Record your reflections and MARK you Calendar!

Hello fellow aspirants,

Below are a couple of comments in response to our recent field trip to Whole Systems Designs. Larry felt served and inspired… How about the rest of you?

Nell, Jill and I ( the core group) are meeting this coming Friday to capture and document what we saw, liked and learned. Anything you care to contribute before then would help us flesh out and determine next steps.

Please mark your calendars… We are planning a whole group, follow- up meeting on MONDAY OCTOBER 19TH AT JILL WOLCOTT’S new home at 7:00 pm. We will post and agenda and driving directions on the blog. ( And yes, for the “ Luddites” among us, I will plan to send out an email with same info as well.) We do urge you to begin to get comfortable with the blog… it is simply a more efficient way to communicate!

We would appreciate your RSVP… by email or on the blog!

Looking forward to continuing the conversation and developing an action plan with all of you!

Lynette

PS… desserts welcome!

From Larry Sommers:
larrys@gmavt.net wrote:

The trip to Dean's Mountain Research Farm was really great - Ben's serious
natural systems development of his mountain hillside was informative and
inspiring. It will be totally fun to utilize the sound edible landscape
and land management principals he's proving out to our small piece of the
world.

Thanks for putting this together!

Larry

From Ben Falk:
Thanks again for coming all and thanks for the kind words...
It's heartening to see groups like yours. We need about 1,000 of them across the state I think!
There's much to think about too, perhaps, on how such a group can integrate some younger people within it, if possible, to be the strong backs working a good bit of the land - their access made more affordable by a larger group development of a site. Of course age diversity has many other benefits too. We need models for that.

Best,
Ben

From Will Raap:

Yes, it occurred more than once on Saturday that I’m not 30-something anymore!

I did some of what Ben is doing for 20 years on 10 acres. It would be fun and interesting to that again, with the help of dozens of backs, both strong ones and experienced, less strong ones. Such a process could offer 20 more years of learning and doing, but sharing the challenge this time.
Thanks again, Ben.
Will