We believe in a future in which humans live embedded harmoniously within natural systems.
Our mission is to help the emergence of such a future, by fostering a land-based culture of connection, natural abundance and joy.
Land-based living isn’t for everyone. But a growing number of people here in the UK recognise that low-impact, nature-based, community-centered ways of being offer a wealth of personal and planetary benefits, and many thousands would act on that recognition if given the opportunity and support.
Our collective aims to create an environment in which such opportunity and support are more readily available, so that everyone who wants to can embrace land-based community living. In this way we can nourish the roots of a culture in which humans and living systems can thrive together.
Our grand plan is to:
1. Gather a council of wise elders with combined experience and expertise covering all aspects of land-based community living
2. Create a clear roadmap for land-based community creation here in the UK
3. Provide tools and trainings on all aspects of land-based community living
4. Build a movement with enough momentum to open up a broad pathway back onto the land along which everyone who wants to can travel
5. Create land-based communities of outrageous beauty and wonderous joy
It’s time there was a clear path back onto the nourishing land.
Our manifesto
We all see it.
Our world is beset by crises — ecological, economic, political, social and psychological.
We all know it.
Unless things change significantly, these crises are going to escalate until they wipe out most of life on earth.
We all feel it.
At the root of these crises is a deep loss of connection — to ourselves, to each other, and to the natural world.
We all want it.
Wanting to restore these lost connections is a natural human instinct that we all feel the urge to act on — but we don’t always know how.
We all need it.
Letting ourselves act upon the instinct for reconnection is our best hope of addressing the root cause of the multiple global crises; it’s also our most direct path towards creating lives of renewed joy, meaning and natural beauty.
We have ways to do it.
Land-based community living is a powerful way to restore connection and balance on personal, social and ecological levels; it provides a high-quality way of life without compromising the wellbeing of other humans, more-than-human beings, or our planetary home.
We have all we need to do it.
All the knowledge and resources we need in order to create beautiful and thriving land-based communities here in the UK already exist, in enough abundance for everyone in the country who would choose this way of living.
We have a right of return.
We assert our right of peaceful return to the land, our right to seek a genuinely sustainable, equitable and joyful way of life on the life-giving earth; moreover, we reclaim our responsibility for doing so.
We can be a powerful microcosm.
We believe that a small network of beautiful, healthy, and genuinely sustainable land-based communities can catalyse big-picture change in the world, by demonstrating that viable alternatives to the destructive norm are firmly within our reach, and are in fact superior to anything on offer by mainstream culture.
So let’s do it!
It’s up to us! So let’s restore the broken threads of connection between ourselves and the living earth, re-weaving them into a colourful web of heart-centered, low-impact, land-based communities all across the rolling hills and gentle valley’s of Albion.
Mission Impossible?
We’ve set ourselves the ambitious goal of helping to create 30 new land-based communities in the UK by 2030, and at least 300 more by 2040.
Compared to sending a man to the moon, this goal is actually pretty small.
But given the array of opposing forces, and the fact that in the past 30 years barely a handful of such communities have been successfully established here in the UK, it can look like an impossible target.
On the other hand, if you consider that there are already a very many people in the UK who are deeply longing to live in land-based community…
…and that all the knowledge and resources to create beautiful and thriving land-based communities already exist in sweet abundance…
…and that our world urgently needs a proliferation of inspiring alternatives to the global consumer nightmare…
…then it starts to feel like our goal is not only possible, but inevitable.
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