Visit to UMaine Performing Arts Center
Debby and Kate will leave LongGreenHouse at 9:30 am for a 10:00 am visit. Or if you prefer, meet us at 10 at the Center!
Small is Beautiful
Breakdown of Nations “It should be obvious that the solution to virtually all the world’s political conflicts and trials is dissolution, devolution, decentralization. I cannot think of one place on earth where a dose of that would not solve, in a permanent way, the difficulties that large-statism and the centralizers have created.â€
Ask Mother Nature
Nature’s Rule Book “Hello, dearies, this is Mother Nature. I’m speaking up here because you humans seem to have an awful lot of difficulty understanding and living in accord with the rules of life on Earth, so I thought I’d lay it all out for you in a very simple and direct form.”
Myth of Progress
Progress vs Sustainability “Progress is the myth that assures us that full-speed-ahead is never wrong. Ecology is the discipline that teaches us that it is disaster. ‘Herbert Read, the British philosopher and critic, once wrote that “only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines.” It is a profound insight, and …
Fall Season Begins…
 with old and new friends. “For homeschool families, Summer begins in September,” says John Picone, a Wassookeag dad. To honor this special time for family, Wassookeag launches two weeks after the regular academic year. Woohoo! Â
Plant Talk
How to talk with plants “Sometimes it is not easy to make contact with a plant. It takes being very open but also, I believe, the plant must know that I mean it no harm. It is important that the plant knows I respect it.”
Wass charms Rogers Farm-ers
From Rogers Farm newsletter: Tuesday we received a group of intelligent, thoughtful, and incredibly enjoyable kids from Wassookeag home school’s summer program,
Upward Bound goes Green
Upward Bound students at UMaine joined us at LongGreenHouse through July to re-connect to the Earth via permaculture gardening.
Wass launches summer program
Wassookeag launched their Summer permaculture & craft program today, which will run through the summer on Tuesdays 10-3 pm.
No GMOs
Why GMOs are not safe “Genetically modified foods are linked to toxic and allergic reactions, sick, sterile, and dead livestock, and damage to virtually every organ studied in lab animals. They are banned in Europe and elsewhere, yet GMOs are present in the vast majority of processed foods in the US. Consumers are already moving …