Matt NoyesApr 23, 2025
Co-thinking, co-imagining, co-dreaming, co-creating... these are core C Factor processes.
#CFactor
Matt NoyesApr 22, 2025
Just had an excellent conversation with @arod, who is doing really interesting work exploring and organizing commons-cooperative organization of the provisioning of jazz, and other music. One of those conversations where you leave with so many threads to follow.
#cfactor
Matt NoyesMar 6, 2025
Thanks for @edumerco for teaching me the term "hacer rosca" -- a metaphor for developing #cfactor -- a rosca is a threaded connector, like a bolt or nut, so the idea is that we bring people closer through creating a spiral structure or process of engagement - threading. Threaded connections are tighter and more enduring (compared to a nail, for example) and you can back them out without destroying the pieces, but you have to be careful not to damage or strip the threads.
Matt NoyesApr 11, 2024
Helping Nick and Josh on their farm out east of Pueblo, Colorado with my guys Jay and Derek, farmer Susan and her wwoofer Max.
#cfactor #organizing #farming
Matt NoyesFeb 27, 2024
We celebrated Jasmin's birthday in our learning-action circle this morning as we worked over our enterprise idea ( which Jay aptly described as "operationalizing figuring it out"). We are increasingly there for each other.
#CFactor
Matt NoyesFeb 23, 2024
Lovely morning care-mapping, checking-in, and planning the agenda for our next learning-action circle meeting. Such a friendly, organic, horizontal process. As farmer Dan mentioned in our last meeting, our two "superpowers" are our freedom from institutional agendas and structures and our strong #CFactor Very cool process; I have never experienced anything quite like it. Very thankful for @luisrazeto and his commitment to combining theory and practice.
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My friend & collaborator Jay is an excellent popular educator, no flip charts & carefully facilitated activities, just a potluck dinner, a round of grace or gratitude, & a question: who are you & what is your relation to food?

People keep coming back, the food is getting better, the conversations are easy but more vulnerable, people are starting to organize walks, babysitting, & other support. I left last night with three people eager to join me in farm work this summer.
#CFactor

Matt NoyesJan 30, 2024
What a morning. I am verklempt and it's only 1:30. Started w/ SC Organizing Circle call, which was warm, good humored, thoughtful and efficient. Then our cooperative learning-action circle meeting: self and group evaluation of Unit 1 and moved ahead in Unit 2 of How to Create a Solidarity Enterprise. So many amazing moments in that mtg. "We have more momentum every time we meet." "The spirit's in this room and it's overwhelming." "Moving slow is annoying but it's very much working."
#CFactor
Matt NoyesJan 28, 2024

Really excited to drive down to Canon City to have lunch with my farmer friend who just lost her Dad. We will sit inn that space of grief and love and I will catch her up on co-op learning-action circle activities/discussions she has had to miss. (Why share this? Because we should know these things about each other, the work we do, the small things, the practices that make up our lives and motivate us.)

#CFactor #TakingCare

Filipe C. FelixNov 17, 2023

Happy to share the first chapter of my PhD published in ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing! πŸ›°οΈ

We explored the potential of #Sentinel-2 images and #UAV data in predicting soil loss ratios and the #Cfactor for #sugarcane fields. 🌱 Valuable insights for soil erosion modeling!

#RGB #Multispectral #RUSLE

Read our paper here:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667393223000212?via%3Dihub