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What I guess we
came to realize step by step was

being in relationship with our energy,

being in relationship with our food,

that we can grow
ourselves or tend or husband

being in relationship with our medicine,

which is through a love

of communing with plants.

Then we can move from that aggression

and domination ideology

into something very beautiful

and very human and very ancient.

There are many examples in my ancestry

where my peasant folk lived time-rich,

culture-rich existences.

My old people are Norse, they're
Vikings and Celts and Gaelics.

The Druidic churches were oak forests

and so that gives me a clue

that I come from people

who worshiped the
divine in the natural world.

Neo peasantry describes

how we live

and our connection to
our peasant ancestors.

My great-grandparents I
would describe as peasants.

Thank you for
your summer productions.

I mean no harm by disturbing you

and I aim to take the top box

and leave you three to
pack down for the winter.

I think about
peasants as living in harmony

with the seasons and with the the wildness

and the richness of the world.

Whoa.

It has 15 kilos of honey in there.

Wow.

Neo peasantry just simply
means new peasantry

and recognizing that word peasantry has

often a pejorative usage.

So reinstating that word gallantly

and the Neo is locating the
privilege that we have to choose

to live like this.

Yeah, they'd normally put
the honey at the top of the hive

at this time of year.

When they're... -Was this at the top?

Getting ready? Yeah, this is the top box.

So that's what we're gonna see.

We can always put it
back if it's just brewed.

Oh goodness.

Oh, lemme get you something.

Just hold it there.

I mean there's a fair
bit of honey in there.

- Some brewed?
- Or it's quite...

We need to get the honey...

Do you want me to open the door?

Yep. There's a few bees here. -Okay.

So if we just open those doors, sweety?

No, no, we...

There we go. Out, both out. Yay.

Perfect.

This is my favorite part.

-

Two decades ago when

Meg and I first got together
and we started watching

a whole range of documentaries

and came across Vandana Shiva's work,

what I was reading or what
I was being so repulsed by

in my own culture of birth,

I started to see people
acting in different ways

and that was incredibly inspiring.

I grew up in Melbourne,
the closest big city to here.

I thought the aim of my life was to

have a really good job where
I could earn lots of money.

One of my big motivations

that was propelling me away
from the values of the culture

that I was born in

were the values.

Amazing!

They just didn't feel right

and I didn't really question them

during my first three decades of life.

They were just what I was told to do.

They were just what I was
told was the right way to live.

There was lots of questioning
that went on at that time.

We saw these great trifectas

of the super petrol station,

the supermarket and the super pharmacy

being this conglomerate.

What is a way of living that

actually reflects my own personal values?

Not the values of my
parents, of the culture at large,

of the billboards, of the government,

of the corporations,

of the education system, my
grandparents nor any of that.

What actually is important to me?

Meg had some savings from
previous years working in Melbourne

and we cobbled together
enough for a deposit to buy

what was very cheap back then,

nearly 20 years ago, this quarter acre,

it was perceived as an ugly duckling.

People said, "Oh, that-you wouldn't want

to build on that swamp."

Oh, good.

Hi PJ. -Hi guys.

Zephy's room.

The list of things we had to
buy from Ikea; Zephy's drawings.

The first two or three
years were actually quite difficult,

like we're trying to do
so much, so quickly.

It wasn't a part-time thing.

It soon became a...

Like obviously we were working

and we had a lot of things to do.

We were also dancing a
lot, and we were having fun.

We weren't this couple that
came together -

and were very serious.

Did someone say party? Oh yeah.

The time Zeph came to us

for half the week, we were parents.

Zeph is my first son.

Named Zephyr

after the Greek god of
the west wind, Zephyrus.

Perfect. -You'll often hear farmers,

like old-school farmers say,

"Ah, there was a bit of
a zephyr this morning."

I love that. I love hearing that.

A gentle warm breeze.

Pretty much from day
one, I would take him down

into the forest and into
that sedge swamplands

and introduce him to country.

We would go on big bush walks together,

end up making things
out of stone in the forest

and we were one week
on, one week off with him

and sharing the parenting with his mom.

