Ecotrain QOTW on What is Stopping You From Moving to the EcoVillage of Tomorrow - My Response...
This weeks @Ecotrain 's Question of the Week is out - Details here...
What is stopping you from moving to the ecoVillage of tomorrow?
I've been following @eco-alex and his endeavors with the building of his Earthship and now the Eco-village and I love, love, love the whole concept.
Love it for it's sustainability, self sufficiency, the fact that it will be built on a gifting economy! Love that it will have folks living totally off-grid, with homes based on Earthship Biotecture, built using a design with complete autonomy and self-sufficiency in mind. To me, an ideal situation which seems more inline with how we are meant to be living on this earth.
If I were younger and my partner was in agreement I would jump on it in an instant! In fact we often comment on how, if we were starting over, we would be building an Earthship design on a beautiful spot we go walking to most days.
As it is, for the last few decades, we have been building our homestead in a forest community and although we are not totally off grid, we have built with self sufficiency in mind. We have a lovely, comfortable, home nestled in the forest.
Our Home Nestled In the Forest
As a community we worked together building our homes, community hall (which has since burnt down) and although we never formed a village ( there were enough folks to form a Hamlet) we had a close knit community comprised of environmental-minded folk, we were getting close to that idea of an Eco-village.
Times have changed and the community has drifted apart some what, but I do know we would pull together as a community, to take care of itself and it's members if there were a major collapse or something.
It is mostly my age and the fact that I am kind of done with construction, with no desire to start over again, that prevents me from joining in on this Eco-village project. I am quite happy living in our forest community and have set things up to have a comfortable old age, enjoying my family and friends! But you can bet I will be supporting this endeavor in other ways and would encourage anyone who has any inkling to live communally in an Eco-village to take this opportunity. It is rare and having @eco-alex as the driving force behind it it, is bound to be an incredible experience, which I'm so looking forward to seeing unfold!
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There aren't always many windows of opportunity to be able to drop everything and join an eco village. Children come into our lives and them as we get older we don't feel we have the energy to start over again.
It's been such a hectic week, I completely forgot about this question. I thought we were still on the last one! 😆
I was just talking about this with friends today. I used to community hop....living in different intentional communities, doing work exchanges, learning, meeting new people, etc. It was quite the experience. Eventually, I started my own tiny house community. It was slow to start but it eventually gained momentum and had a ton of potential but once again we moved...here to Kindred Acres, to be closer to the family. I don't anticipate moving any time soon if at all as I'm working my tail off to make our food forest. This area doesn't hold the vibe of intentional community living and the county makes anything of the sort very challenging to do unfortunately, but I've formed, and am still forming, a pretty cool tribe out here. We have supporters/followers and we do still hold workshops, volunteer days and such. I just miss the actual community aspect of it all. It's not always peaches and cream. It definitely has it's challenging, but to have that support, to have the people there to help boost you up, encourage you, and hold you accountable is an amazing thing. We as humans aren't meant to be alone. We are meant to live in 'tribes' or communities but it's unfortunate that society has drifted so far from it, at least out here by me. I always love to read about other communities, see what they are implementing and doing, so I'll certainly look for eco-alex and follow along on their journey. Thank you for sharing!
That's cool that you did community hopping!
It's seems like you are developing a pretty special place there for yourself and even if it is not the perfect ideal place, if you are building tribe and are becoming more self sufficient I think you will have a marvelous life - love reading about what you are doing there!
Thanks Porters! We are totally enjoying the ride of this adventure here at Kindred Acres. Things are starting to flow nicely now and yes we are starting to form our tribe. We have our first Full Moon Gathering tonight and we'll be prepping our Sacred Circle...we'll be drumming, have a bonfire, food, maybe a little wine. It'll be so nice. I'm excited. The people that are meant to, are starting to find us now. Now we just roll with the flow. :)
I think your home is a lovely micro-intentional community! A hamlet, a village, a mousehoe - it doesn't really matter. You're living the values in the bet way you know how and measuring it by the BEST STANDARD - how it feels for you!!
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thank you for this! your home does look gorgeous,, in the snow.. it sounds like you have done so much that i can understand you dont want to go through all that again..
one of my aims is to relieve anyone from the burden of the build process. that is probably the hardest part of the whole job for people.. lets see how it goes! xxx
That is one of the hardest parts but with your expertise and the biotecture design plus a community that can work together it makes the load easier. When we were first building we had a lot of work bees to get everyone's homes built.
Wow, @porters! It sounds like you are the one who lives closest to what we imagine as an ecovillage. Too bad that your community house burned down, and that people are drifting apart. But you seem to have a lovely place, a gorgeous house, and seem to be quite well rooted. No wonder you don't feel like moving anywhere else. (I don't think you can be too old for moving or starting over, though.)
Thanks for this lovely image of a beautiful home.
Actually although our forest community has kind of drifted apart it really took a new dimension with the creation of the Ness Creek community being built up very close to us and a lot of the energy went into helping that grow. They have numerous music festivals , workshops, have built a large center for community events, have one of the furthest north permaculture demonstration gardens, use alternative building, just a whole lot going on there just not people living there year round or building their homes there.
Beautiful! That sounds amazing.
I think your forest community home is perfect and looks so cozy inside even though there are tons of snow. I understand what you mean of starting over again which is hard indeed. I love the idea of the self sustaining eco village and I look forward to see how things turn up.
@porters - valid reasons to be sure, I'd love to be a part of this myself - it sounds like a valid concept that would be greatly beneficial to all concerned - which should be everyone living on the planet!