IN SUMMER 2012: ENCHANTED GARDEN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY PROJECTS
This is Arundo Donax, The Giant Reed.
This is Arundo Donax, The Giant Reed. The landfill calls it trash. I call it a crop. Farmers are being paid to grow it in Portland as a coal substitute. The landfill said it could not be chopped. We did it. San Diego's Fire Prevention department and neighbors feared it would resprout if returned to the canyon. Our pile has not resprouted. A UCSD student will take my blogs and turn them into a thesis project this fall. The Arundo experiments continue...to the left is Andrew, a returning vet. I want to raise funds so he can do his garden work here.
Between taking off on the caravan in September, I have a job on my hands at home. I am in an impasse with one of four neighbors who owns the land where we have our organic garden for 30 years. Can I hold the line on Roundup Herbicide in my own backyard? Can I educate right here in my own neighborhood? Can I shift city policy that sees stands of Arundo Donax as an invasive fire danger, while others around the world find more than 102 uses when this valuable plant is seen as a crop rather than a menace? What about the two returned veterans, graduates of Archi's Acres, who are having difficult finding work? Can our home provide a place for work? We have to get a plan going for our 1/3 acre that will one day be a park. How can we advance Polyculture and Urban Ag here at home? How do I get to the other side of getting this land purchased and secured for the future, and ground rents, so I am free to do the work outside that calls me? Securing Our Organic Future here at home... The Journey continues.