We are an off grid eco sustainable organic farmstead that incorporates organic sustainable agroecology, permaculture, agroforestry, and regenerative agriculture in order to live within the means/carrying capacity of the land and within the earth fair share ecofootprint, so we co create/responsibly steward a more fair, sustainable, and healthy planet. We live more simply so others (*human and other species”) can simply live. Popai has evolved into a sustainable living and educational project. We need help from peace corp like minded folks so we can help save/caregive the planet. We want to attract folks who have more altruistic/giving personalities and who want to directly stop the insanity, vs self indulgence/takers who are looking for a new adventure/vacation/cheap hangout (still about me, myself, and I, escapism, and adding to the problem). Learn to become part of the solution instead part of the problem at Popai’s educational living project. We are an educational living project that aligns with peer reviewed scientific evidence that inspires us to come up with solutions to co-create-caregive the mother of us all in a fair, healthy, sustainable and responsible way. Rick is a physician and needs help so that he can finish writing a book and educate rather than medicate about creating a fair, responsible, healthy and sustainable Earth. Do you feel the pulse of the planet? Have you heard the voice of Ishmael the Gorilla?
Long term/occasional short term couples or single folks, peace corp like folks, committed to deep ecology, permaculture, and are health conscious, drug/addiction/materialism free, responsible, energetic, disciplined, fit, stable couple/single (age 20-40's) wanted to “care give” and give back to the mother of us all. Available- August 18th, 2012 We are asking that the couple/single "homestead dance"or work trade in exchange for housing: 21 hours per week for single (e.g. 3 hours, 7 days per week) or 36 hours a week per couple. Hours are flexible. The dance entails: chopping coconuts, milking goats, coppicing nitrogen fixing trees (mostly calliandra calothyrsus, gliricidia sepium, leucaena leucocephala, albizia falcataria, casuarina equisetifolia or short-leaf ironwood) for green manure and fodder, garden/structure maintenance, making dog food and supplements for the cats. We use only hand tools such as loppers, bow saws, pruning saws, axes and transport fodder, green/animal manures in wheelbarrows. Bulk organic food available for extra hours (about 2 hours per week for most of your calories). Six months minimum stay, but occasionally open to short term. Four structures are available. One is a 20 foot ferro cement yurt shape (The Yurt Cottage). Another is is 20 x 40 foot single sided cedar house ( Beverly’s Barn)both with panoramic ocean views, rain water catchment stored in ferro-cement tanks, hot shower, stove, refrigerator, wireless internet, surfing four miles away, snorkeling 1½ miles. There is also a living structure, partially subterranean made from living Ironwood trees, that is in progress and is 2o x20 feet. There is another 10x20 single sided cedar structure that we call the “Reservoir Resort or R Resort). We share excess organic eggs, goat milk (kefir, mozzarella cheese, feta, and yogurt) vegetables, and tropical fruits. Desire pet, child, and auto free. County bus transportation is one dollar. Please send your resume, references, and photo to
drrimerdo@yahoo.com
or snail mail to Dr. Rick Rimer D.O., RR 2 Box 3363, Pahoa, HI 96778 or
call (818) 687-4820
http://hawaiiorganicfarm.wordpress.com Live local, think global and be hopeful
We are living in interesting times when mother nature is colliding with father greed, which is creating grand scale havoc on all beings lives. This could be a great opportunity to create grand scale positive shifts. "Anything else you are interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolute critical moment in the history of our planet." Carl Sagan. As a Zen proverb says, "Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening" The world we live in collectively depends on the responsible contributions that each of us makes; it is only as good as each one of us makes it. As Margaret Mead, acclaimed anthropologist said. “Never doubt that a small group of dedicated individuals can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” The Dalai Lama: says 'If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." So don't allow despair, denial, depression, addictions and distractions from making the changes in yourself that you wish to see in the world, or you become part of the problem by default. Become part of the solution instead of part of the problem. We can a become part of the solution and take full responsibility for our actions by first remind ourselves each day that everyday we have an impact, a footprint, that collectively and immediately, we can change the world, and secondly and most importantly to take action in every aspect of our lives. When you feel overwhelmed by the problems we face . . . "God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me." Start with the man/women in the mirror. Popai is a sanctuary to live and practice becoming the change that is needed to help heal this world. We aspire to live a life that focuses on the solutions that enable responsible stewardship and a peaceful, fair, healthy, sustainable planet for all beings.
Rachel Carson, early in 1963 in one of her last lectures before her death from cancer. “....I suppose it is rather a new, and almost a humbling thought, and certainly one born of this atomic age, that man could be working against himself. In spite of our rather boastful talk about progress, and our pride in the gadgets of civilization, there is, I think, a growing suspicion-indeed, perhaps an uneasy certainty-that we have been sometimes a little too ingenious for our own good. In spite of the truly marvelous inventiveness of the human brain, we are beginning to wonder whether our power to change the face of nature should not have been tempered with wisdom for our own good, and with a greater sense of responsibility for the welfare of generations to come"
.”Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserve of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Ghandi
Live simple so others can simply live... Ghandi
,"The world provides enough to satisfy everyman's need, but not everyman's greed." Ghandi
"Only after the last tree has been cut down" Only after the last fish has been caught Only after the last river has been poisoned Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten-- Cree Native American saying--
Chief Seattle said, “This we know. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man does not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
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