This Ma Earth Round 3 invitation inspired our decentralized and cross-cultural team into a deeper round of collaborative prioritization across neighboring communities, encouraging us to move our regenerative mission forward with greater coordination.
What surfaced is the multi-site initiative described here: three land nodes that have each been building strong independent practices, now aligning around a single, mutually beneficial biodiversity corridor project. Through this project we cross a threshold, from somewhat siloed parallel work into shared activities across a watershed, a road, and a future.
The Proposal and the Plan:
Funds will be used to increase local tree and plant nursery capacity, expand free roadside food forests, and stabilize a mountainside through trail building and native species rewilding.
• 200 trees planted and 500 seedlings raised at the $5,000 funding threshold; 700+ trees planted at full activation
• Restoration across a 1-hectare nursery, a 1-acre community garden, and 4 hectares of degraded cattle land on the commons
• Nursery facilities expanded from one site to three including an additional roadside location
• Stabilized trail opened to the riverside conservation zone and Abuela waterfall in former cattle pasture (cows relocated)
• Ten additional fruit trees planted at the community garden, tended for 5 years toward free-food production access
• 4 dedicated project leaders; 3 organized activities per month; hours scaling from 4/week at the floor to 15/week at full activation
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