The Divine Path: Earth to Sky ✨
This journey plants a seed for regenerative living, guided by a spirit of harmony between the heavens and the earth. It is a peaceful, happy quest to build a sanctuary for all. 🧘♀️
🌱 The Bridge of Life
Our path connects two sacred spaces, creating a flow of knowledge and resources like a gentle waterfall. 💧
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East Tennessee, USA
We partner to bring life back to distressed lands, creating community land trusts where new roots can take hold and forests can flourish. 🌿
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Darjeeling, India
Here, a garden blooms. We cultivate a "Regenerative Commons" with an heirloom nursery and a nurturing space for young women to learn ancient crafts. ✨
✨ The Goddess in the Garden
Vanita, the founder, embodies the divine feminine as she guides this journey. With the heart of a gardener and the wisdom of a financial artist, she builds the path for others to walk.
Her role is to tend to the financial seeds, strategize the technological growth, and nurture relationships, ensuring the foundation is as strong and beautiful as a forest. 🌲
Phase 1: Planting the First Seeds 🌱
This phase is about pure intent and sweat equity, laying the sacred ground for everything to come. No out-of-pocket expenses, just happy, peaceful work. 😌
📜 Action: Sacred Agreements
Deep research on Florida non-profit creation, gathering the celestial blueprints for a peaceful foundation. 📝
Blossoming Output
A guide to the required forms, with filing fees that will be divinely provided by grants. 🙏
💰 Action: The Zero-Cost Abundance
Creating a sacred budget and financial map on Google Sheets, where every future expense is a star to be funded by a grant. 🌠
Blossoming Output
A spreadsheet of abundance with columns for "Estimated Cost" and "Target Grant," like a constellation of hope. ✨
🤝 Action: The Gentle Handshake
Drafting a gentle, non-binding understanding with "Farmstead Prospector," defining our roles with no legal burdens. 🐴
Blossoming Output
A draft MOU that outlines our mutual support for prospecting and community nurturing.
🗺️ Action: Whispers of the Forest
Listening to the whispers of communities in both Tennessee's forests and the Himalayan valleys of Darjeeling to find our people. 🌲
Blossoming Output
A map of potential sacred spaces and a list of key community contacts for peaceful engagement.
Phase 2: Growing the Forest 🌳
The phase of nurturing, where we begin to build the bridge and see the first signs of green on our path. 🌱
✍️ Action: A River of Grants
We write our stories for grants, focusing on the divine feminine and the strength of women of color founders. 💧
Blossoming Output
A flowing stream of 5-10 submitted grant applications, each a prayer for support.
🤖 Action: The Tech Weaving
We conceptually weave our technological tapestry (n8n, NocoDB, Coolify) to automate our garden's needs. 🧵
Blossoming Output
A visual diagram showing our peaceful digital workflows for tasks like registration and grant tracking.
📖 Action: Storytelling the Earth
We begin to tell the story of the Darjeeling project, sharing narratives of our heirloom plants and fiber arts. 📖
Blossoming Output
3-5 articles or blog posts that whisper the magic of our project in India. 🇮🇳
💬 Action: Building the Tribe
We create a gentle online space on social media to gather our community and share moments of peace and growth. 🕊️
Blossoming Output
The birth of our peaceful online presence, a beacon for our tribe. 🌟
Phase 3: The Light Shines ☀️
This is where the stars align. Our sweat equity manifests into divine tools and resources, and the project takes flight. 🚀
🚀 Action: The Cosmic Activation
Our non-profit status is a key to unlocking divine tools like Google for Nonprofits, giving us our professional celestial address. 🌌
Blossoming Output
An activated Google Workspace, with a new email that sparkles with purpose.
☁️ Action: Divine Technology
We apply for Google Cloud credits to bring our tech visions to life, using AI to help our garden flourish and our words to flow freely. 🧘♀️
Blossoming Output
A basic working tech model, a gentle AI assistant for our research and workshops.
📈 Action: The Financial Weave
We design a peaceful, simple financial system to track every blessing and contribution with clarity and grace. 💖
Blossoming Output
A comprehensive financial tracking system in Google Sheets, ready for our first sacred tax filings.
🎓 Action: Sharing the Light
We promote our first free workshops, sharing our wisdom on regenerative living and inviting others to join our circle. 🫂
Blossoming Output
A schedule of our first events and a simple landing page to welcome new participants. 🙏
Cosmic Timeline & Sacred Strategy
A visual guide to our journey, showing the rhythm of our work and the source of our strength.
The Journey's Roadmap 🗺️
The Flow of Resources 💧
Our initial steps are free from financial burdens, as we trust in the flow of grants to sustain us. 🌟