This is my dream: To live as my forefathers once did - in harmony with the land that sustains us. A project to investigate and innovate the creation of a low impact home with methods of living in a form of permaculture designed to sustain my family and improve biodiversity. To leave the land richer than before and in doing so enable others to do so.

I dream all the time

Posted 07/10/08 by Matt B in the Unspecified category

When it comes to calling somewhere home were it just me these days I would have moved heaven and earth to get me licensed and owning a bus I could make into a home. Then I would live where I damn well chose.

I have three children and a wife and this is simply never going to happen. not at all. Forget it.

So aside from dreaming about that I am slowly planning towards a more refined and contributory (to society) lifestyle that is nevertheless alternative. It would be fair to say that every day, if only for a few moments I pine for a life close to trees and earth and nature. Yet I am not "a hippie" but a tech-head - that is an IT guy with every reason to dream about highly air conditioned mansions with lots of cool (if environmentally unsound) equipment.

I do find that all very tempting but some fundamental part of me cries out to live closer to the land. I don't mean that I fancy it a bit I mean that I literally feel like crying because I desire this life so much.

Here I am, though, in a two bedroom council flat with myself a wife and three children to worry about (four if some things changed). So you can see that with the best will in the world I am currently dreaming.

Add in a credit crunch and the possibility sort of glimmers into the future.

It's enough to keep me going.

That hope and web pages like this one are all there really is for me to hold on to aside from the plan.

And plan I do. Endlessly. I refuse to accept a problem that I cannot overcome.

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