Jonathan McRay is a father, farmer, facilitator, and writer in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He grows beautiful and useful trees that cross-pollinate food sovereignty and ecological restoration with Silver Run Forest Farm, a riparian nursery, woodland collective, and folk school practicing agroforestry, watershed health, and restorative justice. As a facilitator and mediator, he supports grassroots groups and community organizations through conflict transformation, popular education, and participatory decision-making. Jonathan is also learning to give up erosive perfectionism in favor of joyful growth.
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The Village Way
Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World
For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?
Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,
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