Translated from French: "Nature is, intrinsically, completely anti-capitalist." - Caroline Miquel
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"If we surrendered to the earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees." - Rainer Maria Rilke
#trees #forest #biomimicry #lifeboatacademy #lifeboats #permaculture #regenerativeag #resilience #farming #communityorganizing #climatecrisis #polycrisis #metacrisis #healing #community #thegreatturning #pnw #cascadia #sdayes #pender #penderisland
"The way you live your days is the way you live your life." - Annie Dillard
So how do you want to live this day?
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Weekly potluck and a plant walk on the farm this Saturday!
4pm - let's see how many plants we can identify together.
5pm - potluck, bring a dish to share and we may have a fire!
Spalding Valley Farm
9891 Spalding Rd
S,DAYES
All are welcome and we hope to see you!
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"The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further." - Joanna Macy
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#joannamacy #theworkthatreconnects #reconnection #trees #forest #pnw #sdayes #lifeboatacademy #penderisland #community #mycelium #mycelialnetworks
"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys." - Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation
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#slugs #pnw #sdayes #tsleilwaututh #coastsalish #bc #lifeboatacademy #resilience #regenerativeag #community #indigenouswisdom #climate #climatecrisis
"The environment is in us, not outside us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment, ultimately you do to yourself." - Ian Somerhalder
#lifeboatacademy #nature #environment #interconnected #forest #forestry #forestmanagement #biosphere #trees #moss #nettles #forestbathing #pnw #sdayes #penderisland
One of our core community agreements. Pictured are our five goats who are pretty good at sticking together!
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We’re looking for 3 new farmer-caretakers to join the Lifeboat Crew! We are also open to interns. If you’re interested in being part of this exciting and groundbreaking project, find more info and apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfF-k7ytpNHuibpZFq31WKdhK2x17VA4142Sgaus94VTFJDGw/viewform
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We are currently looking for 3 farmer-caretakers to join the The Lifeboat Academy team. The Lifeboat Academy is located at Spalding Valley Farm on S'DÁYES, so-called Pender Island, BC, and aims to be: A model of resilience and regeneration at the person, place and community level A footprint farm working to provide a complete diet for 16 people A retreat centre offering the opportunity to participate in an ongoing, living experiment You can read more about The Lifeboat Academy here. We are looking for long-term Farmer-Caretakers to join our existing team to develop Spalding Valley Farm as a model of regenerative agriculture and cooperation. Our ideal candidates combine: some experience with growing food and regenerative or permaculture techniques a strong desire to respond to the Polycrisis of climate change and social collapse an ability to work in a highly collaborative way openness to personal transformation to be in right relationship with all our relations Our search is open-ended (no deadline for application). We'll be reviewing your applications to see if there's a fit, and if so, we'll invite you to a 2-3 day stay on the farm. If that's successful, we'll be inviting you to go through our onboarding process on the way to becoming a farmer-caretaker. We are also open to potential interns who would like to join our team this season. What we are able to offer: room and board in exchange for your on-farm activity (no salary) sweat equity in the land and profit-sharing fellow-farmers for inspiration and collaboration mutual peer support to build what comes after a sense of adventure 47 acres of land to play with.
"Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. The one who is motivated only by the desire for the fruits of their action, and anxious about the results, is miserable indeed." - The Bhagavad Gita
#lifeboatacademy #bhagavadgita #hinduism #ganesha #spiritual #wisdom #forest #detachment #pnw #farm #community #climatechange #climatecrisis #healing #sdayes #penderisland
The Lifeboat Academy