I love the concept of Narara and have longed to be a part of the community for years, but unfortunately, the cost of land ownership in Narara is just as high as living in the city which creates a sort of elitist group of a few people who can actually afford to live there. Hopefully in the future we can have more sustainable communities in Australia that are also affordable to most.
I guess to make it affordable to most, you need cheap land. Cant expect one or more people to buy land and sell it cheap. That means living in the never never, or desert country. Or am I missing something here not explained in video?
The problem with Navarra is that there is wealth inequality. Meaning you can only buy into the community if you are fairly well off. Poor people need not apply. Hence it’s a slanted community and not true in nature.
There are many people creatively co-sharing lots. By say sharing a laundry and garden area to reduce costs, or building 2 or 2 or 4 small houses on 1 lot. We are looking at a proposal today for 5 townhome style houses on one lot. We have some lots still available and many knowledgeable members, owner-builders and others to guide through making it work for more people. I'm doing a 3 share lot - less cost, more support - I love it.
@@alaricgoldkuhl155 no one suggested that they should provide a free ride. Though, housing should definitely be free for poor people since shelter is a human right.
Hello, master permaculture farmer based in Vic here. I would highly recommend diversifying your produce garden with more fruit trees, berry vine, and edible shrubs. Invest in water tanks to collect water and expand your garden operation, plus a greenhouse/ shade house. Bird/ bug netting is also useful to keep moths out. Leather isn't a problem, infact if sourced yourself its far better then synthetic plastics used in most modern clothing.
With due respect, I cannot agree with your comment about leather. Any animal from which skins are obtained experience the worst trauma, and extreme terror and pain. Buying leather is supporting this abusive, exploitative industry, wearing leather is akin to covering your body with the pain of another species. Leather is an outdated material. Synthetic leather is made from ocean plastics, plant material (pineapple skins, cactus, sugar cane waste products, and many many more) Prices are similar to leather if not cheaper , as durable, and mindful of animals and the planet. No reason to support the leather industry except individualist pride, vanity, selfishness, and ignorance. Nothing wrong with using RECYCLED plastics which would otherwise end up in landfills and oceans.
I've worked in recycling since 1990, Imdo this pay free and have created my own unique position, I work in dumps, one of the things I won't put back k out there is bird netting, I've heard some horrific stories about it and wildlife, I recommend fly screen, no damage, airflow can become an issue though.
ua-cam.com/video/T3ewikJxt8Y/v-deo.htmlsi=CeAPL61XHjCa3gaG Mr.Seed talking of the reforestation their group did in Tamilnadu. Right now the hill has good green cover., though it could be better .Thanks to John Seed and Ms.Apeetha Arunagiri another Australian who equally did lot of work and raised our local consciousness about trees.
There has been unprecedented rains in the last 72 hours in our town , where Mr. John Seed had helped a forest grow. Day bef0re yday lamd slide has happened ,lives have been lost, the casualty would have been more had it not been for John Seed and Apeetha who have helped the forest cover in some parts of the hill.
It is a beautiful nest in the country and still close to a city- but I think that while some members (me 🙂) might be happy to be called old hippies, there are plenty of young families, a few academics, executives, and plenty of tradies. Variety is us!
I know it sounds petty, the cabbage moth is brown the cabbage butterfly is white. I absolutely love everything about the village, a bit jealous perhaps. This is definitely a wonderful way of life. .
And unfortunately they’re an invasive species here in australia. Planting native Aussie flowers and grasses can help bring more beneficial native butterflies though!
@@ThePostModernJournalistHi, I’ve known about this community for many years. Is it possible to still buy into it? If so, has it become super expensive like a lot of Australia? I’m from QLD but live in Adelaide. I want to sell up in the future and a find a place where I can live with like minded people. 🙂❤
ikr! I doubt my MAGA hat would be welcome.🤣 I've always wanted to live in community, but the only people doing it are useless hippies. I can't think of anything worse than living with a bunch of "activists".🙄
It's nice to have a say in the rules we have to live by. Much more of a say than the rules a local council comes up with for example, & that everyone has to follow.
