Pigs in Space?
Why not? American Guinea Hogs on the moon?
The Life Cooperative started a few years ago, in earnest, in Augusta Georgia. We made a push to get heritage breed animals (starting with American Guinea hogs and various chicken types) into the hands of young farmers who wanted to learn about raising them and who could not afford the means to get started alone.
From there, it evolved to us talking to younger and younger people about where their food comes from and how it is raised. The goal became to use technology and the inevitability of certain things and integrate that into their learning, which we called "neo permaculture".
We taught them how to market their ideas; the pitfalls of business sides and analyzing market trends while learning ourselves.
We realized that the need for this education was coming more and more and our demographic was getting younger and younger. One day, we sat back and asked ourselves, "Where do we start?" What is the bedrock of information and learning?
Last year, we engaged 100 3rd graders in a project that grew beyond our imagination. Having captured lightning in a bottle we worked on how to create sustainable educational structures. Things were rolling along quite well until... B.o.b. came along.
We reach students all over the country and in Haiti but most of our work is done in the Atlanta area. B.o.b. is a local rapper famous less for his music and more for his battles with Neil Degrasse Tyson about whether or not the world is flat. He seems to think it is flat and is not shy about it. The problem is that our kids listen to him and look up to him because he is a rapper. He raps about money and women and slips in from time to time, something about the earth being flat.
I teach kids to grow food, why should I be concerned about this? Because one of our students, eight years old, listens to B.o,b. and for a while thought the earth just might have been flat. There is an inherent problem with that but it showed us that we had not found the bedrock; the place where we needed to begin. Not only did we feel that there was a need for a new beginning, we also found there was no essential ending either.
It is indicative of a mindset that, to bring it back to farming, can be seen as invasive. A child who believes the world is flat and that books, adults, the government, science, etc.have been lying to him, becomes an adult who thinks that all of these people are lying to him. So, just like showing a child that a tomato can come from a seed, we had to show this child that the earth is round.
We live in a world that is getting smaller (not literally) every day and in order to help our children understand it, we have to engage on every front. What is the world going to look like in 100 years? I have no idea. I do know that it is round now and likely still will be then. Will there ever be pigs on the moon or Mars? Possibly, but we have to understand where we are now as a starting point. We have to start with basic facts. We have to know that the earth is round.
We write about a lot of things on this blog because it is about life and The Life Cooperative is about life overall. The main thing that we want to get across is that it is all connected.
The A.C.C.ord launches from Georgia Tech on May 25th. From there, it will go 180,000 ft. in the air to take video and pictures of the curvature of the earth and east to land at Clemson University. From Clemson, it will be refurbished and then head to University of South Carolina. From there, we are trying to make it go to all the schools in the ACC... Duke, Florida State, and so on and so on.
Follow along with the Mission here:
The Unity HAB Project
You can help and support us on Patreon (HAB supporters get a really cool patch and or t-shirt!)
The Life Cooperative started a few years ago, in earnest, in Augusta Georgia. We made a push to get heritage breed animals (starting with American Guinea hogs and various chicken types) into the hands of young farmers who wanted to learn about raising them and who could not afford the means to get started alone.
From there, it evolved to us talking to younger and younger people about where their food comes from and how it is raised. The goal became to use technology and the inevitability of certain things and integrate that into their learning, which we called "neo permaculture".
We taught them how to market their ideas; the pitfalls of business sides and analyzing market trends while learning ourselves.
We realized that the need for this education was coming more and more and our demographic was getting younger and younger. One day, we sat back and asked ourselves, "Where do we start?" What is the bedrock of information and learning?
Last year, we engaged 100 3rd graders in a project that grew beyond our imagination. Having captured lightning in a bottle we worked on how to create sustainable educational structures. Things were rolling along quite well until... B.o.b. came along.
We reach students all over the country and in Haiti but most of our work is done in the Atlanta area. B.o.b. is a local rapper famous less for his music and more for his battles with Neil Degrasse Tyson about whether or not the world is flat. He seems to think it is flat and is not shy about it. The problem is that our kids listen to him and look up to him because he is a rapper. He raps about money and women and slips in from time to time, something about the earth being flat.
I teach kids to grow food, why should I be concerned about this? Because one of our students, eight years old, listens to B.o,b. and for a while thought the earth just might have been flat. There is an inherent problem with that but it showed us that we had not found the bedrock; the place where we needed to begin. Not only did we feel that there was a need for a new beginning, we also found there was no essential ending either.
It is indicative of a mindset that, to bring it back to farming, can be seen as invasive. A child who believes the world is flat and that books, adults, the government, science, etc.have been lying to him, becomes an adult who thinks that all of these people are lying to him. So, just like showing a child that a tomato can come from a seed, we had to show this child that the earth is round.We live in a world that is getting smaller (not literally) every day and in order to help our children understand it, we have to engage on every front. What is the world going to look like in 100 years? I have no idea. I do know that it is round now and likely still will be then. Will there ever be pigs on the moon or Mars? Possibly, but we have to understand where we are now as a starting point. We have to start with basic facts. We have to know that the earth is round.
We write about a lot of things on this blog because it is about life and The Life Cooperative is about life overall. The main thing that we want to get across is that it is all connected.
The A.C.C.ord launches from Georgia Tech on May 25th. From there, it will go 180,000 ft. in the air to take video and pictures of the curvature of the earth and east to land at Clemson University. From Clemson, it will be refurbished and then head to University of South Carolina. From there, we are trying to make it go to all the schools in the ACC... Duke, Florida State, and so on and so on.
Follow along with the Mission here:
The Unity HAB Project
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