I only skimmed through this (it's quite interesting), but just had to say this guy is one of the most well-spoken, educated-sounding-but-not-pretentiously-so guys I've ever heard in a UA-cam video. He has almost zero verbal filler. Seems like he'd be a great educator for the students who visit this place.
@@freedomdove When I am in a line, or needing to kill some time, I skim youtube videos and put them in my "watch later" que. It may be a week or more before I get to them, as the que has gotten pretty extensive. The other thing I like to do on youtube is to reply to unnecessarily snarky commenters.
@@gageparker Seriously? Do you think I'm just a snarky commenter by saying what I did? You must have an extraordinarily short attention span. It doesn't take much to watch a 30 minute video in a 24 hour time span, IMO. It's fine to bookmark it to watch later. How about they/you comment on the video after you've done that in your spare time? Why skim through it and comment? You haven't given it your full attention yet.
I don't think there is any ONE way to live. The strength of a republican democracy is in having 50 different states with thousands of people in that state doing different ways to live. Freedom to choose is important. I'm enough of an introvert to be horrified at 'group meals' but thrilled with the garden work on my own.
sure seems that way, but such intentional communities fail over and over and over... the info/message has been out there for decades, yet it doesn't spread/work.... why?
@@ricardocosson1105 Its a dedicated hard working lifestyle and seems most would prefer the click and collect life they have at the moment. Very difficult to become self sufficient.
Spent many hours there touring, learning, field trips with homeschoolers, plant sales, ... we moved away years ago... this was a great trip down memory lane. THANK YOU!
Oh, so beautiful and wonderful...Thank you.....I lived there for a couple years many years ago...so grateful for my time there and so glad you've been able to continue....and keep on Growing!!
The channel/business (Fair Companies) that Kirsten and her partner have created is an unprecedented resource. I've been watching these videos for 6+ years and they've been doing this for nearly 15 years. That's something to be celebrated- their videos inspire me. My only qualm is the amount of people with very explicit wealth biases seem to be infiltrating some of the approachability and simplicity that has always been part of the channel- almost like they're using it to show off their "cribs" which seem to rely very heavily on industry and require insane wealth no matter how "green" they may be.
Wonderful community. My wife and I bought 8 acres in Kentucky, and over the last 7 years have been turning it into our own little permaculture paradise. We have a meld of appropriate technology and human labor, since it is just the 2 of us. We like to think that we are the force for LIFE here, and really do make a difference to the soil.
My partner and I have just built a house on 7 acres down here in Australia and are very slowly doing this also. It’s exciting and very rewarding for sure
So happy to see this place still thriving! I toured Occidental annually from 1999 through 2006, and then moved east, but have never stopped thinking about it, and planning my return some day. Thank you for sharing this story with the world!!!
This man is a genius. From the 29th minute until the end is such an important message, although the entire video is so important. Wished I lived in this beautiful place....
Thank you Kirsten your channel has transformed my worldview, I will be rewatching a lot of your videos to use the methods and technologies to apply in my own life
This reminds of another video you did a few months ago called "Rundown apartments reborn" where people decided to live communally as well and plant their own food. Obviously not on the same scale as this, as they lived in the city of Portland in an apartment complex, but they managed turn their parking lot and surrounding grounds into gardens. Quite inspiring.
Farallones was one of our inspirations when we were 70s back-to-the-landers. It's good to see this happening there; a 50-year take on a place has real value.
As a Registered Nurse, with a degree in Psychology, who was raised on a row crop industrial farm, the most important phrase of the whole video is: "We're all about life, not death". Unless and until a significant number of the world's population -get it-, no policy or government, or anything else will make the worldwide change we need. While yes, life comes from death, that does not mean health can come from poisons, diversity from reduction, or abundance from mass extinction.
He needs to go to Davos and bend Klaus Shwab and Bill Gates over each knee, clowns and B.S. Science will be the end of all life on Earth. End the U.N. - W.E.F. clown show Freedom Convoy Canada and World, cheers
The knowledge coming out of these communities makes me hopeful for the future. Imagine if all of humanity understood and implemented these simple, priobiotic perspectives... Imagine technology and automation that operates to cultivate life and biodiversity...
Wonderful !! I once lived in a commune of 22 men and women. Now that I have been a widower for a few years, I was thinking of living this nurturing way of life again. 🙂
Lots of nudity at least, if you don't mind having to reach consensus about everything. Better hurry though, us old folks become less in demand at monasteries and communes as we grow more feeble.
