CommunityTour
at La'akea Intentional Community, Pahoa
Where:
La'akea
Community, meet at Main House
When:
Saturday,
June 4th
@ 9:30
am
Cost:
Donation,
suggested
$5-15 if you can. No one turned away.
More Info: call Aniko for more
info at 443-4076
or reply to
this email.
Description: Come join us
for a tour of
our community! Allow Aniko, one of our members, to walk you
around the
land, including our organic gardens, alternative building
methods, off grid
solar system, animals and orchards.
We are a committed group of people working together closely in
community, on
our 24 acre organic permaculture farm. We integrate the social
aspects of
sustainability into daily life: how to live together with
honesty, love and
peace, and share power and leadership. We do not have one
central leader,
but instead share the cost of the land and the leadership
equally.
This
is a
great time to tour the land and ask questions about community.
Let us
know if you are
coming. Thanks!
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Social Permaculture
presented by Tracy Matfin
Where:
La'akea
Community, meet at Main House, event will be held in the Ohia House
When:
Friday, June 17th @ 7:00 pm
Cost:
Donation,
suggested
$5-15 if you can. No one turned away.
More Info: call Tracy for more
info at 443-4076 or reply to this email.
This workshop will introduce you to
the ethics of
permaculture, zones and sectors while demonstrating the
effectiveness of using
permaculture principles to develop and nurture relationships
between people.
The presentation will share the experiences of a
well-established intentional
community and get you up out of your seat and started on making
your own new
experiences.
It will lighten your spirit and inspire you to use permaculture
in your social
sphere as well as in your garden! Laughter possible, smiles
guaranteed.
Tracy Matfin is an
educator
turned farmer, mother and permaculture instructor. She is a
founding
member of La’akea Community where she has been living and
experimenting with
social permaculture & sustainability for over ten years.
Tracy grew up in
the S.F. bay area, CA. She studied enviromental science at U.C.
Berkeley.
She enjoys sharing her experiences, sitting with trees,
communing with the “weeds”
she is removing from the garden and laughing with her daughter,
Aia’ala,
friends and family.
La'akea Community, founded in 2005, has been going strong for
ten years.
Located just outside of Pahoa, the community consists of twelve
adults and two
kids. The land is co-owned by all the members through an LLC
and
decisions are made by consensus. The community shares their
living
experiment through tours and internship programs. www.Permaculture-Hawaii.com
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Permaculture Principles
Tour La'akea while learning the Basics of Permaculture
with Tracy Matfin
Where: La'akea
Community, meet at Main
House
When:
Saturday, June 18th @ 9:30 am -12:30pm
Cost:
Donation, suggested
$20-40 if you can.
More Info: call Tracy for more
info at 443-4076 or reply to this email.
Come join us for a
tour with flare and focus! A follow up to the previous
evening's
presentation on permaculture, this tour will help you understand
the principles
by looking at their application here at La'akea Community. By
looking at
examples with ample time for questions and discussion this
opportunity is sure
to increase your understanding of how to apply permaculture to
your own
systems.
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Wish List
We are looking to better share our lives with others through photographs posted on Facebook, on our website and in other venues. At the moment, however, we don't have a working camera. Do you or someone you know have a working high-quality digital camera (our dream would be a D-SLR) that could be donated to La'akea Community? Thank you so much for considering our request.