Yes! Very exciting - come and catch up at an Open Day once a month to check out enormous variety of sustainable building practices, music, art and gardens.
Oh, bring this idea to Canada. We needed badly. My heart just cries to have this to be with same minded people I am indigenous. I want to live the old ways. It's taking care of the land and being together sharing, how can this happen in canada
Honey, you do it. Take the inspiration and start it up yourself. It won't be easy, as a mate said: everyone wants to play music under the trees, no one wants to fix the septic tank. 😂 But if you find the right people, you can build this. ❤
It is hard work at when you start up but when you start and other people around you might want to help.The climate inCanada is very different to the Australian you best growing season is from mid spring to summer.
I remember decades ago in Australia, people used to advertise to start up these communities in magazines like ‘Grass Roots’ magazine. They would say they are looking for a group of people looking to all put money in to buy a large block of land, so they can live on it as a community. I’ve visited a couple - some are more developed than others. I would love to live on one.
I'm from Canada originally and lived in other communities there and in the US! I was so pleased to find such a beautiful village here in Australia that is developing a global demonstration of a larger ecovillage. Amazing! Please visit - you will be welcomed.
Wow, what a fantastic community! I hope to embody more of this way of living into my daily life, even if I cannot fully embody it now or perhaps never. I very much look forward to seeing more of these wonderful folks
Even though my kids are grown, I moved to this ecovillage when I saw the kids free-ranging happily about the property with multi-ages doing kid-stuff, bikes, sticks, a creek, running through the winding walkways through the village, really safe and true mutli-age connections. Some go to public school a block away, some to Steiner or alternates or homeschool and all play - well, like kids! And grow into homegrown amazing adults with direction, ideas and purpose. This is my why!
Well, you are a neighbour. We have many Newcastle folk now living at Narara and others preparing to build. Come for an Open Day once a month (you can come by train or car) or arrange your own personal tour to ask any questions and see the Village - oh, and have a cuppa or lunch at Neville our much-adored coffee cart.
@ I believe a shared web site showing each and every eco village, earthship that’s been council approved etc can motivate others to create true independent living. Networking together like evil does so well is our weakness. We simply don’t think of it. It’s time we flip the tables and use their strategies against them.
I always think that these types of communities are a great idea but unfortunately, they are always filled with people who want to be the biggest fish in the sea. There is always lots of talking but not a lot of action and the same people do the work.
Takes lots of good infrastructure, and plenty of goodwill. You are right that there is work involved. I like that in this larger community we can have some who love gardens, others who like meetings (!) and people give in their own unique ways. In the last couple months a volunteer group renovated an old shed as a pottery shed, others put in a swim platform, others contribute to forest care. But you are absolutely right that everyone contributes from little to large.
I found this most interesting -- wish there was more groups around like this but more affordable for the everyday Joe. Most of these people come from a background of having money and being able to afford this choice of living - not everyone is like this. Bt good concept but it seems to breed only elite people who has the money for doing this.
That is a great point! If only we had policymaker's support to create more communities like this, I imagine they would become a lot more affordable for the average person.
Yes, I couldn't afford to build on my own and instead joined up with a "land partner" - we have lots of support for this and there are many shared lots under strata title or business incorporation usually. Some knew each other before, but I met my land partner at our weekly Wednesday zoom call for those that live at a distance and we are both making our dreams come true at half the price. And she loves to garden- how good is that!
I live right by the village and I'm a member, it couldn't be further from a cult. Just like in mainstream society there is a pretty wide range of views on just about everything - the 2 unifying factors are a desire to get along/ work together and the commitment to leaving the planet in better shape than we found it.
Yes, we have an amazing membership with senior permaculture gardeners who have worked all over Australia and beyond - and we are always travelling to check out and link up with other permaculture and agrists as we expand our gardens and have more time once housing is built - as an accredited ecovillage we have global standards for garden and building practices and contribute to research
Hi there. Yes we did the soil tests for contamination right at the start over 10years ago when we bought the property. We rehabilitated the area that needed it. Great question.
