The Rain Provides: Living Systems for Rainwater Reliance

This class leads you through the techniques and methods for living off rainwater in the desert.While many parts of the world have drying and warming climates, we can look to the experience of Ampersand Sustainable Learning Center to show us how to design our lives to treat clean water like the scarce and sacred thing it is. This homestead is located in the high desert of New Mexico, and relies solely on rainwater collection as a water source. With fourteen years of experience building the site and living off the systems every day, Amanda Bramble can tell you first hand how far the rain can take you.

 Register by email amanda@ampersandproject.org

Chaos Cafe

Sunday September 29

Create with us a community of sharing and dialogue. Chaos cafe acknowledges our unpredictable global climactic balance and the resulting precariousness of our local economies and ability to meet our needs.

We gather to be present with our predicament, engaging our hearts and minds, and compassionately looking towards the future.

4pm Ampersand seasonal show and tell, 4:30 Presentation (20 minutes, rotating topics and presenters) and facilitated group discussion, 6:30 Potluck

RSVP to amanda@ampersandproject.org

Bramble On!

Listen to Amanda and Andy’s radio show on Climate and Culture.

Listen on KMRD.FM Fridays at 11am (SMT), stream online at kmrd.fm, or access the archived episodes on our mixcloud page.

In July and August we interviewed some local agricultural producers and talked big picture about community resilience in the face of climate catastrophe.