Hi Zephy, hope you're
having a fantastic time.

We are missing you
so much. All three of us.

And finally putting
some things together

and it's making more sense as we go.

So what you are about
to come into is just one

response to the predicament of our age.

It's not the solution to the problem,

it is a response to the predicament.

Being able to build with very little money

has been a big part of our story

so that I retired from building

so I could be seven days in the household

and community economy.

Meg is five days in that economy.

Switching time wealth for cash poorness

has been wonderful and it's made a...

enabled a very rich life.

For good composting, you
need a misting event to happen,

and the way you get a misting
event to happen is to be able

to constantly mist as you're...

-as
you're throwing material in.

It's getting wet, so
each layer is getting wet.

One of the things that we
like to do is to create potash.

We like to take our volunteers
and also the bush school kids

to go through with a scoop and a dust mask

and just broadcast it through the forest

mimicking what an indigenous cool burn

would be like if it could take place there.

A cultivated garden is like
a relationship with the wild

and the domestic

and I think that's what
permaculture is too.

I think what we're doing is
like an emerging mythology.

An emerging story

just like many folk around the world.

A new old story,

and I like to say old too because
there's always hubris around,

"Oh, what we're doing is new."

Whereas actually it's often a leaning back

as much as a leaning forward.

I had no skills, no practical skills.

I knew how to write
emails and press releases

and fill out spreadsheets,

but I had no practical skills.

So these last 20 years
has really been a process

of me unlearning a whole lot of stuff

and really deciding for myself
how I wanna spend my time

and you know, I have one life.

Do I wanna be just chasing the dollar

and always feeling like
I don't have enough time

or do I want to be present to
every single apple that I pick

and every single cucumber that I slice.

Imagine a life like that where
you can really be present

to every living thing
and every relationship

Instead of going to work to earn
the money to buy the thing, we're just

doing the thing ourselves.

It's very important for
our family to eat a diet

that is as local as possible

and with as few industrial
inputs as possible,

there's no way that you can
look at the industrial system

and think that that works at
all because it doesn't work.

It is a broken system.

I feel like one of the great learnings
that we all received from the pandemic

was the instability of
our centralized systems.

Whether that was the medical system

or that was the our food systems.

Just the disruption of supply chains.

To rely solely on those,
doesn't feel resilient to me.

So I am living my life

and helping prepare Woody to live in a way

that is much more independent
of those centralized systems.

When we started living like this,

we didn't know where we were heading,

we just knew what we
were turning away from,

but we didn't know that it would lead

to such richness.

See you in a couple of
months when you're vinegar.

Having been a vegetarian for so long,

I totally understand why
somebody would decide

to be a vegan or vegetarian.

It comes from a really important place.

If you live in a way where you can't access

food outside of the industrial system,

it makes sense to participate
in the industrialism-ness

as little as possible.

When I was 10,

our primary school went
on an excursion to an abattoir

and I was the only kid in my class
who seemed affected or appalled at all.

And I came home from
school that day and said,

"I am never eating meat again."

-

When I was 30,

I decided that I wanted
to start eating meat again.

So I did a short course,

it was called Kill and
Dress Small Livestock,

and we learned how to
lovingly take an animal's life

and all of us were crying at the end.

It was really emotional
but incredibly empowering

and it taught me that you can eat an animal

and that you don't have to hate the animal.

That you don't have to
hate an animal to take its life,

that you can do it in an honoring way.

I feel very embedded in the
cycle of life when I am eating meat.

This feels like a really important process

that I want to do myself.

I want to live an accountable life

and for me that means
taking personal responsibility

for all of the actions that I take.

We eat roadkill,

we take the lives of our own animals

and these are animals that
we name and that we tend

and that we help birth and that we...

We love these animals.

They're a big part of our family
dynamic and our family system.

I just feel like I'm channeling

my foremothers. Feel very connected.

Yeah, just to my peasant ancestors

We're saying this
level of violence at this scale

is an ordinary part of ecological life

and we wanna say no to the
systemic, manmade mass death

of the food system,

whether you be a vegan,
vegetarian, or omnivore.

