Reporter Sam Perez recently featured a story of the 10-year anniversary of Columbia Resilience managing the Rosewood Community Orchard and in particular, our hopes for fundraising to install new infrastructure – a tool shed and more boardwalks. Check it out!…
Overshoot and Degrowth
In the last post, What is Overshoot? I related John Michael Greer’s story of the meadow mice in overshoot. For humans, the equivalent of the grain truck overturning has been the discovery of ancient hydrocarbons – burnable fossils, first coal…
What is Overshoot?
This essay is the first in a series of posts on the current ecological predicament of Planet Earth. I am not a scientist, so what I share here are distillations from scientists and other thinkers whom I trust – people…
Richland County Ag and Art Tour, 2023
Rosewood Public Orchard featured in “Stories to Action!”
In 2021 Transition US Published a series of articles titled “Stories to Action.” The February 2021 story featured The Rosewood Public Orchard and Anne Burke’s beautiful descriptions of how this orchard connects people, ideas and resources both within the Rosewood…
iNaturalist Project at the Columbia Orchard
One of the fantastic volunteers at the Community Orchard has set up a biodiversity project at the orchard. There are more than 144 observations in this beautiful section of the park. Below you will find some of the more recent…
Columbia Resilience — A Response!
The Problems we know! The 3000-mile Caesar salad, with romaine lettuce shipped from California, does not make sense in a world with shrinking resources. Neither does eating peaches and raspberries from Chile in the dead of our winter. As any…
Why a Givers Exchange and not a Charities Directory. (Part 1.)
I’ve had the opportunity to speak to folks who have been participating in Time Banking for decades. One thing that often comes up, is how a “time bank” differs from a “volunteer database”. One response (that I appreciate very much),…
Thanks for a nice introduction to the Rosewood Public Orchard!
Thanks to Tory Morton for sharing his experience walking through the Rosewood Community Orchard. Tory has a small permaculture project in Gaston, SC. and has been practicing Permaculture for about 6 years. You can follow his YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/torymorton/featured