Every journey has a beginning... although every beginning follows from a previous ending. We've just sold our house; we're about to move into a yurt; we're married and we want to have kids in a village that matches our dreams. My past includes growing up on a farm in the Green Mountains of Vermont, attending Buxton School, a communal boarding school, co-founding the Ecovillage Network of the Americas, and training as a life coach with Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks. My wife Charlie's past includes growing up near Dover in South-East England, playing landlady to her friends during her art degree at the University of Brighton, developing passion for Tai Chi that led her to an Acupuncture degree, and a passion for gardening that drives her toward greener pastures (and an ecovillage future!). We are both inspired by the movie 'Antonia's Line', a Dutch film about a woman who draws a community together around her over several generations on a farm.
This 'blog is the story of how we create an ecovillage together. A village is not just two people, though. The story of a village is the story of dozens of people twining together. Here at the beginning, we don't know all those people, and the people we do know might not live with us when we get there. None the less, those who post with us on this 'blog will be folks who share our story, as friends, as colleagues, or just as fellow travellers.
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