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Linda Nowakowski (189) Subsections Profile Tags News Discussions Personal Tag Results for opokfarms Expand results to show items tagged by anyone  Christina Jordan (158) Updated 2 weeks ago  Norbert Louis Okec (10) Updated 39 weeks ago  Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms I'm told bamboo grows in Uganda. Do any of you know if there is bamboo near the farm? It is am amazing building material that grows very fast. In four years or less we'll have bamboo that is very strong that we can use to build with. Bamboo can be ... Updated 40 weeks ago  Ways to support Opok Farm (0) in Opok Farms Can we list different ways that people can contribute to and support Opok Farms here? They do not need to be financial ways! * Vote for Opok Farm Village - Uganda on Razzo for a possible $10,000 in support to build community. * Make a one time cont... Updated 47 weeks ago  Photos from the Farm! (0) in Opok Farms August 2007 - our first planting season .. image:: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1327/1460298438_887a3e7c2e.jpg?v=0 First plowing . .. image:: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1222/1460303802_f7818b25d1.jpg?v=0 Look at that black soil! More to be posted here soon... there's quite a few more uploaded to flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeinafrica/sets/72157602209556835/ Updated last year  Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms One of the most important aspects of a sufficiency economy community, in my opinion, is the community. Community is where you find support and where you can find help in times of trouble but also and maybe more importantly, a group to share and cele... Updated last year  membership (0) in Opok Farms Updated last year  Linda Nowakowski (189) Updated 29 minutes ago  David Bale (85) Updated 33 minutes ago  Cory Richardson (17) Updated 3 weeks ago  George Ovola (73) Updated 6 weeks ago  Comment (3) on Ways to support Opok Farm (0) in Opok Farms I received the following note from Carol Collado Carol Collado wrote: Good for you! Keep up the good work. YOu might want to check out our small grants guidelines. IT sounds as thought your resettlement village could qualify and the deadlines fo... Updated last year  Accumulating information (0) in Opok Farms This is going to be a thread where questions can be answered. Any kind of question related to resources, human or natural or man made. Updated last year  Comment (0) on Ways to support Opok Farm (0) in Opok Farms Do we have any ties to Watoto? http://www.givemeaning.com/project/Watoto Let's look into creating a space on www.givemeaning.com Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms I love the image. I'm not sure when I am going to get there yet. I have not had any luck finding a Canadian non-profit partnership. The Aeroplan (airmiles) company in Canada says they will help me, but I need a Canadian tax number. Action Hero is bas... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Ways to support Opok Farm (0) in Opok Farms I don't want to sound like a whiny child, but learning Webbed Empowerment isn't easy :-) It's also exciting and fun. Life is full of both laughter and tears. Something coming up on October 15 is Blog Action Day . It's a day when bloggers will wr... Updated last year  Ecology at Opok Farms (0) in Opok Farms I would like to re-open the discussion_ started by David Bale at omidyar.net on ecology, wildlife and ecotourism possibilities at Opok Farm. .. _discussion : http://www.omidyar.net/group/opokfarms/news/0/ Updated last year  Comment (0) on Photos from the Farm! (0) in Opok Farms Wonderful pictures, Christina. Can't wait to visit. Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms there are some musical instruments that use bamboo, Dominique, but I haven't seen other local artforms using it. Might be different in Kitgum (not far away) however. They use a lot more bamboo in housing. Cory - here's an idea I've been toying with... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Photos from the Farm! (0) in Opok Farms Wow, it is so beautiful!! Love the 'faucet' and really love the tshirt. Must be so exciting there to actually see it happening. Updated last year  Comment (0) on Photos from the Farm! (0) in Opok Farms The forest .. image:: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1393/1460607488_1dc00b1149.jpg?v=0 . .. image:: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1132/1460596162_4102f7f85d.jpg?v=0 . .. image:: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1089/1460617828_5ce967bb5b.jpg?v=0 .. image:: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1256/1460601282_1f175183d1.jpg?v=0 Updated last year  Comment (0) on Photos from the Farm! (0) in Opok Farms Worker planning seminar (August 2007 @ WE Center Gulu) .. image:: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1416/1459186881_5981c57357.jpg?v=0 . .. image:: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1124/1459183073_a93e042de0.jpg?v=0 . .. image:: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1262/1460043230_65ecf186f1.jpg?v=0 . .. image:: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1097/1460054698_2c7c847f64.jpg?v=0 . .. image:: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1244/1460060252_5194c0cc0d.jpg?v=0 Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms I am not sure that you need to limit the age. As there will be adults in the community, the parents should be free to attend as well...maybe you have break out sessions for different groups. Adults with adults. Maybe even splitting boys and girls as ... