To West Coast Land Owners South of the Columbia,
2024 SPRING – MARCH 4th
Let’s Grow In 2024 (food + cannabis)
Spring is upon us and planning for the upcoming year is in full swing, you’re among the blessed who have a rural haven where you can churn the soil and produce more than you can consume. You’re planning and strategizing and you are always tickled by the idea of expanding or trying something interesting. Along comes the concept of the altruistic coop and non-profit organization that ties organic food, specialty foods, cannabis, and social gatherings together in a monthly format.
Much has transpired in the past handful of years to increase the personal responsibility we hold to our families and communities to create a safe space, with clean food, pure water that is supportive to those who are most vulnerable to increased predatory nature of the American social environment.
PERSONAL + GROUP RESPONSIBILITY
Self-Publishing + Exporting Skillsets can help bolster a whole community regardless of location.
We also hold a responsibility to support and preserve “the arts” and this means individual artists, bands, writers, entrepreneurs and creatives of all types as the culture has degraded and gentrified and commercialized to leave these humans stranded and without means to exist creatively.
This personal responsibility to create a safe space also includes our collective responsibility to preserve individual rights, including the right to freely associate, and thus freely disassociate as we please and for any reason. Under this necessity, we must work to organize ourselves into private associations where we take in members and pool resources for the specific purpose of creating spaces where rights are preserved and vulnerabilities and special needs are looked after.
A cooperative is a layer that fits on top of the private association and can operate as though it has a private facing side, and a public facing side so that it can function supportively to each.
Acting As a Layer Maker
Hash is a natural building block of any reasonable cooperative effort. With it, many things that have nothing to do with hash are possible.
How can I bring my skillset and my experience to your existing plans so that food, cannabis, music, art comes together in a synergy so that a monthly gathering is the natural progression?
Another layer that fits on top is the digital publishing capacity that is gifted to us with these “smart devices” and high speed connections. “Farm-core” is now a video blogging category because people have become deprived of their connection to nature-itself, living vicariously through the back-to-the-land video-bloggers.
Another layer that fits on top is therapeutic work with animals both for the rehabilitation of animals, but also for the support and rehabilitation of those in our community. Animals can help humans heal from trauma and visa versa, cuteness and observing the inspiring courage of animals also factors into the digital publishing layer.
Another layer that fits on top is the internal use of “gifting coins”, doing transactions in silver or helping new members convert resources they own into silver that they can use to trade for things they need like food, cannabis-based remedies or conversion back to USD. Everyone has latent resources for helping a collective goal, and any cooperative can use silver to help drive a self-empowered mentality where anyone can “trade up” from very little to help themselves or those around them and feed the can-do-spirit that lives inside of all of us – whether latent or completely active.
Another layer that fits on top of the cooperative format is educational services and training events for individuals and small groups seeking to gain knowledge on how to grow organic food, cannabis or take on any of the processes down the chain having to do with specialty foods or goods, arts and crafts.
Self-sustaining practices are virtually and actually “all-the-rage” and this fits in to the cooperative model as a skill-share value – but also fits into the digital publishing layer as you can now create a virtual community where your skills can be published to a grateful audience.
What can be said about planning a coop in a fashion that puts your “small-business” in a position to succeed post-prohibition, when all 50 states are able to freely exchange without encumbrances? Website design, photography, speciality culinary processes and skillful use of video blogging can make this sort of execution something others can emulate and use in their communities.
I am happy to say that cannabis has been a life-changing benefit in my life, from very early on (1994-2024)
It is my hope that a west coast coop can be built so that the resources could be made available that I feel increases my quality of life, and by extension, these resources can be made available for the thousands who are ‘not unlike me’ who suffer from an abundance of critical thinking and a natural empathy towards others in a world that does not make make room for thought, and continually traumatizes us so and extinguishes our empathy.
I have the skills and the inspiration to help engineer and execute a plan, I’m seeking multiple land owners and a diverse range of skills to make things come together for the betterment of our communities.
{ I am set up to be fully contained, with 30ft travel trailer, needing only 110 outlet and access to well water. My companion dog helps me on all projects and is socialized to animals and livestock. }
I can be reached by email: cannaclatch@protonmail.com
I can be reached by text or call:
Reach out any time,
Tom
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