Life can throw you some real doozies. It can also lead to making new connections and learning opportunities. Sustainable Connection has gone from East Coast to West Coast, now re-calibrating in the Rockies. The goal is still the same, help one another find the path to liberty. How do we ensure a sustainable future? By offering a network of ideas, solutions, services and funding opportunities. Its needed now more than ever with the cost of food and housing sky rocketing. We face so many unpredictable environmental changes and global conflicts.
One of the easiest ways we can start to make a small impact in our communities is through Victory Gardens or Permaculture Plots. Its not that far out a concept. Many people in the US are already part of HOA’s (Home Owners Associations) a type of community regulatory agency that doesn’t offer much besides fee collections and arbitrary regulations. So what if along side your HOA, you proposed a Community Garden Organization? A co-operative but solely to feed the communities we are already a part of to keep track of needed nutritional staples within a development.
It worked then, and now its needed more that ever
No matter the socio-economic factors of a development, rich or poor, everyone wants the freshest, highest quality food available. How wonderful if you just had neighbors leaving baskets at one another’s doorstep? Just the aspect of less trips to the grocers or deliveries of food makes a massive decrease in your carbon footprint. Convenience, freshness, less reliance on fiat currency, a greener cleaner local landscape, AND it’s incredibly simple to start. You do not even need a huge yard. Eventually we will be offering kits for most regions across the US, but even without an infallible kit and guide its incredibly easy to get started. Especially with Spring Equinox being right around the corner.
- Start Small – If planned well even a mid size single garden bed can provide over a hundred pounds of food a year
- Zone in on Your Zone – Figure out the ideal foods you can grow in your area
- Put it out There – If the neighbor next door is getting more sun, but likes greens and beans what a great way to find a way to work together
- Look to Permaculture Principles – The goal is to minimize precious resources (like water and your time), and maximize output
- Look Forward to Abundance – Even a not so great harvest comes with great rewards, you grew your own food, you got outside, tried to help your community, and made something grow!
The system is broken, and its breaking people. We need to help each other and our Earth.
Peace, Love & Dandelions,
Keri-Anne
Founder & Rebel
Sustainable Connection 