I love everything about this, particularly their acknowledgement and honoring of indigenous knowledge and relationships to the land. We need more of this in permaculture everywhere, but especially in places like North America and Australia - recognition that the stewardship of the original inhabitants of these territories provides for the standard of living that we enjoy today.
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I have been envisioning myself purchasing some land and building a permaculture homestead for the past couple of years. Seeing properties like these that you show us gives me even more inspiration to follow this dream. Also, I was born in Santa Rosa, CA and I lived in Forestville until I was 8 years old. Seeing the area again brings back those childhood memories. Thank you so much for sharing.
you should look to build an intentional community as these folks have done rather than homesteading. the last two minutes of the video sum it up pretty well. permaculture as a system is incomplete without community.
@@j2muw667 sincerely, good luck with getting American Catholics on board with an intentional eco-commune. They're up there with evangelicals in anti-commune(ist) thought from my experience. As far as getting started, land is the biggest challenge especially these days - and while it may seem boring, you need to understand how communal economics and politics work if you're going to be sucessful and create a long term community. edit: the channel "Flock Finger Lakes" just put out a new video a few minutes ago called "Your Ecovillage Questions Answered" which is an interview with one of the founders of the Ithica Ecovillage
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Please feature more of these communities. I wonder if there are full time workers amongst the residents, how does the upkeep work? How does one apply to move into their place (they have a waitlist, i'm sure). It takes a special group of people to collectively live and work together.
I want to build one for pet parents bc I’m tired of people killing my cats and dogs and also pet parents get discriminated against if they need to rent. 🤟🏼
he mentions it's a consensus-based intentional community - essentially a hyper-democratic system based on equal distribution of power and supplies. I can't speak on the specifics since I don't know but I imagine that every member works as much as they want to, but since it's an intentional community nobody is there to sit on their ass. I would also imagine they have yearly/monthly planning meetings to plan for the season, elect work captains to coordinate teams & jobs (instantly recallable by vote), to air grievances, and suggest new ideas. IMO an ideal model but you're right, it does take a special group of people to start one.
@@tinawindham6958 So true! I'm looking for a rent house now,have been for months. I have 3 small dogs,that I refuse to leave behind or give up! They're family to me. Every place I check into say no pets.
@@ajmentel2453 What happens to the elderly, or people who've lived there for decades? I guess an intentional community evolves as people age, have families, move away.
@@moodbeast I guess that's up to the discretion of the community. If they can spare the manpower and resources for caring for the elderly residents and infirm, there's not really any reason not to IMO, especially if they're some of the ppl who built that community. I would like to think the active lifestyle of intentional communities plus modern medicine keeps you spry and healthy into old age but that isn't always the case. If I were to start a community, I would definitely consider elder care as a facet of contemplation when creating the bylaws.
you could try to organize your community along these lines - look up mark lakeman for project ideas and democratic confederalism for the political/economic structure (cooperation jackson is a good model to look to in the united states and rojava abroad)
@@benjaminbrewer2569 ...and the right kind of climate. Like he says in the video, his solution will be different somewhere else. The job is to find out what that is.
@@scpatl4now What do you mean 'the right kind of climate'? This can be done anywhere, it's been done all over, from Wisconson to Vermont to India to ... wherever. Or did I misunderstand you?
I know this place, I used to live a few miles from there. They had the best and most amazing Mothers Day Sales...Plants from all over the world were available and the gardens were all in bloom, such a delight to spend time walking around.
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I love these kinds of videos. I wish it was a bit longer and dove into more questions like the housing situation, how they support the business,does all the produce go to the residents etc.A lot of questions left un-answered.This could of easily been a 45 minute video with so much to cover.
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Brock Dolman taught me more about permaculture and sustainability in 30 minutes than all the books I've ever ready on the subject in my life. This place would be my heaven on earth.
@@moip4928 I've read books by Geoff Lawton, JM Fortier and Paul Gautschi. I just thought Dolman was very succinct in how he put it all together. Thanks for asking.
Excellent!!! This leapt out of the film and grabbed me with how brilliantly Brock expressed it: "We're pro-life of all species of all generations for all time. We're not antibiotic. Antibiotic-when you're against life and you live on the only planet in the known universe that has life... Kind of a party foul." Brock Doleman
This man is blessed with 10 green thumbs. Love this, wonderful. Looks like they have one toilet and shower for all those people, that’s tough, but I suppose that’s how they manage all the “waste” (resource) substance produced.
