seed - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-29T01:29:04Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/feed/tag/seedInterview with Benjamin Fahrer - Campaign to Support Rooftop Farming and Urban-Adapted Seeds by Willi Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/interview-with-benjamin-fahrer-campaign-to-support-rooftop2015-12-31T14:24:15.000Z2015-12-31T14:24:15.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4">Please Help Fund the Barnraiser Campaign to Support Rooftop Farming and Urban-Adapted Seeds in the Bay Area. Interview with Benjamin Fahrer, Top Leaf Farms, by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">“Similar to dozens of other community “<a rel="nofollow" href="http://fruitcruz.org/" target="”blank”">food forests</a>” emerging in cities such as Seattle and Portland, the intention of the orchard is to inspire the community to gather together; to provide itself with a local source of fresh, nutritious food; to put to sustainable use our natural resources of rain, soil, and sunshine; and to spread knowledge of how to bring these techniques to more gardens. Proponents of the project hope its success will help lead to other community orchards in the area, such as along the new rail to trail line, or the Santa Cruz Riverwalk.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Humans-will-always-argue-which-myth-is-better/articleshow/45977196.cms?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=toimobile&utm_medium=referral" target="”blank”">Myth is subjective truth, your truth and my truth, not the truth</a>. ‘We communicate our truth through stories, symbols and rituals. We inherit them from our ancestors and pass them on to our children. Mythology is the study of these stories, symbols and rituals and the subjective truth they reveal. … if we value mythology, then we will value subjectivity, pay attention to other truths and expand our own truth. This is the power of myth….’</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">* * * * * * *</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://planetshifter.com/node/1914" target="”blank”">great tree</a> has been a symbol of choice of the permaculturists, Christians and many other religions for many years: solidarity, Nature, food, shelter, resilience. Trees are prominent anchors in kid stories, forest songs, farm legends and world myths.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">As we grow trees, enjoy their fruits and sing their praise, supporting our gardens with green houses (or hoop houses as shown in the illustration), we seed, water and enjoy rituals.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">The path to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2156" target="”blank”">new mythologies</a> begins with each individual, where we experience life and make choices, supported by our families. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2237" target="”blank”">Families gather together</a> in neighborhood or civic groups for friendship and seasonal events. It is with these stages that <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2157" target="”blank”">new rituals can be created, performed, evaluated and refined</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">New Mythology can be created by us in this synergy.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Permaculture + Transition Values</strong> – <em>love of Nature and a local economy</em></span><br/><span class="font-size-3">New values drivers and edu-accelerators that replace worn-out religious practices</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Person</strong> - <em>where dreams, archetypes and symbols work</em></span><br/><span class="font-size-3">Visions and pollination for a new planet start with each of us</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Family</strong> - <em>heritage maps and first rules to live by</em></span><br/><span class="font-size-3">We learn, test and change the generational wisdom with our parents and grandparents</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Neighborhood / Group / Town</strong> - <em>community growth and security</em></span><br/><span class="font-size-3">Our second family where we build the day by day online and offline</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Ritual</strong> - <em>celebrating the sacred</em></span><br/><span class="font-size-3">Have you enjoyed a tree planting or sharing event yet?</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>New Mythology</strong> – <em>universal stories, systems of value codes for how to live with the Planet</em></span> <br/><span class="font-size-3">We are the hoop house dance, the new soil generation and the sweat to see us through</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Every night I vibrate internally</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">That's my form of prayer</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">And the angels signal me</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">"Come over here, mister</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">Stretch out your glove..."</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">You've got to nail it down</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">You got to nail it down</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">I got to nail it down</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">That ultra unbelievable love</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">-- <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.robynhitchcock.com/" target="”blank”">Robyn Hitchcock</a>: <strong>ultra unbelievable love</strong></span></p></div>Transition Palo Alto’s Spring Share Faire, March 15; Interview with deep nature gardens by Willi Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/transition-palo-alto-s-spring-share-faire-march-15-interview-with2015-03-02T16:05:40.000Z2015-03-02T16:05:40.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-label"></div>
