <strong>all humans, plants, and animals.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>The 2013 event will be held at Pacific University, and B Street Farm in Forest Grove, Oregon on August 2 - 4, 2013</strong></p>
<p>Practitioners across a wide spectrum of skill sets exchange ideas through concurrent workshops ranging from organic agriculture and wildcrafting to natural building and appropriate technologies; from environmental remediation and disaster preparedness to community dynamics and global justice.</p>
<p>The 2013 Convergence will include a special <strong><a href="http://nwpccintro.blogspot.com/" target="blank">Introduction to Applied Permaculture</a></strong> session on Friday morning at B Street Farm from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm.</p>
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<p>"Applied Permaculture" means design and actions for real life application. This special discounted introduction will be appropriate for complete newcomers and anyone who wants to receive a concise overview of Permaculture Design Principles and work hands-on Friday morning.</p>
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<p><strong>In addition to the workshop space, there are also dedicated areas for skill sharing, children's activities, educational displays, and vendors.</strong></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.northwestpermaculture.org/" target="blank">More info and registration!</a></strong></p>
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<p>Participants have opportunities to socialize over communal meals sourced from local growers, and during the evening's entertainment. Camping is available on-site for a nominal fee.</p></div>