If we can just get folks to retune their thinking of biodiversity etc..That's what it's all about...it's about living. I would sell everything I own..and help that community..I was raised on organic farming by my parents and grandparents farm..we no longer own..Sadly. I'm older now..searching for a longing of a community as this. To be able to use my skills..I practice organic still. I understand the importance of heirloom seeds..we must maintain their natural genetic traits. No pesticides..etc. it's ashame folks will not even plant fruit bearing on the property. Their too complacent and lazy to actually work for It. And glorify their immaculate lawns. No person should need of nutrition or food deprivation. It's lack of the right education. Another problem is outright land ownership..The counties steal your land by taxes. My title; " leave Me Be".. Was it strictly a vegan community ?
U r so right. I had a fruit garden with lots of trees and butterfly plants etc when the city came out. I hate grass and lawnmowers. I’d rather be raising chickens and stuff for my rabbits…they haven’t heard that roundup causes cancer!!! My dad always had a bag for our lawn. I love rolypolys and worms 2 much.
Wow, I absolutely LOVE this place, this is how we should all be living and working. Kirsten I really love your videos, you go straight into it with no messing about no intros just boom! and your in, I love you, keep up the good work that you and you family are doing❤️👍. Robert Beaton 🏴/🌍.
I so enjoy the work you do as a family Kirsten. I can hardly wait to see what ya'lls kids do with this incredible upbringing you have gifted them with. Bravo!
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I wish that more people would do this, or at the very least, use the land that they have to produce food for their families. How easy it is to forget that history ALWAYS repeats itself, if the lesson has been forgotten, or was never learned to start with.
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Collective ownership of land, rational person centered production and planning, rebuilding the soil, living sustainably...not exactly what our mainstream institutions are structured to do, nor is it the ideology they practice and preach.
Wow - that is a beyond wonderful place, with such dedicated and insightful people. And it's all so beautiful. I can't really put into words how much I loved this video, along with all of the sensible information we were given. Thank you so much for featuring them!
Very good videos, Kristen. Now want to see; innovation like this -thought out for not just the housing, but for , healthcare ways the best, education and social , welfare best. Your platform finds the best in housing, etc. There needs to be an innovation Nation.
I loved everything about this!! No GMO"s here. I live in Hawai'i and we've fought hard against big corporations like Monsanto to avoid all of chemicals and destruction of the land. I'd love to try one of those plums right now Thanks for this video. Very interesting! 🌺
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That place is amazing. This seems to be the ideal way for humans to live, in harmony with nature, nurturing the land and improving it instead of exploiting it. I have started my own food forest because of your videos and others and I'm having so much fun. I bet a place like that would be a place of healing for those suffering from depression or abuse. Thank you for bringing this wonderful video to us. Your videos are the best on UA-cam, in my opinion, and my all time favorite youtube video is the one about the shanty boat. I put it on in the evening and it just makes me feel calm and peaceful and all the stress of the day just melts away. I talked with Mr. Modes on Instagram and he laughed when I said that I had learned of him through your video. He said that he hears that all the time and that it certainly has gotten a lot of mileage.
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THANK YOU SOOO MUCH for your amazing work, Kirsten Dirksen and family :) I have been an avid follower of your work for many years now. This breathes life back into me and I just want to THANK you and am SENDING LOVVVVVE.
That took me back to my boyhood, I use to attend a horticultural boarding school, and we annually double dug our garden (one acre) set in a formal victorian setting all done by hand including hand barrows, not wheelbarrows, we made our own soil, in the potting shed we would use a caldren system to bake the soil before use in the greenhouses, a mixing box, John Innes if I remember correctly (the smell of the sterilizing soil combined with the fire underneath the kettles is something to experience I can still smell it now) ...no weed killers or anything other than natural produce
Sterilizing soil is the opposite of natural, I'm no expert, but I think the point is to work with soil that is alive, full of diversity, with all the bugs and critters.
Just in the first couple sentences I can tell this school was not in the united States. This place is trash. We would never have a cool boarding school like that.
Sparky, yes, fungi and worms agree with you. The longer the soil breaks down with mulch the more alive and rich it is! I don’t use anything to poison anything in my gardens. I have bunnies and boxturtles plus I love earthworms
@@tinawindham6958 We have bunnies, snakes, moles, mice, and frogs or toads, not really sure. You know you are winning when the amphibians love your yard, imo. When your plants are super healthy, there is no need to worry about nature, they are strong enough to fend for themselves. There is, I think, a family of owls that has been making it's nest on the side of our house for nearly a decade now.
