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The Foundation of Our Values

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April 22, 2015

Our work is inspired by the work of the early bioregionalists in the mid-70’s—friends and family all—who restored our sense of the centrality of this ancient relationship between human culture and our watershed, our homeland within the interconnected web of species and elements. [link to Planet Drum, photos of covers of seminal work from Berg to Totem Salmon to Gary Snyder’s poetry]

The bioregional framework–whose seeds gave rise to 100,000 small and large watershed organizations—grew out of Sixties countercultural experiments in community and restoring an earth-friendly way-of-life perfected by our ancestors. Like bioregionalism, the restoration of ancestral cultural practices has entered the mainstream:

Herbal and traditional medicine,

Herbal and traditional medicine
Herbal and traditional medicine
Herbal and traditional medicine
Herbal and traditional medicine

Natural ways of birthing and dying,

Birthing and Dying

Integrated agricultural and husbandry systems: fibers, foods, medicines, sacramental,

Integrated agricultural and husbandry systems
Integrated agricultural and husbandry systems
Integrated agricultural and husbandry systems
Integrated agricultural and husbandry systems

Integrated agricultural and husbandry systems
Integrated agricultural and husbandry systems
Integrated agricultural and husbandry systems
Integrated agricultural and husbandry systems

Education and childrearing,

Education and childrearing
Education and childrearing
Education and childrearing
Education and childrearing

Education and childrearing
Education and childrearing
Education and childrearing
Education and childrearing
Education and childrearing
Education and childrearing
Education and childrearing
Education and childrearing

Housing and energy systems,

Housing and energy systems
Housing and energy systems
Housing and energy systems
Housing and energy systems
Housing and energy systems
Housing and energy systems
Housing and energy systems
Housing and energy systems

Food, drink and clothing that arise naturally from our watershed.

Food, drink and clothing
Food, drink and clothing
Food, drink and clothing
Food, drink and clothing
Food, drink and clothing

Respect for the four essential elements of earth, air, fire and water, along with wood and metal.

four essential elements
four essential elements
four essential elements
four essential elements

Acknowledgement that we humans are one of the species of animals whose wellbeing depends on the synergy between the plant, insect, fish/reptilian/amphibian and fungal worlds, which we imperfectly understand.

four essential elements
four essential elements

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    • Sitio Tiempo Press
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  • Our Blogs 2012-2014
    • SEED, Summer 2013
    • Our Project Grow

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