My friend and I started a community garden using indigenous permaculture principles, but we've gotten caught up in proving ourselves to skeptical neighbors and lost the playful experimentation that made our early planting sessions feel like discovery rather than demonstration.
More people experience this than they realize.
The need to legitimize indigenous knowledge to skeptics has drained the life from practices that depend on wonder and relationship.
“Where Are You with Indigenous science and ecological knowledge?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.