“We grow soil”❤❤❤❤❤❤ organically…over 50 years……omg…. I would have loved to visit….thank you Kirsten….and Brock for showing all of this insightful brilliance. Really this was such a wonderful tour. There is so much hope and beauty and community consensus here. These people know their actions count. They are super smart and connected to….the earth and biology. I would really love to hear more (and more) about this project. G and G project❤ reusing every natural resource multiple ways. I will research those public systems and low inputs, gravity fed, trusting biology are all music to my ears. Measuring performance too….omg the Seed Saving ❤❤Thank you for incorporating more Permaculture ideas, native re vegetation and indigenous wisdom. If more people did this the world and earth and all the animals and plants would be on a very different trajectory. Thank you so much for being you, Kirsten…Brock.
I love what you're doing. I'm a RISD grad from Illustration and Graphic Design. I'm always redesigning my bedroom ...it never finishes..lol..small spaces. I fix furniture often and improve them for my needs and tastes.
Absolutely Amazing ........I want to know more about this place and how it's organized. Successful intentional communities are rare and often not very successful.....so all the lessons we can learn from the ones that are successful is vital.
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Awesome video! I would love to learn more about the "Organic Agricultural Easement" which protects in perpetuity the organic gardens and orchards from any development or any use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
I only skimmed through this (it's quite interesting), but just had to say this guy is one of the most well-spoken, educated-sounding-but-not-pretentiously-so guys I've ever heard in a UA-cam video. He has almost zero verbal filler. Seems like he'd be a great educator for the students who visit this place.
Brock Dolman is a living legend. He teaches and is an activist at the state level watershed manager
Do you really not have 30 minutes of your day to fully watch this video????
@@freedomdove When I am in a line, or needing to kill some time, I skim youtube videos and put them in my "watch later" que. It may be a week or more before I get to them, as the que has gotten pretty extensive.
The other thing I like to do on youtube is to reply to unnecessarily snarky commenters.
@@gageparker Seriously? Do you think I'm just a snarky commenter by saying what I did? You must have an extraordinarily short attention span. It doesn't take much to watch a 30 minute video in a 24 hour time span, IMO. It's fine to bookmark it to watch later. How about they/you comment on the video after you've done that in your spare time? Why skim through it and comment? You haven't given it your full attention yet.
@@freedomdove my god, you’re insufferable. Chill.
This is how we should all be living.
I don't think there is any ONE way to live. The strength of a republican democracy is in having 50 different states with thousands of people in that state doing different ways to live. Freedom to choose is important. I'm enough of an introvert to be horrified at 'group meals' but thrilled with the garden work on my own.
sure seems that way, but such intentional communities fail over and over and over... the info/message has been out there for decades, yet it doesn't spread/work.... why?
@@ricardocosson1105 Its a dedicated hard working lifestyle and seems most would prefer the click and collect life they have at the moment. Very difficult to become self sufficient.
@@ricardocosson1105 people are lazy and complacent
Your choice. Don’t force anyone though.
Spent many hours there touring, learning, field trips with homeschoolers, plant sales, ... we moved away years ago... this was a great trip down memory lane. THANK YOU!
Oh, so beautiful and wonderful...Thank you.....I lived there for a couple years many years ago...so grateful for my time there and so glad you've been able to continue....and keep on Growing!!
The variety of videos and stories we are being told through this channel is incredible.
totally agree with that comment!
+1
inspiration hey!
The channel/business (Fair Companies) that Kirsten and her partner have created is an unprecedented resource. I've been watching these videos for 6+ years and they've been doing this for nearly 15 years. That's something to be celebrated- their videos inspire me.
My only qualm is the amount of people with very explicit wealth biases seem to be infiltrating some of the approachability and simplicity that has always been part of the channel- almost like they're using it to show off their "cribs" which seem to rely very heavily on industry and require insane wealth no matter how "green" they may be.
Wonderful community.
My wife and I bought 8 acres in Kentucky, and over the last 7 years have been turning it into our own little permaculture paradise.
We have a meld of appropriate technology and human labor, since it is just the 2 of us. We like to think that we are the force for LIFE here, and really do make a difference to the soil.
My partner and I have just built a house on 7 acres down here in Australia and are very slowly doing this also.
It’s exciting and very rewarding for sure
You must open yourselves up to more people. Not a lot, but more.
