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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 20:27:18 -0500
From: skywalker <skywalker@uninets.net>
To: jeremy clinton cheron <orleans@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: Environmental Coalition Communication Packet. (fwd)
I hope this does become a "reply to all" great to work with your all, from
here in mid-Maine, The Pine Tree State. Here is one of our projects and
we are urgently in need of decent backhoe to work the 100 acres or so we
are reclaiming. Does anyone out there have one or know of one available
for donation, barter, or .....
Best to you all, Bruce Sky Walker, founder of the 44th Lattitude
Botanical Conservatory in Unity Maine
ADOPT-A-TREE
COMMUNITY FARM RECLAMATION PROJECT
An opportunity for hands-on Stewarding Training
And getting good skills, too!
207 568-7545
Our farm reclamation program arises out of the need we see for upper New
England to become a net provider instead of a net consumer of agricultural
products. As Florida, Georgia, the Carolina's and California are dealing
with the devastation of El Nino, the Nation is immediately faced with
interruptions of it's normal food supplies and even possibly a shortage as
a consequence of the destruction of crops. Many of us have sensed for
years that a more regionally based food supply is needed. Now we urgently
need to take the deliberate long-term steps that will enable us to grow a
greater diversity of desirable, healthy, agricultural products. First of
all, there is a need to learn the skills that are necessary in order to
reclaim the dormant potential in our farms and develop them into a
diversified and economically viable network that is integrated into the
distribution market.
AllTrust Circle of Consciousness Center through "S.O.C.C.E.R." (The School
of Communication, Commerce and Emergency Reconstruction) is offering a
hands-on farm reclamation training cycle of 4 years that teaches practical
skills and which is complementary to other college level educational credit
programs. In this phase, we are emphasizing orchard tree care in which the
student will have the opportunity to care for a tree over a 4-year period.
It includes the following phases of "Adopt-A-Tree":
· Clearing the land
· Planting the tree root stock
· Grafting the scions onto the trees
· Pruning and shaping the trees
The goal is for the student to learn how to take care of a fruit tree
through all the cycles until it actually bears fruit. Each cycle would
involve about 2 days of in-the-field teaching at our training facility in
Thorndike. Each reclamation phase would be given in the appropriate season
after which the student will periodically return to actually tend to their
own adopted tree.
At the end of the fourth cycle our goal is to have students who are
qualified, go out as ambassadors of the program and to have the
educational reclamation program adopted on other farms in upper New England.
The Center is the place from where a gentle ripple on the pond starts,
eventually reaching the farthest shores of our bioregional area.
A project of AllTrust Circle of Consciousness Center
Promoting the consciousness of stewardship of environmental community values
First Class: GRAFTING Saturday, April 18th 10AM
Cost: $20 ($15 for Students) includes lunch. Deadline for
registration April 14.
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Name________________________________________ Phone__________________
Address______________________________________________________________
Town_______________________________ Zip________________
Make check payable to "Adopt A Tree"
Return form and payment to: Roger Collinet, Trustee P.O. Box 777 Unity ME
04988
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