Seeds are typically two life forms in one. The old parent (evidenced in the genetic profile) becomes the endosperm and the food to nurture the new life. The baby is a miniscule small part of the seed which can be called the embryo and which is a new genetic profile. So even plants nurture their tiny vulnerable offspring into a run in the adventure we all share which is life!

Planting seeds for me follows with all the elements of my life. It is not about control, but only contribution. Control in relationships, for the wild souls can’t go the places we want to go. With gardening and farming we are only a tiny drop in the pact of life that builds and creates and becomes over millennia. There is a co-adaptive agreement that we would all do well to enter and practice. The adaptation of things in ecology allows each one a time and a place to live…, to attempt to be. Nature makes no promises of the future to any single one including you and I. So In my world view it is not about control but about contribution. We want with traditional Western and Eastern farming for example, to control the outcomes when we should instead contribute to outcomes since that is all we do anyway.

Today is an example. I have so many seeds. I select the best seeds I can find of the plants I love to grow and eat and share and sell. I reach across the world and everywhere to find the start of adaptation. Today I planted snow-peas and flat-beans. I have loved vigorous climbing flat beans and have 2 particular varieties that I brought from Italy to nurture what might develop in the future from my farm seeds. Peas are another story. I love snow peas but I am always disappointed with their climb compared to other peas. Today I planted 9 non-typical varieties from several continents, Oregon, and New York. All are known for their vigorous climbing, some claiming 12 feet high or more. Non-snow-peas climb so amazingly and germinate from cool soils. Most snow-peas grow unimpressively and take warm soil to germinate. I love vigor and life in my friends and I want it in my seeds and the creatures of the farm too. So, I don’t force any, but I plant many. I don’t make the conditions ideal, but I do my part to give them a chance. Today I went with a small digging hoe to the Northern margin of a newly formed field around a high area surrounding an ancient stump with some trees but no low branches and rich decaying forest soil. I surfaced the soil going over and around the periodic roots in a big ark. On one side I splanted white seeded climbing romano beans, on the other black seeded romano climbers.

My shoes and shirt were still on. I hadn’t gotten too serious, but I never plant without an unspoken and sweet agreement to the seed, the soil, and the space, that I am giving each seed a shot at life! I had the space prepared and I thought of how to begin with the snow-peas that I hope will finally wow me with their vigor. It was hot so I took off my shirt and my shoes and rolled up my pants. Then I poured all the seed I had brought into a sack and mixed up the bag, too much for the space, but that was ok. I also had saved back a little of each one. Then I sprinkled the seed a little too heavy and intentionally a little random so as not to que in the mice and birds too much. Then I came back and walked foot by foot wiggling my toes and pressing in the seed. Finally, I took the rich forest soil and scattered it across the top. Done, the pact… the co-adaptive agreement to give others a chance and to contribute just enough so those who really want can be.

Let’s let go of the need to control outcomes. Let’s let go of the need to control other people and creatures. And let’s thrive and live as a tribe and community in the bewilderment of what tomorrow might be. Let’s all be a little wild and let’s live the adventure, co-create, and contribute to the future!

Relax the control and breath in beautiful and unique outcomes not of your making.

Evolving local knowledge, local connection, and cooperation is the meaning of indigenous (A degree of vulnerability rather than insulation from feedback loops is also important). Local knowledge lost is a catastrophic loss! The ideal imperative of our time is re-indigenization and empowerment of durable, happy, and productive local cultures whose prosperity is integrally tied to ecological adaptivity and reality.

Renewed and adventurously discovered cultures need to be generationally knowledge multiplying. We should not amplify differences and generational gaps, and we should understand the natural flow of knowledge and where it is typically lost. Our information systems, as the libraries of old, are not a replacement for generationally multiplying knowledge. Our info-technology tools are a catalog of knowledge that, though not necessarily locally relevant, can function as a builder’s toolbox in trial, error, adventure, and brilliance. Another tool is our tie to other individuals and communities around the globe; still another our science and systems of huge productivity turned rabid.

Look at all the tools and points of leverage we have access to. We are in a position to build integrally successful local civilizations and we are the local communities that span the width and depth of the globe.

Ecology functions on excess energy flows not energy creation. The ecosystem is an impossibly efficient energy capture, cycle, and upscale system for multiplying usable-product exponentially through the diverse soft labor of millions of willing creatures, each for their own good and, by apparent design, for the good of the whole.

Nuff-said... as we say. Time to live the adventure and create the future!

Resources were wrongly defined by the past several generations of our leaders and institutions.