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms I spent a lot of time in India with a good friend of mine, Baba is his name, and while in his sixties, he's still agile as a teenager. Baba lives in a tribal jungle area in the Western Ghats (South India -- the place where the jungle book is based o... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms what age group would the children involved in this retreat be? I do think the retreat could be a very effective community building tool. For one thing it will introduce them to the farm but more so, it will take them totally out of their current env... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms Glad to hear you think the retreat idea can work in theory - now we need to think that through in practical terms. we do have good ties with the catechist training center at the Diocese in Gulu - the catechists are the Catholic church's community wo... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms I had asked you before if you had made any contact with the diocese there about working with the community on spiritual work. The Roman Catholic church has a tradition of meditation and personal development work in community. Retreats where there ... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms Seems to me we're all on the same page about the kind of community building we want to see happen. What I really need now is a starting point for organizing the scheduled context in which this kind of community building can actually start to happen... Updated last year  Comment (1) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms Linda and Christina, I have enjoyed your most recent posts and I believe that you have raised important issues. I think it will help you if you will examine the point of view from which you are analyzing these issues. - from the point of view of ... Updated last year  Comment (2) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms We are talking about health and well being on some many levels. 1. Certainly there is a need to deal with that personal crisis and teaching people how to listen and empathize is a step that needs to be taken. Deep listening and loving speech (or wha... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms By the way Cory - can you share more about your plans to come to Uganda in November? When might we see you on the farm? I've made a suggestion to John Powers over here http://www.ned.com/group/opokfarms/news/4/?page=1#comment15 it would be great to h... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Cory Richardson said: We could also put cob(clay/straw/sand mix) between the bamboo. Would that work for a dome? I really like the dome idea but my biggest concern is the canvas. High quality canvas is not available in Uganda - I'm told the clos... Updated last year  Comment (2) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms Listening, understanding, forgiving - not only each other but *ourselves* as well. Lately in dealing with some personal health issues I've been learning more and more about new connections that are being made between emotional and physical developmen... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms When we build with bamboo, we don't need to worry about the bricks. We could also put cob(clay/straw/sand mix) between the bamboo... which I'm sure people know how to do there. Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms At one of the sessions I went to with THICH NHAT HANH this year, he was talking about deep listening. He talked about listening to someone and not commenting...just listening (you could ask for clarification if you asked nicely). You could not commen... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms Christina Jordan said: This "automatically" happens in Asoke communities because the thing that brings most of them together is an desire to work on personal, spiritual development. They join the community for that and then the tasks of living i... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms Welcome to the conversation, Barbara! I am not familiar wit Aitken Roshi, thous I just googled him and there is a lot where I can check him out. As I have read and studied about Buddhism, I have found it valuable to read teachers who are fluent in E... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms Hi Linda, I want to share with you that I have been a student of Robert Aitken since I was about 20. I am now almost 57. I have met Thich Nhat Han and others who have encouraged and taught us to be genuine and mindful. I have studied Buddhist med... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms Maybe you start with the people you have working there now and who have families. They need someplace to live right now and even if they decide that they are going to move on to family/clan lands, they will have experienced it and will talk. Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms I think that by working together as a community and seeing that community can lighten the load (many hands makes light work), by seeing that by sharing, they can have more opportunities than going it alone, by experiencing what the community can be,... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms Why don't we think about having the community be a cooperative? The original talk was to provide the families with a 25 year lease to provide land security. If you made the community a cooperative, and gave the cooperative a 25 year lease that woul... