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Tips For The Indoor Gardener

Posted by admin on Dec 14, 2011 in Blog | 5 comments

Growing Vegetables in Pots Most of us know both the value—and the expense of working to buy ultra-fresh organic vegetables in such a challenging economy. So how can an apartment or small house-dwelling person with no yard be able to augment the diet with fresh, garden-grown organic vegetables? Yes, I think you know. You can grow them by the pot. If you have a sunny window, or the ability to set up a few grow-light fixtures above your growing area, you can have a very nice assortment of kitchen vegetables all year round. Warm soil...

Hummingbird as a New Era Icon: For Our Waters

Posted by admin on Oct 15, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

Many people remember the story made famous by our beloved tree planting WangariMaathai about the wild fire in the forest where all the animals were lamenting, when the tiny hummingbird arrived to say “I will do something” and she proceeded to sip a drop of water from the river and fly over the flames dropping one tiny hummer-drop at a time. Inspired by hope, soon the elephants were filling their trunks and the other creatures were finding their own unique ways to contribute to saving their precious kingdom. The Aztecs also have a story...

Dan Evehema’s Final Message to Mankind

Posted by admin on Sep 19, 2011 in Blog | 1 comment

We the Hopi still hold the sacred stone tablets and now await the coming of our True White Brother and others seriously ready to work for the Creator’s peace on earth. Be well, my children, and think good thoughts of peace and togetherness. Peace for all life on earth and peace with one another in our homes, families and countries. We are not so different in the Creator’s eyes. The same great Father Sun shines his love on each of us daily just as Mother Earth prepares the sustenance for our table, do they not? We are one after...

Dragon Hearth/Cabin Project

Posted by admin on Jul 25, 2011 in Blog, News and Updates, Projects | 0 comments

If you are interested in learning or helping on any current dragon hearth, outdoor kitchen or cabin project, call 831-425-3393 to check our schedules and get onto our waiting list. As soon as we can we will schedule your time to come. We are happy to trade education for labor when we have projects with fast approaching finish times. Much laughing is definitely expected. We often work on projects both during the week and on weekends, so do drop in if we are doing a project near you- and see our progress. We will also be playing with wattle and...

Outdoor Hearth and Kitchen Building: Ongoing, Call to schedule

Posted by admin on Aug 16, 2009 in Blog, Natural Villages, News and Updates, Projects | 0 comments

Come learn, help, contribute to a new development trend by gaining skill and information. Natural Villages Presents: The Sacred Village: Schedule days of earth wall building, outdoor earth kitchen of recycled and natural materials…prayerfully sculpted with artists and earth house trainers. Earn certification toward new green job markets in an environment of GOOD THOUGHTS and PRAYERS FOR the healing of the land, and our hearts…..as we learn how to begin our sacred natural village renaissance: WHO:...

Masanobu Fukuoka’s Natural Farming and Permaculture

Posted by admin on Sep 2, 2007 in Blog, Must Reads | 1 comment

Author: Larry Korn Description: Masanobu Fukuoka is a farmer/philosopher who lives on the Island of Shikoku, in southern Japan. His farming technique requires no machines, no chemicals and very little weeding. He does not plow the soil or use prepared compost and yet the condition of the soil in his orchards and fields improve each year. His method creates no pollution and does not require fossil fuels. His method requires less labor than any other, yet the yields in his orchard and fields compare favorably with the most productive...

Wounded Knee History/Future

Posted by admin on Sep 2, 2007 in Blog, Must Reads, Projects | 0 comments

Wounded Knee, A Wound That Won’t Heal Did the Army Attempt To Coverup the Massacre of Prisoners of War? By Richard W. Hill. Sr. Last Edit: Oct 7, 1999 Claudia Iron Hawk Sully testified that the actual numbers of Indians killed at Wounded Knee numbered 2 or 3 times than usually reported. She told of some children who were hiding in a small cave after the first attack. The soldiers discovered the cave and told the children to come out as they would not be harmed. When they did crawl out they were hacked to death with sabers. High...

Building Sustainability Camps

Posted by admin on Sep 2, 2007 in Blog, Projects | 7 comments

Our camps are learning intensive experiences. The first summers at Wounded Knee have thrown mainstream Americans together with Israeli nationals, Scottish, African and English nationals from different class and race backgrounds together with third generation Lakota Wounded Knee and residents. This has created a challenging and invigorating clash of cultural perspectives, heart deep relationships, hard experiences and hopeful potentialization. Sustainability education has everything to do with learning how to learn on every level of our...

Sustainability

Posted by admin on Sep 1, 2007 in Blog | 1 comment

To be sustained, is to feel supported. For a community or a person to feel supported, this is to have a situation that can be truly sustained. When a persons body has food, this is to have sustenance for the body. If a community produces food for all its members, this is the group, supporting themselves in having what is required to survive. This, is support. Sustenance. Spiritual sustenance is to have a perspective so gentle and warm, so literally filled with the energy of love, that it feeds your heart, which nourishes...

Leola One Feather

Posted by admin on Aug 24, 2007 in Blog, Must Reads | 0 comments

This house project is on hold until the family gains more stability or a qualified building crew steps forward to pick up where we were forced to leave off. Anna Mae is my loving two year old grand-daughter. She was born with Down Syndrome. I have witnessed many miracles in my life of now half a century. This miracle occurred for Anna Mae and happened because I really believe in the Creator. Our Lakota word for Creator is Wakan Tanka. I believe that Wakan Tanka is with me all the time, and because I believe this way, I give in...