At East Wind, Richard, their garden manager was up a tree.
This was well liked and a lot of folks saw it.
I posted about Magnolia Collective’s tree celebration a couple of weeks ago, but that from a post by Living Energy Farm. Here’s their post about the celebration.
Six folks liked it or loved it, but it didn’t reach that many folks.
Living Energy Farm did a bunch of solar installations while they were in Puerto Rico.
This was also well liked and it did pretty well.
Twin Oaks posted about pizza.
Twin Oaks posts almost always do well on Commune Life and this was no exception.
I haven’t always been copying the comments, but a couple of these were notable–one remark and my response.
Communities like Twin Oaks survive because of their diversity. If you want an all vegan community, you have to create it that way. (Interestingly, Acorn started as a vegan community but didn’t stay that way for long.)
Finally, an introduction to Serenity Solidarity. I’ve posted things from them before but I thought this was a really good statement of what they are about and their need for support, and they are definitely a community I want to support.
It’s the weekly catch up on Facebook posts, and since the new year (and the resumption of both Facebook and this blog) began on a Sunday, and the only unique Facebook post was on that Monday before I copied the blog post over to FB on Tuesday and shared the same photoessay on here and FB on Wednesday, I’m going to include the Thursday and Friday Facebook posts to have three this week, and I will probably have three posts copied on next Friday before reverting to the usual five the following week.
That one Monday post was from Twin Oaks where Valerie demonstated an artistic method of reusing stuff.
It’s a lovely picture and it did very, very well on Facebook.
On Thursday, I reposted a picture from the Magnolia Collective who pointed out one of their members is in the catalog from Acorn’s business.
This did well on Facebook, though not as well as Twin Oaks quilt.
Finally, the Friday post was from the Serenity Solidarity community showing the work being done on the house they are staying in at Little Flower (more communal cooperation).
This week’s Facebook wrap up features a variety of posts from several different communities–but they all did pretty well.
Twin Oaks posted this picture of a panel in their kitchen.
For a simple picture of kitchen equipment, this did very, very well.
Glomus Commune makes most of its money through East Brook Community Farm which makes most of its money selling food–especially garlic–at Farmers Markets.
This also did very well.
Although Acorn Community makes their money selling seeds, they also encourage folks to save seeds.
I don’t know if it’s because of the monotonous background sounds on the video or what, but this did particularly badly on Facebook, very low, and not even getting any likes, comments, or shares.
Finally, Twin Oaks published their latest issue of “Leaves” filled with what I think is interesting stuff.
I’ve been traveling–a lot, two cities in Virginia, up to Massachusetts, where I’ve been staying at a friend’s house and traveling around the eastern part of the state. I’m still at my friend’s house but I’m settling in finally and I think I have enough time and space to begin letting blog readers know what stuff has been on our Facebook feed that hasn’t made its way here. I think that it’s been about four weeks since I did a recap so I’m not going to republish everything and I’m not going to try to cram it all into one post. Instead, I’m going to cover what I think are the more interesting and important posts. I hope to cover two or three weeks in this post and then, maybe, finish up next week–including the stuff that was published in between.
I went down to Acorn at the beginning of February with a crew from Glomus who were working over at Twin Oaks. Around the end of their stay, they decided to tour Living Energy Farm and I joined them. When I published pictures from our tour (just a few, there’s a bunch more I hope to post at some point) on Facebook I said, “Folks from Glomus Commune got a tour of Living Energy Farm in Louisa, Virginia. Alexis showed us around all the projects they are doing there and talked about what they are doing and why. Maybe we can do some of those projects at our farm in New York.”
Here’s the pix:
The pictures were all taken by Reji who was also on the tour. Alexis is a good teacher and has written a book about all the technologies that they are using at Living Energy Farm. I hope to publish more pictures from our visit and maybe review the book in the future.
This post did very well on Facebook:
Another place I got to see while I was visiting the Louisa County communities was Little Flower. On Facebook I wrote: “Little Flower is a Catholic Worker community in Louisa, VA. When I visited, I was struck with all the mosaics and other art. The first photo is of the front of the main house that greets you when you arrive.
“The statue in the second picture is of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as the Little Flower, who the community is named after. The third picture, the mermaid, is on an outdoor shower stall. The rest are of various art I found around the place.”
This post also did very well on Facebook:
The comments are also worth posting, especially the information from Reji (aka Rejoice):
At Twin Oaks, the destruction of Llano kitchen has resulted in some location changes. From Facebook: “Part of all the work that they are doing at Twin Oaks Community as they renovate Llano Kitchen is moving the milk processing into the dairy barn. Twin Oaks just posted this:
‘MILK PRO MOVED. Milk Processing has now completed the move into the Dairy Barn building! McKenzie and Eleanor (visitor) are finishing up a yogurt batch.'”
Again, this did well:
Finally, this bit from Acorn:
“Acorn Community’s business, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, which Mother Earth News recently referred to as ‘a small company with a big heart’, just publish this list of reasons to save seeds.”
Another week of Facebook postings. (I’m still in Virginia but no longer at Acorn.)
As usual, I am taking stuff off various communes’ Facebook sites and posting it on Commune Life. Here’s something that the Serenity Community for Justice and Peace posted that we reposted.
And, very unfortunately, this one didn’t do well, either. I’m sad because I think that it’s an important piece of news to give context to the county all these communities are forming in.
While I was still at Acorn, I was taken with these signs outside and inside the community dish room.
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This post did pretty well
I liked the comment from Zamin:
At East Wind, some daredevil communards did some work very high up in a tree.
This post did well enough.
Finally, I took this from a post by Southern Exposure. They have lots of good info for gardeners and farmers.
I am still trying to understand Facebook. I don’t like it but I realize that I can reach more folks that way. I pointed out a couple of weeks ago that I put out what I thought was a decent, interesting question and, although it got an okay number of view, it didn’t didn’t get any comments. Another post got a couple of vague comments but not very many views.
I posted what I thought was a more generic question and, for a couple of days, it didn’t get many views (I think less than fifty) and no comments and I thought that was that. Maybe my FB questions had run out of steam.
Then a couple of folks wrote nice, on topic and astute comments, and I replied, and I even got a thank you from Zamin (who is a regular commenter) and we were off. As of Thursday (as I’m writing this) we have a bit over a hundred views, which isn’t spectacular but isn’t bad either, and is at least double what I thought we were getting. I’m still trying to understand Facebook.
Yet another East Winder interview–45 minutes of questions and answers on aquaponics, tattoos, nutbutters, egalitarianism, and other things about life at East Wind Community
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