#leaky dam

The truth is that one sixty year old woman with a shovel can't move a mountain, but she can do a whole lot to assist the soil, herself, her neighbors downstream, the birds and the bees. She can invite the beaver to come back, and The People too, who walk

I spent most of the sweltering summer making check dams, in anticipation of the rainy season, and learning about permaculture practices. Permaculture is mostly based on what people around the world came to understand about the land they were standing on before being displaced, replaced and defaced by industrial armies. War was waged not only on accumulated wisdom of generations who learned from…