Blackberry Moon (August) RegenMidwest, Milwaukee and Friends, Lake Michigan
July and August yielded to me some vacation time in and near Lake Michigan, including tubing on the Muskegon River and biking around Mackinaw Island. I was able to meet with students in the UW-Milwaukee Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures field school to talk about permaculture principles for storytelling and ethnography as they began their projects of interviewing stewards of community gardens throughout Milwaukee. It was a delight to learn with them and to see how they synthesized (composted? alchemized?) the stories into useful resources the garden stewards can now use to encourage neighbors to use the green spaces for gardening, rest, celebration and more. Here is part of their final project: bit.ly/45mgx8l I attended the DeGrowth Institute's DeSchool and am still digesting idea nutrients from that meet-up. Some yielded ideas included reframing permaculture as engineering in right relationship, designing spaces with local materials harvested regeneratively. ...