-

Thank you little rabbit.

Thank you for your life.

Acorn beer.

Remember the acorn and feijoa cake recipe?

Yeah. -[Meg] I also got so many flowers

coming on a whole lot from...

I know the acorn... the feijoa flowers.

-

Both Meg and I,
we're really just watching

and observing how kids, through play,

like human mammalian play,
is just loaded with creativity

and that's, that's how we learn.

This is Zephyr's and my dad's drawing

and we're gonna rub this out

and then we're gonna do another drawing.

Can we put some music to this?

He was born with
one ear that wasn't formed,

one ear that was closed over.

Often kids that have hearing deficits

mask that.

They don't want anyone to know

that they've got a
hearing disability at all.

So they act in ways that make
sure that people forget that.

Because of his physical prowess

and his incredible
athleticism, he would be the kid

that was scaling the 40 foot tree

running across the roof of
some three-storey building.

He was always hurting himself.

You know, if there's a
dam there and it's a party,

he was always the kid to fall in the water.

So wherever we went,
I had to take first aid kit

and change of clothes.

So here's a lively
active, a very physical kid.

Hi cousins, I love you very much.

I play... I play Auskick
and soccer and I do rugby.

Thank you.

Zephyr was three when I came along

and every step of the
way of being a stepmom

I struggled with,

is this the right thing to do?

If Zephyr's mom was
here, what would she say?

Am I being a wicked stepmother?

When I was telling him off, I
really was so unsure of myself

the whole time.

And as soon as I became pregnant with Woody

and definitely when he was born,

this knowing came into me. -

-It's like I
know exactly what to do here

and I have followed that strong thread.

When you grow up,

are you gonna kick a football with me?

Yes? Okay.

- I think that was a yes.
- Deal. Deal.

That strong knowing said,

"Don't send him to school.

What you are doing here is important."

Yes, he can learn to read and write,

but ecological literacy
needs to come first.

And because I was brought up in the suburbs

in a very loving home, but
very nature disconnected,

-I knew that
I didn't want that for him.

Woody learns through a path

of his own inquiry, his own curiosity.

This is a big piece of
spotted gum that I've got

that a friend gave to me

and I've already got one
chopping board out of it,

but I should get another three.

So it's a really nice wood there.

We've learned a lot through Zeph.

Admittedly Zeph was in a school environment

and peers

were, you know, replace parents

and peers are manipulated by big systems,

particularly industries.

Whereas with Woody being
fully community schooled,

unschooled, home schooled,

combination of all those things,

it's this dance between
not being too warrior-like

while also in context

allowing him to understand
the dominant culture

that he's also born into.

Flood. Spade.

If I saw kids,

high school kids for
example, thriving and helping,

healthy and happy and
like in their own sovereignty,

then I would say, "Wow, I
want Woody to be part of that."

But that's not what I'm seeing.

I'm seeing a lot of kids looking
like this a lot of the time and...

A lot of anxiety. -...depressed, anxiety.

It's not an environment that promotes

thriving of our young people

See you, Woods. -Bye.

And that happened before.

My hopes for Woody when he's
older are none of my business.

He is free to do what he
wants and to be who he wants.

And that feels really
important for me to know that.

And I believe it in my guts, like
the whole of me believes that.

I would like him to have inner resources

where he can cope with
whatever comes his way.

So I would like him to
trust his own intuition,

to work out in his own
way what his gifts are

that he can then give back to the world.

Forty. Exactly.

That was a good guess.

There's exactly 40.

Whatever future he's going to inherit,

I want him to be able to find

a good balance of being appalled

and being in love with
what, with whatever comes.

Because we can focus on
the brokenness of the world

and it can break us as well

or we can notice it and be appalled

and notice the beauty
and have that in balance.

Have a look at that grain.

Such beautiful wood.

-

So these are parasol mushrooms
and they're really good eating.

They're often found in eucalyptus forest.

So that's the umbo there.

