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[squeak]

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[rustle]

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[rustle]

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[Patrick] What I guess we
came to realize step by step was

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being in relationship with our energy,

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[rustle]

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being in relationship with our food,

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that we can grow
ourselves or tend or husband

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being in relationship with our medicine,

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which is through a love

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of communing with plants.

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Then we can move from that aggression

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and domination ideology

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into something very beautiful

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and very human and very ancient.

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[soft music continues]

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There are many examples in my ancestry

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where my peasant folk lived time-rich,

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culture-rich existences.

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[liquid pouring]

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[crackling]

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

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The Druidic churches were oak forests

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and so that gives me a clue

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that I come from people

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who worshiped the
divine in the natural world.

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[soft violin music]

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[birds chirping]

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[insect noises]

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[loud buzzing]

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Neo peasantry describes

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how we live

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and our connection to
our peasant ancestors.

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My great-grandparents I
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[Patrick] Thank you for
your summer productions.

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I mean no harm by disturbing you

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and I aim to take the top box

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and leave you three to
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[birds chirping]

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[Meg] I think about
peasants as living in harmony

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with the seasons and with the the wildness

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and the richness of the world.

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Whoa. [laughs]

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It has 15 kilos of honey in there.

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Wow.

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Neo peasantry just simply
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and recognizing that word peasantry has

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often a pejorative usage.

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So reinstating that word gallantly

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and the Neo is locating the
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to live like this.

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

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at this time of year.

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

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Getting ready? Yeah, this is the top box.

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So that's what we're gonna see.

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We can always put it
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Oh goodness.

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[bees buzzing]

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[Woody] Oh, lemme get you something.

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Just hold it there.

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I mean there's a fair
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- [Woody] Some brewed?
- [Patrick] Or it's quite...

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[indistinct conversation]

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We need to get the honey...

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[Meg] Do you want me to open the door?

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

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So if we just open those doors, sweety?

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No, no, we…

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There we go. Out, both out. Yay.

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[Woody] Perfect.

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This is my favorite part.

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-[calm music] -[Patrick groans]

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[Patrick] Two decades ago when

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Meg and I first got together
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a whole range of documentaries

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and came across Vandana Shiva's work,

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what I was reading or what
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in my own culture of birth,

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I started to see people
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and that was incredibly inspiring.

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[soft music continues]

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

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I thought the aim of my life was to

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have a really good job where
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One of my big motivations

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that was propelling me away
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that I was born in

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were the values.

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Amazing! [chuckles]

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[crunch]

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They just didn't feel right

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and I didn't really question them

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during my first three decades of life.

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They were just what I was told to do.

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They were just what I was
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There was lots of questioning
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We saw these great trifectas

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of the super petrol station,

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the supermarket and the super pharmacy

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being this conglomerate.

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[Meg] What is a way of living that

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actually reflects my own personal values?

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Not the values of my
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of the billboards, of the government,

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of the corporations,

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

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What actually is important to me?

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[tapping]

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[clinking]

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Meg had some savings from
previous years working in Melbourne

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and we cobbled together
enough for a deposit to buy

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what was very cheap back then,

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nearly 20 years ago, this quarter acre,

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it was perceived as an ugly duckling.

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

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to build on that swamp."

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[buzzing]

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[indistinct chatter]

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[indistinct chatter]

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[calm music]

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Oh, good.

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-[Meg] Hi PJ. -Hi guys.

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[calm music continues]

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[Meg] Zephy's room.

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

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[Patrick] The first two or three
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like we're trying to do
so much, so quickly.

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It wasn't a part-time thing.

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It soon became a…

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Like obviously we were working

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and we had a lot of things to do.

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

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-We weren't this couple that
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and were very serious.

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[kissing sound]

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[Meg] Did someone say party? Oh yeah.

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[Patrick] The time Zeph came to us

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for half the week, we were parents.

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Zeph is my first son.

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Named Zephyr

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after the Greek god of
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-Perfect. -You'll often hear farmers,

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like old-school farmers say,

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"Ah, there was a bit of
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I love that. I love hearing that.

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A gentle warm breeze.

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[birds chirping]

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Pretty much from day
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into the forest and into
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and introduce him to country.

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[snap]

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[indistinct chatter]

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We would go on big bush walks together,

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end up making things
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and we were one week
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and sharing the parenting with his mom.

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

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

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[screams]

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[sings and hums]

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[music fades]

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[birds chirping]

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[distant voices]

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[man] And finally putting
some things together

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and it's making more sense as we go.

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So what you are about
to come into is just one

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response to the predicament of our age.

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It's not the solution to the problem,

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it is a response to the predicament.

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Being able to build with very little money

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has been a big part of our story

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so that I retired from building

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so I could be seven days in the household

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and community economy.

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Meg is five days in that economy.

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Switching time wealth for cash poorness

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has been wonderful and it's made a…

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enabled a very rich life.

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For good composting, you
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and the way you get a misting
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to constantly mist as you're…

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-[slow flowing] -as
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It's getting wet, so
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One of the things that we
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We like to take our volunteers
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to go through with a scoop and a dust mask

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and just broadcast it through the forest

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mimicking what an indigenous cool burn

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would be like if it could take place there.

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[soft murmuring]

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A cultivated garden is like
a relationship with the wild

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and the domestic

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and I think that's what
permaculture is too.

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

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An emerging story

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just like many folk around the world.

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A new old story,

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

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

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Whereas actually it's often a leaning back

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as much as a leaning forward.

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[distant murmuring]

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[Meg] I had no skills, no practical skills.

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I knew how to write
emails and press releases

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and fill out spreadsheets,

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but I had no practical skills.

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So these last 20 years
has really been a process

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of me unlearning a whole lot of stuff

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and really deciding for myself
how I wanna spend my time

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and you know, I have one life.

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Do I wanna be just chasing the dollar

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and always feeling like
I don't have enough time

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

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and every single cucumber that I slice.

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Imagine a life like that where
you can really be present

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to every living thing
and every relationship

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[people chatting]

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[click]

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

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doing the thing ourselves.

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[rattling]

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

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that is as local as possible

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and with as few industrial
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there's no way that you can
look at the industrial system

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and think that that works at
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It is a broken system.

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

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was the instability of
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Whether that was the medical system

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or that was the our food systems.

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Just the disruption of supply chains.

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To rely solely on those,
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So I am living my life

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and helping prepare Woody to live in a way

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that is much more independent
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When we started living like this,

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we didn't know where we were heading,

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we just knew what we
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[rustle]

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but we didn't know that it would lead

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to such richness.

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[rattling]

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[water pouring]

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[snap]

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

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[rattling]

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Having been a vegetarian for so long,

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I totally understand why
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to be a vegan or vegetarian.

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It comes from a really important place.

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

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food outside of the industrial system,

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it makes sense to participate
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as little as possible.

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[cackle]

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When I was 10,

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our primary school went
on an excursion to an abattoir

264
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[laughs]

265
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and I was the only kid in my class
who seemed affected or appalled at all.

266
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And I came home from
school that day and said,

267
00:16:20,938 --> 00:16:22,774
"I am never eating meat again."

268
00:16:22,857 --> 00:16:24,673
-[calm music] -[birds chirping]

269
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When I was 30,

270
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I decided that I wanted
to start eating meat again.

271
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So I did a short course,

272
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it was called Kill and
Dress Small Livestock,

273
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and we learned how to
lovingly take an animal's life

274
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and all of us were crying at the end.

275
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It was really emotional
but incredibly empowering

276
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and it taught me that you can eat an animal

277
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and that you don't have to hate the animal.

278
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That you don't have to
hate an animal to take its life,

279
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that you can do it in an honoring way.

280
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I feel very embedded in the
cycle of life when I am eating meat.

281
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This feels like a really important process

282
00:17:14,032 --> 00:17:16,451
that I want to do myself.

283
00:17:18,722 --> 00:17:21,482
I want to live an accountable life

284
00:17:21,565 --> 00:17:25,257
and for me that means
taking personal responsibility

285
00:17:25,340 --> 00:17:28,821
for all of the actions that I take.

286
00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,087
[Indistinct words of prayer]

287
00:17:33,170 --> 00:17:35,208
[Meg] We eat roadkill,

288
00:17:35,291 --> 00:17:37,467
we take the lives of our own animals

289
00:17:37,550 --> 00:17:40,977
and these are animals that
we name and that we tend

290
00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:43,250
and that we help birth and that we…

291
00:17:43,333 --> 00:17:44,697
We love these animals.

292
00:17:44,780 --> 00:17:49,689
They're a big part of our family
dynamic and our family system.

293
00:17:50,356 --> 00:17:53,370
I just feel like I'm channeling

294
00:17:54,490 --> 00:17:57,744
my foremothers. Feel very connected.