We are about 10 minutes from Gosford train station and hospital but surrounded by Strickland State Forest on 3 sides - exquisite location, the beaches, the forest, and community
I also hope that they make sure to stay true with science. Sometimes, in my experience in hippie communities such as Steiner schools, conspiracy theories can become an issue for instance ant-vaxxers. Also we definitely need way more focus on community and the environment so all for that aspect of it.
Wonder full content, seeing how generative and regenerative processes take place in community. I found the camera work very annoying though. All the jump cuts, shifting focus and camera movement took away the emphasis upon the importance of the content and the people.
I've always wanted to live somewhere like this but they are always too far to have a job so you have to drop out unless you're a tradesperson or an artist.
It is part of the attraction to Narara Ecovillage that it is less than fifteen minutes to Gosford, close to multiple communities, arts, schools, and 1.5 hrs to Sydney where many members work via train or WFH.
Environmentalism doesn't have to be anti-human. I'm so fed up with the Green movement and their demonizing of humanity. As for the rest, I think Norm said it best... "Sounds like a bunch of commy gobbledygook."🤣
Fantastic ! The cynic in me wonders how long before it gets burned out by an out of control burn or chemtrail induced flood and relocates them all to 15 minutes Gulags
These places are not a solution. Its a subtle form of a cult. Groupthink and political ideology. These places seem 'nice' from the outside but the infighting is usually off the chart. Still its very nice.
Probably not far off, I would encourage anyone seriously considering this to do some thorough homework on the costs involved. The "buy in" just be member that may be considered for being allowed to build a dwelling there one day is substantial...cultish wrapped in green.
Definitely means you have to make efforts to get along with your neighbours to live in an ecovillage, so it isn't for everyone - but it is open to all ideologies and diversity (that aren't hateful). I can say it is incredibly welcoming and diverse views, backgrounds, beliefs, economics, politics, genders and ages!
More like a rich retirement village yes there's kids but i bet u there's very strict rules n standards to live by n yes this keeps the place free of crime safe ect its not real daily life if u move from there
Do they have dogs there?. if not I could be interested in moving there. I'm sick of living in a huge dog kennel where I'm woken constantly and have been attacked several time now.
I love the concept of Narara and have longed to be a part of the community for years, but unfortunately, the cost of land ownership in Narara is just as high as living in the city which creates a sort of elitist group of a few people who can actually afford to live there. Hopefully in the future we can have more sustainable communities in Australia that are also affordable to most.
Yes totally agree. That’s my issue with it too.
❤❤❤❤ Does anyone know what the minimum amount would be needed to enter by chance ? 😊
I guess to make it affordable to most, you need cheap land. Cant expect one or more people to buy land and sell it cheap. That means living in the never never, or desert country. Or am I missing something here not explained in video?
Thank you for pointing this out. I totally agree.
@@fifilamoore1718$400k + plus build.
The problem with Navarra is that there is wealth inequality. Meaning you can only buy into the community if you are fairly well off. Poor people need not apply. Hence it’s a slanted community and not true in nature.
If they offered people a free ride they'd quickly be swamped.
There are many people creatively co-sharing lots. By say sharing a laundry and garden area to reduce costs, or building 2 or 2 or 4 small houses on 1 lot. We are looking at a proposal today for 5 townhome style houses on one lot. We have some lots still available and many knowledgeable members, owner-builders and others to guide through making it work for more people. I'm doing a 3 share lot - less cost, more support - I love it.
@@alaricgoldkuhl155 no one suggested that they should provide a free ride. Though, housing should definitely be free for poor people since shelter is a human right.
Hello, master permaculture farmer based in Vic here. I would highly recommend diversifying your produce garden with more fruit trees, berry vine, and edible shrubs. Invest in water tanks to collect water and expand your garden operation, plus a greenhouse/ shade house. Bird/ bug netting is also useful to keep moths out. Leather isn't a problem, infact if sourced yourself its far better then synthetic plastics used in most modern clothing.
