Day 2 - Oregon Fires September 2020

We do not need bare-dirt monoculture farming and tract housing with sterile landscape shrubs next to the pristine, untouched nature preserve. We can have diverse farms that build soil and increase biodiversity. We can have neighborhoods filled with fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, medicinal flowering perennials, and gardens. Caretaking benefits us as much as it benefits wildlife. To draw a line between us and nature hurts everyone involved. Nature, the ecosystem, is everywhere, in every neighborhood and city that has a plant. You don’t have to drive to a national park to see an ecosystem. There is one right outside your door. It may be dysfunctional, but it is there, waiting for your hands.

Silver, Akiva. Trees of Power (p. 14). Chelsea Green Publishing.

 

To create positive change, we have to be a creative, positive force. It is much harder than traditional protests. It takes a lot of energy, knowledge, inspiration, and faith. That faith comes from understanding our sphere of influence. Working from a place of inspiration is very different than working out of anger.

Silver, Akiva. Trees of Power (p. 15). Chelsea Green Publishing

The inventory of logs at the local Mill (photos below) burned for days filling the air outside with soot/ash. We were very grateful the fire fighters were able to contain the fire so no houses burned in the area.

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