PPLT to partner with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance on Composting Program

The Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust (PPLT) received a grant from the Institute of Self-Reliance (ILSR) to increase community composting efforts within PPLT’s Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program. PPLT was one of 10 awardees selected from a competitive pool of applicants across New England.

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance, founded in 1974, is a national research, advocacy, and technical assistance organization that empowers communities to take charge of their local resources, economies, and environmental future. Through its Composting for Community Initiative, ILSR promotes distributed and diverse local composting across the country, aiming to cut food loss, enhance soils and watersheds, support local food production, and protect the climate while addressing community prosperity and equity.

“We are grateful for this new partnership with the Institute for Local Self-Resiliency as composting is very important to our program,” says Musquant Nompashim Netas, Chief of the Ninigret Nehantick Nahaganset Clan and Leader of the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program. “Composting is recycling. When we feed the Earth, the Earth will feed us.”

 

May 24th: Join Us for The Conway School Spring Project Presentations

Please join us for a day (or an hour) on Friday, May 24, starting at 9 am to hear about the large-scale design projects our Class of 2024 is working on. As usual, we’ve invited an excellent panel of reviewers to provide feedback: Jesse Bellemare, Jonathan Fogelson, and Genevieve Lawlor ’11.

Registration is required, and the event will be held on Zoom. You can pop in and out as your time allows and provide comments on the projects live!

Spring 2024 projects include:

  • Climate Resilience Project, D.W. Field Park, Avon, MA
  • Charlemont Fairgrounds Redesign, Charlemont, MA
  • A Revitalized Home Base for the Greenagers, April Hill, South Egremont, MA
  • Main Street Bridge Climate Resilience Project, Hampden, MA
  • The Harmonium Botanical Sanctuary and Retreat Center, Conway, MA
  • The Nolumbeka Project, Greenfield, MA
  • Rural Food Forest at Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield, MA
  • Urban Food Forest at the Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School, Springfield, MA
  • Restoration and Design Work, Wainer Woods, Westport, MA
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