And then these little lines here

in the mushroom are the gills
and the spores are in the gills

and then they fall down
onto the forest floor

when you put them like that in your basket.

Now these are saffron milk caps.

Can do that,

and no other mushroom
that look like this, do that.

See that orange on your finger?

That means it's a saffron milk cap.

I feel like in the future
I'll be pretty set, my skills

and I can teach like a lot of
my friends all that stuff too.

Thank you, girls.

So we have a volunteer
program, it's called SWAPS

and that stands for Social
Warming Artists and Permaculturists.

It's an immersive experience.

They really become part of our household

and get a taste of what
our daily rhythms are like.

I really love to have the volunteers

it's a really special part
of what has built this place.

And as we always say to
the volunteers who come,

you know they're eating the
preserves and the ferments

and they're warming
themselves with the wood

that the previous volunteers helped to get.

So it's like a pay it forward
to the next lot of volunteers.

-

Yeah, really well.

Yep.

Twenty minutes of sweating
a day keeps the doctor away.

My health ambition.

I want to die chopping wood,

in my nineties, preferably.

What about your hundreds?

Oh yeah, I'd take that.

As long as I'm chopping wood, I don't care.

Layer by layer,
season by season, year by year,

gleaning the necessary skills,

building the necessary relationships

and also having a lot of fun.

So moving from anger and
defiance and warriorness

to play and fun and a
big fuck you to the system.

As we're starting to find our confidence.

When I'm going for a walk in the forest,

I'll bring back some kindling

and it makes sense that we get
most of our wood from this forest

because it's so close to our home.

And we with many others
that who live around here

are stewards of this forest.

We're in relationship with this forest

so we understand what's
happening seasonally, ecologically.

And...

we love being in this forest.

We love this forest, we tend this forest

and we want this forest to flourish

as we flourish.

Hey Eric.

Hi sheep.

That should
keep us going for a while.

We basically don't have electricity bills.

The key to it is our firewood.

The heart of our home.

So this is our stove top, it is our oven.

It heats our house, it heats our hot water.

It is our dehydrator, toaster, kettle,

and our clothes dryer.

And we also like to say it's our TV,

so we just sit and watch the logs burn.

This little building is a building

Zeph and James, a volunteer here, built.

Made almost entirely
from recycled materials.

At the time of building the kumquat,

there was a major exhibition of Banksy,

the graffiti artist, that
came to Melbourne.

Zeph was sort of struggling between, like,

on the one hand this is illegal

and risky and he was excited by graffiti,

but on the other hand he,
it's been culturally celebrated.

I said, "Well, why don't
you do the history of graffiti

as a homeschool project?

Why don't you really go into that?"

And he did.

And that was quite a beautiful time.

He was doing that project
as more a formal education

or a research-based project,

but more and more going out

and then practicing his
own graffiti in the town.

So much so that one night

he completely bombed the town

with like 30 huge pieces.

He was caught

and ended up in the local police station.

-

I was trying to guide him on this careful,

nuanced path of contributing culturally

as a graffiti-ist or a stencil artist

and you know, the problems
of offensive destruction

to other people's things.

So after six months of community schooling,

he started to talk about
going back to school

and to go to the local high school.

Onto ah... to brighter things.

If your idea of a holiday
is packing up the kids

and heading to the beach, then
you need to meet this next family.

They have taken the idea of a
road trip to a whole new level,

spending more than a year traveling

up and down Australia's east coast by bike.

But that's not all.

The family also ate for free along the way,

foraging for wild food and
even cooking up road kill.

Some parents got to
know that this kid Zephyr

with this unusual name.

Oh that sounds like that
family from Daylesford.

So he became quickly
known as that dirty hippie

that eats roadkill, from Daylesford.

He started his high
school years with that story

and couldn't throw it off.

-

-

We are now mostly not
living in the monetary economy,

but we still have rates to pay.

We still have some bills,
we still buy in some food

and you know, secondhand clothes.

So we, we have very low
overheads and low costs,

but we still do participate
in the monetary economy.

So I work two days a week for
David Holmgren and Su Dennett.

So David is the
co-originator of Permaculture

and I work in David's office.

