Our Community

We sometimes describe ourselves using the metaphor of a mycelial network (the underground filament web of fungus that connects fungi to plants, nutrients, bacteria). Our presence often goes unnoticed although we are, we like to think, essential and, through our regionally based assoc structure, we appear as fruiting bodies in hospitable places just like mushrooms.

Other times we think of ourselves as like a slime-mold –more or less invisible until we gather in large enough numbers to make a visible organism – usually around some nurturing event like a content course or conference of our own or at a larger event like the Village Building Convergence or the Bioneers conference – and there we make a difference in our mycelial way.

Some of us are bioregionally based, others are itinerants and some of us do both. This combination makes for an effective, cross-pollinating ecosocial worknet in which we become friends, colleagues, allies, collaborators and co-creators.

 We invite you to come out to play, to see if we get along, to add your creative intelligences, energies and goodwill to our community and to take your place in unfolding the adventure.