harvest - Blog - SCOCO Network2024-03-28T15:53:41Zhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/harvestBring your harvest and swap for other wonderful home-grown things this Wednesday in Pacheco!https://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bring-your-harvest-and-swap-for-other-wonderful-home-grown-things2017-05-23T20:06:22.000Z2017-05-23T20:06:22.000ZTina King Neuhauselhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/TinaKingNeuhausel<div><div class="gj s2"><div class="ap s2"><div class="pA s2"><div class="he s2"><div class="b5 xJNT8d"><div class="uyb8Gf"><div><div class="F3hlO"><div id="m_-9217047603270981049yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495496178722_22356">Martinez Crop Swap community celebrating 5 years of trading and community building!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="m_-9217047603270981049yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495496178722_22371">This month we will feature a local honey tasting. If you have some honey to add to the tasting please bring it.</div>
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</div></div>“The Signal Tree” – New Children's Myth by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazinehttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-signal-tree-new-children-s-myth-by-willi-paul-planetshifter2015-02-07T18:01:54.000Z2015-02-07T18:01:54.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201402"><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201404"><span class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201399"><font class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201398" size="5">“The Signal Tree”</font><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201485"> – New Children's Myth by Willi Paul, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2242" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201892" name="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201892">Planetshifter.com Magazine</a></font></span></div></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201319"><span class="yiv6249078331"> </span></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201321"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201320">Jeramie looks up and visions that the branches of the Signal Tree are like arms and hands and fingers. She knows that she invented “how to hug a tree.” But her role in re-rooting the universal anima is about to get much grander than a view and a hug.</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201323"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201322">Yesterday the soil around the old tree began sprouting saplings, something that Jeramie had never witnessed before. First there were 25 or so 1, inch dark green shoots peering around the base of their Mother like <span class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201575">miniature periscopes</span>. She walked around the tree amazed. “Are these babies? A moat?” she pondered.</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201325"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201324">That night she had a dream. A light being came to her with instructions. She is to collect the young trees and plant the saplings in a great circle throughout her immediate neighborhood, and include some of the leaves and top soil from around the old tree in each hole.</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201326"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201327">“The leaves and top soil is my <span class="yiv6249078331">mythic DNA</span>, young lady,” the light said. This is the next instruction set for your Planet. “The old tree will be soon passing away having completed its eco-mission.”</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201328"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201480">Jeramie returned to the tree for a jig and to collect her offspring, now about 12 inches tall and fifty in number.</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201498"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331">* * * * * * *</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201330"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201329">“Where are the best places for my cosmic trees,” she cried! Then her <span class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201499">permaculture training</span> showed her the path and she found good soils, water sources and sun light for each of the skinny beings.</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201332"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201331">21 days later, an unbelievable moment multiplied by 50 green heads across her county side home. Each tree grew to 13 feet in height and bore fruit the likes of which had never ever been seen or tasted.</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201334"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201333">All of trees have the same symbol midway up their trunks: two triangles overlapping each other, vertically; one upside down, one right side up. A love tattoo on a skin tight cellulose uniform, sent from far, far way.</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2242" target="_blank"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}8095729281,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="417" height="439" class="align-center" alt="8095729281?profile=original" /></font></a></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201336"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201335">The beautiful Mother Tree finally fell softly back to Earth as her last breathe rippled through the Gilded air. Children and elders prayed for her with a <span class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201337">short round in a bitter sweet celebration</span>:</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201340"><span class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201339"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201338">“Wood - Leaves - Bark - Roots - Harvest - Fruit - Shoots - Sharing - Water - Sun - Moon”</font></span></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><span class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></span></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201341"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331">* * * * * * *</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201397"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201408">The fruit from the second generation tree has the skin of an avocado, the size of a planting fist and the juice like a pear. Many, many seeds swim locked deep into the fleshy fruit like those in a spaghetti squash.</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201343"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201342">The jam from Jeramie’s trees spread just as fast as the hybrid trees themselves. In five years the “double diamond” miracle tree was shoulder to shoulder in most of the permaculture food forests and transition gardens across the planet. The “people’s tree” soon came to be known as a drought tolerant, fast propagation and high shade variety.