Great recommendation! Thank you I’ll pass your message on to the community. 👍
Water isn't a problem there on town water😂
@@ashleighcash4681and I suspect government subsidies
With due respect, I cannot agree with your comment about leather. Any animal from which skins are obtained experience the worst trauma, and extreme terror and pain. Buying leather is supporting this abusive, exploitative industry, wearing leather is akin to covering your body with the pain of another species. Leather is an outdated material. Synthetic leather is made from ocean plastics, plant material (pineapple skins, cactus, sugar cane waste products, and many many more) Prices are similar to leather if not cheaper , as durable, and mindful of animals and the planet. No reason to support the leather industry except individualist pride, vanity, selfishness, and ignorance. Nothing wrong with using RECYCLED plastics which would otherwise end up in landfills and oceans.
I've worked in recycling since 1990, Imdo this pay free and have created my own unique position, I work in dumps, one of the things I won't put back k out there is bird netting, I've heard some horrific stories about it and wildlife, I recommend fly screen, no damage, airflow can become an issue though.
Mr.Seed helped hugely regenerate and reforest a hill in Tamilnadu, south india .many thanks to him.
ua-cam.com/video/T3ewikJxt8Y/v-deo.htmlsi=CeAPL61XHjCa3gaG Mr.Seed talking of the reforestation their group did in Tamilnadu. Right now the hill has good green cover., though it could be better .Thanks to John Seed and Ms.Apeetha Arunagiri another Australian who equally did lot of work and raised our local consciousness about trees.
There has been unprecedented rains in the last 72 hours in our town , where Mr. John Seed had helped a forest grow. Day bef0re yday lamd slide has happened ,lives have been lost, the casualty would have been more had it not been for John Seed and Apeetha who have helped the forest cover in some parts of the hill.
I love that his last name is Seed!
@ so true
bit culty, but its good to see more organic farmers building communities in my country.
All the old hippies have finally found their nest! It looks very nice.
Again, thus is for the ppl who have the money. Not inclusive.
It is a beautiful nest in the country and still close to a city- but I think that while some members (me 🙂) might be happy to be called old hippies, there are plenty of young families, a few academics, executives, and plenty of tradies. Variety is us!
I know it sounds petty, the cabbage moth is brown the cabbage butterfly is white. I absolutely love everything about the village, a bit jealous perhaps. This is definitely a wonderful way of life. .
And unfortunately they’re an invasive species here in australia. Planting native Aussie flowers and grasses can help bring more beneficial native butterflies though!
It is important 🤎🤍 ❤
Great community, all the best
@@ronaldkable thank you🙏
@@ThePostModernJournalistHi, I’ve known about this community for many years. Is it possible to still buy into it? If so, has it become super expensive like a lot of Australia? I’m from QLD but live in Adelaide. I want to sell up in the future and a find a place where I can live with like minded people. 🙂❤
All the rich hippies who can pay the high land prices and who will obey the 10 000 rules they make. I'llpass.
ikr! I doubt my MAGA hat would be welcome.🤣
I've always wanted to live in community, but the only people doing it are useless hippies. I can't think of anything worse than living with a bunch of "activists".🙄
It's nice to have a say in the rules we have to live by. Much more of a say than the rules a local council comes up with for example, & that everyone has to follow.
Wonderful to know there are places like this in Australia! We must visit!
Thank you!
@@faith2691 it’s beautiful here! The forest nearby is gorgeous. You should visit. 💚
@@ThePostModernJournalist❤❤❤❤ What is an entry level to join please 🙏 thanks
About $700,000 MINIMUM with land a house build. @@fifilamoore1718
Love this ❤
We need more of this! Loved learning more, thank you
@@WareyBear 💚🙏
Feeling Looking Sounding a Fabulous Abundant growing Environment welcoming All Ages and Enthusiasm 😊😊😊 Blessings on Plenty
This is amazing, thank you
This provides such hope, and such a cool representation of people coming together, either with shared visions or through unspoken understanding
@@Inyourmindpodcast Thank you for your kind words. 🙏💚We indeed share this world together🌎.