295
00:17:59,161 --> 00:18:01,876
Yeah, just to my peasant ancestors

296
00:18:03,434 --> 00:18:05,420
[tender music]

297
00:18:08,462 --> 00:18:12,634
[Patrick] We're saying this
level of violence at this scale

298
00:18:13,175 --> 00:18:16,560
is an ordinary part of ecological life

299
00:18:17,522 --> 00:18:22,842
and we wanna say no to the
systemic, manmade mass death

300
00:18:23,642 --> 00:18:24,663
of the food system,

301
00:18:24,746 --> 00:18:27,321
whether you be a vegan,
vegetarian, or omnivore.

302
00:18:28,471 --> 00:18:29,477
[rattling]

303
00:18:33,020 --> 00:18:34,020
[crackling]

304
00:18:34,647 --> 00:18:35,713
[rattle]

305
00:18:40,445 --> 00:18:41,497
[crackling of fire]

306
00:18:43,718 --> 00:18:44,932
[tender music continues]

307
00:18:46,498 --> 00:18:47,818
[soft murmuring]

308
00:19:06,340 --> 00:19:07,686
-[gunshot] -[rattle]

309
00:19:16,709 --> 00:19:17,722
[gunshot]

310
00:19:19,356 --> 00:19:20,362
[Patrick sighs]

311
00:19:21,835 --> 00:19:23,052
Thank you little rabbit.

312
00:19:25,258 --> 00:19:27,710
[sighs] Thank you for your life.

313
00:19:42,030 --> 00:19:43,264
[birds chirping]

314
00:19:46,250 --> 00:19:47,256
[thud]

315
00:19:49,174 --> 00:19:52,733
[indistinct murmuring]

316
00:19:57,029 --> 00:19:58,156
Acorn beer.

317
00:19:59,225 --> 00:20:03,745
Remember the acorn and feijoa cake recipe?

318
00:20:06,751 --> 00:20:08,946
-Yeah. -[Meg] I also got so many flowers

319
00:20:09,029 --> 00:20:10,615
coming on a whole lot from…

320
00:20:11,627 --> 00:20:14,919
I know the acorn… the feijoa flowers.

321
00:20:21,555 --> 00:20:24,121
-[engine in the distance] -[birds chirping]

322
00:20:25,566 --> 00:20:28,027
[Patrick] Both Meg and I,
we're really just watching

323
00:20:28,110 --> 00:20:31,790
and observing how kids, through play,

324
00:20:31,873 --> 00:20:36,427
like human mammalian play,
is just loaded with creativity

325
00:20:36,510 --> 00:20:38,506
and that's, that's how we learn.

326
00:20:39,483 --> 00:20:43,900
This is Zephyr's and my dad's drawing

327
00:20:44,070 --> 00:20:46,252
and we're gonna rub this out

328
00:20:46,335 --> 00:20:48,670
and then we're gonna do another drawing.

329
00:20:49,166 --> 00:20:50,958
[squeaking]

330
00:20:53,410 --> 00:20:55,210
[Zeph] Can we put some music to this?

331
00:20:55,959 --> 00:20:57,882
[high-tempo music]

332
00:20:57,965 --> 00:21:01,158
[Patrick] He was born with
one ear that wasn't formed,

333
00:21:01,241 --> 00:21:03,119
one ear that was closed over.

334
00:21:03,202 --> 00:21:06,506
Often kids that have hearing deficits

335
00:21:07,683 --> 00:21:08,684
mask that.

336
00:21:08,767 --> 00:21:10,007
They don't want anyone to know

337
00:21:10,090 --> 00:21:12,887
that they've got a
hearing disability at all.

338
00:21:12,970 --> 00:21:18,319
So they act in ways that make
sure that people forget that.

339
00:21:18,492 --> 00:21:19,498
[rattle]

340
00:21:20,321 --> 00:21:22,640
Because of his physical prowess

341
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,997
and his incredible
athleticism, he would be the kid

342
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,917
that was scaling the 40 foot tree

343
00:21:28,997 --> 00:21:30,003
[upbeat music]

344
00:21:30,749 --> 00:21:34,540
running across the roof of
some three-storey building.

345
00:21:36,617 --> 00:21:37,677
[upbeat music continues]

346
00:21:38,777 --> 00:21:40,634
[screams]

347
00:21:40,717 --> 00:21:42,966
[Meg] He was always hurting himself.

348
00:21:43,052 --> 00:21:45,677
You know, if there's a
dam there and it's a party,

349
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:47,537
he was always the kid to fall in the water.

350
00:21:47,620 --> 00:21:50,357
So wherever we went,
I had to take first aid kit

351
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,445
and change of clothes.

352
00:21:53,462 --> 00:21:54,526
[loud steps]

353
00:21:55,706 --> 00:21:57,519
[rustle]

354
00:22:02,334 --> 00:22:03,621
[music fades]

355
00:22:04,030 --> 00:22:07,785
[Patrick] So here's a lively
active, a very physical kid.

356
00:22:08,536 --> 00:22:10,824
Hi cousins, I love you very much.

357
00:22:10,907 --> 00:22:16,048
I play... I play Auskick
and soccer and I do rugby.

358
00:22:16,128 --> 00:22:17,128
Thank you.

359
00:22:18,422 --> 00:22:20,439
[Meg] Zephyr was three when I came along

360
00:22:20,523 --> 00:22:24,408
and every step of the
way of being a stepmom

361
00:22:24,491 --> 00:22:25,917
I struggled with,

362
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,037
is this the right thing to do?

363
00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:30,377
If Zephyr's mom was
here, what would she say?

364
00:22:30,460 --> 00:22:32,449
Am I being a wicked stepmother?

365
00:22:33,102 --> 00:22:36,689
When I was telling him off, I
really was so unsure of myself

366
00:22:36,772 --> 00:22:38,065
the whole time.

367
00:22:38,148 --> 00:22:40,697
And as soon as I became pregnant with Woody

368
00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:43,208
and definitely when he was born,

369
00:22:43,291 --> 00:22:45,531
-this knowing came into me. -[calm music]

370
00:22:45,614 --> 00:22:48,312
-[soft tender music] -It's like I
know exactly what to do here

371
00:22:48,742 --> 00:22:52,413
and I have followed that strong thread.

372
00:22:56,083 --> 00:22:57,292
When you grow up,

373
00:22:57,375 --> 00:22:59,588
are you gonna kick a football with me?

374
00:23:01,338 --> 00:23:02,423
Yes? Okay.

375
00:23:02,506 --> 00:23:05,343
- [Patrick] I think that was a yes.
- [Zeph] Deal. Deal.

376
00:23:05,426 --> 00:23:07,220
[Meg] That strong knowing said,

377
00:23:07,303 --> 00:23:08,974
"Don't send him to school.

378
00:23:09,054 --> 00:23:12,096
What you are doing here is important."

379
00:23:15,509 --> 00:23:16,522
[thud]

380
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,296
Yes, he can learn to read and write,

381
00:23:20,379 --> 00:23:23,187
but ecological literacy
needs to come first.

382
00:23:23,270 --> 00:23:26,125
And because I was brought up in the suburbs

383
00:23:26,208 --> 00:23:30,827
in a very loving home, but
very nature disconnected,

384
00:23:30,910 --> 00:23:33,415
-[splashing] -I knew that
I didn't want that for him.

385
00:23:35,331 --> 00:23:36,498
[calm music]

386
00:23:44,856 --> 00:23:48,537
[Patrick] Woody learns through a path

387
00:23:48,620 --> 00:23:52,370
of his own inquiry, his own curiosity.

388
00:23:53,610 --> 00:23:55,297
[loud buzzing]

389
00:23:56,185 --> 00:23:58,647
This is a big piece of
spotted gum that I've got

390
00:23:59,355 --> 00:24:01,441
that a friend gave to me

391
00:24:01,524 --> 00:24:03,717
and I've already got one
chopping board out of it,

392
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,517
but I should get another three.

393
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,328
So it's a really nice wood there.

394
00:24:07,942 --> 00:24:10,662
[buzzing]

395
00:24:12,660 --> 00:24:14,705
[Patrick] We've learned a lot through Zeph.

396
00:24:15,512 --> 00:24:19,408
Admittedly Zeph was in a school environment

397
00:24:19,491 --> 00:24:20,750
and peers

398
00:24:22,586 --> 00:24:24,923
were, you know, replace parents

399
00:24:25,006 --> 00:24:30,357
and peers are manipulated by big systems,

400
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:31,842
particularly industries.

