This upcoming weekend we have our first opportunities to do field work, and I'm delighted that we have folks who are ready and eager to jump up from their computer screens to venture out and
take it to the field.
On Saturday the Montagnard community in Greensboro takes part in the
Glenwood Neighborhood Celebration. Glenwood is a neighborhood in Greensboro in which the Montagnard community is well represented. This promises to be an interesting event to document, offering a unique opportunity to see the Montagnard community in relationship and in context. It will be my first time to attend this celebration, and I'm really looking forward to it.
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| Goat Lady Dairy Farm on Open Farm Day |
On Sunday Montagnard weavers take part in
Open Farm Day at the Goat Lady Dairy Farm (GLDF). This promises to be an interesting event as well, since the GLDF is quite an amazing place to see successful sustainable agriculture in action. I have been to the farm a couple of times and am eager to return. It is very intriguing to see how the most cutting-edge contemporary practices in agriculture --such as those at the GLDF-- mirror the methods of traditional agriculturalists such as the Montagnards. So the connection is very strong and intriguing.
We watched a video early in the term of a Wade Davis presentation entitled
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World and in many ways the Goat Lady Dairy Farm is an object-lesson in not only why ancient wisdom matters, but also how it can be applied in contemporary life.
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