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- Sisterhood Found: America’s Appalachia & the Mayan Heartland
By Nancy Stranahan, Director, Arc of Appalachia Here is a short story of how two far-flung land preservation and education nonprofits – one in southern Ohio and one in Guatemala – found each other across the miles. We began the Arc of Appalachia back in 1995 as a wildlands preservation organization with zero acres to… Read more: Sisterhood Found: America’s Appalachia & the Mayan Heartland - A Volunteer’s Experience of WALC
As I lurched over the bumps in the dirt road in the back of the tuktuk, I glanced around eagerly, looking for anything I might recognize. The mountain, wispy clouds stretched over the thick foliage, which rose over the farm fields to the right of the road looked familiar, but once we’d passed through the… Read more: A Volunteer’s Experience of WALC - Pumpkin Soup Recipe
IYKYK. The food at CCFC is hardy and fresh. The following recipe serves 12. It is cut down from Tara’s recipe that originally serves 144! So play with the seasonings.This year the gardens produced 8 full pick-up bed’s worth of pumpkin. Ingredients:1.5 Liters of pumpkin – chopped into bite sized pieces and boiled till almost… Read more: Pumpkin Soup Recipe - Cloud Chasers 2025 – Newsletter 3
The day we are writing this newsletter is marked in the Maya calendar by Imox—thespirit (or Nawal) of water. This calendar is composed of 18 months of 20 days each, plus afinal month of 3 days. Each of these 20 days is lined a specific Nawal—a spiritual force orarchetype representing the natural energies that shape all beings. Today’s Nawal, Imox, signifies beginnings: a current that flows before thoughts or structures take form. - Cloud Chasers 2025 – Newsletter 2
This week, the entire CCFC team was immersed in an international conference, filled with more than 70 inspiring people from across 11 different countries, from Peru to Mexico. Thename of the conference? Curso “Formación de Formadores en el Corredor Agroecológico:Abejas nativas sin aguijón, Redes y Procesos Territoriales.”Or in English: Training of Trainers in the Agroecological Corridor: Stingless Native Bees,Networks, and Territorial Processes.