401
00:24:34,682 --> 00:24:38,146
Whereas with Woody being
fully community schooled,

402
00:24:38,229 --> 00:24:40,024
unschooled, home schooled,

403
00:24:40,104 --> 00:24:41,814
combination of all those things,

404
00:24:41,897 --> 00:24:47,209
it's this dance between
not being too warrior-like

405
00:24:47,736 --> 00:24:50,365
while also in context

406
00:24:50,450 --> 00:24:53,307
allowing him to understand
the dominant culture

407
00:24:53,409 --> 00:24:54,994
that he's also born into.

408
00:24:55,077 --> 00:24:57,283
Flood. Spade.

409
00:24:57,396 --> 00:24:58,656
[Meg] If I saw kids,

410
00:24:58,736 --> 00:25:01,879
high school kids for
example, thriving and helping,

411
00:25:01,959 --> 00:25:05,295
healthy and happy and
like in their own sovereignty,

412
00:25:05,378 --> 00:25:08,510
then I would say, "Wow, I
want Woody to be part of that."

413
00:25:08,590 --> 00:25:10,009
But that's not what I'm seeing.

414
00:25:10,092 --> 00:25:14,667
I'm seeing a lot of kids looking
like this a lot of the time and…

415
00:25:14,763 --> 00:25:17,058
-A lot of anxiety. -…depressed, anxiety.

416
00:25:17,141 --> 00:25:20,056
It's not an environment that promotes

417
00:25:20,139 --> 00:25:22,141
thriving of our young people

418
00:25:22,222 --> 00:25:23,248
[snap]

419
00:25:23,329 --> 00:25:24,545
-See you, Woods. -Bye.

420
00:25:24,625 --> 00:25:25,682
[rattling]

421
00:25:30,346 --> 00:25:32,044
[calm music]

422
00:25:37,995 --> 00:25:39,413
[Patrick] And that happened before.

423
00:25:40,456 --> 00:25:45,584
My hopes for Woody when he's
older are none of my business.

424
00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:51,722
He is free to do what he
wants and to be who he wants.

425
00:25:51,805 --> 00:25:54,891
And that feels really
important for me to know that.

426
00:25:54,974 --> 00:26:00,680
And I believe it in my guts, like
the whole of me believes that.

427
00:26:01,812 --> 00:26:03,199
[rustling]

428
00:26:05,892 --> 00:26:06,964
[rattling]

429
00:26:07,045 --> 00:26:11,657
I would like him to have inner resources

430
00:26:11,737 --> 00:26:14,657
where he can cope with
whatever comes his way.

431
00:26:14,740 --> 00:26:18,950
So I would like him to
trust his own intuition,

432
00:26:19,953 --> 00:26:23,754
to work out in his own
way what his gifts are

433
00:26:23,837 --> 00:26:26,150
that he can then give back to the world.

434
00:26:27,211 --> 00:26:29,032
Forty. Exactly.

435
00:26:29,115 --> 00:26:30,157
That was a good guess.

436
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,631
There's exactly 40.

437
00:26:33,383 --> 00:26:36,678
Whatever future he's going to inherit,

438
00:26:36,761 --> 00:26:39,890
I want him to be able to find

439
00:26:40,516 --> 00:26:43,478
a good balance of being appalled

440
00:26:43,561 --> 00:26:48,337
and being in love with
what, with whatever comes.

441
00:26:48,420 --> 00:26:52,196
Because we can focus on
the brokenness of the world

442
00:26:52,279 --> 00:26:55,772
and it can break us as well

443
00:26:55,855 --> 00:27:00,173
or we can notice it and be appalled

444
00:27:00,256 --> 00:27:03,497
and notice the beauty
and have that in balance.

445
00:27:03,580 --> 00:27:05,597
Have a look at that grain.

446
00:27:06,333 --> 00:27:07,750
Such beautiful wood.

447
00:27:12,589 --> 00:27:14,176
-[calm music fades] -[birds chirping]

448
00:27:31,752 --> 00:27:35,760
So these are parasol mushrooms
and they're really good eating.

449
00:27:36,572 --> 00:27:39,908
They're often found in eucalyptus forest.

450
00:27:40,590 --> 00:27:42,277
So that's the umbo there.

451
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:46,624
And then these little lines here

452
00:27:46,707 --> 00:27:49,867
in the mushroom are the gills
and the spores are in the gills

453
00:27:49,950 --> 00:27:52,675
and then they fall down
onto the forest floor

454
00:27:52,758 --> 00:27:55,297
when you put them like that in your basket.

455
00:28:02,182 --> 00:28:03,329
[rustling]

456
00:28:09,228 --> 00:28:10,607
Now these are saffron milk caps.

457
00:28:11,154 --> 00:28:13,091
Can do that,

458
00:28:13,567 --> 00:28:17,238
and no other mushroom
that look like this, do that.

459
00:28:17,721 --> 00:28:19,886
See that orange on your finger?

460
00:28:19,969 --> 00:28:21,690
That means it's a saffron milk cap.

461
00:28:24,244 --> 00:28:25,497
[rustling]

462
00:28:33,837 --> 00:28:38,175
I feel like in the future
I'll be pretty set, my skills

463
00:28:38,258 --> 00:28:42,397
and I can teach like a lot of
my friends all that stuff too.

464
00:28:46,109 --> 00:28:47,256
[rustling]

465
00:28:52,005 --> 00:28:53,732
[birds chirping]

466
00:28:58,911 --> 00:29:00,303
[quacks]

467
00:29:03,201 --> 00:29:04,617
[clucking]

468
00:29:10,740 --> 00:29:12,186
[motor humming]

469
00:29:21,718 --> 00:29:23,011
Thank you, girls.

470
00:29:27,287 --> 00:29:29,007
[birds chirping]

471
00:29:31,341 --> 00:29:32,487
[Meg mumbling]

472
00:29:32,854 --> 00:29:36,417
[Meg] So we have a volunteer
program, it's called SWAPS

473
00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:40,342
and that stands for Social
Warming Artists and Permaculturists.

474
00:29:40,821 --> 00:29:42,140
It's an immersive experience.

475
00:29:42,220 --> 00:29:44,537
They really become part of our household

476
00:29:44,620 --> 00:29:47,869
and get a taste of what
our daily rhythms are like.

477
00:29:49,871 --> 00:29:52,246
I really love to have the volunteers

478
00:29:52,332 --> 00:29:56,174
it's a really special part
of what has built this place.

479
00:29:56,257 --> 00:29:59,067
And as we always say to
the volunteers who come,

480
00:29:59,150 --> 00:30:02,504
you know they're eating the
preserves and the ferments

481
00:30:02,587 --> 00:30:04,854
and they're warming
themselves with the wood

482
00:30:04,937 --> 00:30:06,847
that the previous volunteers helped to get.

483
00:30:06,930 --> 00:30:09,893
So it's like a pay it forward
to the next lot of volunteers.

484
00:30:11,430 --> 00:30:12,470
-[snap] -[rattle]

485
00:30:12,769 --> 00:30:14,271
[Woody speaking in the distance]

486
00:30:14,354 --> 00:30:15,751
Yeah, really well.

487
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,352
Yep. [sighs]

488
00:30:20,259 --> 00:30:21,285
[sighs]

489
00:30:21,445 --> 00:30:25,616
Twenty minutes of sweating
a day keeps the doctor away.

490
00:30:26,156 --> 00:30:27,161
[thud]

491
00:30:27,242 --> 00:30:29,475
My health ambition.

492
00:30:29,556 --> 00:30:30,607
[Woody sighs]

493
00:30:30,688 --> 00:30:31,894
I want to die chopping wood,

494
00:30:32,622 --> 00:30:35,558
in my nineties, preferably. [laughs]

495
00:30:37,985 --> 00:30:39,297
What about your hundreds?

496
00:30:39,725 --> 00:30:41,214
Oh yeah, I'd take that.

497
00:30:41,297 --> 00:30:43,245
As long as I'm chopping wood, I don't care.

498
00:30:45,772 --> 00:30:48,186
[loud buzzing]

499
00:30:52,814 --> 00:30:53,834
[buzzing stops]

500
00:30:57,921 --> 00:30:58,933
[thud]

501
00:30:59,014 --> 00:31:01,819
[Patrick] Layer by layer,
season by season, year by year,

502
00:31:01,902 --> 00:31:04,180
gleaning the necessary skills,

503
00:31:05,141 --> 00:31:07,271
building the necessary relationships

504
00:31:07,563 --> 00:31:08,582
[crack]

505
00:31:08,663 --> 00:31:10,288
and also having a lot of fun.

506
00:31:10,371 --> 00:31:13,747
So moving from anger and
defiance and warriorness

507
00:31:13,830 --> 00:31:19,190
to play and fun and a
big fuck you to the system.

508
00:31:19,273 --> 00:31:21,490
As we're starting to find our confidence.