We live below the poverty
line, very happily and very easily.

How we're able to live
like this is because we rely

and live mostly in the gift economy,

not the monetary economy.

Thanks, guys.

The flow of gifts is really about trust,

living with a knowing that

what we put out comes back.

It's being generous, knowing
that generosity is contagious.

Things like our bush
school, Forest and Free,

we operate in the gift economy.

So we take 20 kids out
every Monday from 10 till 4.

In exchange, parents gift
us produce from their garden,

hand-me-downs.

So we get meals made for us.

When I was working in an office, I
had money so I could buy those things,

but it was, it's an economy of
meaninglessness, of disconnection

and I choose hard work
and connection any day.

Okay. Do you remember how to
play neo peasant with villaging?

Yes.

What we do is work together to
get all the money out of the bank.

So we bankrupt the bank so they
no longer are a part of the game.

Three.

One, two, three.

Market Garden? Three dollars.

Look at this.

Small goods.

See if I can... -Oh, yum.

That's really good. That one.

Anyone wanna lend me a dollar?

Yeah. -Sure.

I need some new beans. -Sure.

One, two, three, four.

Chance.

Fraudulent banking services.

Pay each player ten dollars each.

That's good. I did do that.

Ten dollars each?

No, that's actually not what it says.

Daddy, you can't just do that.

Yes, you can. -That's not good.

- This is our reality.
- You have to earn your money.

Yeah, and around the back here, isn't it?

Yeah.

We rarely get sick

and we certainly only get
a cold and sometimes a flu.

About a year ago I was knocked off my bike

and I still have residual shoulder pain.

So this is some stinging nettle,

which is like acupuncture.

Yeah. So yeah, it's
really stinging. I want that.

It gets all the blood
there and yeah, medicine.

You know, a
lot of people at our age

are very unwell and have
many different diseases

and it's not because we're
somehow biologically superior.

It's because I think we
trust, and our economy,

and way of relating is
based on relationships

with things, we touch
things, we absorb things.

We only ever seem to think of
parasites as negative in our culture

because we're in this
ideology of germ theory

that the world is dangerous
and we should fear it.

It's full of viruses and
bacteria and terrible things.

But of course we are walking
forests of many different

more-than-human participants.

So if we think of ourselves
as a relating body,

then it's possible to then
trust all those relations.

Gives me great satisfaction
straightening these,

which I get for about ten cents.

'Cause to buy a new one off
the shelf is about ten dollars.

Probably the
first ten years we had come

to the neighborhood, we
just were walking in the forest

and observing it and learning
about the edible mushrooms

and falling in love with this area.

The CFA did a big burn all the way around

this edge of the forest

and it was a really destructive
and fast and furious burn.

It wasn't nuanced, it wasn't
like indigenous burning.

The forest didn't feel good for a while.

And I remember saying to myself then,

"I want to start working in this forest

and give them no reason to come back."

And so that was a nearly decade ago.

I talked to neighbors
about introducing goats

and then sheep.

So farming it with no legal tenure to land.

The sheep and the goats are particularly
interested in the newcomer species.

That's their main thing.
With an elder or a hawthorn

or a blackberry or gorse.

They'll absolutely go it.

You've got this nuanced and
relationship-based land management

versus pesticides and bulldozers.

We eat the surplus goats and
sheep and that's our payment

for working in, in public
land in Djarra people's land

in real terms.

And also doing that with relationship

with Uncle Rick, who's
one of the Djarra elders

and an emerging elder called
Beck Phillips, who's a friend.

There is this beautiful indigenous
renewal in Djarra country

and alongside that

there's what I call
permaculture subsistence,

which is we white fellas
reclaiming our indigenous soul

in how we work with land.

Subsistence permaculture is a way back

in to how we as second people,
our ancestors performed life

as land-bonded people.

Look out. Look out.

Hang on.

This is Alice and she
is about five years old.

They're really good fire mitigators

and they're also

putting all this lovely poo on the ground,

which is really good for the soil.

- Thanks, chookies.
- Thanks, bunnies.

