The Center for Sustainable Living

Many thanks go out to Northfield Tractor and Equipment for donating tilling services to the Greenvale Park Community Garden! After much wet and rainy conditions, the soil was finally ready to be tilled.
Let the planting begin!

Many thanks go out to the 25 participants who came together for our first Northfield Commons Café! We all drew out pictures of our visions and dreams for community, and after sharing, we came up with our questions. Many thanks to Norman Butler, who brought it two bottles of wine to Tiny’s, yet [...]

“We are the leaders we have been waiting for.”
- David Korten, from The Great Turning - from Empire to Earth Community
Please join us tonight for our first of many Northfield Commons Café discussions. In these cafés, we will come together - ALL as leaders, to envision and create the community we wish to see [...]

A very large embrace of thanks goes out to all who attended last night’s Northfield Park and Recreation Advisory Board. With a room filled to capacity, citizens came out to voice their opinions on the proposed archery range construction, which would have claimed over 30% of the park, destroying the prairie grasses, wildflowers, and [...]

“We are the leaders we have been waiting for.”
- David Korten, from The Great Turning - from Empire to Earth Community
We hope you will join us for the first of many of what we are calling the Northfield Commons Café Discussions. In these open-space circle-based discussions, all are leaders and all are learners. [...]

Hello Neighbors,
I’m Amy Wilcox. I’m an old Permaculturist and a new CSL board member. Please check out the new Permaculture page tab to find out more about the subject. If you have any questions to ask or ideas to share, please post them to our new bulletin board

Despite very wet conditions up until the workday, and a start at noon instead of 9am, the Greenvale Park Community Garden Workday was a success.
On Saturday, May 3, gardeners put up new fencing for the expansion of the garden, marked off plot boundaries, and began to ready the garden for the 2008 growing season. [...]

A proposal to make about half of Lashbrook Park into an archery range is now before the Northfield Park and Recreation Advisory Board. The proposal was made by the Cannon Valley Sportsmen’s Club on September 11, 2007, and is almost ready for final action.
Lashbrook Park, the natural area on the Cedar-Greenvale corner, was [...]