509
00:31:26,222 --> 00:31:28,502
When I'm going for a walk in the forest,

510
00:31:28,585 --> 00:31:30,880
I'll bring back some kindling

511
00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:35,747
and it makes sense that we get
most of our wood from this forest

512
00:31:35,830 --> 00:31:38,924
because it's so close to our home.

513
00:31:39,007 --> 00:31:43,402
And we with many others
that who live around here

514
00:31:43,485 --> 00:31:45,242
are stewards of this forest.

515
00:31:46,363 --> 00:31:49,523
We're in relationship with this forest

516
00:31:49,606 --> 00:31:55,346
so we understand what's
happening seasonally, ecologically.

517
00:31:55,883 --> 00:31:57,048
And...

518
00:31:57,785 --> 00:31:59,634
we love being in this forest.

519
00:31:59,717 --> 00:32:02,932
We love this forest, we tend this forest

520
00:32:03,015 --> 00:32:07,291
and we want this forest to flourish

521
00:32:07,511 --> 00:32:08,792
as we flourish.

522
00:32:10,097 --> 00:32:11,496
[rattling and rustling]

523
00:32:12,682 --> 00:32:13,805
[bleat]

524
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:16,642
[Patrick] Hey Eric.

525
00:32:17,477 --> 00:32:18,530
[Woody] Hi sheep.

526
00:32:19,490 --> 00:32:20,503
[rattling]

527
00:32:24,186 --> 00:32:25,186
[thud]

528
00:32:30,655 --> 00:32:31,660
[crack]

529
00:32:31,741 --> 00:32:33,659
[Patrick] That should
keep us going for a while.

530
00:32:34,536 --> 00:32:36,832
We basically don't have electricity bills.

531
00:32:37,474 --> 00:32:40,020
The key to it is our firewood.

532
00:32:44,671 --> 00:32:46,463
The heart of our home.

533
00:32:47,231 --> 00:32:51,352
So this is our stove top, it is our oven.

534
00:32:51,435 --> 00:32:54,591
It heats our house, it heats our hot water.

535
00:32:54,674 --> 00:32:58,430
It is our dehydrator, toaster, kettle,

536
00:32:59,229 --> 00:33:00,674
and our clothes dryer.

537
00:33:01,438 --> 00:33:03,648
And we also like to say it's our TV,

538
00:33:04,149 --> 00:33:07,131
so we just sit and watch the logs burn.

539
00:33:08,417 --> 00:33:10,431
[calm music]

540
00:33:14,692 --> 00:33:17,212
[Meg and Patrick chatting]

541
00:33:20,664 --> 00:33:22,390
[slow violin music]

542
00:33:25,730 --> 00:33:27,137
[indistinct chatter]

543
00:33:39,144 --> 00:33:41,144
[chirping and creaking]

544
00:33:47,231 --> 00:33:48,491
[music fades into the rain]

545
00:34:14,344 --> 00:34:16,300
[calm music]

546
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:22,561
This little building is a building

547
00:34:22,644 --> 00:34:26,390
Zeph and James, a volunteer here, built.

548
00:34:27,274 --> 00:34:31,530
Made almost entirely
from recycled materials.

549
00:34:34,656 --> 00:34:36,777
At the time of building the kumquat,

550
00:34:37,165 --> 00:34:40,045
there was a major exhibition of Banksy,

551
00:34:40,130 --> 00:34:42,664
the graffiti artist, that
came to Melbourne.

552
00:34:43,331 --> 00:34:45,792
Zeph was sort of struggling between, like,

553
00:34:45,875 --> 00:34:48,200
on the one hand this is illegal

554
00:34:48,283 --> 00:34:50,517
and risky and he was excited by graffiti,

555
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,092
but on the other hand he,
it's been culturally celebrated.

556
00:34:54,586 --> 00:34:57,627
I said, "Well, why don't
you do the history of graffiti

557
00:34:57,710 --> 00:34:59,487
as a homeschool project?

558
00:34:59,570 --> 00:35:01,542
Why don't you really go into that?"

559
00:35:02,350 --> 00:35:03,369
And he did.

560
00:35:03,450 --> 00:35:06,977
And that was quite a beautiful time.

561
00:35:10,066 --> 00:35:13,947
He was doing that project
as more a formal education

562
00:35:14,030 --> 00:35:17,083
or a research-based project,

563
00:35:17,166 --> 00:35:18,700
but more and more going out

564
00:35:18,783 --> 00:35:21,627
and then practicing his
own graffiti in the town.

565
00:35:21,710 --> 00:35:23,276
So much so that one night

566
00:35:23,359 --> 00:35:25,738
he completely bombed the town

567
00:35:25,819 --> 00:35:28,340
with like 30 huge pieces.

568
00:35:28,421 --> 00:35:29,610
[spray paint hissing]

569
00:35:29,690 --> 00:35:32,367
He was caught

570
00:35:32,450 --> 00:35:35,913
and ended up in the local police station.

571
00:35:35,994 --> 00:35:37,338
-[police sirens] -[latch clicking]

572
00:35:37,419 --> 00:35:40,591
I was trying to guide him on this careful,

573
00:35:40,674 --> 00:35:45,447
nuanced path of contributing culturally

574
00:35:45,852 --> 00:35:50,394
as a graffiti-ist or a stencil artist

575
00:35:50,899 --> 00:35:55,822
and you know, the problems
of offensive destruction

576
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,900
to other people's things.

577
00:35:59,032 --> 00:36:01,839
So after six months of community schooling,

578
00:36:01,922 --> 00:36:05,527
he started to talk about
going back to school

579
00:36:05,622 --> 00:36:07,541
and to go to the local high school.

580
00:36:07,624 --> 00:36:09,131
Onto ah… to brighter things.

581
00:36:09,214 --> 00:36:11,437
If your idea of a holiday
is packing up the kids

582
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,587
and heading to the beach, then
you need to meet this next family.

583
00:36:14,670 --> 00:36:18,167
They have taken the idea of a
road trip to a whole new level,

584
00:36:18,250 --> 00:36:19,718
spending more than a year traveling

585
00:36:19,799 --> 00:36:22,338
up and down Australia's east coast by bike.

586
00:36:22,421 --> 00:36:23,521
But that's not all.

587
00:36:23,604 --> 00:36:26,852
The family also ate for free along the way,

588
00:36:26,935 --> 00:36:31,560
foraging for wild food and
even cooking up road kill.

589
00:36:32,357 --> 00:36:36,415
Some parents got to
know that this kid Zephyr

590
00:36:36,498 --> 00:36:38,302
with this unusual name.

591
00:36:38,385 --> 00:36:41,407
Oh that sounds like that
family from Daylesford.

592
00:36:41,490 --> 00:36:45,062
So he became quickly
known as that dirty hippie

593
00:36:45,145 --> 00:36:47,141
that eats roadkill, from Daylesford.

594
00:36:47,831 --> 00:36:51,545
He started his high
school years with that story

595
00:36:51,630 --> 00:36:53,167
and couldn't throw it off.

596
00:36:56,305 --> 00:36:57,925
[birds chirping]

597
00:37:03,035 --> 00:37:04,214
[loud crack]

598
00:37:06,208 --> 00:37:07,894
-[both sigh] -[crack]

599
00:37:08,235 --> 00:37:09,248
[Patrick grunts]

600
00:37:12,815 --> 00:37:14,548
[buzzing]

601
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,591
-[birds chirping] -[squeaking]

602
00:37:29,039 --> 00:37:30,292
[clatter]

603
00:37:30,373 --> 00:37:34,723
[Meg] We are now mostly not
living in the monetary economy,

604
00:37:34,806 --> 00:37:37,057
but we still have rates to pay.

605
00:37:37,140 --> 00:37:40,717
We still have some bills,
we still buy in some food

606
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,620
and you know, secondhand clothes.

607
00:37:42,703 --> 00:37:46,381
So we, we have very low
overheads and low costs,

608
00:37:46,464 --> 00:37:49,980
but we still do participate
in the monetary economy.

609
00:37:50,063 --> 00:37:54,392
So I work two days a week for
David Holmgren and Su Dennett.

610
00:37:54,475 --> 00:37:57,137
So David is the
co-originator of Permaculture

611
00:37:57,220 --> 00:37:59,370
and I work in David's office.

612
00:37:59,836 --> 00:38:01,103
[calm violin music]

613
00:38:03,448 --> 00:38:08,372
We live below the poverty
line, very happily and very easily.

614
00:38:11,570 --> 00:38:15,509
How we're able to live
like this is because we rely

615
00:38:15,592 --> 00:38:17,628
and live mostly in the gift economy,

616
00:38:17,712 --> 00:38:19,087
not the monetary economy.