Thanks, bunnies. -Thanks to the forest.

Sunshine.

I'm gonna take her
through bottling the cider.

- You are.
- And we're gonna process the conk,

the tinder fungus,

for medicine to take with us.

I want to write an email to Zeph

and send some photos.

I'd like to send a photo of you hitting

your handmade cricket bat, practice bat.

The one I made yesterday? -Yeah.

I'm making a project

on Australia's cricket captain Pat Cummins.

I'm really into cricket,

so it's a good homeschool project for me.

I'm sticking in photos of
him winning us the Ashes.

Do you know the fungus,

the tinder fungus that was
over here? The big white one.

- Oh yeah, yeah.
- Put some of that in there.

Because this is cool.

In June, we are going to hitchhike

to India

and we'll see how far we get.

We can be neo peasant permies in situ,

but to take that then onto the road,
like how do we live a radically frugal way

without our wood stores,

without our seed bank
and without our cellar bank?

What does it look like
in a different context?

And I do love that.

I feel like in the past
we've found great rhythms

and I look forward to seeing
what that looks like this time.

-[Meg] Woody
being crazy about cricket,

India is crazy about cricket.

So I made this...

supposed to be like a baseball
bat sort of thing... yesterday

and I put one of my
cricket bat grips on it,

and I've already got a few cherries,

as you can see,

and I'm pretty happy with it.

It's good for my defense to practice.

Shot. -

Ups.

He will turn 12 on this trip and to
introduce him to the cultural Other

through something that he loves,
and through a shared passion.

Just that invitation to...
"I'm from somewhere else,

but I connect with you
through a game of cricket."

-

-

Sorry! -[Patrick laughing] Geez!

- It got stuck with your phone.
- That's funny.

That's a good one.

- Is it good?
- Yeah, it just shows the...

Let's send that to Zeph.

Yeah, the craft of it.

"Dear Zeph",

"looking forward to our next visit."

He fell in with a bunch
of very vulnerable boys

and they all egged each
other on to do -

more and more crazy things in the town.

Petty theft -

and then eventually
moving into stealing cars

-and
running drugs for older boys.

And it just became a nightmare.

And at one stage he was
in a high-speed police chase

-and
he nearly killed a police officer.

-

"It is
subject to monitoring and recording."

It is unlawful for this
call to be redirected

or be part of a conference call.

If you do not wish to
accept this call, hang up now.

"If you understand the conditions
of this call, please continue."

Hey, Zeph. How you going mate? -[Zeph] Hi.

Zeph went into...

prison.

First, youth prison and then adults at 15

and pretty much has been
in there since. He's now 22.

And there's the two brothers.

Yeah, Zeph had just got out of juvie

the first time, and things
were going really well

and then lockdown happened
and he couldn't see his mates

and he broke curfew

and he was back in.

And that's just before he
was then went into weeks

of lockdown in juvie.

And that's when he tried
to escape for the third time

and they took him to adults.

-

For about a year, I slept in the forest.

That was a...

That was a big, big time.

His story has been a great
gift to my life, as painful

and unwanted

as it has been.

But I have so much joy and gratitude

for the work that I do
because of his story.

Another gift is understanding
how to better raise Woody.

How Zeph's story

and my failings as a
father has informed me.

Doesn't make me

a great father,

but a much more aware and conscious father.

The real gift of Zeph is

understanding how me
as a father and other men

who love Zeph in the
community didn't have the skills

or the craft of bringing him up.

Not raising him,

but like elevating him where
he needed to be elevated.

And that is a nuanced thing

and it requires a village,
not a nuclear family.

And I think that the village rebuilding

that Meg and I have been doing

over the past several
years is because of that.

Because of his story.

Moving what needs to
be moved, for the flow.

Okay, we're gonna do a thing
we call "blackberry surfing."

Climbing to a tree!

-

Forest and Free is a weekly bush school.

We have a whole day with the kids.

It's an opportunity for kids
to be outside in the forest

to reconnect to the forest.

There's loads of different
cubbies that we're making,

different shelters

and some of the kids have been
working on their shelters for a year or so.

