Fwd: Telepathic Communication - hello from Orion at BFFC
Hannah Thomas
From: Orion Kriegman <or...@bostonfoodforest.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: Telepathic Communication - hello from Orion at BFFC
To: orionk <ori...@gmail.com>
Rachele's NOTES BFFC Community Call
- 3/24/20 - 10-11 a.m.-
Present:
Orion Kreigman (BFFC Executive Director)
Rachele Rosi-Kessel (BFFC President)
Arcadia Davis (BFFC Outreach Coordinator)
Ben Crouch (Land of Plenty Gardening and Landscaping)
Maya (BFFC Intern)
Shani Fletcher (Development Officer & Grassroots Program Manager at Department of Neighborhood Development, City of Boston)
Alex Klosterkemper (Leland St Garden, BNC Garden)
Emily Haslett (Ellington St. Garden)
Lauren Almquist (Heartspace Herbal and Garden Design)
Joy G.
Kathleen Robinson (Leland St. Garden)
Michelle De Lima (Engagement Site Manager at The Trustees - Boston Community Gardens
(I didn’t get notes from beginning of meeting. Feel free to add to this list.)
IDEAS DISCUSSED -- HOW CAN WE BETTER SERVE BOSTON FOOD NEEDS
Access to land
FoodHub
Indoor food production
Skill-sharing
Home-schooling help for families
Meditation classes
Alex: Is there an entity to coordinate all the different food producing groups?
Joy: Boston Food Access Council does some of this. There is a List-serve in Western Mass that could be a model
(FYI -- BFFC Strategic Planning Committee has suggested a list-serve for BFFC sites -- could be time for this to start)
Shani: planning to get community farmers together on a zoom
Michelle: Interested in thinking about how community gardens could coordinate to provide food for larger community, but mostly gardens are ways for people to produce for their own needs.
Alex: offers to help coordinate big food producers, urban farmers, maybe create a map of big producers in the city.
Arcadia: interested in building the social media presence -- offering classes online. Suggests we put out a request for video classes on FaceBook. (if you want to teach, please be in touch)
NEXT BFFC Community Dialogue: 11:00 A.M. TUESDAY, MARCH 31. Zoom link below.
Time: Mar 31, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Local food production could be more critical than ever, how is our community of practice stepping up during this time of need?Looking forward to discussing what we need and what we can offer each other as we pull tight our web of mutual aid:
Topic: 1st Community Dialogue
Time: Mar 24, 2020 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:41 PM Orion Kriegman <or...@bostonfoodforest.org> wrote:I am reaching out to connect with all of you, and will reach out personally slowly over the next several days.Let me know if you have needs/concerns related to our food forests and the work we do together. And please let me know if you have ANY needs I can help with? I care, and I am always able to listen.Boston Food Forest is hosting a Zoom Community Dialogue to share about what we need and what we are able to give in this time. You are invited to join the conversation on Tues March 24th 10amPlease register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uZErdO-uqjwrtwFayMafpQtsk-gj1UGQkgBFFC is a web of mutual aid - and I am working on how to help support our connectivity. Any ideas and suggestions are welcome.Below are my personal reflections, I would love to hear yours.As all of us are establishing new rhythms in this time of uncertainty, I have found myself slowing down and confronting my own sense of paralysis. I am trying to breathe into it and be in action.Half my days are now filled with homeschooling my 7 and 4 year old daughters, so that Hannah can be present to her work community. This is a blessing in disguise, I have always dreamed of living this way and now we must. I am grateful to be present to my daughters, spending time in the garden, going for hikes, doing Zoom drama classes, and telling stories. I am grateful they are not the ones most at risk in this moment. I am grateful I have this privilege to be safe in my home with my family, for now.For much of my adult life I have been present to the pain of my community, and my own grief about the death spiral of nature, and sought to find ways to be part of the healing work that is demanded of our time on Earth. I love doing this work with you.A global pandemic is an awful way to be called to action, I pray for all who are suffering and for all of us, this truly sucks. One thing that helped me shift my perspective was a short essay I found on Facebook (thanks friends!): What if the virus is the medicine?Here is a short excerpt:"For many in our world, the pre-coronavirus status quo was already catastrophic. Many are facing an imminent end to their world--indeed, for many species and many peoples, the world has already ended. We are in the midst of a crisis of unprecedented magnitude: the choice for humanity is change or die. No one said change would be easy. (Neither is dying.) And incremental change is not enough. It will take radical change to shift our current, calamitous trajectory away from massive environmental devastation, famine, energy crises, war & refugee crises, increasingly authoritarian regimes and escalating inequalities.The world we know is dying. What is unsustainable cannot persist, by definition, and we are starting to see this play out.
What hope is there, then? There is the hope that breakdown will become, or coexist with, breakthrough. There is the hope that what is dying is the caterpillar of immature humanity in order that the metamorphosis yields a stunning emergence. That whatever survives this collective initiation process will be truer, more heart-connected, resilient and generative."
I pray that this may be so. I pray for myself, my family, my friends, my neighborhood, my communities, and for all life.
My old friend Lev pointed out that prayer is one additional way we can connect remotely, so let my prayers be telepathic communication from my heart to yours, I send my love.
Spring is in the air, and I have found gardening a solace, I hope we meet again in the garden soon.
lots of love in uncertain times,
Orion
--Orion KriegmanExecutive DirectorBoston Food Forest Coalition"The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with clasped hands that we might act with restraint, leaving room for the life that is destined to come.
We have it within our power to create merciful acts."
-- Terry Tempest Williams
We have it within our power to create merciful acts."
-- Terry Tempest Williams
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