617
00:38:19,577 --> 00:38:21,877
[girls speaking]

618
00:38:24,562 --> 00:38:26,039
[Meg] Thanks, guys.

619
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:27,767
[girls chatting]

620
00:38:28,014 --> 00:38:31,598
The flow of gifts is really about trust,

621
00:38:32,477 --> 00:38:35,076
living with a knowing that

622
00:38:35,159 --> 00:38:37,636
what we put out comes back.

623
00:38:38,233 --> 00:38:42,316
It's being generous, knowing
that generosity is contagious.

624
00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:45,991
Things like our bush
school, Forest and Free,

625
00:38:46,074 --> 00:38:47,826
we operate in the gift economy.

626
00:38:48,409 --> 00:38:53,191
So we take 20 kids out
every Monday from 10 till 4.

627
00:38:53,274 --> 00:38:58,998
In exchange, parents gift
us produce from their garden,

628
00:38:59,081 --> 00:39:00,377
hand-me-downs.

629
00:39:00,460 --> 00:39:02,650
So we get meals made for us.

630
00:39:03,821 --> 00:39:06,174
[indistinct chatter]

631
00:39:09,556 --> 00:39:13,756
When I was working in an office, I
had money so I could buy those things,

632
00:39:13,839 --> 00:39:18,272
but it was, it's an economy of
meaninglessness, of disconnection

633
00:39:18,356 --> 00:39:22,274
and I choose hard work
and connection any day.

634
00:39:23,609 --> 00:39:25,389
[birds chirping]

635
00:39:30,245 --> 00:39:33,645
Okay. Do you remember how to
play neo peasant with villaging?

636
00:39:33,726 --> 00:39:34,764
Yes.

637
00:39:34,845 --> 00:39:40,387
What we do is work together to
get all the money out of the bank.

638
00:39:40,660 --> 00:39:44,213
So we bankrupt the bank so they
no longer are a part of the game.

639
00:39:44,601 --> 00:39:45,601
[rattle]

640
00:39:46,005 --> 00:39:47,047
Three.

641
00:39:48,136 --> 00:39:50,269
One, two, three. [sighs]

642
00:39:51,556 --> 00:39:53,308
[Meg] Market Garden? Three dollars.

643
00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:54,491
Look at this.

644
00:39:57,020 --> 00:39:58,040
Small goods.

645
00:39:58,498 --> 00:40:00,317
-See if I can… -Oh, yum.

646
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:01,650
That's really good. That one.

647
00:40:01,733 --> 00:40:03,347
Anyone wanna lend me a dollar?

648
00:40:03,430 --> 00:40:04,513
-Yeah. -Sure.

649
00:40:04,833 --> 00:40:07,569
-I need some new beans. -Sure.

650
00:40:07,652 --> 00:40:09,542
One, two, three, four.

651
00:40:10,283 --> 00:40:11,284
Chance.

652
00:40:12,329 --> 00:40:15,306
Fraudulent banking services.

653
00:40:15,389 --> 00:40:18,791
Pay each player ten dollars each.

654
00:40:18,874 --> 00:40:20,376
That's good. I did do that.

655
00:40:20,457 --> 00:40:21,482
Ten dollars each?

656
00:40:21,563 --> 00:40:23,547
No, that's actually not what it says.

657
00:40:23,630 --> 00:40:25,792
Daddy, you can't just do that.

658
00:40:25,875 --> 00:40:27,572
-Yes, you can. -That's not good.

659
00:40:27,655 --> 00:40:30,916
- This is our reality.
- You have to earn your money.

660
00:40:40,632 --> 00:40:41,658
[rattle]

661
00:40:43,525 --> 00:40:44,645
[crack]

662
00:40:47,112 --> 00:40:48,124
[clatter]

663
00:40:48,948 --> 00:40:51,075
[crackle]

664
00:40:51,158 --> 00:40:53,327
[liquid pouring]

665
00:40:53,410 --> 00:40:54,629
[burble]

666
00:41:06,172 --> 00:41:10,152
Yeah, and around the back here, isn't it?

667
00:41:10,235 --> 00:41:11,327
Yeah.

668
00:41:11,408 --> 00:41:13,817
[Patrick] We rarely get sick

669
00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:18,340
and we certainly only get
a cold and sometimes a flu.

670
00:41:25,983 --> 00:41:28,499
About a year ago I was knocked off my bike

671
00:41:28,582 --> 00:41:31,856
and I still have residual shoulder pain.

672
00:41:32,228 --> 00:41:33,990
So this is some stinging nettle,

673
00:41:34,659 --> 00:41:38,390
which is like acupuncture.

674
00:41:39,435 --> 00:41:43,107
Yeah. So yeah, it's
really stinging. I want that.

675
00:41:43,190 --> 00:41:47,300
It gets all the blood
there and yeah, medicine.

676
00:41:51,676 --> 00:41:53,683
[Patrick] You know, a
lot of people at our age

677
00:41:53,764 --> 00:41:57,766
are very unwell and have
many different diseases

678
00:41:58,056 --> 00:42:01,835
and it's not because we're
somehow biologically superior.

679
00:42:02,078 --> 00:42:05,757
It's because I think we
trust, and our economy,

680
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,007
and way of relating is
based on relationships

681
00:42:08,090 --> 00:42:11,210
with things, we touch
things, we absorb things.

682
00:42:13,653 --> 00:42:17,727
We only ever seem to think of
parasites as negative in our culture

683
00:42:17,810 --> 00:42:20,571
because we're in this
ideology of germ theory

684
00:42:20,654 --> 00:42:23,787
that the world is dangerous
and we should fear it.

685
00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:26,736
It's full of viruses and
bacteria and terrible things.

686
00:42:26,819 --> 00:42:31,467
But of course we are walking
forests of many different

687
00:42:31,552 --> 00:42:33,359
more-than-human participants.

688
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,851
So if we think of ourselves
as a relating body,

689
00:42:38,078 --> 00:42:43,087
then it's possible to then
trust all those relations.

690
00:42:45,438 --> 00:42:47,590
[upbeat music]

691
00:42:59,148 --> 00:43:00,154
[squeak]

692
00:43:05,656 --> 00:43:06,669
[rattle]

693
00:43:19,185 --> 00:43:20,191
[music continues]

694
00:43:42,108 --> 00:43:43,114
[screech]

695
00:43:53,091 --> 00:43:54,097
[clunk]

696
00:44:05,702 --> 00:44:06,708
[screech]

697
00:44:10,135 --> 00:44:13,237
Gives me great satisfaction
straightening these,

698
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,215
which I get for about ten cents.

699
00:44:15,820 --> 00:44:18,575
'Cause to buy a new one off
the shelf is about ten dollars.

700
00:44:21,854 --> 00:44:22,874
[music continues]

701
00:44:24,790 --> 00:44:25,903
[clang]

702
00:44:41,554 --> 00:44:44,329
[Patrick] Probably the
first ten years we had come

703
00:44:44,412 --> 00:44:47,437
to the neighborhood, we
just were walking in the forest

704
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:51,157
and observing it and learning
about the edible mushrooms

705
00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:53,640
and falling in love with this area.

706
00:44:54,990 --> 00:44:58,905
The CFA did a big burn all the way around

707
00:44:58,988 --> 00:45:00,742
this edge of the forest

708
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,357
and it was a really destructive
and fast and furious burn.

709
00:45:04,452 --> 00:45:07,702
It wasn't nuanced, it wasn't
like indigenous burning.

710
00:45:08,493 --> 00:45:10,477
The forest didn't feel good for a while.

711
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,294
And I remember saying to myself then,

712
00:45:13,377 --> 00:45:16,387
"I want to start working in this forest

713
00:45:16,470 --> 00:45:18,552
and give them no reason to come back."

714
00:45:18,633 --> 00:45:21,425
And so that was a nearly decade ago.

715
00:45:23,429 --> 00:45:25,960
I talked to neighbors
about introducing goats

716
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:27,307
and then sheep.

717
00:45:27,390 --> 00:45:31,410
So farming it with no legal tenure to land.

718
00:45:33,648 --> 00:45:37,485
The sheep and the goats are particularly
interested in the newcomer species.

719
00:45:37,568 --> 00:45:40,987
That's their main thing.
With an elder or a hawthorn

720
00:45:41,070 --> 00:45:42,407
or a blackberry or gorse.

721
00:45:42,490 --> 00:45:44,536
They'll absolutely go it.

722
00:45:47,286 --> 00:45:52,551
You've got this nuanced and
relationship-based land management

723
00:45:52,634 --> 00:45:55,410
versus pesticides and bulldozers.

