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VE Supports Organic Gardening Projects on Pine Ridge

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Village Earth, as part of it’s larger initative to support Lakota Tiyospayes in their efforts to recover, restore, protect, and utilize their remaing land-base has help connect three tiyospayes to resources needed for their sustainable gardening projects. Below is a picture of the Red Cloud’s garden in the community of Payabya. Fort Collins based celebrity John (The Worm Man) Anderson helped families install worm bins to both consume organic waste and create nutrient rich compost for their gardens. Below Sam Long Blackcat and John put the lid (a recycled hot-tup cover) on a staw-bale worm bin that John designed. Below: Henry Red Cloud inspects a worm bin installed near the village of Red Shirt. With the help of Village Earth and Lauretta Sandoval (A CSU Food and Nutrition Graduate Student) the Shockey Two-Bull garden expanded nearly 400% in one year.

Upcoming Courses in the Village Earth/CSU Online Certificate Program in Community-Based Development

Winter II Session

GSLL 1501 – Approaches to Community Development

This course provides a framework for community development based on a participatory, bottom-up, multi-sector model. Various approaches have been used in community development with varying degrees of success. One approach that has consistently demonstrated effectiveness is the Village Earth model based on participatory practices.

Through personal and structural empowerment, the objectives of economic well-being, environmental sustainability, and socio-cultural vitalization can be met. By looking at an overview of the entire development process and using case studies, this course will prepare participants to work in the field of community development and illuminate how all of the development efforts fit together to support the overall goal of sustainability.

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

Compare different development approaches and evaluate their effectiveness.
Understand the basic principles that underlie sustainable development.
Incorporate participatory practices into community development activities
Design a development project based on the Village Earth model
Who should take this course? This course is suited for people who are interested in community development and work or plan to work in this field. This includes people working or volunteering at NGOs, NPOs, governmental organizations, without border organizations, or missionary organizations. In addition, people involved in funding community development projects benefit from this course.

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