Rambles
The Strongest Protest is a Garden
I wrote this on 2017 as a call to the activists in my life and in myself. There is so much to feel sorrow and anger about in industrial civilization, and yet if we depend Read more…
The cold wind breathes clarity into our weary minds. The turning of the seasons point us in the right direction. The Winter whispers: “within.” The moon drips lessons at the pace our heart can keep. In the habitual panic of where to go, what to do, what to say and who to be – through it all, we yet all stand upon the body of the real. Even towers press into dirt and bedrock. Look down. The Earth is calling her children home.
The end of the world* is a very good time to learn some Permaculture.
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*may not actually be the end of the world, terms and conditions apply, and within all that’s falling apart, new ways of life in harmony with the earth are being born.
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I wrote this on 2017 as a call to the activists in my life and in myself. There is so much to feel sorrow and anger about in industrial civilization, and yet if we depend Read more…
What happens to our gardens when the gardener can’t tend them? It was Spring of 2020. My life was undergoing a total transformation, a shedding of thick old skin affirmed one day by a visit Read more…
There are no mistakes in a forest. There is no problem that does not hold the seed of its own solution. There is no waste in a forest. There is no fertilizer, no irrigation, no weeding. Every Read more…
Slow Fire School of Permaculture
Matt Tracy
570-688-6940
Centered in Chapel Hill, NC and Floyd, VA
Teaching in NC and Southwest VA