1. Flowering Tree
Permaculture Institute

2. Flowering Tree
About:
A non-profit organization working with the concepts of Permaculture. The
institute was created in 1987 at Santa Clara Pueblo. There the founding
members (Roxanne Swentzell, Rina Swentzell and Rose Simpson) began
teaching classes on different techniques and methods of a healthy lifestyle.

3. Flowering Tree
Classes currently taught:
•how to farm and garden in the high desert climate with low water use
•how to understand micro-climates
•how composting and seed saving are part of growing sustainability
•animal husbandry (how to take care of turkeys, chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep,
fish and even bees)
•how to butcher, store and cook meat
•how to shear sheep, spin wool, and weave
•how to milk, make cheese
•how to harvest honey
•how to create ecosystems of ponds with fish and plants
•how to implement green building techniques (adobe construction, mud
plastering, straw-bale construction, solar energy, water catchments, etc.)

4. Guachupangue and Santa Clara
Guachupangue, New Mexico Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico
Elevation: 5646 ft Elevation: 5607 ft
2000 Population: 9164 2000 Population: 980

5. Flowering Tree
Guachupangue, New Mexico
Guachupangue, New Mexico
What is Flowering Tree's problem?
-restricted space
-disruption due to ceremonial practices
-headquarters operates as home/business
-unstructured operations
-artist in residence
-community involvement
-economic income
-lack of labor

6. Precedents:

7. RiverzEdge Arts Project
68 South Main Street, Woonsocket, RI
68 South Main Street, Woonsocket, RI

8. RiverzEdge Arts Project
Mission Statement:
RiverzEdge creates positive educational and economic outcomes for youth and
their communities through artistic expression, disciplined effort and self-
reliance.

9. RiverzEdge Arts Project
About:
•a social enterprise that provides talented, underserved teens in Rhode Island
hands-on work experience in graphic design, digital photography, screen-
printing and visual arts
•works together to deliver all the marketing services of a design firm
•all profits go directly to the arts and business programs offered
•teen participants receive daily education and practice creating work for clients
•participants are paid stipends for their work which in turn provide them with a
"leg up" and out of poverty

10. RiverzEdge Arts Project
RiverzEdge Arts Project
Services Provided:
-ScreenWorks
-DigitalWorks
-ClassWorks
-GreenWorks
-ArtWorks
-Mobile Studio

11. Plant with Purpose
4903 Morena Blvd. Suite 1215 San Diego, CA
4903 Morena Blvd. Suite 1215 San Diego, CA

12. Plant with Purpose
Mission Statement:
Plant With Purpose is breaking the vicious cycle of poverty and deforestation by
transforming it into a victorious cycle of environmental restoration, economic
empowerment, and spiritual renewal.

13. Plant with Purpose
About:
•Focusing on holistic solutions to poverty
•Has been restoring lives of the rural poor for over 25 years by:
-planting trees which create economic opportunity
-implementing sustainable agriculture programs
-creating cash for work programs that teach skills that will jumpstart new local businesses
Three part environmental, economic and spiritual approach to sustainable
development transforms the communities and people we work with in the
following ways:
Improve Quality of Life (health, education, gender equality and economic security)
Restore Relationships (family, people/environment, people)
Ensure Self Sufficiency by:
-Learning to farm in ways that protect the land=Ensures long-term prosperity
-Communities continue to thrive long after PWP has left

14. Poeh Center
78 Cities of Gold Rd. Santa Fe, NM
78 Cities of Gold Rd. Santa Fe, NM

15. Poeh Center
Mission Statement:
Tewa is the traditional language and culture of six of New Mexico's eight
northern Pueblos. In Tewa, "Poeh" means pathway. The Poeh Center is a living
pathway where tradition travels between the past and the present and leads
into the future, ensuring further creativity. In this role, the Poeh Center
embodies the essence of what it means to be Tewa--to be Pueblo--in a context
of cultural continuity.

16. Poeh Center
About:
•established in 1988
•first permanent tribally owned and operated mechanism for cultural
preservation
•emphasizes arts and cultures of all Pueblo people by teaching the arts,
collecting great works of art and promoting public understanding of and respect
for Pueblo history and culture.

17. Poeh Center
Services Provided:
•a vehicle for Pueblo artistic expression and both Native American and public
education
•training programs in time honored construction methods
•widely recognized for its traditional Pueblo architecture and building
techniques (collaboration between two programs of the Pueblo of Pojoaque:
the nonprofit Poeh Cultural Center and the for-profit Pojoaque Pueblo
Construction Services Corporation)

18. Flowering Tree
Guachupangue, New Mexico
Guachupangue, New Mexico
How are we re-working it?
-implementing a youth workforce development
program
-proposing an adaptive re-use of structure on
secondary site
-restructuring workshops
-relocating field plots to more accessible secondary
site

28. Moving Forward
Larger economic
infrastructure:
-mobile studio
-design/build services
-certification in permaculture/
sustainable program
-pea patch