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Plans for 2008 The Beginnings of the Farm Fairy Village This year we are going to be putting most of our large group classes on hold while we begin to lay out a Farm Fairy Village Demonstration Site. With this exciting work in progress our weekday and weekend classes will have to be limited. The Farm Fairy Village is a compilation of many simple living methods all rolled into one: a miniature

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It's always good to start with someone who knows and can point you in the right direction. I just recieved an email message from Rusty Oxydado (who is on the BC Primitives listserv). I really appreciate the help. He suggests, "you really don't need to be schooled to learn how to make a shelter in the wilds, you will find a way, you may need to learn how to get food, and what to do with it when

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Hi,Wow!Have I ever discovered the way to make my body sing! Holy health benefits, Batman. I've been eating raw sprouts (I muscle tested that I should start learning to do this at 40% raw foods per day for the first 6 - 9 months) for a couple or few weeks now (time is a blur).Last week we calculated that our new 32 bin shelf unit (collected, for $10, thru recycling and from our friends at the

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Here it is. Day 1 - The start of our Farm Fairy Village demonstration site - Living the Experiment - test modeling.I don't know what's to become of this, but I know we have a lot to build. We've discussed in general some of the things that need to be developed, most of it appropriate technology that we will need to make our lives work, so I thought I'd share some of the resource links that were

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Here are some earlier links from Eric...Surfing the web I came across several sites on pedal power generators, seems to be two major designs- an exercise bike type model and one that works off of an existing bike. Ill give you this one website that links to the rest - http://www.energyplanet.info/Pedal_Power/I also came across some neat ideas for self watering plants(container gardens).. DIY

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whoa...i better get this load off my mind before it melts away like a smog induced mirage. well, we have finally returned to big city. yes, big city has many sushi places. speaking of which i never got a call back from teh sushi restaurant i applied at in nanaimo, or any other sushi restaurant i applied at in my life for that matter. hmm. i wonder why.thats about all i can think of that i like

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interns log: blogdate...umm...i have no clue. but time is running out. it seems like so long ago that i updated since it has been a time filled with noteworthy events. shortly after moving out to cedar we decided it as time for a much belated trip to lasqueti island. it was about an 80km ride from cedar to where we eventually camped that night, which was a nice refresher from our oteshing days.

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After a week of putting all of our effort into becoming experts on producing power with abike, it all finally came to fruition. By thursday afternoon we had a working DC electricity producing, bicycle powered generator...which was none too soon because we had a workshop to give on the topic less than 48 hours after that. Thanks to the ingenuity provided by myself, antonio and sally (our

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“Let The Drummer Kick” by Citizen Cope has been in my head ever since i saw a routine by a pair on "so you think you can dance", so this is a recommendation to readers and a reminder to myself and to download this song when i get home. back to business...it has been a busy week once again, which was further complicated by the fact that it has been raining for longer than i can remember, and our

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another exciting couple of days. its hard to keep track of it all. it guess it was 2 days ago there was some serious sun happening here in nanaimo that broke all kinds of temperature records. it was over 40 celcius and of course me and antonio were outside walking around and getting well lost. We eventually made our way to our destination, although a little bit late and sweaty for our meeting

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It has been almost one week since me (john) and antonio have returned to Nanaimo and were welcomed once again into the welcoming arms or Roz and Will, and we plan to stay until about mid August. We were here just a few weeks ago along with the Otesha Project on the tail end of our cycling trip, where we were met with an offer too tempting to resist...the opportunity to learn about and contribute

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