Experiments
We learn by doing. Then we write it down.
Each card opens the same spine: question, place, people, attempt, result, lesson.
The learning board
L-boardCan a small forest feed a place?Can an integrated food forest, on a few acres, move a place toward food sovereignty without becoming a show garden?
L-boardWhat happens when a remembered technique is asked to build again?What changes when a building technique held in an elder's memory is used again, in the present, with his lead?
L-boardWhat does earthful making change in a day?What changes when everyday making starts from soil, fibre and what is already here, instead of from a material ordered in?
L-boardWhat can be eaten without taking more than the place can spare?What does edible foraging teach when it is practiced as attention, not as a harvest target?
L-boardWhat does a commune actually share?Which parts of daily life get lighter when they are shared, and which parts need a boundary?
L-boardCan a local craft stay in use, not only on display?What does it take for a local craft to remain a way of making a living and a way of knowing, rather than a demonstration?
L-boardWhat does music do inside a working gathering?Does music change what a group can hold, or is it only the pleasant part of the day?
L-boardWho is a visit actually for?Can a visit be designed so the guest leaves able to do something, and the place is not poorer for having hosted them?
L-boardCan a small forest feed a place?Can an integrated food forest, on a few acres, move a place toward food sovereignty without becoming a show garden?
L-boardWhat happens when a remembered technique is asked to build again?What changes when a building technique held in an elder's memory is used again, in the present, with his lead?
L-boardWhat does earthful making change in a day?What changes when everyday making starts from soil, fibre and what is already here, instead of from a material ordered in?
L-boardWhat can be eaten without taking more than the place can spare?What does edible foraging teach when it is practiced as attention, not as a harvest target?
L-boardWhat does a commune actually share?Which parts of daily life get lighter when they are shared, and which parts need a boundary?
L-boardCan a local craft stay in use, not only on display?What does it take for a local craft to remain a way of making a living and a way of knowing, rather than a demonstration?
L-boardWhat does music do inside a working gathering?Does music change what a group can hold, or is it only the pleasant part of the day?
L-boardWho is a visit actually for?Can a visit be designed so the guest leaves able to do something, and the place is not poorer for having hosted them?