724
00:45:56,754 --> 00:46:01,267
We eat the surplus goats and
sheep and that's our payment

725
00:46:01,350 --> 00:46:05,797
for working in, in public
land in Djarra people's land

726
00:46:05,882 --> 00:46:07,366
in real terms.

727
00:46:07,447 --> 00:46:09,879
And also doing that with relationship

728
00:46:09,962 --> 00:46:12,346
with Uncle Rick, who's
one of the Djarra elders

729
00:46:12,429 --> 00:46:15,720
and an emerging elder called
Beck Phillips, who's a friend.

730
00:46:16,482 --> 00:46:20,280
There is this beautiful indigenous
renewal in Djarra country

731
00:46:21,490 --> 00:46:23,017
and alongside that

732
00:46:23,100 --> 00:46:26,450
there's what I call
permaculture subsistence,

733
00:46:27,118 --> 00:46:30,902
which is we white fellas
reclaiming our indigenous soul

734
00:46:30,985 --> 00:46:32,790
in how we work with land.

735
00:46:35,790 --> 00:46:39,080
Subsistence permaculture is a way back

736
00:46:39,163 --> 00:46:44,027
in to how we as second people,
our ancestors performed life

737
00:46:44,110 --> 00:46:46,050
as land-bonded people.

738
00:46:51,365 --> 00:46:52,980
[Woody] Look out. Look out.

739
00:46:56,459 --> 00:46:57,491
Hang on.

740
00:46:57,572 --> 00:47:01,546
This is Alice and she
is about five years old.

741
00:47:03,279 --> 00:47:06,096
They're really good fire mitigators

742
00:47:06,179 --> 00:47:09,330
and they're also

743
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,167
putting all this lovely poo on the ground,

744
00:47:13,250 --> 00:47:16,098
which is really good for the soil.

745
00:47:18,834 --> 00:47:19,840
[birds chirping]

746
00:47:25,357 --> 00:47:27,667
- [Patrick] Thanks, chookies.
- Thanks, bunnies.

747
00:47:27,755 --> 00:47:29,880
-Thanks, bunnies. -Thanks to the forest.

748
00:47:30,256 --> 00:47:31,262
[clang]

749
00:47:31,900 --> 00:47:33,101
Sunshine.

750
00:47:33,184 --> 00:47:36,558
I'm gonna take her
through bottling the cider.

751
00:47:36,641 --> 00:47:39,100
- You are.
- And we're gonna process the conk,

752
00:47:39,815 --> 00:47:40,958
the tinder fungus,

753
00:47:42,182 --> 00:47:43,474
for medicine to take with us.

754
00:47:44,236 --> 00:47:47,817
I want to write an email to Zeph

755
00:47:48,783 --> 00:47:50,702
and send some photos.

756
00:47:50,785 --> 00:47:54,065
I'd like to send a photo of you hitting

757
00:47:54,747 --> 00:47:59,613
your handmade cricket bat, practice bat.

758
00:47:59,696 --> 00:48:01,294
-The one I made yesterday? -Yeah.

759
00:48:07,384 --> 00:48:09,803
I'm making a project

760
00:48:09,886 --> 00:48:13,547
on Australia's cricket captain Pat Cummins.

761
00:48:13,630 --> 00:48:14,669
I'm really into cricket,

762
00:48:14,750 --> 00:48:16,948
so it's a good homeschool project for me.

763
00:48:17,031 --> 00:48:21,656
I'm sticking in photos of
him winning us the Ashes.

764
00:48:23,336 --> 00:48:24,616
[Meg speaking in the back]

765
00:48:26,167 --> 00:48:27,866
[indistinct chatter]

766
00:48:29,073 --> 00:48:30,528
[Meg] Do you know the fungus,

767
00:48:30,611 --> 00:48:33,295
the tinder fungus that was
over here? The big white one.

768
00:48:33,376 --> 00:48:36,348
- [student] Oh yeah, yeah.
- [Meg] Put some of that in there.

769
00:48:36,429 --> 00:48:38,176
[student] Because this is cool.

770
00:48:39,875 --> 00:48:43,004
[Meg] In June, we are going to hitchhike

771
00:48:43,087 --> 00:48:44,200
to India

772
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,619
and we'll see how far we get.

773
00:48:47,702 --> 00:48:52,247
We can be neo peasant permies in situ,

774
00:48:52,346 --> 00:48:57,434
but to take that then onto the road,
like how do we live a radically frugal way

775
00:48:57,517 --> 00:48:59,436
without our wood stores,

776
00:48:59,519 --> 00:49:03,006
without our seed bank
and without our cellar bank?

777
00:49:03,089 --> 00:49:04,937
What does it look like
in a different context?

778
00:49:05,020 --> 00:49:06,317
And I do love that.

779
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:10,116
I feel like in the past
we've found great rhythms

780
00:49:10,199 --> 00:49:13,367
and I look forward to seeing
what that looks like this time.

781
00:49:14,535 --> 00:49:17,214
-[calm music] -[Meg] Woody
being crazy about cricket,

782
00:49:17,872 --> 00:49:19,835
India is crazy about cricket.

783
00:49:20,086 --> 00:49:21,098
[smack]

784
00:49:21,179 --> 00:49:23,395
So I made this... [gasps]

785
00:49:23,627 --> 00:49:26,158
supposed to be like a baseball
bat sort of thing... yesterday

786
00:49:26,505 --> 00:49:28,450
and I put one of my
cricket bat grips on it,

787
00:49:29,216 --> 00:49:31,427
and I've already got a few cherries,

788
00:49:31,972 --> 00:49:33,142
as you can see,

789
00:49:33,515 --> 00:49:35,017
and I'm pretty happy with it.

790
00:49:35,097 --> 00:49:39,019
It's good for my defense to practice.

791
00:49:42,380 --> 00:49:43,486
[smack]

792
00:49:43,567 --> 00:49:44,652
-[Patrick] Shot. -[smack]

793
00:49:44,733 --> 00:49:45,738
[Woody] Ups.

794
00:49:45,831 --> 00:49:51,752
He will turn 12 on this trip and to
introduce him to the cultural Other

795
00:49:51,833 --> 00:49:55,784
through something that he loves,
and through a shared passion.

796
00:49:55,942 --> 00:49:56,975
[smack]

797
00:49:57,292 --> 00:50:00,590
Just that invitation to...
"I'm from somewhere else,

798
00:50:01,415 --> 00:50:05,339
but I connect with you
through a game of cricket."

799
00:50:05,745 --> 00:50:06,845
-[smack] -[thud]

800
00:50:07,032 --> 00:50:08,057
-[smack] -[Patrick grunts]

801
00:50:08,138 --> 00:50:09,843
-[Woody] Sorry! -[Patrick laughing] Geez!

802
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:11,954
[both laugh]

803
00:50:12,051 --> 00:50:15,430
- It got stuck with your phone.
- That's funny.

804
00:50:17,476 --> 00:50:18,612
[Patrick] That's a good one.

805
00:50:19,705 --> 00:50:22,552
- [Woody] Is it good?
- [Patrick] Yeah, it just shows the…

806
00:50:22,633 --> 00:50:23,915
[Woody] Let's send that to Zeph.

807
00:50:23,996 --> 00:50:25,966
[Patrick] Yeah, the craft of it.

808
00:50:26,064 --> 00:50:27,205
[upbeat music]

809
00:50:33,222 --> 00:50:34,228
[music fades]

810
00:50:38,349 --> 00:50:39,401
[keystrokes]

811
00:50:39,482 --> 00:50:40,590
[Patrick] "Dear Zeph",

812
00:50:43,103 --> 00:50:49,124
"looking forward to our next visit."

813
00:50:54,005 --> 00:50:57,682
He fell in with a bunch
of very vulnerable boys

814
00:50:58,555 --> 00:51:01,735
-and they all egged each
other on to do -[Boys chatting]

815
00:51:01,818 --> 00:51:04,469
more and more crazy things in the town.

816
00:51:04,552 --> 00:51:06,125
-Petty theft -[glass crashing]

817
00:51:06,208 --> 00:51:09,327
and then eventually
moving into stealing cars

818
00:51:09,410 --> 00:51:12,447
-[car brakes squeaking] -and
running drugs for older boys.

819
00:51:12,530 --> 00:51:16,790
- [people screaming in the distance]
- And it just became a nightmare.

820
00:51:16,873 --> 00:51:18,242
[police sirens]

821
00:51:18,325 --> 00:51:24,030
And at one stage he was
in a high-speed police chase

822
00:51:24,113 --> 00:51:26,739
-[car brakes squeaking] -and
he nearly killed a police officer.

823
00:51:26,820 --> 00:51:28,586
-[door squeak and snaps] -[lock clicks]

824
00:51:28,669 --> 00:51:30,921
[prison reception recording] "It is
subject to monitoring and recording."

