Where do you stand with permaculture? Are you… - 🌿 Just curious – heard the word, wondering what it’s really about? - 🍃 Learning – reading, watching, taking your first steps? - 🌳 Practicing – applying principles in your garden or life regularly? - 🌿🍃🌳Living it – deeply integrated into your daily rhythm and land? Whether you're dreaming of your first garden bed or designing a food forest, every stage is part of the journey. No judgment—just a warm space to share where you are and where you'd like to grow. Comment below with your stage 🌿🍃🌳 — or share what permaculture means to you right now. Let’s root for each other. 💚

We’re deeply moved by the heartfelt energy everyone brought to Day 02. Let’s carry this warmth forward together. Check-in: Take 60 seconds – set your timer ⌚ – and quietly bring to mind something or someone you're thankful for today. Check-out: Share your reflection with our growing circle, if it feels right. Remember the simple format:"CHECK-IN... [60 second pause] ... CHECK-OUT: [Your reflection here] Together, we continue planting seeds of joy and connection, one mindful moment at a time. 🌱✨ @Penny Watts @Jessica Inman @Georgiana D @Beau Kraus @Marama Elizabeth @Veronika Hübner

Our community member @Mike Gagnon shared a beautiful and powerful resource. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to pause, reset, and connect—both inward and as a community. 🌳 Check out the meditation Mike shared here: https://www.skool.com/nature-inspired-living-2560/a-nice-little-meditation-vid After you listen (or if you have a moment now), let's share our experiences: * Have you watched or listened to this one? What did you feel or notice? * What’s your all-time favorite meditation or sound healing practice? Share a link, a teacher's name, or simply describe it. @everyone Let’s fill this thread with peace, resonance, and recommendations. Sometimes the greatest gift we can give each other is a moment of stillness. Thank you, Mike, for sharing this light with us! 🙏

I had a simple, modern problem today: I needed to scan a document. The copy shop was closed. My first instinct was frustration, but then I remembered a small family business nearby. What happened next was a beautiful reminder of how nature weaves us together. I arrived and learned I had to wait for the daughter to help me. Instead of pulling out my phone, I started chatting with the mother about the plants in their garden. We talked about citrus trees and a magnificent, heavy-laden grapevine pergola. When her daughter arrived and handled the scanning, I noticed another pergola nearby, this one with passion fruit. I asked if I could buy some. That simple question, born from a shared appreciation, unlocked an unexpected harvest: 🍋 A bag of fallen, ripe passion fruits 🧊 A container of frozen passion fruit juice she had made 🌱 A small passion fruit plant 🍇 A small grapevine plant All of this flowed from a simple, human conversation about gardening—from a 5-minute wait that turned into a meaningful connection. This wasn't a transaction; it was a relationship-building, a tiny ecosystem of mutual giving and receiving. My question for you: When has a simple errand or a "delay" unexpectedly connected you to nature, to a person, or to a new source of local abundance? Let's celebrate the magic that happens when we stay open and look up from our screens.

Let’s explore the unique energy that makes our community so special — through a fun and flavorful lens. If your ideal community member were a fruit… - What fruit would they be? - And why does it represent them so well? Think about their essence: ✨ Are they grounding, like an avocado in a nourishing bowl? ✨ Bright and uplifting, like a sun-ripened strawberry? ✨ Unexpectedly zesty, like a lime that brings everything to life? Share your fruity reflection below — let’s celebrate the beautiful diversity and depth growing here! Your insight helps us all recognize and nurture the unique "flavor" each person brings. 🍍💚