Exciting stuff! I’d like to think we’ll all be living in communities like this in an ideal world.
Yes! Very exciting - come and catch up at an Open Day once a month to check out enormous variety of sustainable building practices, music, art and gardens.
Oh, bring this idea to Canada. We needed badly. My heart just cries to have this to be with same minded people I am indigenous. I want to live the old ways. It's taking care of the land and being together sharing, how can this happen in canada
Honey, you do it. Take the inspiration and start it up yourself. It won't be easy, as a mate said: everyone wants to play music under the trees, no one wants to fix the septic tank. 😂
But if you find the right people, you can build this. ❤
It is hard work at when you start up but when you start and other people around you might want to help.The climate inCanada is very different to the Australian you best growing season is from mid spring to summer.
I remember decades ago in Australia, people used to advertise to start up these communities in magazines like ‘Grass Roots’ magazine. They would say they are looking for a group of people looking to all put money in to buy a large block of land, so they can live on it as a community. I’ve visited a couple - some are more developed than others. I would love to live on one.
I'm from Canada originally and lived in other communities there and in the US! I was so pleased to find such a beautiful village here in Australia that is developing a global demonstration of a larger ecovillage. Amazing! Please visit - you will be welcomed.
Very cool place. I was lucky to do a Yatra (walking meditation retreat) up at Lamington NP with John Seed a couple of years ago. Highly recommended.
Wow, what a fantastic community! I hope to embody more of this way of living into my daily life, even if I cannot fully embody it now or perhaps never. I very much look forward to seeing more of these wonderful folks
Yes, stop in if you are in the neighbourhood- we are 1.5 hrs on the train from Sydney - very accessible and very friendly vibe.
❤❤❤❤ These children give me “HOPE” for a better future 💓🫶🏼🕯️Fifi
Even though my kids are grown, I moved to this ecovillage when I saw the kids free-ranging happily about the property with multi-ages doing kid-stuff, bikes, sticks, a creek, running through the winding walkways through the village, really safe and true mutli-age connections. Some go to public school a block away, some to Steiner or alternates or homeschool and all play - well, like kids! And grow into homegrown amazing adults with direction, ideas and purpose. This is my why!
Brilliant and inspirational video
What a beautiful work.
I am in Newcastle also!!! I would love to visit this beautiful community!
Well, you are a neighbour. We have many Newcastle folk now living at Narara and others preparing to build. Come for an Open Day once a month (you can come by train or car) or arrange your own personal tour to ask any questions and see the Village - oh, and have a cuppa or lunch at Neville our much-adored coffee cart.
Wow, whatvan amazing place to live.
@@deb31vers35 it truly is!
Congratulation 🎉on your foresight, initiative, and organic HUMANNESS,
.' HUMAN BEING' and 'BEING HUMAN'. LOVE LIGHT with much LAUGHTER ❤😊😂
I'm heading down south in a few weeks, definitely will drop by and and pay a visit, maybe buy some veggies if there's any for sale.
There will be some fresh veggies for sale at the community pantry for sure!
Wonderful. Have you networked with other eco villages around Australia like Crystal Waters here on the Sunny Coast??
@@elwood212 not yet! But looking at visiting some of them for sure. 👍
@ I believe a shared web site showing each and every eco village, earthship that’s been council approved etc can motivate others to create true independent living. Networking together like evil does so well is our weakness. We simply don’t think of it. It’s time we flip the tables and use their strategies against them.
I love the organic sourdough from crystal waters @ conondale ❤🎉
Lovely peaceful place 😌
I want to move HERE!!
Good stuff 😊
I always think that these types of communities are a great idea but unfortunately, they are always filled with people who want to be the biggest fish in the sea. There is always lots of talking but not a lot of action and the same people do the work.
