Occidental Arts & Ecology Center

Published Thursday, September 24, 2009 by Dan Gainsford | E-mail this post

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Occidental, CA

Wow! I've been a lot of extraordinary places on my travels, and all along the way I've been dreaming of building my own place back in Canada. I've been cataloging techniques, ideas, voices, and inspirational innovations to incorporate into my future work of building a sustainable off-grid permaculture farm that is also an educational center, community space for artists and educators, and just a beautiful space to live. It seems all of my dreaming and travels culminated this week in one place named Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. This place is beautiful!

I arrived at OAEC to do an interview with two amazing individuals, Dave Henson and Brock Dolman. Dave and I talked about how we organize our world, the importance of re-indigenating ourselves, establishing places that restore the land and overall fecundity and thus increase our resiliency going forward into the hard times ahead.

Brock blew me out of the water with his thoughts on water and thus totally affected my head-waters ;-)

It was a pleasure to meet both of these men, and to sit with participants of OAEC's current permaculture course while eating scrumptious meals mostly from on-site gardens. I really encourage everyone reading this blog to go and check out OAEC's website and learn more about what they're doing and what we can all do going forward.

I'm fairly certain Liz and I will be back here to take some courses down the road, since even in the short time I had to visit this time around, I can feel new shifts in my own personal ever-shifting paradigm :-)

peace,d
(pics to follow.. camera in van.. maybe more text too:-)
A vid of Brock talking :-)

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