Traditions & Practices

Lineages of knowledge and doing. Some ancient, some recent. All tested by time and use.

Agricultural

• Pueblo Farming — Deep-planting, dry farming, three sisters polyculture. Centuries of knowledge for arid conditions.
• Permaculture — Design principles from observing natural systems. Zones, guilds, stacking functions.

Social

• Mutual Aid — Cooperation as survival strategy. The barn-raising model. Kropotkin’s insight.
• The Commons — Shared resources, shared governance. What Ostrom learned from fisheries and forests.

Technical

• Appropriate Technology Movement — 1970s response to development failures. Schumacher, Illich, the Whole Earth Catalog.
• Repair Culture — The right to fix. Knowledge of how things work. Relationship with objects.

Traditions aren’t static. They’re living things that adapt. The question is what’s worth carrying forward.