Social capital


The quote above, by the author Murray Bookchin is part of the intellectual foundation of Old Tree.

We have asked ourselves the questions: why make things when the world is already so full of stuff? Why create more business when the energy consumption of business is part of the degradation of our earth and the fragmentation of our culture?

the cultures of brewing and gardening and the sharing of knowledge in food-forestry and fermentation we generate social capital for community resilience.

Before an ecological transformation of civilization can become possible – we have to have  to have a social transformation. add educational and social value by facilitating new connections between people, plants and living landscapes. We want the realisation of abundance accessed through food forestry, community gardening and small scale organic farming to shape a new social and economic culture. A culture that heals the earth and (re)empowers people to join it.

Old Tree exists to build a web of mutually beneficial connections around the world and sow the seeds of a restorative culture. 

Our goal is to replicate the synergies in the human world that we can see abound in nature. We see the accumulation of social capital, which is really just a newer term for community, as the foundation of this kind of new productive network.

We have called it capital here because capital has become to our society what chlorophyll is to plants – the thing that we turn all of our resourcefulness and energy into so that we can grow.