The Farm's Ecovillage Tour

Eco-Village Tour with Albert Bates

The Farm www.thefarm.org is a spiritual intentional community in Summertown, Tennessee, based on principles of nonviolence and respect for the Earth. The Farm was founded in 1971 by Stephen Gaskin and 320 San Francisco hippies. Earth Day with Albert Bates

The focus of this eco tour video-pod is on the Ecovillage Training Center, a learning center for sustainability founded by Albert Bates. The Ecovillage Training Center is a living workshop environment where you can learn organic food production, natural building, permaculture and how to create and live in harmony within the means of nature. This video pod is an educated walkthrough intended to create a window into some of these eco methodologies and green technologies as well as thoughts and ideas by Albert regarding the creation of an ecovillage and the need to scale down our wants and needs.




Albert Bates: http://www.thefarm.org/lifestyle/albertbates/akb.html
Director of the Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology since 1984 and the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Tennessee since 1994, where he has taught sustainable design, natural building, permaculture and restoration ecology to students from more than 50 nations.

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[highskilledsibby]

There is a misunderstanding here. The term "Civilization" or "being civilized" means that you do not do everything you can. That's the basic meaning of being civilized. When we talk about Civilization today it's a perverted version of the very nature of being civilized because "Civilization" does everything what she can do. Polluting nature, poisoning minds of children, making the people sick mentally and physiologically just to keep the economy going. Therefore "Civilization" is not civilized.

[druwin]

@highskilledsibby

No misunderstanding. Dont get to in your head about it the word and or concept. While you sound RIGHT! listen to yourself, be smart! Something bigger here for you.

[bluedragoni]

I hope places like this evolve in concept and continue. I'd hate to see this sort of thing get regulated out of being

[ryguywashere]

@PghGingerKid dont be so cynical. This kind of living is about people and production being connected in an organic way. Lets say the "powerful" control large-scale farming, and the companies that would create parts for a fridge, and then the companies that would ship all these goods.. By making his own greenhouse, and his own "living roof" cellar/fridge unit, this guy cuts those powerful people off! Yr power in society is yr consumption, and your choice to consume less cuts those "powerful" off

[chickenbonewatt]

I love the straw bale wall system of the greenhouse. Totally beautiful.

[PghGingerKid]

The sad thing is, that the more this kind of living catches on, the higher the chance that this sort of thing will be requlated out of being. The powerful wont make as much money if everyone were to live like this. its sad.

[itsno1duh]

@ABCarlough I bought 30 bales wh/straw to help warm my greenhouse this winter not even a whiff of smoke! in fact it is steamy in there. The herbs look as if it is summer. There are kneehigh wheat plants everywhere that I have been juicing. Not sure if the tropical trees made it yet that will be evident (or not) in a couple months... all depends on if the freezing temps in the soil got past the bales... as they start to decay I am going to use them for strawbale planters. WIN-WIN lol

[niftybean]

So totally awesome...except for the wifi. Why in the world would anyone have this as part of a "healthy" set up? Just about nothing worse for you than wireless signals close by. Absolutely stunned to find it here.

[indabushwoman]

Anyone interested in starting an ecovillage/permaculture farm in the Bahamas? An initial financial investment would be necessary to secure land and a commitment of at least 6 months/ year living on site. Please send a msg to my inbox.

[smithierevolution]

awesome vid! im coming to join ya!

[67DieHardPatriot454]

i swear these people have to smoke weed.

[rchumbucker05]

I love a man who can use the work "myriad" correctly