So happy to see this place still thriving! I toured Occidental annually from 1999 through 2006, and then moved east, but have never stopped thinking about it, and planning my return some day. Thank you for sharing this story with the world!!!
This is a hippie commune grown into maturity! This was their vision. Thanks for all your hard work.
This man is a genius. From the 29th minute until the end is such an important message, although the entire video is so important. Wished I lived in this beautiful place....
Imagine the legacy we can leave behind if we get started today putting these kind of projects up all over the world! Love this so much
Thank you Kirsten your channel has transformed my worldview, I will be rewatching a lot of your videos to use the methods and technologies to apply in my own life
Kirsten your videos fill me with so much joy
hi Gaz love your channel
A literal heaven on earth! Great find, Kirsten!
This reminds of another video you did a few months ago called "Rundown apartments reborn" where people decided to live communally as well and plant their own food. Obviously not on the same scale as this, as they lived in the city of Portland in an apartment complex, but they managed turn their parking lot and surrounding grounds into gardens. Quite inspiring.
Indeed! There should be at least one community like that in every town and city 😍🤩
Farallones was one of our inspirations when we were 70s back-to-the-landers. It's good to see this happening there; a 50-year take on a place has real value.
As a Registered Nurse, with a degree in Psychology, who was raised on a row crop industrial farm, the most important phrase of the whole video is: "We're all about life, not death". Unless and until a significant number of the world's population -get it-, no policy or government, or anything else will make the worldwide change we need. While yes, life comes from death, that does not mean health can come from poisons, diversity from reduction, or abundance from mass extinction.
Well said!
Yes totally agree
Absolutely! So much to learn here.
He needs to go to Davos and bend Klaus Shwab and Bill Gates over each knee, clowns and B.S. Science will be the end of all life on Earth. End the U.N. - W.E.F. clown show Freedom Convoy Canada and World, cheers
I’ve been trying to figure out how to start / be a part of an eco community in my area.. (lots of big industrialized farms , ranches and feedlots).
I attended their permaculture design certification in 2019. This place is incredible.
This channel is a garden that produces a most precious crop: optimism and a love of life.
This is how we all should live 🙂with nature the way it should be ❤️
The knowledge coming out of these communities makes me hopeful for the future. Imagine if all of humanity understood and implemented these simple, priobiotic perspectives... Imagine technology and automation that operates to cultivate life and biodiversity...
Wonderful !! I once lived in a commune of 22 men and women. Now that I have been a widower for a few years, I was thinking of living this nurturing way of life again. 🙂
Lots of nudity at least, if you don't mind having to reach consensus about everything. Better hurry though, us old folks become less in demand at monasteries and communes as we grow more feeble.
I love everything about this, particularly their acknowledgement and honoring of indigenous knowledge and relationships to the land. We need more of this in permaculture everywhere, but especially in places like North America and Australia - recognition that the stewardship of the original inhabitants of these territories provides for the standard of living that we enjoy today.
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I have been envisioning myself purchasing some land and building a permaculture homestead for the past couple of years. Seeing properties like these that you show us gives me even more inspiration to follow this dream. Also, I was born in Santa Rosa, CA and I lived in Forestville until I was 8 years old. Seeing the area again brings back those childhood memories. Thank you so much for sharing.
We’re you acquainted with Christ the Savior Brotherhood? I know Vincent Rossi who is a Russian Orthodox monk now…
you should look to build an intentional community as these folks have done rather than homesteading. the last two minutes of the video sum it up pretty well. permaculture as a system is incomplete without community.
Have also wanted to start/ live in an ‘eco- community’ / farm / catholic community. In my area... Just never sure how to get started...
@@j2muw667 sincerely, good luck with getting American Catholics on board with an intentional eco-commune. They're up there with evangelicals in anti-commune(ist) thought from my experience.
As far as getting started, land is the biggest challenge especially these days - and while it may seem boring, you need to understand how communal economics and politics work if you're going to be sucessful and create a long term community.
edit: the channel "Flock Finger Lakes" just put out a new video a few minutes ago called "Your Ecovillage Questions Answered" which is an interview with one of the founders of the Ithica Ecovillage
@@j2muw667 me too.
This was an amazing introduction to this village; its mission and philosophies. I'm blown away by all of it.
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Please feature more of these communities. I wonder if there are full time workers amongst the residents, how does the upkeep work? How does one apply to move into their place (they have a waitlist, i'm sure). It takes a special group of people to collectively live and work together.
