COJUJO is “the life-force that comes from behaviors for health in co-existence with the natural environment.” When we care for both our human health and the planet’s, a vitality, a flow, a sense of meaning and purpose, and deep contentment emerges. COJUJO is the feeling that comes when you play pick up basketball outside and welcome the sunlight’s heat and the shade of a nearby tree, dig your hands and tools in the soil when planting an organic garden in pots on your balcony or on the expanse of a farm field, spend time with friends around an outdoor wood fire burning wood sustainably harvested on your land or close by, walk or ride a city bike to commute from home to office, sleep for eight hours without your digital devices or maybe with an open window to hear the dawn chorus, roll your wheelchair or walker to a sunny window or outside to sit with some friends, place your hands on the bark of a tree even though you cannot see it.

The COJUJO Project is the exploration of health and wellbeing for planet and people. The Project has led me to remarkable places and pursuits: graduate school in public health and design, the creation of a powerfully effective workshop on embodied expression for insight and alignment, and the regeneration of a large farm in Vermont to preserve farmland and generate local food sovereignty while reducing agricultural food miles and nitrogen inputs, sequestering carbon, creating experiential farmstays for connection to rural farm life and the land, and helping to generate local food sovereignty.

The COJUJO Project has three components which feed each other and ensure integrity to the work: Workshops, Design, Farm & Farmstays