Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute

About:

A non-profit organization working with the concepts of Permaculture. The institute was created in 1987 at Santa Clara Pueblo. There the founding members (Roxanne Swentzell, Rina Swentzell and Rose Simpson) began teaching classes on different techniques and methods of a healthy lifestyle.

Flowering Tree

Classes currently taught:

•how to farm and garden in the high desert climate with low water use•how to understand micro-climates •how composting and seed saving are part of growing sustainability•animal husbandry (how to take care of turkeys, chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, fish and even bees)•how to butcher, store and cook meat•how to shear sheep, spin wool, and weave•how to milk, make cheese•how to harvest honey•how to create ecosystems of ponds with fish and plants •how to implement green building techniques (adobe construction, mud plastering, straw-bale construction, solar energy, water catchments, etc.)

Flowering Tree

Guachupangue, New Mexico

Elevation: 5646 ft

2000 Population: 9164

Guachupangue and Santa Clara

Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico

Elevation: 5607 ft

2000 Population: 980

Flowering TreeGuachupangue, New MexicoGuachupangue, New Mexico

What is Flowering Tree's problem?

-restricted space -disruption due to ceremonial practices -headquarters operates as home/business

-unstructured operations -artist in residence -community involvement -economic income -lack of labor

Precedents:

RiverzEdge Arts Project68 South Main Street, Woonsocket, RI

68 South Main Street, Woonsocket, RI

Mission Statement:

RiverzEdge creates positive educational and economic outcomes for youth and their communities through artistic expression, disciplined effort and self-reliance.

RiverzEdge Arts Project

About:

•a social enterprise that provides talented, underserved teens in Rhode Island hands-on work experience in graphic design, digital photography, screen-printing and visual arts

•works together to deliver all the marketing services of a design firm

•all profits go directly to the arts and business programs offered•teen participants receive daily education and practice creating work for clients•participants are paid stipends for their work which in turn provide them with a "leg up" and out of poverty

RiverzEdge Arts Project

Services Provided:

-ScreenWorks

-DigitalWorks

-ClassWorks

-GreenWorks

-ArtWorks

-Mobile Studio

RiverzEdge Arts Project RiverzEdge Arts Project

Plant with Purpose4903 Morena Blvd. Suite 1215 San Diego, CA4903 Morena Blvd. Suite 1215 San Diego, CA

Mission Statement:

Plant With Purpose is breaking the vicious cycle of poverty and deforestation by transforming it into a victorious cycle of environmental restoration, economic empowerment, and spiritual renewal.

Plant with Purpose

About:

•Focusing on holistic solutions to poverty•Has been restoring lives of the rural poor for over 25 years by:

-planting trees which create economic opportunity

-implementing sustainable agriculture programs

-creating cash for work programs that teach skills that will jumpstart new local businesses

Three part environmental, economic and spiritual approach to sustainable development transforms the communities and people we work with in the following ways:

Improve Quality of Life (health, education, gender equality and economic security)Restore Relationships (family, people/environment, people)Ensure Self Sufficiency by:

-Learning to farm in ways that protect the land=Ensures long-term prosperity-Communities continue to thrive long after PWP has left

Plant with Purpose

Poeh Center 78 Cities of Gold Rd. Santa Fe, NM

78 Cities of Gold Rd. Santa Fe, NM

Tewa is the traditional language and culture of six of New Mexico's eight northern Pueblos. In Tewa, "Poeh" means pathway. The Poeh Center is a living pathway where tradition travels between the past and the present and leads into the future, ensuring further creativity. In this role, the Poeh Center embodies the essence of what it means to be Tewa--to be Pueblo--in a context of cultural continuity.

Mission Statement:

Poeh Center

About:

•established in 1988•first permanent tribally owned and operated mechanism for cultural preservation

•emphasizes arts and cultures of all Pueblo people by teaching the arts, collecting great works of art and promoting public understanding of and respect for Pueblo history and culture.

Poeh Center

Services Provided:

•a vehicle for Pueblo artistic expression and both Native American and public education

•training programs in time honored construction methods

•widely recognized for its traditional Pueblo architecture and building techniques (collaboration between two programs of the Pueblo of Pojoaque: the nonprofit Poeh Cultural Center and the for-profit Pojoaque Pueblo Construction Services Corporation)

Poeh Center

Flowering TreeGuachupangue, New MexicoGuachupangue, New Mexico

How are we re-working it?

-implementing a youth workforce development

program-proposing an adaptive re-use of structure on secondary site-restructuring workshops-relocating field plots to more accessible secondary site

Moving Forward

Larger economic infrastructure:

-mobile studio

-design/build services

-certification in permaculture/ sustainable program

-pea patch