Transition Whatcom
Heather K
Profile Information:
- How are you currently involved in the Transition?
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Simple Living steps within a changing globel culture.
Ecologist – Consultant – Educator - Gardener – Permaculturist.
I work for 'Earthcare Garden Designs', doing Permaculture Design consulting & mentoring for co-creating home & community habitats that are ecological sanctuaries. (Cost of services offered for both globel currancy & for local 'life-dollar' currancy).
Visionary - Young Elder - Earth Travelor – Scientist & Mystic & Scholar.
Navigator - Edible-Medicinal Forager - Camping & Survival Skills - Bicycle Mechanic.
Explorer & Cross-Pollinator & Networker.
Contact Info:
Friends, best to contact me by either phone or email, rather than TW messaging. (Comments welcomed on my page).
If we haven't met yet, I'll do my best to respond to your message, if you'll forward your email to me.
Creator/admin/facilitator of 5 TW sub-groups on Transition Whatcom.ning.com:
* "Earth Gardens: Edible-Medicinal-Wild Habitats-Network":
http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/organic
* “OrganicGardeners/Growers & Edible-Forest-Gardens & Permaculture”
* “Seed-Saver...” group: http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/seedsavers
* Grain & Beans group: http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/smallscalegraingrowingbeans...
* “Gaia's Guardian (volunteers): http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/plantingseedsofchangevolunt...
* & the original local-food-security-events-planning-team group
More on my experience:
Edible Forest Gardener integrating edibles, medicinals, natives, & insectory plants.
Caretaker of Heartsong Garden Sanctuary & Organic Garden Mentor/Coach.
Seed-Saver Advocate – Bicycler – Explorer & Navigator & Sail/Kayack/Ski/Hike.
Ethno-horticulturist – traveling cultural anthropologist & garden-work trader.
. - In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?
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" Care for the Earth - Care for People - Share the Abundance ".
Certified in Permaculture Design - Ecological Designer & Mentor for 'Earthcare Garden Designs”.
Supporting the Next Generations in Their Vision & Work.
Design Team member for Coalition for Local Self Reliance (CLSR) located in Fairhaven at the old Rose Garden - 09.
Fourth Corner Exchange Member - alternative economic currancy of life-dollars
Co-Creating & Co-Organizing & Promoting Events:
* Local Seed Swap - "Getting Seeds Into the Hands of the People '
*Obtaining speaker for our Internation Seed-Savers Day in 09
*Getting Gardens Into the Hands of the People- 09
*Inspiration Farm Autumn Seed-Swap & Barter Exchange - 09
Multiple Volunteer activities.
Transition Whatcom & Great Unleashing & Open Space volunteer since inception. - Do you have particular interests, skills, talents or resources you would like to bring to Transition Whatcom?
- See All of Above Answers!
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-Re-Wilding & Re-Awakening to resist cultural silencing & oppression.
- Observing & Communicating with nature-under-the-sky...
Permaculture Design Course Graduate & Design Teams
(Bullock's Homestead Design Course on Orcas Island)
BA-Environmental Studies - focus on Ecological Horticulture
for Educational & Therapeutic Purposes
* Previous bicycle mechanic & interest in creating workshops for bicycle-powered tools and learning to repair electic-powered bicycles. . .
* Map reader & navigator on land & air, with some experience with navigating on salt & fresh waters.
* Experience as Volunteer Coordinator & Director of soup kitchen & working at health clinic as a counselor & creating horticulture therapy programs & teaching children, adults, and persons with different abilities (rather than the handicapped or elderly)
* Desire to support community land trusts for new small farmers and for ecological education centers'
* Desire to help co-create public transportation for Lake Whatcom watershed residents that is accessable and uses renewable energy.
* Desire to support growth of school gardens & greenhouses, along with community gardens & orchards.
. - In what neighborhood or part of the county do you reside?
- My home is where my heart is - Salish Sea Watershed - Cascadia Bioregion & beyond... Ecologist & Gardener planting & walking across many lands. My neighborhoods include the land I walk on, the waters I drink, the air I breathe. Connected to: Agate Bay - Laurel - Goshen - Fairhaven & Southside - Barkley & Silver Beach - Birchwood & Columbia - Samish/Lake Whatcom Creek - Everson/Nooksack/Kendell
- Please note that you do not have to answer all of the above questions in order to join, and you can always come back later to edit your profile. If it's all too many questions for now, please provide a short answer below on why you'd like to join this site (or a summary of the above, if answered).
- Coreate sustainable community that is resilant & interdependent with all life in local habitats.
Diane
Hi Heather,
I am northeast of Barkley village too. Maybe we're neighbors? I look forward to meeting you soon. I will try to make it to the next roving garden work party, it sounds like fun.
May 13, 2013
Margo Terrill
Hi Heather,
Both of those events sound great! I will attend both! Thanks and I look forward to meeting you and possibly Jean.
Margo
Jun 10, 2013
Tiffany A. Dedeaux
Hi Heather, I'm sorry I missed your comment! Thanks for the welcome and I look forward to meeting you as well. Thanks for the feedback on the logo. It was inspired by the deer encounters I've had since coming to Bellingham and my love for the wisdom of trees. :)
Jul 25, 2013