2017
GARDENS & LAND
REGENERATION
CREATIVE ARTS &
PERFORMANCE
COMMUNITY
& POLITICS
- expanding landscaping business with partner Eliza Rose and others. Pollinator plantings and habitat, mushroom logs and vegetable gardens. Bed creation, hügelculture.
- fixing up community house and gardens where I live for permaculture - herb gardens, pollinator plants, mushroom logs, honeybees, vegetables... perennial semi-permanent beds... greywater system, eco-pond, rainwater catchment... Jan. • VISIONING PHASE
- home garden IN PROCESS! just layed some beds <3 <3 <3
- continue work with landscaping clients • IN PROCESS
- continue exploring farmland preservation policy • IN PROCESS
- explore NRCS designation of farmland and potential federal assistance as applicable to non-contiguous, distributed urban microfarms • INTENTION PHASE
- working on stories-fables-myths
- posted first track (original song, firebird) on bandcamp for listening/sale.
- collecting poems from 20+ years of writing. Working with neighbors on publishing options.
- still working with Faerie Kin as music director, performer, and scriptwriter.
- participate in collaborative ritual healing theater project in Panama in March • IN PROCESS
- win grant for Singer-Songwriter development award from NC Arts Council • IN PROCESS
- track and record original songs Firebird and ZaZa with fellow musicians - part of NC Arts Commission Grant Application • COMPLETED
- Advocated for multifamily development clean energy requirement, C of Asheville, IF stlll available. Emails.
- advocate for a sustainable Farmland Preservation Policy, Buncombe County, NC • IN PROCESS
- continue to advocate and enroll in clean energy for my household, exploring on-bill-financing and property tax assessment as models for payment for installation • EXPLORATION PHASE
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2016
GARDENS & LAND
REGENERATION
- maintained 8 landscaping client sites.
- grew corn, herbs, flowers
- sowed and grew pollinator plants
- supported community self-serve urban farm
- created beds for gardens
CREATIVE ARTS &
PERFORMANCE
- led and produced River Spirit performance ensemble for RiverLink Earth Day
- musical director for Faerie Kin
- multiple festival and event performances with Faerie Kin
- marched with ensemble as The Living River in support of water rights and eco-social justice
COMMUNITY
& POLITICS
- participated at citizen in SACEE, City of Asheville's Sustainability Advisory Committee on Energy and the Environment
- participated in SURJ, Standing Up for Racial Justice march, to advocate for review of police policy, Asheville
- marched as River Spirit in Standing Rock demonstration, Asheville
- attended meetings, Asheville housing and urban planning department
- attended Five Points Neighborhood meeting
- citizen activist, attendee, EITF Energy Innovation Task Force
- wrote and distributed article on Standing Rock Protests