Milkweed Mercantile: straw bale bed & breakfast at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage - opening soon!

The Milkweed Mercantile at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage is an off-the-grid, straw bale bed & breakfast, organic cafe, and eco general store. Alline gives us a mini tour of the business, which is currently under construction, but opening soon.

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[kkob]

Why not build your own windmill? There are excellent plans out there for 1k generators. You can use old auto generators/alternators, etc. Absolutely no reason to void your community purpose by buying one.

Cheers

[hyperlocavore]

WONDERFUL you guys! It is amaaazing to see how far you've come since my visit in 98!

[atfatw]

what a nickel and dime place this communists lily white 'town' is the taxpayer pays for their mortgage and these loafers who are nothing more than lazy meaningless dullards and funks who can't in addition to being exclusively upper class whites, do anything with their lives its a mental health kind of place where they all work occasionally but mostly having bullshit meetings which are really conformity 'group therapy' sessions like the army funks won't let you disagree with any of their shit

[ConstitutionFirst178]

It's a shame that this eco village is a white supremacist group in disguise; they build cool structures. I also wonder why the change agents who started it don't live there anymore. Did they realize that racial purity wasn't a noble aspiration??

[zacfromorchardpark]

I bet you must have loads of money to be able to do an eco village to start with.

Can a village be set up without having money.

It is a very good idea to live with the earth not against it, I would move to one if I could, life in the modern world is rubbish and useless, selfish and destructive.

Im a pauper so probably would never be able to do this.

[MMAGRO1]

ya you do have a point, I would also argue that farm land has destroyed and raped the most land by far than residential. I would like to see more vertical farms pop up in urban cities so to cut down on tranportation and also provide more food per square foot of land than conventional farms do, 100 fold. This will help convserve land and also perhaps regeuvinate what once used to be pure wild life habitat.

[greenteen85]

apocalypse, now!

[assman255]

ur just not getting it and i aint got forever to bullshit this much with someone so stupid. i do have a life

[NexusRebellion]

you must understand these people are not living on the grid as most would in the city. They even grow most of their own food.

[NexusRebellion]

They have had this land for a long time. Ressesion or not, it doesnt matter. They are not bulldozing this land and throwing down concrete slabs. They are growing their own food and building with biodegradable materials. They are also conserving acres of forest and could be bought and urbanized. I see you have favorited the video about the lady who built her own house. How do you feel that is better than this? she is driving, using the grid and leaving a much bigger footprint.

[assman255]

may not have as great an r rating as hey it will dramatically increase access/effectiveness to public transportation keeping 100's of cars, rigs, trash tucks,etc.. off the roads in turn making already existing roads safer, less maintnence, new road decline.I don't want to live in a world of concrete but i will so that that is not all there is one day. I'm saying that most of our eco prob is our high population spreading, not wanting to live near each other is understandable but may be necessary

[assman255]

you used the term eco footprint, how do you not get that building up is the only way to decrese our actual footprint. doesn't nature sort of cure our crap a little, if we bulldoze and colinize every inch of space there is no more nature to worry about. I've always owned my own home in the burbs and drove a truck. my big yard is nice but not natural to the original environment. to avoid a greater eco foot print i would say build a 100story apartment on my lot already apart of our grid