Timber Timber Collective

🌿 Our nervous system remembers safety 🌿

Safety is not just an idea....it is something our nervous system learns through rhythm, repetition and relationship.

Our Old People gifted us the tools to return to that place of safety:
✨ Ceremony
✨ Song and dance
✨ Art, weaving, and carving
✨ Sitting on Country
✨ Sitting in circle

These are not simply “cultural activities.” They are medicine for the mind, body and spirit.

Through a two-eyed seeing perspective, we understand that what Western somatic and polyvagal approaches teach about regulation, Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing have held for thousands of years....that healing comes through connection, rhythm, community and Country.

Let us reclaim and honour these practices in our healing journeys for ourselves, our families and the generations to come.

Step 1. Give at least half of your garden or land back to nature. If not half, as much as you can manage. Try to grow as much of your own organic food as possible in the other half, if you have time and are physically able. Then, if you have more than enough land to grow food, offer it to friends, neighbours, and family that don’t have access to land to grow food, and build community around growing food. Step 2. Put up a sign saying THIS IS AN ARK with the website address wearetheark.org This simple action removes the shame that people feel about having a messy garden, and replaces it with pride that you’re doing something important to help all the creatures we are supposed to share the planet with. Step 3. Remove any non-native ‘Invasive plants’. This is difficult on a large scale but on our individual patches of earth, we can manage it easily enough by hand and through borrowed grazers or heavy sheet mulching. Step 4. Step in and provide any ecosystem services that we may need to provide due to the absence of the full circle of life. The aim is to create as many different habitats and ecotones as possible in the land you have, habitats that would normally be created by keystone species which are missing from our island Arks. This develops as diverse an ecosystem as possible on your patch. Step 5. Native plants are the foundation stone to any ecosystem. Arks are based on the native plants in your part of the world, wherever you may be. Step 6. Make holes in your boundaries to allow wildlife to pass through. Learn to share your patches of this earth. Can’t fit any more. Find the rest at www.wearetheark.org #wearetheark #nature #ecosystemrestoration #wearethearkireland #gardening #earth #naturerestoration #irish #wildlifegardening #restoration #political #bethechange #patchbypatch #hurryup

If your garden is producing to much, don't forget that the Salvation Army will gladly accept it for their Pantry program.

Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution from Ronnie Cummins, co-founder of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and Regeneration International:

“I believe that the main obstacle we must overcome, in the U.S. and worldwide, is that many (if not most) people are locked into disempowering situations that are causing them to suffer from a pervasive sense of hopelessness. It’s not that they don’t want to change. But unfortunately, most people don’t really believe things can change.

I disagree. I believe we can shift the global conversation on food, farming, politics, health and climate from one of hopelessness to one of hope. I believe we can empower the grassroots to rise up and take action, both individually and collectively.”
Read more 👇👇👇
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//organicconsumers.org/six-rules-organizing-grassroots-regeneration-revolution/

Yes!
It is why I started as a sociologist and turned to wise and compassionate farming.

"Hunger is a litmus test—not just of our food system but of our values, our faith, and our future. When we act with urgency and compassion, we feed more than bodies. We restore dignity, build justice, and strengthen democracy."

Read more: https://foodtank.com/news/2025/07/hunger-is-a-litmus-test-of-our-values-our-faith-and-our-future

Even on a gray day, the Community Roots Garden & Farm is vibrant with purpose. This rich harvest will soon to be prepared in our kitchen and served to kids through the Feed the Children program. 🌾🥬🍽️

Stewards of reforestation 🌲🌳🌲

This diagram compares the natural vegetation succession process with the Miyawaki Mini-Forest method. In natural succession, the ecosystem evolves over centuries, starting with annual plants and progressing through stages of perennial herbs, shrubs, pioneer trees, and eventually reaching a climax forest over 100–200 years. In contrast, the Miyawaki method accelerates this process by densely planting local climax species seedlings. Within just a few years, the forest canopy quickly establishes itself, shading out weeds, and within 15-40 years, a multi-layered, quasi-natural climax forest develops, creating a self-sustaining ecosystem in a much shorter timeframe. The Miyawaki method provides a rapid and efficient way to restore biodiversity and promote forest growth.