We recently facilitated a permaculture design course on the land through the Siskiyou Permaculture Insititute (http://siskiyoupermaculture.com/). Some of you may not have heard of the term so let’s look at wikipedia’s definition: Permaculture design emphasizes patterns of landscape, function, and species assemblies. It determines where these elements should be placed so they can provide maximum benefit […]
Last weekend we had our monthly community work day at Full Bloom. It was super gratifying and fun as we applied the finished coat of earthen plaster to our landmate’s Jo and Rosie’s sweet little Cob home on the hillside. We had lots of help from the folks living here and some friends from the […]
We made a recent decision as a community to have one of our weekly Tuesday afternoon meetings be for fun instead of logistics. We realized that sometimes there’s a need to schedule fun, and a postpone the endless “issues” that come from living in community. Currently we have one afternoon a month for the whole […]
This past Saturday Full Bloom hosted a fundraiser for the non-profit Speak for the Trees (www.speakforthetreesoregon.org) that was formed to protect 120 acres of our watershed from being clear-cut by a timber company. The organization hopes to raise enough money to buy the land from the timber company and put it into a land trust […]
Its a sad statistic but….. In the U.S. 46 percent of all adult eating occasions are now solitary eating occasions and Americans consume 31 percent more packaged food than fresh food. We are privileged here at Full Bloom to be eating most every dinner together. Currently there are 11 adult residents and we each partner up […]
Just coming by from two inspirational weeks at the Leviathan Studio in B.C. Mark Young is the founder and coordinator of this center dedicated to exploring the form of contact dance. He has a certain devotional energy around the form as he attributes it to helping him recover from brain trauma. He built the […]
If you’ve ever grown a couple of zucchini plants you know that there comes a point in the season where a your swimming in them, and where a couple of them get away from you and they end up the size of a small child. Well I’ve discovered my answer to this common culinary quandary: […]
Just returning from 5 days of dancing and soaking and connecting with amazing people at the Sierra Contact Improvisational Dance Festival in Sierraville, Nevada. The event was started by one of my favorite teachers of the form Karl Frost (www.bodyresearch.org) who has created a type of event that is beautiful blend of a structure and […]
Food is such as a wonderful way to a bring people together. Its that time of the year where the abundance of our gardens and the local farms is erupting into the kitchen in the from of a amazingly diverse, colorful, and fresh meals. After our community work day this past Saturday myself and my […]
For Full Bloom to continue to function, grow, and ideally thrive we (all the adult residents of Full Bloom which is currently 11) choose to have a community meeting once a week. I thought I would share a little about how we structure our meetings so that they are both nourishing and effective. We begin […]