‘Miscellany’ Archives
The Land Stewardship Project
Mission: The Land Stewardship Project (LSP) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1982 to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop healthy communities. LSP is dedicated to creating transformational change in our food and farming system. LSP”'s work has a broad and deep impact, from new farmer training and local organizing, to federal policy and community based food systems development. At the core of all our work are the values of stewardship, justice, and democracy. Vision: The Land Stewardship Project wants more successful stewardship farmers raising both livestock and crops on the land. Values: LSP believes that by working together, culturally and racially diverse rural and urban people can take practical steps that result in greater stewardship of the land, more family farmers, healthy food for all, and resilient, racially just communities.
Lake of dreams”“boat-building & story-sharing workshops
A.S. MILLIGAN//N.M.MILLIGANA fisherman”'s hook, used to lash wood together to form a frame for a currach, shown next to a completed frame. By CARSTENS SMITH Boats are a powerful metaphor and Ingebretsen”'s is offering a 3-part workshop that uses boats, both literally and figuratively, as a way for people to tell their families”' stories and to express their hopes for the future. This will happen through actual boat-building and with the sharing of stories and images. Sculptor A.S. Milligan and poet and novelist Nicole Mary Milliganwill lead participants through the process of making a currach, a small Irish “basket boat” that is built with a frame and covered with a fabric skin. The skin will have images from photographs and letters that participants share during the workshop. Upon completion, there will be a small celebration and the boat will be displayed in the store”'s window. We invite you to join us on this journey as we learn about boat [...]
