RE: 2 Heads Are Better Than 1 – The Need for Skill-Sharing in Permaculture
@practicalthought. Thank you very much. I am taking a look right now and @yvesoler's work seems amazing and I'm sure I'm going to learn a lot there. Thanks for the recommendation!
This is my dream also. I would love to have a space for self-sustainability while also creating a space where others can practice and learn skills which can generate small microbusinesses on the property, creating a small community while also giving people the chance to learn that skill without being financially crippled in the process. Say someone wanted to learn to create oils, for example, they could work to learn the whole process of growing to making to business development from others on the property offering workshops and running their own microbusinesses. Somewhat of a self-sustainable economy based on skill-sharing and mutual mentorship. I'm a long way off that though!
I admire your goal. I think there is something so powerful and educative about teaching children process and reward from that process leading to self-sustainability. To often in society kids are growing up (myself included) feeling hopeless and powerless. These types of properties are empowering environments or learning and teaching, nurturing curiosity and self-improvement :)
Thanks for your support and suggestions!
Ours are actually grown now, but I never know what one would call our kids when they are grown. Adult children feels like an oxymoron, same with kids. My oldest is about to turn 30 and her oldest is 35, lol. Calling them our spawn also doesn't feel right, hahahaha. We are hopeful though as grandchildren come along we can show them early.
We (my partner and me) tend to disagree on this idea, but I believe it would be smart to leave whatever we may accumulate in a trust of sorts, leaving most to however many grandchildren we may end up with. My dream is to get enough land that it could not only grow lots of food, but have sections split off for housing so that our kids/grandkids could have a place they could live (but being in trust they could never sell it) and live surrounded by the world and not concrete.
Just a dream right now, but based on what I have seen others do investing in crypto one I see more possible now.
So glad you took a look at her profile. I have never recommended anyone to someone else here before now, but it felt right.
Your idea of a small community is exactly what I dream of for family. There used to be a time where it was more common for family to be close and work together and unfortunately as we have been trained to sell our souls to the corporation dreams that has been lost to many.
I think you're dead right. I have been in Bangkok for the last few months and one of the things I noticed was how lonely people are yet they live on top of each other. The idea of community feels more than just being in one place' this idea of working together to achieve something for everyone. I can't help but feel that being in the natural world demands this from us - using and exploring our environment and living from it. In doing this, we work together, we speak together, we eat together and we learn together and this eases that worry, that loneliness and that sense of hopelessness.
I think your idea is lovely and even if your grandchildren don't always live there, it will give them a sense of home; something that's so hard to find in this day and age!