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News of the Oaks

by Valerie

Hello from Twin Oaks! It’s been a while since we published an issue of the

Leaves, but quarantining has a way of making more time available.

We are currently in lock-down due to the COVID-19
pandemic—we are allowing no guests or visitors to come

into the community, and only emergency trips out. We
don’t know when this will end, but it will continue for the

foreseeable future.

There were various activities happening over the winter.

Our mid-age home-schooled kids (ages 7 – 14) participated in NaNoWriMo--
National Novel Writing Month—and during the month of November, each of

them produced a short work which were all displayed for the community to see.
We also kept busy with Positive Gossip each week; we put the names of every

member in a hat, and as we drew each name, we went around the circle and
people said the things they love and appreciate about that person.

Other news of the commune: We re-formed our Diversity Team to be POC-only
(Person Of Color) and they have been working on encouraging the community to

address issues of race as they manifest in our predominantly white community.
Our author-member Pam spent 2 months this past winter promoting her second

book The Year-Round Hoophouse by touring many sustainable agriculture
conferences around the

country. We’re continuing being
sustainable in the community by

constructing ponds to turn what
we treat as wastewater from
our tofu business into a

resource which will be captured
and used for irrigating and

fertilizing our pastures. A few
of our members took a trip to
Costa Rica pre-coronavirus and

are now quarantining there—we
keep in regular touch by email.
Twin Oaks wastewater ponds

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