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 A [[transition town]] group that searches and manages vagrant urban zones that for some reason have been left to fallow.
-We go around by bike and we scrutinize google.earth for local outburst of weed, crypto-forests and other potential climax vegetational rejects in all stages of sucession. see: http://socialfiction.org/?tag=ttnomad
+We go around by bike and we scrutinize google.earth for local crypto-forests and other potential climax vegetational rejects in all stages of sucession. see: http://socialfiction.org/?tag=ttnomad
-We are in Utrecht, the Netherlands, but we could be anywhere. We are a Transition Town group taking part in local activities and initiatives but we are also psychogeographers on a rampage, Ethno-Eco-Primate-Poetic librarians retweeting language without end, Tupi-Surrealists on a desire-war-path, fighting the google-jugend!
+We are in Utrecht, the Netherlands, but we could be anywhere. We are a Transition Town group taking part in many local activities and initiatives but we are also psychogeographers on a rampage, Ethno-Eco-Poetic retweeting distant voices, Tupi-Surrealists on a desire-war-path, fighting the google-jugend!
 http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ is one inspiration with street-cred and currency but the real motivation for us is the rich field of Amazonian anthropology from classic ethnography to modern ethnobotany to future excavations of the lost garden cities of Xingu.
-Nomadic people do not roam free. The Yanomami, the Waorani, the kayapo, to randomly name three former nomadic tribes, are not surrealists navigators, they are not tossing a coin at every turn to decide where to go next. Trails are not desire paths, they are not deviations into the unknown, they are not inconsequentel. It is the duty of the nomad to walk the paths that are their 'home' only for as long as their status is reaffirmed by trekking across them. The trail is the a collective heritage, a walked collective memory. Over time the nomad creates or amplifies (actively, accidentally, serendipitously) the landscape along the trail in its own image: dumpheaps are seed bombs, see [[Nomadic Agriculture]].
+Nomadic people, contrary to popular misconception, do not roam free. The Yanomami, the Waorani, the Koruba are not surrealists navigators, they are not tossing a coin at every turn to decide where to go next. Trails are not desire paths, they are not deviations. The nomad instead follows cyclic paths. These paths are their 'home' for as long as the their trek reaffirms them as part of their collective heritage. Over time the nomad can create or amplify (actively, accidentally, serendipitously) useful resources along the trail, aka [[Nomadic Agriculture]].
 TT Nomad cultivates metaphors not gardens, we add pressure to self-willed ecosystems no matter how small. [[forest gardening]] is perhaps a misleading term; gardening is a buzz word, a artistic fashion that underestimates the skill and long term commitment to the land. Gardening is about productivity and yields; these are not the terms on which TT Nomad is facing the rejected: forests are where the whiches live.