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What is it?

Ripe Ideas is La Finka’s ongoing talk series and collaborative forum for long-form discussion. It emerged during The Banana Rodeo as a way for community members to share knowledge, propose ideas, and explore topics that matter to life in the high desert and to community design more broadly. Themes include sustainability, social organization, personal well-being, technology, ecology, and any subject the community decides is worth cultivating.

Ripe Ideas serves two purposes:

1. A recurring in-person gathering for presentations, workshops, and group dialogue.
2. A growing archive of talks, notes, references, and follow-up research maintained as part of the La Finka Digital Garden.

This page acts as the entry point for the series. It provides program details, proposals, archives, readings, and seeds for future discussions.

Purpose:

Ripe Ideas exists to provide an open forum for community learning and shared inquiry. It functions as a low-stakes space for experimentation where talks can begin as rough outlines and evolve over time with community input. The archive preserves this process, capturing both prepared presentations and the iterative discussions that follow.

Goals

• Facilitate a culture of knowledge sharing
• Explore new models of community organization and mutual support
• Build a recurring space for critical thought, creativity, and experimental learning
• Develop presentations for future events including the next Banana Rodeo
• Produce an archive of talks, notes, and linked resources that grows over time

How to Participate

Anyone can propose a session. Presentations may be complete, partial, or exploratory. Sessions can take the form of talks, roundtables, debates, demonstrations, or collaborative work sessions.

Submit ideas or proposals: Here
Or get in touch at lafinka@pm.me

An additional signal group for those that want to continue to ripen with us.

Event Structure

At each meetup we aim for one to two contributions followed by discussion. Talks may be iterative, returning in later months with expanded material. Notes from discussions and follow-ups can be added to this archive, creating a continuous record of the community’s learning.

Frequency: Monthly or biweekly (to be determined based on participation)
Location: La Finka
Time: 6/7 pm to 9 pm
ToDo:: Run a scheduling poll with the community

Presenter Invitation

This series is open to anyone willing to share an idea worth exploring in community.

THIS COULD BE YOUR PODIUM!

Archive of Past Talks

Seed Topics

A living list of areas the community has expressed interest in exploring:

• Everything's Expensive... Cooperative cost-sharing models
• DAOs and collective digital tools
• Event design and community rituals
• Building a third space
• Cooling strategies for high-desert living
• Let's get to know our ecology & create adaptive landscaping
• How can We help you? Mutual Aid frameworks
• How to start a small business?
• How to support small business?
• Commons-based economics
• Community Living Models

Add your own ideas here as they emerge.

Suggested Reading

Books to read to dive deeper into the discussion
ToDo:: Collect Recommended texts from community members

• The One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka’s
  • ToDo:: Insert Link to One Straw PDF?
• Works on commons governance, cooperative economics, and social ecology
• Materials proposed by presenters or participants
• Suggest Something

Preparing for a Session

• Review any suggested readings or materials
• Bring pen & paper
• Bring questions and points of curiosity
• Bring something to get comfortable
• Approach the conversation as a shared experiment rather than a performance
• Contribute notes, insights, or references to the archive after the session

Created: 240722-16:19

Updated: 260113-23:21