MSSP Projects Farmer's Market Mattole Garden Project Mattole Potluck Seed Bank MSSP Library MSSP Talks Emergency Preparedness Native Plants (identification and use) Alternative Energy Alternative Medicine Local Currency Learning from the Past The Not Too Nosy Questionnaire			Valley Information Valley News Valley News has articles, features, and editorials of local interest. You will find Grange news, Community Center news, and news and announcements from other groups. Community Calendar The community calendar lists events taking place in the Mattole Valley. Please submit additions, corrections, or changes to the community calendar to Ken Young, kcy@frontiernet.net or call 629-3430. . Community Bulletin Board The community bulletin board is intended to facilitate ride-sharing, bartering, and other forms of mutual assistance. Please submit postings to kcy@frontiernet.net (e-mail only) in exactly the format that you want. Resource People There are many people in the Valley with a wide range of skills. This listing is intended to help people find the right person for a job they need done and to help people with skills find work. The MSSP does not guarantee that you will be satisfied with the work if you hire someone on this list but we will not list people known to be incapable of providing the services they might offer. Please submit additions to this list to kcy@frontiernet.net (e-mail only). Valley Weather Post your daily rainfall totals. See what others have measured. Please submit additions to this list to kcy@frontiernet.net (e-mail only). Helpful Hints Life is difficult enough and we all look for ways to make things a little easier. Perhaps you have a helpful hint that you would like to share. Please write it up and send to kcy@frontiernet.net. Literary and Artistic Arena This section is for individual Mattole residents to post pictures or writings that they would like to share with others. Recipes Have a recipe you would like to share with others? Please write it up and send to kcy@frontiernet.net. Opting Out Frustrated with the state of affairs in the world, USA, or just in general. Here are some suggestions as to what you can do.		About the Mattole Self-Sufficiency Project Who We Are The Mattole Valley is located in northwestern California, southwest of Eureka, in a region known as the "Lost Coast," so named because the terrain is very rugged and the California coastal highway turns inland, by-passing about 80 miles of coastline. As a geographically isolated region, the people living in the Mattole have developed a strong sense of community and a culture of independence and self-sufficiency. As modern society becomes more homogenized and regimented, we feel it is important to preserve and enhance such relatively free and unregimented societies. There are three aspects of a society that we address. These are (1) the economy, (2) the environment, and (3) the culture. Each of these three aspects needs to be in balance in order for a society to thrive. A society that is balanced in each of these aspects is a sustainable society, based on a sustainable economy, a sustainable environment, and a sustainable culture. The Mattole Self-Sufficiency Project initiates, promotes, and/or encourages projects designed to promote a sustainable society here in the Mattole Valley. We compete with nobody, we cooperate for everybody. Diversity of thought is encouraged. For more on visions for a sustainable society, click here. How To Contact Us You can write us at: Mattole Self-Sufficiency Project PO Box 116 Petrolia CA 95558 or by e-mail: Ken Young, kcy@frontiernet.net Membership Anyone can join the Mattole Self-Sufficiency Project. Members receive a monthly e-newsletter and discounts on MSSP books and other items for sale. Members are also entitled to check out books and other materials from the MSSP library without charge. Membership is on a sliding scale, depending on what you feel is reasonable and can afford. Please remit to: MSSP, PO Box 116, Petrolia CA 95558. Cash, money orders, or checks are OK. Credit cards are NOT OK. Click here for a Membership Application. Information and Other Stuff Available The MSSP has pamphlets and handouts that address various self-sufficiency topics. These are available at a modest cost. (This page has not been set up yet.) Links to Other Sites of Interest Mattole Valley Historical Society Mattole Restoration Council Lost Coast Camp We live in a bountiful place. The ocean, the river, the forests, and the fields can provide our sustenance and shelter. In return, we all have an obligation to live in harmony with the ocean, the river, the forests, and the fields so that our children, our children's children, and their children, can enjoy the bounty that we enjoy. Become part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
Exchange Rates Selling Petols $2.30 Buying Petols $2.277 23 Jul 2008
What's New? Measuring value.  People ask what is the value of the silver ten petol, refering to US dollars as a measure of value.  How do you measure the value of something that is valuable in and of itself in terms of something else that has no intrinsic value?  Doesn't make much sense, does it?  For more, click here. The silver one petol is now available.  The 20 petol is scheduled for shipping on July 29th.  The 2 petol, half petol, and quarter petol are waiting on jpeg files for their designs.  Hopefully, the full range from one-quarter petol to 20 petols will be available by the All-Mattole Food Festival at the end of September. Freeman House's new book, "Two Peoples, One Place," is now available locally. Click here. The Mattole Potluck has been renamed the All-Mattole Food Festival so that people do not feel they HAVE to bring all-Mattole food.  The date is set for the last Sunday in September (the 28th).  You will need Mattole money to buy your meal ticket and you will be able to exchange dollars for petols at the festival. The End of the Dollar details what to expect when the dollar is replaced by the Amero, a North American equivalent of the Euro. This will affect you and probably not in a good way. Farmer's Market. Farmer's markets are held in conjunction with the pancake breakfasts at the Grange on the third Sunday of each month from February thru September, 9:00 am to 11:00 am. The Mattole Garden Project is intended to help people develop their gardening skills and make it easier for people to have their own gardens. Merlin Nelson is the originator of this project and will share his knowledge of soil building and growing organically. Opting Out has been updated with additional ideas for becoming more self-sufficient and less dependent on the corporate world. Mattole Notes by Marian Hoyle, for those who don't read the Ferndale Enterprise, is now available. Why we should buy locally produced products and how it affects our community. If you are interested in global warming and/or solutions to global warming, click here.