Barrio de Barro - Permaculture in the Madrean Sky Islands

05/25/2022

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05/16/2022

My friends are such bad asses. When the world crumbles, these will be the people building it back up

02/08/2022

Mutual aid is the tool that will build the institutions of tomorrow. In organization theory, mutual aid is a voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit. Mutual aid projects are a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions. Mutual aid participants work together to figure out strategies and resources to meet each other's needs, such as food, housing, medical care, and disaster relief, while organizing themselves against the system that created the shortage in the first place. If you want to know more about how to start “mutual aid” projects in your area, let me know. That’s what We’re trying to do here in southern AZ, and we’re having some lovely successes! This photo is taken at my friend Christians house where we held our second “homestead swap” work day. Home stead swap is a group of individuals and families that have committed to show up two Sundays a month to help with one another’s “barn raising”. We didn’t quite raise a barn, but we did a lot of tree pruning, w**ding, stair case fixing, and a much needed tumble w**d bonfire. The work was great, but the cherry on top was the lovely tacos and chili for lunch, and the fellowship and conversation once the work was done. All in all I know that this group of people has my back, and I have theirs. It can only get better from here.

02/06/2022

First day of work out on our community land project. Still don’t know what to call it. So many beautiful dreams are swirling around this land already, and I’m blessed to have ._.newt and on my team. Thank you both for a lovely afternoon

10/06/2021

Explore solutions to economic and climate volatility with solar punk ideology. The most important thing that I took away from this video is that no one can build an idealistic future alone. In the county I live in people generally fall into two categories. Those who are homesteading alone, and those who are inviting others into their communities no matter how small. The ones that reach out, are by far doing better, and have insurance against failure. Community building is a lost technology which we need to re discover. If you have thoughts and ideas on how to do this, please reach out!

Solarpunk is a vision of the future that we can implement today. Here are just a few ways to get started!Check out Changing Climate's video for even mor...

08/25/2021

Personally the fact that all of our healthy top soil is/has been washed into the ocean scares the crap out of me.. at least I’m composting my own f***s. Y’all should start, it’s not all that difficult. PM for composting toilet designs if you’re interested. I’m happy to have some conversations around logistics for your specific living situation. Not all good solutions are obvious.

On another note, the most effective thing you could do to heal the earth as an individual would be to buy some land suffering from desertification. Buy it as an individual or with partners; focus on rehabilitating the soil on that land using any method available to you. If you don’t know where to begin, just search “how to build swales” on YouTube 😎

07/10/2021

After the desert has been holding its breathe for too long, the long awaited monsoon rains have rolled in.

For the past couple of decades much of the SW US has been in a drought...the last year has been a drought within a drought☠️

We cannot express enough how meaningful these monsoon showers have been. The mornings smell of dew, the plants have energy, magic is in the air.... and of course it makes building with the earth an interesting process!

If we can pull our hands out of the mud, we will try to get some photos posted as updates (so far we are pretty bad at this). Wheat is harvested, 2nd planting of corn is in the ground, landscaping for water catchment in the works, and mucho mucho massss!

Gracias⛈

06/05/2021

Check out the wonderful progress we’ve been making on our neighborhood of mud in Bisbee Arizona 😄 Leave a comment, and let us know if you have any questions!

Todo florece - Historia 5 Todo está floreciendo por aquí... las plantas del desierto, las flores silvestres, las de nuestra huerta e incluso nuestra casita ...

05/28/2021

More progress made on this beautiful house, and the compost toilet that we’ve been building. Composting your poo is a great way to give back to the earth. Especially when grazing and bad land management have stripped the soil of its nutrients and good fungi. It’s extemely easy to do, and certain designs can even be permitted by the Cochise county! Win win. More photos to come!

05/23/2021

H***y toads are a sign of healthy/healing land. Happy to have spotted this friend today