@@ilovefabricandflowers8543 fair point! It definitely isn’t always easy.
Takes lots of good infrastructure, and plenty of goodwill. You are right that there is work involved. I like that in this larger community we can have some who love gardens, others who like meetings (!) and people give in their own unique ways. In the last couple months a volunteer group renovated an old shed as a pottery shed, others put in a swim platform, others contribute to forest care. But you are absolutely right that everyone contributes from little to large.
great
I found this most interesting -- wish there was more groups around like this but more affordable for the everyday Joe. Most of these people come from a background of having money and being able to afford this choice of living - not everyone is like this. Bt good concept but it seems to breed only elite people who has the money for doing this.
That is a great point! If only we had policymaker's support to create more communities like this, I imagine they would become a lot more affordable for the average person.
Yes, I couldn't afford to build on my own and instead joined up with a "land partner" - we have lots of support for this and there are many shared lots under strata title or business incorporation usually. Some knew each other before, but I met my land partner at our weekly Wednesday zoom call for those that live at a distance and we are both making our dreams come true at half the price. And she loves to garden- how good is that!
Live in the area , will have to visit!.
Please come by for an Open Day - but if you are in area we also have lots of live music nights and various classes and workshops that are fun.
I live in a department of housing unit in the Northern Beaches and have a reasonably large garden with native grasses it is a very crowded garden
Enjoyed the episode…it’s a nice concept, and I wish it well.
Very beautiful ❤
Why does this feel like a cult? Something feels ‘off’.
Huge diversity of people and opinions at Narara Ecovillage - no gurus and only shared aims of sustainability, innovation, and fun.
Haha you are right .. I bet alot of people problems
Too many cooks
Too many chooks actually
I live right by the village and I'm a member, it couldn't be further from a cult. Just like in mainstream society there is a pretty wide range of views on just about everything - the 2 unifying factors are a desire to get along/ work together and the commitment to leaving the planet in better shape than we found it.
If it was a former research station have soil tests been done regarding contamination?
@@allegrosotto2126 great question! I suppose they would have given there’s a community garden.
@ not all consider this as it’s costly, and it appears they have good intentions but not a lot of grounded experience.
Yes, we have an amazing membership with senior permaculture gardeners who have worked all over Australia and beyond - and we are always travelling to check out and link up with other permaculture and agrists as we expand our gardens and have more time once housing is built - as an accredited ecovillage we have global standards for garden and building practices and contribute to research
Hi there. Yes we did the soil tests for contamination right at the start over 10years ago when we bought the property. We rehabilitated the area that needed it. Great question.
What is the brand video camera? Very beautiful picture
@@black-god7777 it was shot on a Sony ZVE1 camera. 😃
@ThePostModernJournalist wow thanks 👍👍⭐⭐👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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What????? I lived on the coast my entire life until 18 months ago! Wish I knew this existed before then
@@Simply.Owanda it’s here on the Central Coast :))
It’s at the end of fountains road, the road narara valley high is on. They have open days, I’ve been a few times years ago.
We are about 10 minutes from Gosford train station and hospital but surrounded by Strickland State Forest on 3 sides - exquisite location, the beaches, the forest, and community
This place seems pretty cool. Although, on one note, personally I found Steiner education not the fit for me.
I also hope that they make sure to stay true with science. Sometimes, in my experience in hippie communities such as Steiner schools, conspiracy theories can become an issue for instance ant-vaxxers. Also we definitely need way more focus on community and the environment so all for that aspect of it.
Try green manures and grains that you can harvest the seeds for flour or cereal
Ha, how did you know we are just laying down a bird mix of varied green and flowers for soil improvement as we expand our eco-agriculture area.
do you have info on the entry applications? or the entry costs?
@@RainbowPuddles hi there! You can visit their official website for more information nararaecovillage.com/
Wonder full content, seeing how generative and regenerative processes take place in community.
