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This section of the website is slowly being built. It's a one man show around here.
Check back soon for updates. : )
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WHY BUILD AN ARCHIVE?
Perhaps one of the hardest lessons I have learned in my life is this:
Memory is fragile, and time is a thief.
Every generation inherits knowledge from those who came before them- knowledge often taken for granted. Family memories, stories,
recipes, photographs, journals, and traditions, when not carefully tended, begin to disappear. When we lose these records, we lose more than information - we lose ways of understanding ourselves, our communities, and the natural world.
The Archives exist as a record of nearly lost knowledge.
They are a carefully stewarded resource that will pass on the flame of this knowledge to future generations.
Growing up, I was privileged to be raised in a close-knit, intergenerational community. I have known so many people with stories, experiences, and lessons that need to be remembered, and shared. I think we all have these people in our lives.
Maybe for you, it is a great-grandmother whose garden fed generations. An uncle who could tell the weather by listening to the birdsong. A beekeeper, herbalist, farmer, hunter, home cook, storyteller, or community elder with natural wisdom to share. The kind of
wisdom that belongs somewhere
that will preserve it.
Too often, these stories disappear when the people who carry them are gone.
It is my mission to help preserve these voices, so that they may benefit future generations far into the future.
INTERESTED IN
GIVING AN INTERVIEW,
ABOUT YOURSELF,
OR A LOVED ONE?
INTERESTED IN
DONATING?
Many of the records we are documenting exist only in old, obscure books, family collections, handwritten notebooks, and living memory.
The Archive collects, documents, gently restores, and/or preserves selected texts to serve the community throughout the passage of time.