I want to build one for pet parents bc I’m tired of people killing my cats and dogs and also pet parents get discriminated against if they need to rent. 🤟🏼
he mentions it's a consensus-based intentional community - essentially a hyper-democratic system based on equal distribution of power and supplies. I can't speak on the specifics since I don't know but I imagine that every member works as much as they want to, but since it's an intentional community nobody is there to sit on their ass. I would also imagine they have yearly/monthly planning meetings to plan for the season, elect work captains to coordinate teams & jobs (instantly recallable by vote), to air grievances, and suggest new ideas. IMO an ideal model but you're right, it does take a special group of people to start one.
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So true! I'm looking for a rent house now,have been for months. I have 3 small dogs,that I refuse to leave behind or give up! They're family to me. Every place I check into say no pets.
@@ajmentel2453 What happens to the elderly, or people who've lived there for decades? I guess an intentional community evolves as people age, have families, move away.
@@moodbeast I guess that's up to the discretion of the community. If they can spare the manpower and resources for caring for the elderly residents and infirm, there's not really any reason not to IMO, especially if they're some of the ppl who built that community. I would like to think the active lifestyle of intentional communities plus modern medicine keeps you spry and healthy into old age but that isn't always the case.
If I were to start a community, I would definitely consider elder care as a facet of contemplation when creating the bylaws.
Would love to live in a community like this
you could try to organize your community along these lines - look up mark lakeman for project ideas and democratic confederalism for the political/economic structure (cooperation jackson is a good model to look to in the united states and rojava abroad)
Do it! All you need is land and like minded friends.
@@benjaminbrewer2569 ...and the right kind of climate. Like he says in the video, his solution will be different somewhere else. The job is to find out what that is.
@@scpatl4now What do you mean 'the right kind of climate'? This can be done anywhere, it's been done all over, from Wisconson to Vermont to India to ... wherever. Or did I misunderstand you?
@@Samthemancharles The right kind of climate to recreate the stuff they grow. I suppose you could do it elsewhere, but their location is ideal
Day by day, story by story, I'm being being nudged towards a new life on the land. This video has given me a massive shove. Thank you!
I know this place, I used to live a few miles from there. They had the best and most amazing Mothers Day Sales...Plants from all over the world were available and the gardens were all in bloom, such a delight to spend time walking around.
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I love these kinds of videos. I wish it was a bit longer and dove into more questions like the housing situation, how they support the business,does all the produce go to the residents etc.A lot of questions left un-answered.This could of easily been a 45 minute video with so much to cover.
Part 2 , part 2 louder…
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@@Raymondgogolf Chill out buddy
Brock Dolman taught me more about permaculture and sustainability in 30 minutes than all the books I've ever ready on the subject in my life. This place would be my heaven on earth.
What's the name of the book?
@@moip4928 I've read books by Geoff Lawton, JM Fortier and Paul Gautschi. I just thought Dolman was very succinct in how he put it all together. Thanks for asking.
good soil is key for life to thrive. Glad that these people are still teaching the public how to take care of their soil.
love that they build dirt which is how I was taught to garden by my grandparents knowing about tilth made my heart happyf
I would love to see this man undertake a 2+ hour interview - so much useful information!
Just amazing as per usual, to see a great way of living
What a wealth of information... and eloquently presented. Thank you.
I was going to call that walking encyclopedia guy a genius.. until I realized what he is saying. Genius is nature, for respecting it. Awesome place.
Excellent!!! This leapt out of the film and grabbed me with how brilliantly Brock expressed it:
"We're pro-life of all species of all generations for all time. We're not antibiotic. Antibiotic-when you're against life and you live on the only planet in the known universe that has life... Kind of a party foul."
Brock Doleman
That is how I envisioned my life back in the late 70's. Never made it, although I do garden. I love what is happening there.
This man is blessed with 10 green thumbs. Love this, wonderful. Looks like they have one toilet and shower for all those people, that’s tough, but I suppose that’s how they manage all the “waste” (resource) substance produced.
This is the kind of stuff I dream about... Beautiful and so important!
Such a great model for creating a sustainable community
If we can just get folks to retune their thinking of biodiversity etc..That's what it's all about...it's about living. I would sell everything I own..and help that community..I was raised on organic farming by my parents and grandparents farm..we no longer own..Sadly. I'm older now..searching for a longing of a community as this. To be able to use my skills..I practice organic still. I understand the importance of heirloom seeds..we must maintain their natural genetic traits. No pesticides..etc. it's ashame folks will not even plant fruit bearing on the property. Their too complacent and lazy to actually work for
It. And glorify their immaculate lawns.