I decided that it
needs some work so I added a lot

of insulation around it

and it could fit up to, I don't
know, six people, I reckon.

This is my cubby.

Here we have a rock bed.

Hopefully next time we
come, I'll put some broom.

Here, we have, like, curtains.

When you're in the forest, it
just makes you feel more, like, relaxed.

It's really fun because when I'm at home,

it's kind of boring, but
when I'm at Forest and Free,

I get to express my energy.

When they're building
cubbies, they're learning about

natural building and architecture
and where to position it.

Where's the sun coming from?

And if we have an opening to the south,

which is usually where the rain comes from,

then maybe we need to weave a
door and have that as our opening.

And they're learning
what materials are around,

what flowers, what birds, what insects.

They're just, they're embedding.
They're learning how to be in place.

I facilitate a monthly women's circle,

it's called For Crying Out Loud.

And Patrick facilitates the men's
circle, which is called Fire Choir.

We started these circles
maybe five and a half years ago.

We gather here at the fire circle

and Patrick or Woody comes down earlier

and lights a really big fire for us.

We live in a culture that
doesn't do grief very well.

The circle is a way to
acknowledge our grief,

to share the grief.

And it's a witnessing circle.

It's a deep listening, a deep sharing.

And we speak from the heart
and we listen with our hearts

and to really practice listening
in a nonjudgmental way.

This circle is just medicine
and it's something that I crave.

It was a deep remembering of something that

is ancient in our bones.

Sitting around a fire, sharing stories.

To sit in circle with women who
I've known for many, many years,

but to witness them at
their most vulnerable,

at their most honest

and open expressions
of themselves or their pain

or their grief or whatever it
is that they're most alive to,

to really witness women in that rawness

is just incredible.

I used to cry with shame

whenever I would cry.

You know, I was sort of
embarrassed of my emotionality.

And now, I'm a proud crier.

I feel like that's what
happens around this circle.

Our moments are witnessed
so our lives don't just speed by

that we are in the grief.

We recognize and we air the grief.

So we have room in us for the beauty
to come out, for the beauty to go in.

We planted this little kumquat

when Zeph

and James finished this building

and this is the first
year it's fully fruited

and it has pretty much grown

over the period of time
that Zeph has been inside

in the prison system.

And when we get back from India

in four months' time,

Zeph is coming out.

And these fruits,

which are in abundance,
look like they'll be ready.

So that feels like a cycle.

I've been noticing
since moving towards

the departure, a real groundedness.

I'm so in love with the processes

of packing down the house

and filling the cellar and the wood store

and moving the goats
and sheep to a friend's farm.

Thinking through what sort of
meals we can have on the road

to keep out of the industrial food system

as much as possible.

I have so much
excitement about going,

but the excitement only really
extends to closing the door

and walking out to the A300 with our sign.

- I can't really think beyond there, but...
- Me too.

...even just to get to
that stage, it's just like,

oh my God, it's just gonna
be the most liberating feeling

and I'm looking forward to that.

Two kilos. -Kilo and half.

Yeah. -Yeah, yeah.

That's good because we have backpacking.

Officially welcome to Tree Elbow.

Really great to see
everybody. We're very lucky.

Feeling very lucky to
be part of this community

and very lucky to live where we do.

I had my first pangs

of unsettlement last night for this trip.

I felt anxiety for the
first time, which is good.

Just helping my body to
step into unknown things.

♪ Do not try to save the whole
world Or do anything grandiose ♪

♪ Instead find a clearing In
the dance forest of your life ♪

♪ And wait there patiently
Until the song that is your life ♪

♪ Falls into your own cupped hands
And you recognize and greet it ♪

♪ Falls into your own cupped hands ♪

♪ And you recognize and greet it ♪

♪ Only then will you know How
to give yourself to this world ♪

♪ So worthy of rescue ♪

♪ Only then will you know How
to give yourself to this world ♪

♪ So worthy of rescue ♪

♪ Only then will you know
How to give yourself to this world

♪ So worthy of rescue ♪