Author: Lee Bartnik

There has been a noticeable upswing in energy at RSO as of late, due in part to increased student involvement, as well as enhanced understandings stemming from the Saturday Board Meeting. Our weekly planning...

We have come to what I would consider to be the first critical junction or hurdle in our development as a team and organization thus far, regarding relationships especially. In short, for the last...

“This is the week,” iterated Oren enthusiastically, stepping back from the busy whiteboard wall with a toothy grin. We’d been in the IDEA Center for the past two hours for the weekly planning meeting;...

We had our quarterly Board of Directors meeting on Friday evening: to catch up, plan, and generally gather our bearings in advance of the intense spring blitz ahead of us. Topics of discussion included...

Time is a funny little creature; working ever-covertly to evade human consciousness in its mysterious becoming. How often we find ourselves looking back at a span of time: a summer, say, or a school...

My mom always had a big, beautiful garden when I was growing up, which was a point of conversation for many of our neighbors around the community of Holton, WI (a suburb of Dorchester),...

A big part of the cooperative component of our operation is the dissemination of ownership and decision making, and I’ve tried to exercise this mentality by acting as the daily coordinator on Sundays: basically...

While Oren and I were cruising on Sunday, he brought up and explored the interesting question of whether vegetable farmers and animal farmers have different body types. He made the argument that they do;...

There is a special awakening that accompanies the first real day of outside work each spring; a human photosynthesis in which the body captures and mirrors the intensity and energy of the sun. There...

After an extended moment of cross-armed aloofness on the Coop bench, I turned seriously towards Oren. “What’re you gonna do with that banana peel?” He paused, thoughtfully. “I don’t know…” We both stopped and...