No person should need of nutrition or food deprivation. It's lack of the right education. Another problem is outright land ownership..The counties steal your land by taxes. My title; " leave Me Be"..
Was it strictly a vegan community ?
U r so right. I had a fruit garden with lots of trees and butterfly plants etc when the city came out. I hate grass and lawnmowers. I’d rather be raising chickens and stuff for my rabbits…they haven’t heard that roundup causes cancer!!! My dad always had a bag for our lawn. I love rolypolys and worms 2 much.
Wow, I absolutely LOVE this place, this is how we should all be living and working. Kirsten I really love your videos, you go straight into it with no messing about no intros just boom! and your in, I love you, keep up the good work that you and you family are doing❤️👍. Robert Beaton 🏴/🌍.
I so enjoy the work you do as a family Kirsten. I can hardly wait to see what ya'lls kids do with this incredible upbringing you have gifted them with. Bravo!
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I have a boarding house and love the Co-Living style of life. If I had land this is what I would do with it. Great Video!!
I wish that more people would do this, or at the very least, use the land that they have to produce food for their families.
How easy it is to forget that history ALWAYS repeats itself, if the lesson has been forgotten, or was never learned to start with.
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Happy Sunday
Amazing lifestyle here and could listen to Brock Dolman for hours ...
What a phenomenal tour, that guy is a great presenter!!!!!!!
💥💥WOW!!💥💥😁 That was a great video!!🤪👏💪Thanks for sharing🧑🎤and i look forwards for the next video!💏Have a great week ahead!!🤳🙏4U🌹🌹🌹👍👉💯
Collective ownership of land, rational person centered production and planning, rebuilding the soil, living sustainably...not exactly what our mainstream institutions are structured to do, nor is it the ideology they practice and preach.
Absolutely brilliant. This is exactly how I want to co exist with mother nature.
Thoroughly amazing! The truth of living on this planet. Thanks for bringing this episode to us.
This was an excellent video. Very educational.
I’m learning about a whole new way of living thru this channel. Tx so much
fantastic community regenerative thoughtful,brilliant
Kirsten, best video till date on your channel. Awesome project. Person explaining the project is clearly an enlightened soul. Thanks for sharing.
This was like watching an outdoor lecture on permaculture. Very information dense and wonderful.
Please do more of places like this! Would love to see more Eco villages and Co living communities. Thanks for your dedication 🙏
Thank you very much for sharing those videos, amazing work!
Wow - that is a beyond wonderful place, with such dedicated and insightful people. And it's all so beautiful. I can't really put into words how much I loved this video, along with all of the sensible information we were given. Thank you so much for featuring them!
Absolutely, incredibly, unpretentiously, WONDERFUL!!! Thank you for sharing this “eco village” with the world.
Awesome way to live .. I wish I was 35 years younger sometimes... This guy is great to listen to.. Explains things so well..
bravo. you did it again Kirsten
Very good videos, Kristen. Now want to see; innovation like this -thought out for not just the housing, but for , healthcare ways the best, education and social , welfare best. Your platform finds the best in housing, etc. There needs to be an innovation Nation.
I loved everything about this!!
No GMO"s here.
I live in Hawai'i and we've fought hard against big corporations like Monsanto to avoid all of chemicals and destruction of the land.
I'd love to try one of those plums right now
Thanks for this video.
Very interesting! 🌺
Yeah, I'm keen on these plums 😊
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That place is amazing. This seems to be the ideal way for humans to live, in harmony with nature, nurturing the land and improving it instead of exploiting it. I have started my own food forest because of your videos and others and I'm having so much fun.
I bet a place like that would be a place of healing for those suffering from depression or abuse. Thank you for bringing this wonderful video to us. Your videos are the best on UA-cam, in my opinion, and my all time favorite youtube video is the one about the shanty boat. I put it on in the evening and it just makes me feel calm and peaceful and all the stress of the day just melts away. I talked with Mr. Modes on Instagram and he laughed when I said that I had learned of him through your video. He said that he hears that all the time and that it certainly has gotten a lot of mileage.
Another fantastic video, Kirsten. So interesting. If I were more hippy, and less bourgeois, I would want to move in!
Another good video, in fact these are my favorite. Wish they had communities close to me like this!
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There should be a nationwide movement to have at least two permaculture farms/learning communities per county in the state.
Another lovely community. Very inspiring. Excellent video!
Thanks for posting and sharing. Wonderful to see a place that has been lived in and developed so nicely.