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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>* * * * * * *<br/> <strong><a href="http://transitionpaloalto.org/sharing-expos/" target="”blank’">It's the Spring Share Faire!</a></strong></p>
<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><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>Permaculture Propaganda Lab @ old seed bomb factory (2019). New Myth # 54 by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazinehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/permaculture-propaganda-lab-old-seed-bomb-factory-2019-new-myth2014-05-17T20:50:18.000Z2014-05-17T20:50:18.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
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<p>"Last month we took up to much too message, an undoable scale."</p>
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<p>"Ya right. The <strong>“Food Forests on Mars”</strong> campaign!"</p>
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<p>Sponsored by North Bay City Lands Conversion Group was underwritten by <strong><a href="http://www.patternliteracy.com/resources/ethics-and-principles" target="blank">Permaculture Principle #6</a></strong>.</p>
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<p>"Not sure that "Make the least change for the greatest effect" was the result?"</p>
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<p>"Maybe sometimes we should just make the case instead of propagating silly slogans?!"</p>
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<p>Two months ago, the crew did the <strong>“seed library on wheels”</strong> campaign. The truck was robbed twice.</p>
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<p>Permaculture Propaganda Lab's ( <strong>PPL</strong>) strategy for their case strapped clients is often simple: pick one principle or ethic from permaculture and design a campaign for the client.</p>
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<p>Weaving Nature lore, sustainability and human subjects in the NorCal biosphere, PPL works a new campaign per month for food, concert tickets or fresh fish - to name of few things bartered.</p>
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<p>The seed bomb factory on the first floor was closed down by the feeds late last year after an all-night Psilocybin-drenched rave and an early morning product demonstration got out of hand.</p>
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<p>In 2019, multiple NorCal tipping points are fracking the permie scene as the rich consolidate power, make higher fences and force the poor to fight for their injustice.</p>
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<p><strong>The Perma Store</strong> has brought their visions, wares and woes to PPL for an outreach transfusion after buying up the <strong>Dollar Store</strong> franchise in 2017 and seeing sales of permaculture tools go down by 24%.</p>
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<p>"Let's lease the 14 NorCal bill boards from <strong>Zippy’s Sign Mafia</strong> and go with:"</p>
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<p><strong>"Grow It - Eat It - Compost it @ The Perma Store."</strong></p>
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<p>"Thankfully some sign locations are in urban settings. Few can afford the train or auto travel charges at this point.</p>
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<p>"Sounds like <strong>Principle #7</strong> fits ok here: "Start with the smallest systems and build on your successes, with variations."</p>
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<p>"What comes after the billboard?"</p>
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<p><strong>”One dollar Perma Store Hella tattoos!”</strong></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">It is important to connect the concepts of resilience and redundancy to grow and share our growing Transition. For this lesson, understand resilience as the ability of a community to become healthy and successful after something bad happens.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">From Permaculture (<a href="http://www.patternliteracy.com/resources/ethics-and-principles" target="_parent" rel="nofollow">Primary Principles for Functional Design – #5</a>), redundancy design requires that each part of the any critical social, food or energy system is supported by multiple back-ups. Redundancy protects us when one or more traditional processes or components fail.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Redundancy is also about the recovery phase after an emergency as we work together to return our lives to a safe operational place.