What kinds of birds can you find at East Wind Community? How about blue jays, white jays, and various birds of prey…
Here’s Sumner’s latest East Wind wildlife video.
Animals
Two Bats at East Wind
Warning: this is a strange video. As Sumner says, it’s about two bats doing… something. Fighting? Sex? There’s a bunch of footage (including a brief cameo by a peeper frog) and a lot of speculation. There’s a lot of life at the rural communes and much of it nonhuman. Sumner has been documenting it at East Wind. (Also, language warning. Folks at the communes pretty much say what they are thinking and not always in the most polite manner. Still, nothing you couldn’t hear in the cities if you listen.)
Birds around East Wind, #2
More than people live at the communes. Here’s a video of some of the birds that hang out at East Wind. It’s the second in a series.
The Birds of East Wind’s Lick Creek
Lick Creek runs through East Wind Community and videographer Sumner has documented the birds that hang out there. This is the second in a series about wildlife at East Wind. Here’s the first in the series.
The Birds of East Wind: Video #1
People aren’t the only residents of the communes. Here Sumner presents the first in a series of videos about wildlife that is found around East Wind. This one is about common birds that hang out around the community.
Fall at East Wind Community
Val Kyrie posted these haunting pictures on the East Wind Facebook page. I’m sharing them with you.
Chicks
We are a farm here at East Brook (home of the Glomus Commune). Among other things, we raise chickens.
I never knew, before I came here, that you could get baby chicks in the mail, but you can and we have. As I wrote on Facebook in April, “Much excitement here at East Brook Farm. These are from Anande Ozark’s Facebook page. As they said: ‘Chicks came this morning!'”
Milking at East Wind
Hobie and Ransom milk the cows together.
From the East Wind Facebook page and YouTube.
This Year at Rainforest Commons
by Morning
New kitchen!
Taking in the goats after a long day of shepherding on the river
This is Panda.
We rehomed the goats this year. It’s very sad.
We visited The Common Unity Project in British Columbia and gave a conference called the Power With Conference. We facilitated using open space programming and offered workshops in Nonviolent Communication, theater of the oppressed, and family constellations. JJ also gave ear acupuncture, and many other folks from TCUP and the nearby town of Hazelton led workshops. We baked bread in their lovely cob oven, and had a wonderful time.
The view at TCUP
JJ and Morning at TCUP
JJ at home with our lovely cat, Mouse
Tea and JJ in the new kitchen at Rainforest Commons
Tea and Morning advocating at the Orca Task Force to take the dams off the Snake River, so the Orca can have some salmon to eat
Ducks at Rainforest Commons
Goosies.
Moonspoon, one of our geese
Puppy!
Puppy had puppies. They, and she are all doing well and have all been fixed.
When the pups were very small
This little guy is all grown up!
Delilah in the Bogachiel River.
Spooning
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Milking Cows in a Community Scale Dairy
Milking cows at East Wind Community in the summer of 2018. This dairy provides all the milk and many of the dairy products for a 70+ person community. You can learn and gain experience in dairy management, dairy processing and other practical skills by checking out East Wind. http://eastwind.org/
