Living Simply in Co-operation with Nature
Visit the Broadened Horizons Farm website.
Leaf Myczack & Cielo Sand
226 Rodgers Lane Rockwood, TN 37854
865-354-8170
cielosand@mindspring.com
The Broadened Horizons Earthkeeper Project
is a not-for-profit, all volunteer group that is committed to demonstrating through daily example, sustainable-based permaculture, natural and manufactured resource recycling, and simple, Earth respectful living practices. The project’s participants are guided by an environmental ethic rooted in good biological stewardship that places humans within the web of life, and strives to maximize the beneficial relationship between humans and the natural environment. The EarthKeeper Project is based on age-old conservation and agricultural principals employed by sustainable societies of native peoples in many parts of the world.
The EarthKeeper Project maintains a hands-on teaching campus located on the shores of Watts Bar Reservoir of the Tennessee River. The 96- acre campus provides teaching opportunities to learn about right livelihood-based Earth stewardship. An internship program is available during the warm weather growing season (May through September) One, two, and three-day workshops and hands-on seminars teach sustainable methods of:
- Small scale farming, organic gardening, seed saving,
- Rainwater collection and storage,
- Solar energy for heating, lighting, and food growing,
- Creating low compaction, Earth friendly pathways,
- Soil restoration practices
- Low cost, alternative corrective solutions to degraded environment type challenges.
Historical background of the Project’s co-founders.
Leaf and Cielo met during a weekend Earth Awareness Workshop held in May of 1980 at the woodland home of Leaf Myczack and his family. Sharing a mutual desire to live a meaningful, aware life while operating within the natural rhythms and cycles of the annual seasons, Leaf and Cielo began working together on a range of social and cultural issues concerning community-based agriculture and land stewardship.
After living in an earth dependent, self-sufficient manner, off all industrial
grids for seven years, Leaf was then joined by Cielo at his woodland home for an additional three years. In early 1984, Leaf & Cielo began a sailboat building project that when completed, would take them out on the Tennessee River and then to the West Coast of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. In 1986, they sold this 16 ft boat and returned to the lower Tennessee River where they hand-built a 30 ft wood ketch (1986-1989,) Prior to launching in May of 1989, they co- founded the Tennessee RiverKeeper Project. When the new boat, the Broadened Horizons was completed and launched, Leaf and Cielo co-directed a river watch program from aboard this vessel for 16 years. Upon completion of their river watch work, they moved their operations to a new location and resumed the initial community based-work the couple had shared when they first met.
Informational dvd available upon request:
(contact us at cielosand@mindspring.com or 865-354-8170).