About this blog

Hello,

I am creating this site so that people can learn about Gainesville's enchanting humans and nature. I would like to help build sustainable community through this site. The above photo is of several of our local farmers, honey makers, candlemakers, and vendors at the downtown Farmers' Market (every Wednesday from 4-7). This event was of all of us getting together to celebrate our market and to watch a film that the FlaVA (Florida Visual Anthropologists) created (mainly Marcos and me with lots of help throughout the process) that explores the collapse of the dominant economic model through evaluating and expressing alternatives like the locally-based, sometimes barter-based, hopefully non- exploitative farmers market. I look forward to creating another blog to follow this theme more directly. How do we create an alternative economic system that integrates the needs of humans and nature into the model?

For now though I hope this blog can serve as a catalyst and a space for cohesion so that our community can coalesce and create positive change. I envision this through photos, videos, and experiences with our natural areas to understand our local ecosystems, learning about our local political and economic systems, as well as participating in local social events. I look forward to posts of activism, activity and art within our incredibly rich Gville experiences...