A wilder permaculture community. From theory to practice. [permies.com]

Posted an announcement about the community over at permies.com. Here’s a few snippets:

"I would like to extend the invitation to check out our project to anyone interested in living life as close to the outer zones of permaculture–zones 4 and 5–as possible. In addition to our focus in using permaculture to create regenerative systems that allow us to avoid farms and feudalism, and move toward what geoff lawton has described as a hunter-gatherer fast-food system, we think our community has some attractive qualities. Rather than think of our community as a construction project with a greenwashed permaculture veneer, we take our connection to the land seriously. Our membership fee structure is based on each member pitching in enough money to buy them ~1/2 acre of land. As membership increases, we use the money to buy more land. As we buy more land, everyone in the community has the land they have access to expand. In 2015, we’re able to keep the fee to about $2,000. How are we going to build roads and Earthships and buy excavators and diesel with that? We’re not.

"We’re not really oriented toward technological progress or building shiny thing or trying to rationalize capitalist theory into the third ethic, and if you might like a group of folks whose guiding text is the academic journal paper, Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence, and take The Original Affluent Society to heart, you might be our people. Or we might be your people.

" We love food. We love adventure. We love being human. We hope you do to, even if you don’t come play with us.

http://www.permies.com/t/47670/intentional-community/Feralculture-wilder-permaculture-community-theory

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Where are you guys located. Are very interested in looking into this further. :slight_smile:

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FAQ discussed at: Where is the Community?:

Alaska. Beautiful country. Unfortunately we have no desire to relocate to that region. We’re looking to stay on the East Coast of North America. Thinking Newfoundland maybe. Still processing the options however. Its nice that you’re offering a half acre for $2000. That’s not a bad price. But, that’s also $4000 an acre for Alaska land. Is the $2000 including something else other than the land?

All we have to offer is land and refuge and access to more legal wild food than anywhere else on earth, and a community of people with place-based skills and knowledge.

There’s a thread somewhere about our rationale for selecting Alaska as our first collection of nodes, but it could probably use a fresh articulation since that decisions was made about a year ago. In short, our priorities are wildness and wild food.

The only negative I’ve experienced with our chosen location is the automatic, “it’s too cold” reaction. On one hand, that hints at a misunderstanding of the ecological diversity of Alaska (spans USDA zones 1-7). It’s also often a reflection of the domestication we all share. Unfortunately, pointing that out verbally seldom leads to a deep enough level of understanding to feel what casting aside assumptions about humans and temperature variation can mean.

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