Fundraiser for Plant Haven and Forest School

[ecosophia]

Longtime reader and commenter Linda Shekinah and a group of others have launched a fundraising drive for a plant sanctuary and farm in central Vermont,  Locust Creek Plant Haven.  It's a well-established sanctuary, in existence for 11 years now, and they're hoping to raise funds to identify endangered plants on their habitat, begin the process of becoming certified forest growers for endangered medicinal herbs, and expand their existing preschool playgroup into a full-fledged forest school that will bring children into contact with nature. 

This strikes me as a practical and well-thought-out project that will address several significant needs. I encourage any of my readers who are interested to check out their funding page here, and consider chipping in some support for the project. Real change doesn't happen by way of all-at-once transformations, but through specific, focused projects that start the ball rolling in the right direction, and it looks to me as though this is a good example. 

Comments

[fringewood]

I am overwhelmed with gratitude JMG. We just received a generous anonymous donation from one of your blog readers. Thank you both for supporting us, you with your gracious post and anonymous for their generosity . We have "collapsed early to avoid the rush" and I recommend it highly to one and all. Many blessings to you and 'anonymous' from us, the children, their parents and the plants.

[(Anonymous)]

Very timely! I have been looking for worthy projects such as this to contribute to. Thank you.

Lilac Transcendent Pangolin

[(Anonymous)]

Not that this wonderful enterprise isn't worth contributing to in its own right and for its own sake (my goodness), but just out of curiosity, which planet would this fall under for the sake of planetary charity?

[ecosophia]

Plant sanctuaries are ruled by Venus, while schools of all kinds are ruled by Mercury. You could use it for either or both.

Planetary Charity Opportunity?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,

This looks like a lovely planetary charity opportunity for those who engage in the practice. Moon? Mercury? Venus? Other?

Thanks for providing the link.

OtterGirl

Re: Planetary Charity Opportunity?

[ecosophia]

Mercury as a school, and Venus as a plant sanctuary. Since there are two parts to the project, you can get double the astrological benefit.

[fringewood]

The donations keep rolling in from fellow readers. The kindness and generosity is so heartwarming it even brought a tear to my curmudgeonly husband's eye😊
Thank you and bless you all from the bottoms and tops and all places in between of our hearts..

[michaeliangray]

One day I hope to do something similar. Until then I will contribute to this as a little gesture towards those that are riding the wave of the future.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for promoting this here, I'm in! I'll be checking in regularly to get familiar with how best to start something similar here in the Midwest.
Gawain

Back to Nature?

[(Anonymous)]

A barely tangental conversation over at the Automatic Earth:

Cows and Acres and 1840
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2020/12/cows-and-acres-and-1840/

Re: Back to Nature?

[ecosophia]

Thus the need for a transition rather than a sudden rupture. It's good to see AE dealing with this sort of thing, though.

Re: Back to Nature?

[jpc2]

Good article. This one paragraph sums up the problem....

"Here’s the engineering reality: only 442BTUs of sunlight fall per square foot. It may fall evenly or more in summer and less in winter. It may fall on trees, grass, or houses. You can eat it as beef, sugar or kale. You can burn it in the stove. But that’s the energy input of a non-carbon world. And since photovoltaic is at 12% efficiency, solar may be the single least efficient way to capture and store these BTUs – and that’s beyond the rare-earths, glass smelting, world-wide transportation, back-end space-age infrastructure, transmission loss, and replacement problems. Trees, grass, and cows may be the best way. It depends on your goal."

Coop Janitor

[jpc_w]

An opportunity for something good to come out of 2020 can't be passed up.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't really call the ecosophian community a secret society, but since it is definitely not mainstream and has a group of people with shared values, this charitable endeavor certainly shows some of the strengths of such societies. I'm quite impressed with the response so far. Thanks for yet another example, and this in real time.

Prizm

[ecosophia]

It's not quite a secret society, no, but it definitely has some of the characteristics of one, and the ability to mobilize support for worthwhile causes is one of those. It will be interesting to see how many other characteristics it will evolve in the years ahead.