What Did TiLT Do Last Year?
LOCAL CAPACITY BUILDING
Helped ignite Poor People’s Campaign in Taos—bridging cultures in common cause
Helped foster county-wide food networks and food web
Helped Taos’ 5-year plan: “100% Renewable by 2022”
Birthed a multi-cultural Watershed Way group, living in season & acting for watershed justice
Aided RYNO’s efforts to create a house of hope & healing
Helped incubate a “pop-up” church in a bookstore: “Jesus for the rest of us,” spiritual grounding for social action
Helped local energy initiatives become a model for other electric co-ops statewide
Supported innovative public education in Taos County
Organized for climate justice locally and statewide
Provided leadership and support for “Plastic Free Taos”
POWERFUL PROGRAMS
Year-long TiLT residency of service & spiritual formation
“How Then Shall We Live?” Week-long immersions: powerful life change through encounters w/ Taos Pueblo, Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, and desert spirituality
“Rewilding the Way” book study & social analysis
Wilderness backpacks and earth sabbath overnights
Season-based community celebrations like Candlemass, San Isidro Day, Feast of Ingathering, & All Souls Day
ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH
Formalized TiLT’s Wisdom Council, assembling a diverse team of local leaders
Set up annual budgets, charts of accounts, & payroll
Became a federal nonprofit!
SITE Improvements
Built an horno, a large adobe bread oven
Built an all-season green- house with bathtub beds
Constructed two new guest rooms
Launched a “fossil-free” wing of the property including a zen garden teaching patio, solar shower, composting toilet, flagstone pond, and the “Salvage Hermitage”
Improved our recycling system and our bike trailer transport
Tested our maximum lodging capacity by hosting 43 people at once!
Grew more of our own food, shared more with others, and made promising partnerships with local allies like Taos Village Farms
Installed a multi-sensor temperature station to monitor the four microclimates in which we grow winter greens