825
00:51:30,963 --> 00:51:33,012
It is unlawful for this
call to be redirected

826
00:51:33,095 --> 00:51:34,381
or be part of a conference call.

827
00:51:34,462 --> 00:51:36,957
If you do not wish to
accept this call, hang up now.

828
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,899
"If you understand the conditions
of this call, please continue."

829
00:51:42,474 --> 00:51:45,272
-Hey, Zeph. How you going mate? -[Zeph] Hi.

830
00:51:46,794 --> 00:51:47,985
Zeph went into...

831
00:51:49,996 --> 00:51:51,170
[sighs] prison.

832
00:51:51,775 --> 00:51:56,158
First, youth prison and then adults at 15

833
00:51:56,240 --> 00:52:00,380
and pretty much has been
in there since. He's now 22.

834
00:52:01,368 --> 00:52:03,000
And there's the two brothers.

835
00:52:04,747 --> 00:52:09,320
Yeah, Zeph had just got out of juvie

836
00:52:10,294 --> 00:52:12,841
the first time, and things
were going really well

837
00:52:13,964 --> 00:52:17,037
and then lockdown happened
and he couldn't see his mates

838
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:18,625
and he broke curfew

839
00:52:19,809 --> 00:52:22,132
and he was back in.

840
00:52:22,684 --> 00:52:23,994
[sad music]

841
00:52:24,077 --> 00:52:27,387
And that's just before he
was then went into weeks

842
00:52:27,470 --> 00:52:29,420
of lockdown in juvie.

843
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,297
And that's when he tried
to escape for the third time

844
00:52:33,380 --> 00:52:35,630
and they took him to adults.

845
00:52:36,490 --> 00:52:38,490
-[music continues] -[birds chirping]

846
00:52:45,531 --> 00:52:46,557
[rustle]

847
00:52:48,980 --> 00:52:52,160
For about a year, I slept in the forest.

848
00:52:53,296 --> 00:52:54,813
[crying] That was a… [sobs]

849
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,713
That was a big, big time.

850
00:53:02,805 --> 00:53:07,938
His story has been a great
gift to my life, as painful

851
00:53:08,602 --> 00:53:09,690
and unwanted

852
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:11,513
[sobs]

853
00:53:13,995 --> 00:53:15,333
as it has been.

854
00:53:16,625 --> 00:53:20,364
But I have so much joy and gratitude

855
00:53:20,447 --> 00:53:23,328
for the work that I do
because of his story.

856
00:53:25,539 --> 00:53:32,506
Another gift is understanding
how to better raise Woody.

857
00:53:33,669 --> 00:53:35,007
How Zeph's story

858
00:53:35,100 --> 00:53:40,087
and my failings as a
father has informed me.

859
00:53:40,170 --> 00:53:43,095
Doesn't make me [laughs]

860
00:53:43,178 --> 00:53:44,864
a great father,

861
00:53:44,947 --> 00:53:48,422
but a much more aware and conscious father.

862
00:53:51,482 --> 00:53:54,095
The real gift of Zeph is

863
00:53:55,062 --> 00:53:59,296
understanding how me
as a father and other men

864
00:53:59,379 --> 00:54:03,907
who love Zeph in the
community didn't have the skills

865
00:54:03,990 --> 00:54:08,643
or the craft of bringing him up.

866
00:54:08,726 --> 00:54:10,087
Not raising him,

867
00:54:10,170 --> 00:54:14,520
but like elevating him where
he needed to be elevated.

868
00:54:15,642 --> 00:54:18,700
And that is a nuanced thing

869
00:54:18,780 --> 00:54:22,302
and it requires a village,
not a nuclear family.

870
00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:27,757
And I think that the village rebuilding

871
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,559
that Meg and I have been doing [sniffs]

872
00:54:30,642 --> 00:54:36,847
over the past several
years is because of that.

873
00:54:36,930 --> 00:54:38,070
Because of his story.

874
00:54:38,632 --> 00:54:39,645
[sad music continues]

875
00:54:40,736 --> 00:54:43,861
Moving what needs to
be moved, for the flow.

876
00:54:47,334 --> 00:54:48,812
[indistinct speech]

877
00:54:54,506 --> 00:54:55,626
[birds chirping in the back]

878
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:02,148
[chirrup]

879
00:55:10,557 --> 00:55:12,194
[soft bird chirp]

880
00:55:20,222 --> 00:55:21,242
[soft people murmur]

881
00:55:25,078 --> 00:55:29,813
Okay, we're gonna do a thing
we call "blackberry surfing."

882
00:55:29,894 --> 00:55:31,700
[loud cheers]

883
00:55:32,041 --> 00:55:33,267
[kid] Climbing to a tree!

884
00:55:35,227 --> 00:55:36,427
[kids chattering]

885
00:55:37,278 --> 00:55:39,165
-[indistinct chatter] -[snap]

886
00:55:46,552 --> 00:55:50,700
Forest and Free is a weekly bush school.

887
00:55:51,974 --> 00:55:53,896
We have a whole day with the kids.

888
00:55:54,770 --> 00:55:55,770
[kids chatter]

889
00:55:56,186 --> 00:56:00,485
It's an opportunity for kids
to be outside in the forest

890
00:56:00,570 --> 00:56:02,910
to reconnect to the forest.

891
00:56:04,570 --> 00:56:07,480
There's loads of different
cubbies that we're making,

892
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,024
different shelters

893
00:56:09,107 --> 00:56:13,991
and some of the kids have been
working on their shelters for a year or so.

894
00:56:15,289 --> 00:56:18,000
[student] I decided that it
needs some work so I added a lot

895
00:56:18,083 --> 00:56:19,436
of insulation around it

896
00:56:20,092 --> 00:56:23,967
and it could fit up to, I don't
know, six people, I reckon.

897
00:56:27,738 --> 00:56:29,261
[student] This is my cubby.

898
00:56:29,344 --> 00:56:31,433
Here we have a rock bed.

899
00:56:31,513 --> 00:56:35,651
Hopefully next time we
come, I'll put some broom.

900
00:56:35,734 --> 00:56:37,186
Here, we have, like, curtains.

901
00:56:37,752 --> 00:56:39,272
[indistinct chatter]

902
00:56:41,328 --> 00:56:44,979
[student] When you're in the forest, it
just makes you feel more, like, relaxed.

903
00:56:45,485 --> 00:56:48,249
It's really fun because when I'm at home,

904
00:56:48,332 --> 00:56:50,491
it's kind of boring, but
when I'm at Forest and Free,

905
00:56:50,574 --> 00:56:52,788
I get to express my energy.

906
00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:57,247
[Meg] When they're building
cubbies, they're learning about

907
00:56:57,330 --> 00:57:00,737
natural building and architecture
and where to position it.

908
00:57:00,820 --> 00:57:02,147
Where's the sun coming from?

909
00:57:02,230 --> 00:57:03,803
And if we have an opening to the south,

910
00:57:03,884 --> 00:57:05,623
which is usually where the rain comes from,

911
00:57:05,706 --> 00:57:08,957
then maybe we need to weave a
door and have that as our opening.

912
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,117
And they're learning
what materials are around,

913
00:57:11,202 --> 00:57:13,985
what flowers, what birds, what insects.

914
00:57:14,066 --> 00:57:18,929
They're just, they're embedding.
They're learning how to be in place.

915
00:57:19,464 --> 00:57:20,811
[kids chatter in the distance]

916
00:57:24,778 --> 00:57:27,060
[birds chirrup]

917
00:57:35,278 --> 00:57:36,858
[soft calm music]

918
00:57:40,776 --> 00:57:43,680
I facilitate a monthly women's circle,

919
00:57:44,027 --> 00:57:45,892
it's called For Crying Out Loud.

920
00:57:45,975 --> 00:57:50,717
And Patrick facilitates the men's
circle, which is called Fire Choir.

921
00:57:51,468 --> 00:57:55,890
We started these circles
maybe five and a half years ago.

922
00:57:55,973 --> 00:57:58,433
We gather here at the fire circle

923
00:57:58,516 --> 00:58:02,978
and Patrick or Woody comes down earlier

924
00:58:03,061 --> 00:58:04,751
and lights a really big fire for us.

925
00:58:06,775 --> 00:58:10,282
We live in a culture that
doesn't do grief very well.

926
00:58:11,071 --> 00:58:14,406
The circle is a way to
acknowledge our grief,

927
00:58:14,489 --> 00:58:15,739
to share the grief.

928
00:58:15,822 --> 00:58:17,474
And it's a witnessing circle.

929
00:58:17,557 --> 00:58:21,001
It's a deep listening, a deep sharing.