I found the camera work very annoying though. All the jump cuts, shifting focus and camera movement took away the emphasis upon the importance of the content and the people.
Why say "hidden"? It's not hard to find, and is even walkable from Narara train station.
@@lyrebird9749 just that even a lot of locals in the Central Coast don’t know about this Ecovillage 😃
@@ThePostModernJournalist OK, but a lot of people don't even know who else lives on their street!
We do allow dogs on leads
Why is it hidden?
I think it’s not necessarily *actively* hidden, it’s just that the village is small and not many people know about it
Because some locals don’t seem to know about it which was really surprising :)
Their anti-human agenda.
Your music is too loud. It is hard to hear the introduction over the music.
It’d be great if more people mowed their lawns and were a bit more tidy
I believe that's why people like you live in the suburbs..stay there 🙄
i wanna lived there
Absolutely amazing and so inspiring 🙏🙏🙏
It is rich hippies 🥺😔
I've always wanted to live somewhere like this but they are always too far to have a job so you have to drop out unless you're a tradesperson or an artist.
It is part of the attraction to Narara Ecovillage that it is less than fifteen minutes to Gosford, close to multiple communities, arts, schools, and 1.5 hrs to Sydney where many members work via train or WFH.
Environmentalism doesn't have to be anti-human. I'm so fed up with the Green movement and their demonizing of humanity. As for the rest, I think Norm said it best...
"Sounds like a bunch of commy gobbledygook."🤣
As long as it doesn’t grow into a cult it’s fine.
Hope you have your boosters
No Homeless people 😊?
Doesn't suit the utopian narrative.
Fantastic ! The cynic in me wonders how long before it gets burned out by an out of control burn or chemtrail induced flood and relocates them all to 15 minutes Gulags
Its on the side of a ridge/gully with about a 0.1% chance of flooding and pretty well cleared from the adjacent bush
These places are not a solution. Its a subtle form of a cult. Groupthink and political ideology. These places seem 'nice' from the outside but the infighting is usually off the chart. Still its very nice.
Probably not far off, I would encourage anyone seriously considering this to do some thorough homework on the costs involved. The "buy in" just be member that may be considered for being allowed to build a dwelling there one day is substantial...cultish wrapped in green.
Definitely means you have to make efforts to get along with your neighbours to live in an ecovillage, so it isn't for everyone - but it is open to all ideologies and diversity (that aren't hateful). I can say it is incredibly welcoming and diverse views, backgrounds, beliefs, economics, politics, genders and ages!
@@shannonanima1065 Thanks for proving my point.
I’d love to make one of these houses but not to live with a village of cliché hippies pretending they aren’t uptight
Trees or humans ?
Maybe the trees the earth are better iff without us ? Hello human life is valuable ...
what an inviting little cult.
More like a rich retirement village yes there's kids but i bet u there's very strict rules n standards to live by n yes this keeps the place free of crime safe ect its not real daily life if u move from there
It’s a cult
No leader, diversity of opinion actively sought, people open to come and go, no religion....????
its a cult :o
I thought that also
As usual only the privileged can afford this.
Yuk, interviewer let the person speak FFS, your interruptions with YEAH, OHH?, HMM definitely put this viewer off
Lol hire the fruit pickers ect its really is a retirement village
Pagans 😂😂😂
Poor moths. Why would you teach an innocent child to kill things? 😮😢
. why are any of you' teaching/allowing children to be Cruel to animals. Vile/Not peaceFull
Do they have dogs there?. if not I could be interested in moving there. I'm sick of living in a huge dog kennel where I'm woken constantly and have been attacked several time now.
@@rosscameron4088 umm, I haven’t really seen anyone walking their dog yet
Sounds like there is no guarantee you wouldn’t be, someday, woken again if you were allowed to move there. But I understand your frustration…
They considered not having dogs in the early days but it would exclude too many people. I'm with you, I'd like to find somewhere without them.
Dogs have to be on leads (there is an off-leash area) and there are community areas where we have no dogs permitted. A few beloved doggos.