This is one of the best YT channel I ever subscribed to ✊🏼🇫🇷🇨🇭🤗🌺
Marta and I enjoy your videos. We are in Santa Rosa. Thank you.
So appreciated for all the amazing videos! Only smart people realize nature give humans everything❤🙏
this gentlemen knows what’s up! thanks for curating + creating such quality content.
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Keep up the good work
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH for your amazing work, Kirsten Dirksen and family :)
I have been an avid follower of your work for many years now.
This breathes life back into me and I just want to THANK you and am SENDING LOVVVVVE.
Enjoyed this. I know he is right, but just wish I understood more of the knowledge and practicalities of creating such a system 😊
What a great project/lifestyle. Highly commend these people! Very interesting! 💜
I love it! Thank you for this!
What an amazing village. I want to live there. Thank you for another great video. Thumbs up again.
Awesome, amazing, inspiring. 👍🇨🇦🌲📷🌱
That took me back to my boyhood, I use to attend a horticultural boarding school, and we annually double dug our garden (one acre) set in a formal victorian setting all done by hand including hand barrows, not wheelbarrows, we made our own soil, in the potting shed we would use a caldren system to bake the soil before use in the greenhouses, a mixing box, John Innes if I remember correctly (the smell of the sterilizing soil combined with the fire underneath the kettles is something to experience I can still smell it now) ...no weed killers or anything other than natural produce
Sterilizing soil is the opposite of natural, I'm no expert, but I think the point is to work with soil that is alive, full of diversity, with all the bugs and critters.
Just in the first couple sentences I can tell this school was not in the united States. This place is trash. We would never have a cool boarding school like that.
Sparky, yes, fungi and worms agree with you. The longer the soil breaks down with mulch the more alive and rich it is! I don’t use anything to poison anything in my gardens. I have bunnies and boxturtles plus I love earthworms
@@tinawindham6958 We have bunnies, snakes, moles, mice, and frogs or toads, not really sure. You know you are winning when the amphibians love your yard, imo.
When your plants are super healthy, there is no need to worry about nature, they are strong enough to fend for themselves.
There is, I think, a family of owls that has been making it's nest on the side of our house for nearly a decade now.
@@sparkysmalarkey Also full of pest eggs that will decimate the next season's crops.
This makes me want to cry from how much I desire such living...
“We grow soil”❤❤❤❤❤❤ organically…over 50 years……omg…. I would have loved to visit….thank you Kirsten….and Brock for showing all of this insightful brilliance. Really this was such a wonderful tour. There is so much hope and beauty and community consensus here. These people know their actions count. They are super smart and connected to….the earth and biology. I would really love to hear more (and more) about this project. G and G project❤ reusing every natural resource multiple ways. I will research those public systems and low inputs, gravity fed, trusting biology are all music to my ears. Measuring performance too….omg the Seed Saving ❤❤Thank you for incorporating more Permaculture ideas, native re vegetation and indigenous wisdom. If more people did this the world and earth and all the animals and plants would be on a very different trajectory. Thank you so much for being you, Kirsten…Brock.
I love what you're doing. I'm a RISD grad from Illustration and Graphic Design. I'm always redesigning my bedroom ...it never finishes..lol..small spaces. I fix furniture often and improve them for my needs and tastes.
Absolutely Amazing ........I want to know more about this place and how it's organized. Successful intentional communities are rare and often not very successful.....so all the lessons we can learn from the ones that are successful is vital.
Yes, aging matters a LOT, especially with our Baby Boom heading into 60's at the youngest end.
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This is the dream!!! Wow! Thank you! 🙏💖
This is an amazing place. Thank you for filming/sharing this.
Such hreat work, Kristen! I sent this to my friends in Forestville who love the land and practice many of these techniques in their garden. 🌿☺️🍃🌳❤🌿
This is why I watch this channel it gives me hope that some people get it
So beautiful and inspiring! Thank you for existing and sharing!
Just wonderful ❤thanks soooo much ❤
Love this… Amazing what canbe done and passed on🌸🌺🌸
How encouraging is this video! My family is working towards a life like this and i am beyond excited!!
I love this.i would live there surrounded by nature beautiful
One of the most impressive, well thought-out intentional communities I have ever seen. Thanks for the tour.
Awesome video! I would love to learn more about the "Organic Agricultural Easement" which protects in perpetuity the organic gardens and orchards from any development or any use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Love the orientation guy spurting tap/faucet water for two seconds. Great.