This work hasn’t paused — it’s being tended.

As extractive funding models unravel, the Farmastery and Lifeboat Academy continue practicing economic resilience through relationship, reciprocity, and shared care.

This is a clear but gentle funding invitation — not charity or urgency, but companionship in learning how to sustain life during contraction.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-177223686

#RelationalEconomics #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #EconomyOfCare

Sharing a gentle funding reminder for those who may have missed it.

The Farmastery and Lifeboat Academy are continuing to practise relational economics — sustaining the work through belonging, reciprocity, and shared stewardship rather than urgency or individual hustle.

This is a clear, consent-based funding ask. Support takes many forms, and there’s no expectation beyond what’s real for you.

"Courage In the Cracks" @
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#RelationalEconomics #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy

A lot of what we’re facing now emerged from habits of thought that were once rewarded — efficiency, growth, control, certainty.

Fair share ethics depends on recognising when familiar thinking no longer serves, and allowing new ways of understanding to emerge through shared practice, attention, and adjustment.

This isn’t about having the right answers. It’s about staying open to being changed.

#AlbertEinstein #FairShareEthics #CollectiveLearning #LivingWithinLimits #Farmastery

It’s often not a lack of information that gets in the way of fairness and care, but the quiet belief that we already understand enough.

Living within limits asks for a different posture: humility, curiosity, and a willingness to keep learning together as conditions shift. Fair share ethics depends on that openness — not on fixed answers, but on shared attention and adjustment.

#StephenHawking #FairShareEthics #CollectiveLearning #LivingWithinLimits #Farmastery

This names the scale where real economic change actually happens.

Not in abstraction or ideology, but in companionship — people choosing to stay with the work of living differently, together. An economy rooted in sustaining life requires relationship, patience, and shared practice.

This is fair share ethics as lived experience, not theory.

#BenKadel #FairShareEthics #RelationalEconomy #CommunityCare #Farmastery

This quote points to a difficult reality of collapse and care.

When people are overwhelmed or afraid, resistance isn’t always rejection — it’s often the body protecting itself. Help offered without trust or consent can land as danger.

As we move toward fair share ethics, this matters deeply. Care has to be relational, paced, and responsive — or it risks doing harm even with good intentions.

#OctaviaEButler #FairShareEthics #RelationalCare #SystemsChange #Farmastery

From the outside, the Farmastery can look complex — many roles, many functions.

But the ground it stands on is simple: living within a fair share, treating tension as information, noticing what works, and learning forward together.

Simple isn’t easy. Most of the work is unlearning urgency, avoidance, and purity habits — and what grows in their place is relationship and flow.

https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/fair-share-ethics-df9116abdea7

#FairShareEthics #LivingWithinLimits #Farmastery

“Inhabiting the cracks” names a familiar experience for many: living inside uncertainty, breakdown, and transition without a clear map forward.

This isn’t a demand for solutions or control. It’s an invitation to stay present with what’s here, and to ask how care, attention, and relationship might be offered where things no longer align.

Sometimes the work begins in the places we didn’t plan to be.

#BayoAkomolafe #InhabitingTheCracks #LivingWithUncertainty #CollapseAwareness #Farmastery

Holding the cracks takes courage. Lifeboat Academy invites you to join—support, skill, or companionship.

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#CourageInTheCracks #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #SharedThreshold #ReturnOnRelationship

We hold the cracks together. Lifeboat Academy invites you to join the work—skills, ideas, attention, or support.
#CourageInTheCracks #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #SharedThreshold #ReturnOnRelationship
https://substack.com/home/post/p-177223686

We’ve been tending the Lifeboat Academy quietly. Now we invite you: join in, share skills or support, and help grow courage in the cracks.
#CourageInTheCracks #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #SharedThreshold #ReturnOnRelationship
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A mistake is not the end of the path — it’s part of how the path forms.
In the forest, even decay becomes contribution.

This quote lands differently when we see error as a natural process:
a bit of compost in the soil of worthwhile work.

#LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery #RegenerativeLiving #Ecology #LearningInPublic #CompostMindset #MutualChange

Sometimes Monday feels like a whole year compressed into a day. But the real bottleneck often isn’t the schedule — it’s the breath we forget to release.
This week’s reflection explores patience, awkward mammals in community spaces, and the moment an exhale softens a room.
https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-bottleneck

#Patience #SlowWork #CommunityCare #Leadership #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy

Correctness offers the illusion of stability, but often blocks our capacity to see what’s truly moving.
Ben's artice this week explored how we re-orient inside complexity — how we recognise flow when surface conditions feel chaotic or still.

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti names the shift: from correctness to complexity, context, and compassion.
That’s where real clarity begins.

#Complexity #Context #Compassion #SystemsChange #RelationalLeadership #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy

Much of the movement in complex work happens long before it becomes visible.
When we pause and pay attention, we begin to notice the subtle shifts — the small signals that show the work is already flowing in its own way.

This week we’re exploring the mirrors, metabolic metaphors, and orientation tools that help us see through the white-out and recognise the currents already at work.

#SeeingMovement #SystemsThinking #AttentionFirst #ComplexWork #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery

Certainty and curiosity can’t coexist — one contracts, the other expands.
In an Autumn season of sorting, shedding, and re-seeing, this small shift can open an entirely different way of meeting the world.
Softening is a skill, and it changes what becomes possible.

#LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery #CuriosityPractice #AutumnEnergy #RightRelationship #EmotionalEcology #SlowSkills

Emotions aren’t intrusions into our thinking — they’re embodied signals of commitment.
They teach us what we value, where we’re connected, and how our moral intuition forms.

An ecology of relationships starts with listening to the ones inside us.

#Interdependence #EmotionalWisdom #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #GiftEcology #dacherkeltner

Courage and vulnerability are not opposites.
They’re interdependent — two parts of the same motion toward honesty and connection.
A gentle step into being seen is often the strongest move we make.

#Courage #Vulnerability #RelationalResilience #CommunityPractice #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery

The courage of our questions shapes the honesty of our culture.
At Lifeboat Academy, we practise inquiry as care—
a way of tending to what is real, not merely what feels good.

#LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery #CarlSagan #InquiryAsCare #EcologyOfMind #TruthAndTenderness #RelationalEthics #SlowLearning

Exploring the concept of food sovereignty via SeedChange: producers and communities at the heart of food systems, not commodity logic.
At Farmastery & Lifeboat Academy we lean into exactly this tension — land, agency, experiments.

#FoodSovereignty #Agroecology #CommunityResilience #LandBasedLearning #Farmastery
https://weseedchange.org/food-sovereignty/