Project Agenda for 2008-2009
- Acquire and restore three acres of land for demonstration workshops, meetings, and improving the soil health, water quality, and native biodiversity of Mother Earth.
- Empower thirty Greater San Francisco Bay Area residents to plan and implement community food security projects by Certifying them in our San Francisco Bay Area course
- Construct a root cellar to enhance food processing and storage, terrace hills, and expand organic fields, to be within one year of beginning a small-scale Community Supported Agriculture program at Pine Ridge
- Expand sustainable development work at Sonsonate by terracing the hillside, installing a water pump, and erecting a sustainable building with solar power, as well as extend water catchment, composting toilet, and efficient stove projects to other communities.
- Enable one hundred additional people with information on sustainable living practices and traditional agriculture in our Gilroy, Pine Ridge, Sonsonate, and other Bay Area work.
To achieve the first Outcome, we are in the process of converting a three-acre site near Gilroy, CA to organic farming, a project that weaves together:
- Workshops for Bay Area participants to share traditional agricultural information;
- Conduct hands-on work to provide ”knowing-by-doing” to participants, and help create a healthy agriculutral system
- Grow produce to donate to lower-income and Native American communities in the Bay Area
We intend to conduct the next phases of fieldwork over 2008 and 2009. Our long-term vision is to convert the land to organic farming in three years and use it to continue sharing information with future generations.