It is time to broaden our view and to integrate with the world we are unquestionably harming. Naturally speaking, ecosystems are complex, dynamic, diverse, and very productive systems of life interacting with the planet, the sun, and the atmosphere. Life, to be frank, is precisely what makes this rockish hurling sphere of the earth something to care about and inhabitable. Life, ecosystems, the earth, the sun, and the atmosphere exist in an irreducible complexity which can create free abundance and turn deserts to oasis, vitality, and green. Holistic management then, is the only functional strategy to change how we affect the whole for the better. Simplified but intrusive..., we are shooting into the dark and inevitably causing harm.

What we have been led to see as resources for our prosperity are pieces of an ecosystem, geological support for ecosystems, or the temporary non-renewable excess created by ecosystems. The engine of renewable and the keystone resource is clearly the complete ecosystem itself. Ecosystems are THE resource that sustainably produces millions of useful deliverables from the most intricate of natural chemicals to the most robust of building materials, food, fiber, and everything in between that pertains to our prosperity. It is through our contribution to the ecosystem that we, like other creatures can drive specific deliverables to excess for our use and for the creation of sustaining prosperity. In fact, that is exactly what all wild creatures do everyday of their lives.

To achieve prosperity are we to slave as minions in the land rather than minions in the rat-race of the conventional? Actually, our needed part in natural systems is not at all as grunt laborers producing the amount of product equivalent to the amount of energy we put forth. Instead, we are to find a relevant place in an already powerfully efficient energy-multiplicative system of diverse life leveraging the free-form power of our ever shining sun. We add intelligent smarter-not-harder or soft intelligent labor that integrates and adds to the ebb and flow of an energetically powerful system called ecology or, specific to the human involvement we must relearn in re-indigenization, agroecology. When we design production, we design in biomimicry style, not for our standard acceptable 20% to 40% efficiency, but instead for an adjusted-net of 250-1000% efficiency as sunshine cooks the earth 24-7 whether used or not.

Ecosystems are always local, though undeniably globally linked. Rain, snow, wind, fire, cloud cover, ocean-currents, waves, mineral-collections, growing plants and the link to food for most species, sea level rise-and-fall, water traveling back to mountain tops and then flowing down again in rivers and streams is all solar effect/energetics with an occasional or locally understood geothermal input. Ecosystems function on the global circulation of solar energy effects, but they function as autonomous and unique local units that fit local specifics. Without them, solar simply cooks the earth; with them, resources are produced instead of excess heat.

People belong in all ecosystems to which they can find a productive contributory place that allows for their own prosperity to benefit the prosperity of the whole. The higher the diversity of species in balance finding a productive niche in the ecosystem, the more productive, elegant, and durable the system. Contrary to popular belief, this absolutely includes peeps! People, though exceptional, are not an exception! We do not need disconnection from nature with lives and societies oriented to live outside looking in. We need thinkers and bold functional re-entry systems to reverse-engineer re-indigenous society that will effect local regeneration of landscapes and the deep prosperity. Part and integral within 'the trillions tribe' of the diversity of creatures that create ecosystems is you and me! Indigenous is not tribal, ethnic, racial, or skin-tone. It is to 'grow-up from within'. It is not to look all knowingly from above and outside. It is cultural and mechanistic. Re-indigenization is to restart a very natural process. Indigenous human inclusive regenerative ecology (called agroecology) puts us in a place to regenerate and to heal our society, natural landscapes, and atmospheric-climatic reality.

Step forward into the darkness

Out of your comfort zone

Put your hand in front until it feels the wire…

The wire of the fence that pins you in and keeps you hungry

That defines your poverty

We are in a test-tube

A vial of delimitation and domestication

You deserve to live…

To be wild…

Barb-wire is symbol

It is the domestication

The constriction…

To need and want and hunger for money

It is the symbol of market control

Preventing abundance

Preventing greatness of the grassroots…

The agrarian…

The peasant

And the simple land-connected humanity

Money in balance is our tool

Out of balance… it is our shackle and chain

Tying us to tasks that build plunder and destruction

Tasks that leave a future prospect of ever worsening disaster

That leave us hungry…

Alienated…

Vulnerable…

Out of balance, money constrains the weak and vulnerable

To labor not for their organic needs

But for the machine of capitalist extraction-venture

Enriching a few…

Grasp the barb-wire out of will

Now…

And decide as it tears slightly

To build a future while we can…

Build and construct the road to the future

And the future itself

Do it sublimely

While the past rolls on in arrogance

Dumbly nursing the needs of this great cause and future

Live… LIVE!