So I am a very medicore permaculturalist at this point, though i am an
PDc right now and am pretty focused on increasing my knowledge. I am working with two other people here in Napa on the food cooperative. One person has a longtime background in
permaculture and has a bout three acres here in town where she sells fruit
trees. Th other person has at least 7 acres and a couple of buildings where she wants to turn them into food forests, community gardens, aquaponic facility, herb farm with workshops on how to make your tinctures and tea, a community center to teach courses and social center, perhaps a community demonstration kitchen, and she is willing to fund some things including a website to try to activate the community towards the possibilities we are offering. so i am jus asking the group if they have any thoughts. I will probably have some more specific questions on the website applications since from my way of thinking a website placed in this context of engaging a community in an effort of this sort
should have application in many other localities. In other words, from what I have seen, there are no good templates which outline or index the seemingly necessary information for a community to orient itself towards a production and food awareness initiative such as this
Some ideas e see as integral
A- Dividing some
land into long terms
permaculture style soil restoration (sheet mulch, etc)
B- To get some operations and soil usage readied more quickly perhaps by rototillng in order to get something going
C- To try to get a small group who are more devoted to learning the craft more than they are on immediate compensation for their wprk while being trained.
D- Getting a few of us here up to speed to teach at least free or informal classes to the general public
E Setting up food swap networks, other methods of informal trade and how to
sell in the open market
