@tao-orion
Smallholder at Viriditas Farm Designing regenerative climate-adapted systems Via Resilience Permaculture Design - www.resiliencepermaculture.com Instructor at OSU Permaculture (🦫) Author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species Kalapuya territory
If you know anyone interested in learning more about restoration forestry, check out this upcoming 8 week (no cost) internship at the Center for Rurallivelihoods in Oregon. More information available at www.rurallivelihoods.org
Getting ready to launch updated versions of the OSU Permaculture Design Course and PDC-PRO. So many great people have put their ideas into this program. It’s a great one if you know anyone looking to learn about Permaculture design who wants to design their own site during the course.
#nokings Eugene huge turnout!
Book cover - Beyond the War on Invasive Specoes: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration by Tao Orion
Wow it’s been 10 years since Beyond the War on Invasive Species was published and I got to hold a physical copy in my hands!
Since then I’ve enjoyed so many interesting conversations about ecology, land stewardship, and the meaning of restoration - here’s to many more years of these!
There is a community of the spirit
Join it and feel the delight
Of walking in the noisy street
And being the noise.
- Rumi
I know, it’s only when the level started going down that it emerged lol.
Yes it is!
Container of liquid soap with image of a man with sunglasses inside.
Kind of random, but what is up with the creepy Dr. Strangelove-esque image in the Dr. Bronner’s bottle? 😂 I used to enjoy reading the bottle, but now…😬
Goumi berries proliferating.
Mulberries in different stages of ripeness.
Small ladybug in an acorn top nestled in red currant leaves.
June begets berries and bugs. Tiny species of sweetness and light in a world turning dark.
There were so many people! It was so great to see.
#nokings Eugene, OR
Enjoying an nice Monday morning introducing my 8 year old music loving son to Rage Against the Machine. Prescient now as ever…
Blue blossom ceanothus covered with native bees. I take comfort in knowing that we’ve created food and habitat for non-human life when the human world is increasingly off the rails…
Today’s the big day for our son Sylvan who has been working on his Lego build ‘Outbreak at Z Corp’ for the last several months and is displaying it at the Bricks Cascade Lego Expo this weekend. Of course we would end up in the post-apocalyptic theme 😀 So proud of him! With @abel-kloster.bsky.social
Kid pretending to stand on a seed tray.
Kid appearing to stand on a step ladder.
My youngest is really enjoying staging photos that make him look like he’s balancing on various objects. These ones turned out pretty good!
Dog running through blooming camas flowers.
The world may be falling apart at the seams but our golden retriever is romping in the blooming camas so…😁
@abel-kloster.bsky.social
Oregon folks - Abel is teaching a FREE Forest Gardening Workshop at the Center for Rural Livelihoods in Cottage Grove this Sunday May 4 from 10-4. More information here if you’re interested: www.resiliencepermaculture.com/courses-events
@mollytaft.com @altnps.bsky.social
We heard last week that the Americorps crew that was planning to come to our org. in Oregon was axed by DOGE with one day’s notice. We invited the former crew members to come anyways, and now they’re planning to drive across the country to complete their service term independently - DOGE be damned!
Awesome!
The real parasite class is Musk and his ilk literally stealing publicly funded services to enhance their private gain. This process is not new but is amplifying at unprecedented speed now.
We do a lot of work with NRCS programs, and this is a huge issue with the wanton destruction of federal programs.
This is what I’ve been saying for a while. So many of the things that keep our society somewhat functional on a base level are a result of federal programs.
I found this a useful explanation of what is likely going on. I’ve been trying to figure out exactly how Musk benefits from all of this - “DOGE” is certainly based on self-interest. How we combat this plan will require different legal and movement strategies than we’ve tried in the past.
New York Times article Feb 5, 2025 about whether brown shoes and blue pants are appropriate.
So happy that the “newspaper of record” is delivering such hard hitting analysis this morning. I was wondering if my fashion choices were up to snuff right about now. But seriously, WTF NYT?
My lovely and talented cousin-in-law @springtidepress.bsky.social made these just in time.
Large group of people marching at the Seattle WTO protests, 1999.
People carrying a signs at the Seattle WTO protests, 1999.
I was 19 years old in a crowd of 500,000+. Over the years I’ve wondered where all those folks are now, what they’re doing today. 25 years later and the stakes are much higher now. We need this energy again and I’ve been pondering on leverage points, movement strategy.
(Seattle WTO protests, 1999).
A friend just told me that you can sign up for newsletters from the WHO. Since we’re apparently no longer going to get this information from our own govt, seems like a good idea: www.who.int/news-room/ne...
Abel is my husband 😉 so I’m familiar with this video! Also Jordan is a friend and it’s great to hear about this thread!