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms This "automatically" happens in Asoke communities because the thing that brings most of them together is an desire to work on personal, spiritual development. They join the community for that and then the tasks of living in and supporting the commun... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Cory Richardson said: When do you expect to have kids at the farm? Not before we have a place for them to sleep and eat there. The Ugandan school year starts in the beginning of feb. So if we can manage to find the funding for the materials... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Check out this dome frame design using bamboo: http://tribes.tribe.net/stardomes/photos/ec5e695a-e9d7-4577-ad2a-4e3fb4c9487f We could make one a lot bigger using the same idea. The kids could also learn how to make them for themselves. When do yo... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Playful City : ATLANTA : Healthy City (8) in Cynthia Gentry's personal news Updated last year  Comment (1) on Playful City : ATLANTA : Healthy City (8) in Cynthia Gentry's personal news Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms A second thing that will be happening next month is that my students will be learning about living in a sufficiency economy community. They will be learning how to farm, how to cook, how to make organic fertilizer, how to recycle, how to build, how ... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms I admire your approach to life and would like to support your efforts described here. As you know, I have some ideas on these matters. Let me know if you think we can, together, forge a deeper understanding. Updated last year  Comment (0) on Community at Opok Farm Village (0) in Opok Farms Earlier this year, I attended a presentation by Peter Hurst and subsequently got to spend time with him as we looked at the Asoke communities here. He presented the concept of Deep Community. Deep community can be described as a community or group ... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Cory said: Also the discussion about what is wealth and how much do we really need money is very important. More please! Cory, I would welcome you comments and questions on this issue. To keep this thread on topic, I set up a general discussion i... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Christina, you are right about the canvas on the dome. It could be the most expensive part, but I'm thinking about keeping the sewing to a minimum. That would reduce the cost a lot. I will use a bunch of tarps that tie together when I create one. Whe... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Has anyone there any numbers on the cost of a well? A borehole costs about shs13m (about $8,000) There is one borehole that needs renovating (about $2,500) There are several springs. It's recommended that we protect them with a cement str... Updated last year  Comment (1) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms I love the idea of an alliance with your actionhero network, Cory! Here's a link to a razoo action I set up earlier today. Join the Opok Farms group at Razoo One question - how long do you think the canvas part of the dome construction will last i... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms While I understand IC frustration, given the history with omidyar.net, Omidyar Network, Life in Africa, Grace, Christina, myself and so many, amny people here with the Invisible Children org, I really would encourage us to not get into a negative IC ... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms .. image :: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1107/1398388283_295681ea19_m.jpg This is really affordable construction! And it is SOOOOOOO beautiful! Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms I believe that if we can come up with a concrete visible plan for helping visible people with the names of people doing the work.... Has anyone there any numbers on the cost of a well? My mind is working... As part of the speedgranting that Invisi... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Thanks for the info mark. And this is the power of unity... they have a large network. What do you folks know about IC's work in Uganda? Someone said that 50% of the money they get goes to Washington lobbyists. Is this true? I don't want to bash their work to get votes... but if this is true, it is a waste of a lot of money. I really don't know, so I'm keen to hear from you folks. Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Linda. The dome would be a gathering place, dorm, workshop and playground. It is an open space shade structure. We could do anything with it. The cost would be the cost of bamboo, rope and canvas. Hard to say what these will cost. I'll look into it.... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Dare to dream, I sure do. Be aware that Invisible Children has exploded to over 400 members in their Razoo group in the last few days and has the capacity to drive many votes for the $10,000 Razoo funding event. I think Opok can get to 100 members ... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Here is a dream - how about $10,000 from the get 100 people in your group thing at Razoo? We are up to 73 .... