Most resilient chili pepper

 

This is my Chili pepper. It is the most resilient chili ever! It has garnished fruit three times so far over the span of a year and is still going strong! To me that is pretty resilient.

I hope you liked my photos of resilience. (We did.)

Final contribution by Ryan Daly, April 2015

Resilient, and victory!

This is a photo of my brother and simply shows that if a fighter is resilient he can achieve victory. Grapplefest 21!

Contribution by Ryan Daly, April 2015

Living resilient locally

This is a photo showing my community of friends being resilient and having a low carbon footprint Birthday party for our friend Hannah. No cake, No fancy building or party, no presents." Just Love!

This is a Photo of my locally Owned Small Business. About as resilient as you can get in this day and age.

This is a flyer for the Taos350.org which is a group of local Permaculture Activists. They speak of community resilience with the motto "Working locally, Connecting Globally."

This is a picture of my teachers. They have taught me all about global climate change and resiliency.

Contributions by Ryan Daly, April 2015

Resilient in body

 

This is a photo of the inside of the Greg Jackson Fighting Gym in Rio Rancho. This photo speaks of the fighting spirit and physical resiliency that only a fighter would know and understand.

This is a photo of my T.R.E.A.D. Class. the key to this photo is that they are learning to become more flexible. Flexibility is a large piece of resilience, to be resilient you have to be flexible so you can bend and not break.

Contributions by Ryan Daly, April 2015 

Resilient in snow

This is a photo of my brother, David. This picture represents resilience to me because he is from Florida and this is the first time he has been in a snow storm. It represents our ability to overcome or be resilient to massive changes in our environment.

This photo is of a little flower that refuses to give up.
"Keep standing up for what you believe in, even if you are the only one standing."

Contributions by Ryan Daly, April 2015

Chickens and resilience

Many in smaller communities, including our own, have chickens. Having chickens is a great way to support resilience and is kinder on a family budget. Not to mention the immense benefits of children knowing where their food comes from.

The poultry industry is a cause of environmental degradation in the United States. It kills fish and other wildlife and it makes people ill. In nature, chickens and turkeys range in small flocks over wide areas. In poultry factory farming, thousands of birds are crammed unnaturally into extremely small areas. Filth and disease are the result of this unnatural confinement.

U.S. slaughterhouses kill more than 30 million birds every day, 10 billion birds a year (NASS). This pollutes land, air, and water with diseased carcasses, feces, bacteria, parasites, and viruses.

Having chickens, allows the individual family to raise and harvest their own eggs. They are no longer contributing to the financial and land costs of store bought eggs. The chickens are raised humanly, in our case - they are part of the family.

We have five different breeds of chickens - polyculture. This breeds resilience into our flock. Also, I would add insect control, naturally aerifying the soil through dust baths and digging, and natural fertilizers.

(National Agricultural Statistics Service-USDA. Poultry Slaughter.) 

Contribution by January Sadler, April 2015 

sharing the commons

I think that our local parks show how our community can be resilient. They are places that have a gathering of the young and old for outdoor activities and gathering. By having places in a community to gather outside the home we are able to check in on our neighbors and each other in a casual way. It also allows people to spend more active times outside resulting in healthier communities. 

The photographs above were taken at Kit Carson park. This area has open space for gatherings, practices for sports and meditation, as well as a walking path, three baseball/softball fields, sand volleyball courts, basketball courts, and a playground for different ages of children. It also includes picnic areas.

The 2nd two photographs are of Fred Baca Park. This park has basketball courts, picnic areas, open space for athletics and playgrounds for different ages. It also have a paved track and a nature walking path for seasonal hikes.

Contributed by Darah Spencer, April 2015