Learning

I’ve made an error in writing in my latest Tale ...Three Seeds.  

In it, among other things,   I talked about how I was learning more about vegetable gardening from watching and listening to the gardeners around me, here in the Ecovillage.  (How wise and generous they all are!)  My Tales are my very personal observations.  But at the end of the last story...’Three Seeds’, I switched  to a ‘we’ in writing about how we would garden next year, instead of how “I’ will ... (avoiding so much soil disturbance with digging, contributing carbon to the atmosphere ...  etc) 

I’d like to take the ‘we’s back and substitute “I”s, please. I made a mistake. I apologise to my fellows.

I’m writing this, because of a reaction from a reader, who noted with concern, that he wouldn’t want to be in an Ecovillager and have to garden by consensus.

(And here I thought I was writing about cougars, and burning vs not-burning!)

At this Ecovillage, we may aim to make decisions for the group by consensus, but we don’t garden that way ...  at least I don't think we do.  Heaven forbid!

I couldn’t live here myself, if that were the case.  If I couldn’t make my own private nest in my house either,  if I couldn’t decline to lend my favourite digging fork, if I thought other villagers were peeking in my recycling bags to make sure I hadn’t put in Number 5-6 plastic or who would insist that I till or not till, burn or not burn, plant or not plant ground cover.

Consensus decision making in our village isn’t about that for me.  But it is about a whole lot of experiences that make this a truly remarkable, expanding, stretching, growing, hurting, and healing place to be.

As I learn more, would you like me to share  with you with more Tales?  They won’t be accurate or right.  You’ll have to figure them out.