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Are you interested in learning and DO-ing permaculture projects as a team, but you just need a little more...*oomph*?
If you are an...
American who loves...
Learning, is...
Industrious in nature...
Collaborative in solving problems, and you are
Eager to actually DO
permaculture projects;
Then use and edit this wiki as a "springboard" to discover and organize with other permies in your area, and to create
A Labor Investment Collective on the East coast (ALICE) for your specific
bio-region,
state, or nearby
metropolitan area!
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Wait a second...What's a Labor Investment Collective?
Read about Labor Investment Collectives
here, and their place in the SKIP/PEP system
here. You could think of it as a mash up of:
An ol' fashioned barn-raising party, or an Irish Meitheal A permablitzA local permaculture clubA time bankA permaculture skills workshop
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What kind of cool "artifacts" could we build? What else could we do through ALICE?
Whatever you want to learn and do. Ideally in your ALICE everyone gets an opportunity to really learn something CHALLENGING, as a team.
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Anything!
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Hügelkultur?
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Ponds / Aquaculture?
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Cob?
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Swales?
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Organic pool?
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Cabin / Tiny house build?
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Floating dock?
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Chinampa?
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Food forest install?
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Oehler Greenhouse?
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PEP-rally
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Solar drying sheds
13. Living fences &
deer deterrents
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Bamboo projects
15. [your idea here!]
16. [your idea here!]
This ALICE wiki could also be a way to create or find a core group of individuals in your region to do "club" activities, like apple picking, carpooling to a permaculture demonstration site or workshops, seed-swapping, etc.. Hit "edit" and add to the above list of things you want to learn and do, or to add other ideas.
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Where might folks do ALICE?
Anyone could build a Labor Investment Collective anywhere in the world, really, but this wiki would just serve as a springboard or menu cart for East Coasters to choose from, to "divide and conquer" so to speak; to leverage the permies.com regional forums with the initial
specific aim of organizing LIC work teams. Imagine finding a small network of permies all located within a day-trip's drive of one another, who build trust with one another
while doing challenging projects benefiting each one of their homesteads or communities. Imagine...
ALICE.Upstate to help folks over
here.
ALICE.Beltway for permies stuck in DC traffic surrounded by
lizard people humble political leaders
ALICE.PA for Pennsylvania state Alices to meet up and work together.
ALICE.boston, for the greater Boston Massachusetts area.
ALICE.richmond, for Richmond, VA, etc.
This is a wiki, so add your own ideas freely. You could comment below, or perhaps add your name, nickname, or initials next to any artifact above that you want to do. You could hit edit and add a permaculture club you are already a part of, and perhaps that could serve as a place to build ALICE for your bioregion. If you get enough participants, maybe create a stand alone Google Doc, or another permies wiki thread to organize your ALICE regional team. The goal here is simply to make it easier to find one another, build trust, and then learn and DO projects together.
Go to "Watch Settings" and check "email me if there is an update for this thread" to stay notified on possible developments anonymously. Of course you can just reply to the thread below, too, keeping in mind the "perennial" nature of permies.com.
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Interested?
Be advised that comments in the thread section are permanent/perennial, but this wiki section below is edit-able at any time! Add your name or initials, what artifacts you might be interested in building or doing, what timeframe you might want to do them, what ALICE region you would perhaps create or join, etc.
G.Y. (2023-2026 timeframe)
I might be interested in creating an ALICE within a day's drive of the Polyface bio-region (to include C-ville, RVA, DC Metro, Hampton Roads); I might be interested in learning/doing: Polyface day-trip; Chinampa builds; rice cultivation; Oehler greenhouse builds; how to saw lumber at a homestead scale; organic pools and pond builds; Hugels; trail building; seed swaps; living fence & hedge development; swale construction; bamboo projectsI might be interested in teaching/leading: planting 1000s of trees together, maybe teaching how to build a floating platform for fishing/aquaculture/floating cabins; maybe oyster cultivation / restoration
L.B. (2023 on) - I might be interested in an ALICE in the dc metro toward the Annapolis area. Projects on my property would include:
Forest farming of woodland herbs.
Building a
solar herb drying shed.
Living fences to discourage deer and confine goats
Swale maintenance
Tiny pond creation
How about you?
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