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">- Back-up life support equipment and staffing plans at relief clinics</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- Building your house on stilts for protection against high water and predators</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- Squirrels saving nuts in multiple locations</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- A Seed Library – preserving different genetic strains to guard against altered / toxic invader seeds</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- Community Food Forest – multiple crops that all supply vitamin, protein or other nutritional needs</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- Solar batteries that support home heating and cooling when traditional power sources fail</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- Teaching multiple tribe members how to lead and teach important skills, including local land design methods, participatory governance and other Post-Chaos Era community needs</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Note</strong>: This lesson is itself is an example of redundancy as the Internet multiplies the available number of sites that kids that can read this work and implement its wisdom.</span></p></div>“the mystical seed ball missile from god” – New Myth #37 - NewMythologist.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/the-mystical-seed-ball-missile-from-god-new-myth-372013-03-03T16:52:00.000Z2013-03-03T16:52:00.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
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<p><span>The Salem Trans-Tribe took a direct, heavenly hit in broad daylight this morning, according to Cheq, the coast horse messenger and guide.</span></p>
<p><span>“It’s very shinny,” he shouted. “30 feet long, metallic, standard hand-made candle shape with some powered orange and black burn marks from atmospheric entry wounds.”</span></p>
<p><span>“Where did it land?”</span></p>
<p><span>“Oddly enough, just meters from your community fire circle, a near miss, so to speak!?”</span></p>
<p><span>“The Light Network is sending an investigative team.”</span></p>
<p><span>“It is cracked open at the front.”</span></p>
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<p><span>Jason V and two other senior permie’s arrived from the Redding Regional Council on horseback after issuing a stay away warning to The Salem Trans-Tribal Head via carrier pigeon 24 hours prior.</span></p>
<p><span>“This thing doesn’t appear to be from any Dark Force facility. Unfortunately Geiger counters went out with the toaster oven,” laughed Jason.</span></p>
<p><span>“How will you gauge the threat?”</span></p>
<p><span>“Not sure, but that material on the ground seems like a good place to start.”</span></p>
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<p><span>The only formal signage on the missile was discovered after the twisted can was hoisted onto level ground.</span></p>
<p><span>“One big open cup and two small teepees?” Sandrum is lost. Alien spacecraft insignia is way past her graphic arts training at the University of Oregon Extension at Bull River Falls.</span></p>
<p><span>“Maybe the packages have clues to this meaning.”</span></p>
<p><span>The Light Network usually deals with the immigrants, water squabbles and community land re-design. The four strange packages laid-out before the team should most certainly be a great risk to land and soul alike.</span></p>
<p><span>“No ticking. No smell.” <b>Big Doubts.</b></span></p>
<p><span>“Let’s take these gifts into the old greenhouse. It’s the only quarantine station around.”</span></p>
<p><span><b>It is full of holes.</b></span></p>
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<p><span>The first bag was emptied onto a seed sorting bench as surgical masks were adjusted and smiles sunken.</span></p>
<p><span>Then the second, third and forth: <b>“Pumpff…!!”</b></span></p>
<p><span>It was soil, they thought, with additives. One bag included what appears to be green seeds.</span></p>
<p><span>“Could be the symbol on the craft is a measuring or planting instruction. One part to two parts?”</span></p>
<p><span>“But what material goes when and where, Cheq?”</span></p>
<p><span>“Dunno?”</span></p>
<p><span>“We need a spiritual ecologist for this mystery transmutation, folks.” Jason V calls.</span></p>
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<p><span>Pond was nearby and spent the next 24 hours in the green house studying the alien alchemy, the missile coat and … everything! By now most of Cascadia had heard about what many are calling a “mystical gift.” Big social hopes boil now for a faster cure to the post-capitalist fright than their beloved but routined permaculture. The blending of spirit and science across Tribe Land is still stalled and way late to catalyze a shaman-fueled Agri-Light Show.</span></p>
<p><span>“Let’s test all combinations of the materials in small amounts,” called Pond from the door.</span></p>
<p><span>“That way we can maybe survive any toxic reactions if things go wrong!”</span></p>
<p><span>They rigged-up a web cam inside the greenhouse to observe the experiment from a safe distance. The yurt will be crowded tonight!</span></p>
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<p><span>It took two weeks to marvel with the 36 seedlings peeking through the magic soil in tray seven.</span></p>
<p><span>The Light Network investigative team issued a communiqué at the 6 week mark when the deep green, purple and burnt orange colored plants bore fruit. The greenhouse tasters are healthy….</span></p>
<p><span>At 7’ - 4” tall, the missile borne hybrid is a combination of pineapple and arugula. Half of the plants are now doing great in the outside garden. But equally amazing for Cascadians this season is that some of the leftover soil experiments were combined by Pond who started a super compost that never seems to get diluted.</span></p>
<p><span>Will the Pagans, the Techies and the Scientists now unite in Cascadia?</span></p>
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