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms I have to say that a bamboo dome is not high on our priority list for funding right now, Cory. For now, with personal funds dwindling quickly, we're hoping to get some basics funded that can help us clear and plant more land. But anyway, how much do ... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms I'm not yet a bamboo expert, but I'm sure it will not be hard to build a bamboo structure at the farm. We can get bamboo from somewhere else to begin with, then start growing more. I'd like to be in Uganda this November. I don't know the Opok Farm p... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Photos of beautiful bamboo structures: http://www.deboerarchitects.com/Bamboostructures.html http://www.bambootech.org/showgallery.asp?catid=13# http://www.deboerarchitects.com/BambooThoughts.html Lots of links to info about bamboo and other gr... Updated last year  Resettlement training proposal - wishlist brainstorming (0) in Opok Farms Folks around Gulu are loving our 2 page concept paper! George has had some serious interest from the Gulu rep at CARE, who has asked that we put together a shs 100m proposal (+/- $65,000) for how they might help us build out these ideas: - job cr... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms I almost forgot bamboo furniture_ .. _furniture : http://www.bamboofurniture.com/homepage.htm What looks like a good place_ to start to learn about growing bamboo. .. _place : http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/horticulture/GrowingBamboo.htm Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Bamboo reminds me of my grandfather who had roofed his house using them.He also used the bamboo to trap rain water. Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Since opok farm is highly fertiled; i don't know whether baboo requires fertily or infertily i need some tips on it, but i think bamboo will grow well just like Munnu said in his suggestion and ours can be more than that of lukung, which is largely b... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms I can't even begin to enumerate the uses I have seen here for bamboo. Almost all scaffolding is bamboo. I thought I could find a picture I had of the first apartment building I lived in. They painted this 11 story building and all of the scaffoldin... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Bamboo grows well in Kitgum in a place called Lukung.there are plently some are domestic and others wild.the one which grow at home takes about 4years as stated but the wild ones it's not specific and I believe in the farm it will grow well especiall... Updated last year  Comment (1) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms The bamboo I used in the US gulf coast was called Moso, and it grows the full height its first year. After that its fibers get stronger each year. This image shows a pile of it: http://actionhero.smugmug.com/gallery/1557279#75160621 Maybe the type ... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Most bamboos grow well in moist, well drained and fertile soil .... it says here. :) Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Maybe the area at the farm was too dry. Yes, this particular patch is up on a ridge. There may be a lot more growing in areas closer to the river that we haven't yet explored. Aren't there different kinds of bamboo, or is it basically all the sam... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms If I remember right, it does best in a faily wet locale, either from a waterway or like in Oregon where it is just wet a lot of the time. Maybe the area at the farm was too dry. Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms >>yes we have some bamboo at the farm. There's a smallish patch near the old (now destroyed) farm house though, and we were kind of wondering why it hadn't spread more over the past 20 years of growing wild.<< In Oregon it grows like a weed, overtak... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Growing bamboo at the farm. (0) in Opok Farms Hi Cory - glad to see you here. yes we have some bamboo at the farm. There's a smallish patch near the old (now destroyed) farm house though, and we were kind of wondering why it hadn't spread more over the past 20 years of growing wild. what kin... Updated last year  Ya'll are Action Heroes! (0) in <Ned> Front Porch New to <ned> as of today, I'm pleased with what I have read and have been received. I've spent the past ten years developing my action hero and creating my personal legend (www.solomax.com) ...now I'm keen to work with others like you as much as po... Updated last year  Comment (0) on George Ayittey : TED Talk: Cheetahs vs Hippos (0) in African Economics and Leadership Dr. Ayittey, Thank you ever so much for joining this discussion. I have been sitting back and lurking and thinking and twisting and turning.... I came to this discussion by way of a project that will be my PhD thesis in Buddhist Economics. We are... Updated last year  Comment (0) on Soap Project - Development (0) in <Ned> Uganda Ooh! Lets figure out what we need to grow at Opok Farms to eventually make natural soaps! Updated last year  Comment (3) on George Ayittey : TED Talk: Cheetahs vs Hippos (0) in African Economics and Leadership Jim thank you for starting this discussion. It's a delight to try and put some of this into words because it's been an issue that is very real in my work right now. Recently in Gulu I was seriously starting to think the clan system would blow a hole ... 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