Solstice 2022
The first hard frost made the bed for a dusting of snow on our little hill this week. These long, cold winter nights feel familiar,
Tag: Community Education
Guest Post: Kate Rudd, Regenerative Economics researcher
Kate Rudd is a Masters in Regenerative Economics student at Schumacher College. She visited us for a week as part of her dissertation research and
We are with the Wolf
Fede was the first to see one. Driving home one evening, she caught it in her headlights on our steep driveway. The last time we
There is a field, but where?
There is a field Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in
Interdependence, not Self-Sufficiency
This week I read an article claiming independence within a relationship. The author wrote that in the relationship of love one cannot speak of independence
Experiential Tourism
Discovering authentic local opportunities For over twenty years, Fattorie Faggioli and now Borgo Basino have collaborated with Professor Hiroko Kudo in welcoming Japanese delegations of
The Ecovillage Project
Discovering new answers to life's daily needs What is an ecovillage? You may have wondered what an ecovillage is. Perhaps you have some disconnected, even
History of a Community: the roots of Borgo Basino
The idea of the Borgo Basino took root in the summer of 2013. We started by deepening and developing the concept of place-based organizing, considering
The Borgo Basino Educational Farm
In Italy, a fattoria didattica, or educational farm, is a farm which goes beyond food production to include educational and training activities for schools, families
The Highlander Center: Can there really be only one?
Astute readers may remember our last visit to the Highlander Research and Education Center in October of 2013. At the time, we only stopped briefly for
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Solstice 2022
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