</font></div><div class="yiv6249078331"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331"> </font></div><div class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201345"><font size="4" class="yiv6249078331" id="yiv6249078331yui_3_16_0_1_1423067585156_201344">The hillside near Rocky Mount, North Carolina that Mother Tree grew through her many seasons and spawned the original marked saplings is a now a <span class="yiv6249078331">sacred place</span> for Jeramie and visitors alike. Her love and seeds for humankind pumps through our hearts in places like the Sudan, South Detroit and Richmond, California.</font></div></div>“New Sharing & Return Rituals & Their Symbols in Transition” by Willi Paul, openmythsource.comhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-sharing-return-rituals-their-symbols-in-transition-by-willi2013-09-15T19:42:31.000Z2013-09-15T19:42:31.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p><h2 class="entry-title" style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://openmythsource.com/2013/09/14/new-sharing-return-rituals-their-symbols-in-transition-by-willi-paul-openmythsource-com/">“New Sharing & Return Rituals & Their Symbols in Transition”</a></h2><h2 class="entry-title" style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://openmythsource.com/2013/09/14/new-sharing-return-rituals-their-symbols-in-transition-by-willi-paul-openmythsource-com/">by Willi Paul, openmythsource.com</a></h2><div class="entry-meta"></div><div class="entry-content"><br /><p>One critical mandate for the Transition Movement in the present <b><a href="http://openmythsource.com/2012/07/29/the-cascadia-funnel-and-the-last-3-eras-on-earth-new-myth-25-by-willi-paul-openmythsource-com/">Chaos Era</a></b> is to create<b><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1855">new myths</a></b> and associated rituals that guide us. What rituals do you participate in now; as a child? Do your stories speak to a world in turmoil? Who controls the narrative? This is a call for new rituals: a <b>universal s</b><b>haring and return</b> to family, city core, gardens, fields, water, soul and Nature.</p><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p><h2><b>Definitions</b></h2><p></p><p><b>Ritual (2)</b></p><p>(a) A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual"><b>ritual</b></a> “is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and designed to influence preternatural entities or forces on behalf of the actors’ goals and interests.” Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community.</p><p></p><p>(b) Semi-regular gathering of family or community members that share a Nature-based experience, value or dream often associated with formal roles and traditions. (W. Paul)</p><p></p><p><b>Universal</b></p><p><b> </b>(c)<b> </b>A globally understood sign (i.e. – meaning) that mandates care for all cultures. (W. Paul)</p><p></p><p><b>Return</b></p><p><b> </b>(d) To come back home; re-integrate; initiate; honor and acknowledge the sacred in all things. (W. Paul)</p><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p><p align="center"><a href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/symbols-group.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3466" alt="symbols - group" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/symbols-group.png?w=640" /></a></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"></p><h2><b>New Sharing & Return Rituals</b></h2><p></p><p><b>The Return of Ivory to Native Lands</b></p><p>In Chiang Mai, <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g293917-d1422414-Reviews-Thai_Elephant_Home-Chiang_Mai.html">Thailand</a>, elephants are healed and cared for on farms for visitors and locals alike. The big mammals are protected from poachers and considered sacred. Are they our equals? Can we see that Asian elephants and all earthly beings are part of a global family? That the return of stolen tusks from world-wide black markets is an act of healing, honor and learning with Nature. Tusk revenue returned to the farms support preservation and education. This program of “international return” to local care is a ritual of love, sharing and support.</p><p></p><p><b>Soil Building</b></p><p>With neighbors we clear grass heavy lands with controlled fires and shovels as a safety precaution and for soil building, turning-over the burnt wood and ash, adding compost from the neighborhood bins and then re-planting. With permaculture, we share knowledge and resources to keep fire on our side and to obtain healthy soils and sustainable yields.</p><p></p><p><b>Harvest Dance</b></p><p>Together we celebrate both Nature and Permaculture calendars, our union of science and spirit at last. Picking each crop as it matures, teaching the youth to dance, to sort, peel, prepare and cook for their sharing dance, a seasonal celebration.</p><p></p><p><b>Taking Down the Fences</b></p><p>Localization in the back yard! From a pragmatic point of view, taking down your fences can mean better friendships with your neighborhoods, a heightened sharing opportunity! Property lines are gone, yielding larger gardens and shared yields! Here is a return to our extended family of humans and animals, increasing views and openings to a local horizon; building resilience, trust and sharing between often fearful and isolated strangers.</p><p></p><p><b>The Convergence</b></p><p>The New College is born! The Convergence is a spirit recharger, a fun zone, full of agriculture lessons, dancing allowed! The Convergence brain thrust propels our union, sharing tech and spirit alike; accelerating our paradigm shift to a new land.</p><p><br /><b>Sharing Expo</b></p><p>Bring what you have, take what you need. Ask a question, make a friend! Extend the Good Will model? The Sharing Expo is a true “Win-Win”, building and sharing the new network all at once; dissolving capitalism with new rituals.</p><p></p><p align="center">* * * * * * *</p><p align="center"><i>Our swing dance in the mud<br />Measuring, carrying, dumping, folding<br />Packing, balling, throwing, spreading, smoothing<br /><strong>Community shaping</strong></i></p><p align="center"><i>Sacred is choosing the long view, <strong>re-loving Nature’s spirit</strong>, the shared view<br />We are growing local heroes here</i></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center">Excerpt: <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1906">The Cinnamon Cob Dance</a><strong>. Lyrics & Poster by W. Paul</strong></p><p align="center"><strong><a href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/rosaring-drawing.gif"><img class="wp-image-3465 alignnone" alt="rosaring-drawing" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/rosaring-drawing.gif?w=200&h=218" width="200" height="218" /></a> </strong></p><div id="jp-post-flair" class="sharedaddy sd-rating-enabled sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title">Share this:</h3><p></p></div></div></div></div></div>