930
00:58:21,081 --> 00:58:24,627
And we speak from the heart
and we listen with our hearts

931
00:58:24,710 --> 00:58:28,750
and to really practice listening
in a nonjudgmental way.

932
00:58:29,729 --> 00:58:30,903
[music intensifies]

933
00:58:34,984 --> 00:58:40,465
This circle is just medicine
and it's something that I crave.

934
00:58:41,393 --> 00:58:44,837
It was a deep remembering of something that

935
00:58:45,464 --> 00:58:47,483
is ancient in our bones.

936
00:58:47,566 --> 00:58:50,743
Sitting around a fire, sharing stories.

937
00:58:51,611 --> 00:58:56,566
To sit in circle with women who
I've known for many, many years,

938
00:58:56,649 --> 00:59:00,257
but to witness them at
their most vulnerable,

939
00:59:00,340 --> 00:59:01,967
at their most honest

940
00:59:02,050 --> 00:59:06,077
and open expressions
of themselves or their pain

941
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:09,550
or their grief or whatever it
is that they're most alive to,

942
00:59:10,515 --> 00:59:13,600
to really witness women in that rawness

943
00:59:14,385 --> 00:59:16,030
is just incredible.

944
00:59:18,092 --> 00:59:20,584
I used to cry with shame

945
00:59:21,183 --> 00:59:22,559
whenever I would cry.

946
00:59:22,642 --> 00:59:25,827
You know, I was sort of
embarrassed of my emotionality.

947
00:59:25,910 --> 00:59:30,170
And now, I'm a proud crier.

948
00:59:31,735 --> 00:59:34,799
I feel like that's what
happens around this circle.

949
00:59:34,882 --> 00:59:39,630
Our moments are witnessed
so our lives don't just speed by

950
00:59:39,713 --> 00:59:42,353
that we are in the grief.

951
00:59:42,583 --> 00:59:46,638
We recognize and we air the grief.

952
00:59:46,721 --> 00:59:52,790
So we have room in us for the beauty
to come out, for the beauty to go in.

953
00:59:57,898 --> 00:59:59,245
[music fades]

954
01:00:07,575 --> 01:00:08,601
[soft cawing]

955
01:00:09,282 --> 01:00:12,292
We planted this little kumquat

956
01:00:12,375 --> 01:00:14,227
[clears throat] when Zeph

957
01:00:15,445 --> 01:00:17,737
and James finished this building

958
01:00:17,826 --> 01:00:22,289
and this is the first
year it's fully fruited

959
01:00:22,372 --> 01:00:25,191
and it has pretty much grown

960
01:00:26,748 --> 01:00:30,547
over the period of time
that Zeph has been inside

961
01:00:31,381 --> 01:00:32,626
in the prison system.

962
01:00:33,299 --> 01:00:35,625
And when we get back from India

963
01:00:35,708 --> 01:00:37,255
in four months' time,

964
01:00:37,338 --> 01:00:38,760
Zeph is coming out.

965
01:00:39,416 --> 01:00:41,150
And these fruits,

966
01:00:42,116 --> 01:00:45,440
which are in abundance,
look like they'll be ready.

967
01:00:46,226 --> 01:00:49,478
So that feels like a cycle.

968
01:00:50,898 --> 01:00:52,445
[insects and birds chirping]

969
01:00:55,038 --> 01:00:56,598
[clucking]

970
01:01:04,828 --> 01:01:07,994
[Patrick] I've been noticing
since moving towards

971
01:01:08,075 --> 01:01:11,025
the departure, a real groundedness.

972
01:01:11,334 --> 01:01:16,290
I'm so in love with the processes

973
01:01:16,370 --> 01:01:18,897
of packing down the house

974
01:01:18,980 --> 01:01:21,267
and filling the cellar and the wood store

975
01:01:21,350 --> 01:01:26,093
and moving the goats
and sheep to a friend's farm.

976
01:01:26,174 --> 01:01:27,521
[bleat]

977
01:01:31,468 --> 01:01:34,677
Thinking through what sort of
meals we can have on the road

978
01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:38,247
to keep out of the industrial food system

979
01:01:38,330 --> 01:01:39,681
as much as possible.

980
01:01:41,698 --> 01:01:44,580
[Meg] I have so much
excitement about going,

981
01:01:45,201 --> 01:01:49,851
but the excitement only really
extends to closing the door

982
01:01:49,934 --> 01:01:52,227
and walking out to the A300 with our sign.

983
01:01:52,310 --> 01:01:54,461
- I can't really think beyond there, but...
- Me too.

984
01:01:54,544 --> 01:01:57,000
...even just to get to
that stage, it's just like,

985
01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:00,428
oh my God, it's just gonna
be the most liberating feeling

986
01:02:00,509 --> 01:02:01,803
and I'm looking forward to that.

987
01:02:01,886 --> 01:02:04,759
-Two kilos. -Kilo and half.

988
01:02:05,436 --> 01:02:07,468
-Yeah. -Yeah, yeah.

989
01:02:07,563 --> 01:02:09,519
That's good because we have backpacking.

990
01:02:11,645 --> 01:02:13,606
[indistinct chatting]

991
01:02:18,390 --> 01:02:19,517
[crickets chirping]

992
01:02:21,500 --> 01:02:22,841
[laughs]

993
01:02:24,616 --> 01:02:27,520
[Meg] Officially welcome to Tree Elbow.

994
01:02:27,603 --> 01:02:31,237
Really great to see
everybody. We're very lucky.

995
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:33,973
Feeling very lucky to
be part of this community

996
01:02:34,326 --> 01:02:37,711
and very lucky to live where we do.

997
01:02:37,794 --> 01:02:39,423
[Patrick] I had my first pangs

998
01:02:39,506 --> 01:02:42,546
of unsettlement last night for this trip.

999
01:02:42,629 --> 01:02:46,194
I felt anxiety for the
first time, which is good.

1000
01:02:46,694 --> 01:02:51,690
Just helping my body to
step into unknown things.

1001
01:02:52,774 --> 01:02:54,240
[people chatting]

1002
01:02:59,819 --> 01:03:01,276
[birds chirping]

1003
01:03:05,083 --> 01:03:06,646
[calm music]

1004
01:03:08,411 --> 01:03:09,964
[Meg speaking indistinctly]

1005
01:03:12,242 --> 01:03:13,282
[Woody sighs]

1006
01:03:19,592 --> 01:03:20,965
[Woody speaking indistinctly]

1007
01:03:25,722 --> 01:03:27,013
[laughs]

1008
01:03:28,514 --> 01:03:29,826
[music continues]

1009
01:03:30,345 --> 01:03:31,601
[Patrick murmuring]

1010
01:03:36,821 --> 01:03:37,834
[Meg and Woody speaking]

1011
01:03:45,242 --> 01:03:47,325
[Patrick and Meg exclaim]

1012
01:03:48,643 --> 01:03:51,676
- [music intensifies]
- [birds loudly chirruping]

1013
01:04:00,146 --> 01:04:01,373
[music fades]

1014
01:04:01,922 --> 01:04:03,260
[music resumes pace]

1015
01:04:09,439 --> 01:04:10,812
[car engine buzzing]

1016
01:04:16,162 --> 01:04:18,189
[indistinct chatter]

1017
01:04:29,086 --> 01:04:30,353
[honk beeps]

1018
01:04:43,387 --> 01:04:44,480
[music intensifies]

1019
01:04:53,301 --> 01:04:54,554
[calm end music]

1020
01:05:05,746 --> 01:05:07,519
[flute music]

1021
01:05:11,991 --> 01:05:18,963
♪ Do not try to save the whole
world Or do anything grandiose ♪

1022
01:05:21,501 --> 01:05:28,486
♪ Instead find a clearing In
the dance forest of your life ♪

1023
01:05:31,261 --> 01:05:38,258
♪ And wait there patiently
Until the song that is your life ♪

1024
01:05:40,103 --> 01:05:47,095
♪ Falls into your own cupped hands
And you recognize and greet it ♪

1025
01:05:49,253 --> 01:05:53,579
♪ Falls into your own cupped hands ♪

1026
01:05:53,662 --> 01:05:57,959
♪ And you recognize and greet it ♪

1027
01:06:00,665 --> 01:06:06,620
♪ Only then will you know How
to give yourself to this world ♪

1028
01:06:06,700 --> 01:06:08,973
♪ So worthy of rescue ♪

1029
01:06:09,465 --> 01:06:15,636
♪ Only then will you know How
to give yourself to this world ♪

1030
01:06:15,845 --> 01:06:18,127
♪ So worthy of rescue ♪

1031
01:06:18,210 --> 01:06:25,142
♪ Only then will you know
How to give yourself to this world

1032
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♪ So worthy of rescue ♪

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[maraca rattles]