Vignettes on Returning V.

As we head back this month across our beloved country, meeting family and non-family history along the way, the methods these farming communities utilize of embracing simple, elegant, accessible technologies and marketing techniques to broaden their sustainability and their efforts, we reflect on many such projects we have encountered and written about across the globe.

You purchase products from around the world all the time, you may also be trying ot unite your fair-trade efforts with a localvore’s penchant for eating like we are today - right out of the garden.

Here in Oxford, Maine - Brittany lets horses into their new pasture. She collects late lettuces for lunch.

I am inside, trying to adjust to a late Summer New England clamminess; marveling, reminiscing and enjoying the mingle of personal and networked relations this year had borne. I enjoy the motto of the coffee grown with love by the Brothers and Sisters in Reconciliation,

“Paso a Paso, a la reconciliation.”

Our country and our world are tuned to the impacts of peoples organized, motivated, and interconnected. We make lasting impacts when we bring out the best in each other; we can further sustain our cooperation when we lean our mutual support to stewardship of natural and cultural resources. Our hope is that this is a valuable perspective which we have brought home which we will continue to write about and foster through this blog. We hope we provoke ongoing commitments to how local efforts manifest larger global change.