Category: Love Notes Newsletter (page 18)

2015 Conferences June 16: Presenter at Environmental Justice Faculty Institute, East Alstead, NH July 23 and 24: NTAC – presenting curriculum on indigenous sustainable agriculture, Fulbright project, Chicago IL July 25, 4-5:15 PM EST Becoming the Earth You Walk On,…

We arrived home at Soul Fire Farm at 3 AM early in April, under a brisk starry night and crunching through stale snow. The house was so familiar and so completely strange. Despite the late hour, the children tore from…

  Welcome spring! On the official day of season’s turn we joined agroecologist friends for a tequio (collective work party) in the small town of Huayapam, famous for its sacred water well and the birthplace of a frothy delicious almond…

         If one were tempted to romanticize and essentialize indigenous life in Oaxaca, Santo Domingo del Estado, a Triqui community etched into the mountains of the Mixteca region, would be such a place to indulge oversimplification. Close to 8000 feet…

While some pueblos are almost emptied of their young people, gone to work the fields in the USA or to schools in the urban centers, others have youth like Aurelia and Eduardo. They carry cacao beans 3 hours on donkey…

We are falling in love all over again with the earth and the people of the earth. It’s a fierce and empirical love, a nourishing longing, an anchor line, a web of moral responsibility, and a desperate beautiful opening. It…

  “El corazón de nuestra madre tierra vive en el espíritu de nuestros pueblos.” The heart of our mother earth lives in the spirit of our communities. ~Declaration of CNI  and EZLN August 2013   We love our temporarily…

We have arrived… Just yesterday we moved into our modest “casita” east of Oaxaca’s central district in a neighborhood relatively untouched by international visitors. There is a garden full of fruit trees and the children have already harvested a bushel…

  This is the final normal week of distribution, which means I sign off from weekly newsletters.  However, with so much going on here right now – barn raising, fundraising, and our upcoming international endeavors, Leah and I will be…

Contents of Share red russian or dino kale (1 bunch) red or yellow tomatoes (2-3 fruits) green tomatoes (3-4 fruits) cayenne peppers (2 fruits) bell peppers (3 fruits) brussel sprouts or snap peas (3/4 pound) broccoli (1-3 crowns) napa cabbage…