"Learn to live with the rhythms of Nature" Wonderfully stated.

The house you have translated as "The arena" is actually called "Ederrena", which means "the prettiest", "the nicest" or even "the biggest" in Basque, a language spoken in Navarra and The Basque Country

@danderegil

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, Lorca! Thank you for sharing this info, as I was wondering what "Ederrena" meant. Do you have any idea what "Errezil" means? You've probably heard of this town, as it's located in Gipuzkoa in the great Basque Country. ¡Saludos!

@lorcatorres4868

4 жыл бұрын

@@danderegil Errezil, if translated literally means "easy to die" or "easy to kill", I have been doing some research and legend has it that when the ancient Romans tried to invade the village nearby (Azpeitia) the people from Errezil threw stones at them, and killed them pretty easily. This is not a confirmed take, but I love how most names in Basque have a meaning linked to their history.

@danderegil

4 жыл бұрын

@@lorcatorres4868 Wow, that is amazing! Thank you for sharing this. Indeed, as a matter of fact, I have heard this legend before from a guy that teaches Euskera here on YT. Thanks again, and may God bless you!

@dacejaunzeme4849

3 жыл бұрын

Lorca Torres thanks

@maialendch4001

Жыл бұрын

Lovely that you mentioned it, I'm basque and it is very preciated. However I have to correct something in you message, if you don't mind. Navarra is part of the Basque Country. I know it sometimes gets confusing, but the Basque Country includes Euskadi, Navarra (or Nafarroa in Basque) and the Basque France region in Southern France.

This would be the best answer to the chaos that the Universe is going through now. Getting out of consumerism and getting back to basics, to what really matters and is good for us and Mother Earth. Beautiful post. Thank you 🙏🏻

@ddriveddrive4986

4 жыл бұрын

You are so naive. If any quantity of people did this, we would return to the kind of starvation on a scale that we haven’t seen for more than 200 -250 years. Please be careful what your ideology has convinced you to wish for.

@indiracamotim2858

4 жыл бұрын

Ddrive Ddrive - thank you for your comment. I am curious as to why my wanting to go and live off-grid would cause such a commotion to the world ? As far as I am concerned., I said that I would love doing this and getting out of the rat race.

@titoMCish

4 жыл бұрын

You are free to do it.

@TheRedTrucks

4 жыл бұрын

Ddrive Ddrive 80 years ago everybody even the city had vegetable gardens. Your antithetical attitude towards education...are you perhaps American...amazing...get a passport

@MAXSOL69

4 жыл бұрын

😂 you say this while watching a documentary on a tables in the comfort of your bed.

It's just like when you're a small kid and find little places in the woods or abandoned houses and pretend it's your new home.. except they actually did.

@ddriveddrive4986

4 жыл бұрын

Meggles * yea it’s called being a squatter and they’re not children but grown adults. How this is of any virtue is absolutely shocking to me. Although I can see how it might peak the perversions of the disenfranchised, sadly.

@meggles2188

4 жыл бұрын

@@ddriveddrive4986 It was a joke...lighten up, man.

@ddriveddrive4986

4 жыл бұрын

Haroon Abdul Majeed nope, sucker for order and taking responsibility

@AlmightyDFA

3 жыл бұрын

@@ddriveddrive4986 do you ever make room for a balanced diet or is it just all boot

@ddriveddrive4986

3 жыл бұрын

tortugaconqueso its called coming from nothing and having everything and knowing what it takes bitch

What a beautiful way to live. Little village repaired and made livable again.

@oolformacha

6 жыл бұрын

WOW. It use to be a village. Now its a village. Amazing.

@rudolfkraffzick642

4 жыл бұрын

Livable again, yes. Not to forget, based on hard work, especially the first years. Pioneer work for younger people.

They're rich in many way, that place is paradise on earth.

@peetsnort

4 жыл бұрын

Probably zero covid 19

@cacique260

4 жыл бұрын

Especially nowadays 😬

Reminds me of the book "The Man Who Planted Trees" the trees grew back and the people returned. Kirsten, you are a wonderful storyteller, allowing the individuals to narrate their own trials and tribulations.

Having rebuilt an old Spanish mountain farmhouse with my wife over a period of twelve years, I am fascinated by this video - and full of admiration, knowing the work involved.

my girlfriends dad is the architect in charge of restoring an old French village in the gers (next to the Pyrenees and Spanish border). Same concept over there. Some Germans bought it to make it an eco friendly village. Very noble.

@epen1898

7 жыл бұрын

what is the name of that village?

@danielalmeida7126

7 жыл бұрын

they are renovating it but in reality it is a hamlet as there are like 10 houses. I can't remember the name exactly unfortunately.

@Nadyabb

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Almeida by any chance do you know the name of the eco friendly village close to Pyrenees you mentioned above? I am very interested in starting a community in the region, and would love go and meet others who have walked this path before, to learn from them. Thanks

@lofilatte7598

4 жыл бұрын

A Barca is an abandoned hamlet located in the municipality of Cortegada, Ourense, Galicia, Spain. It is located near the Minho River and the Portuguese border. It consists of twelve houses and measures around 15,000 square metres (18,000 sq yd).

@lofilatte7598

4 жыл бұрын

A Barca i think

Just to point out the name of the first house they describe here is not "Arena" as they say in the video but "Ederrena" which in basque means "the most beautiful".

@jaionealberdigabilondo6586

7 жыл бұрын

"Ederrena", ("the most beautiful" or "The Biggest", and in this case is more likely to be "The Biggest"

@ATH420

4 жыл бұрын

I am Basque and "Ederrena" means the prettiest, it has nothing to do wit the biggest which in Basque would be "Handiena". By the way I think that this Town is not located in the Basque Country have to look that

@ATH420

4 жыл бұрын

The town is located in Navarra, which nowadays thecnically is not part of the Basque Country (modern autonomous region of Spain, which we know in Basque as Euskadi), but it is part of the Basque Country (greater region, which we know in Basque as Euskal Herria), so yes it has Basque roots.

@baskoviceasic1117

4 жыл бұрын

@@ATH420 Sorry but ederra does not have a single meaning, in this context is clear that it means imposing, large, refering to the big size of the house. She says, "se habito ederrena, esta casa grande".

@ATH420

4 жыл бұрын

@@baskoviceasic1117 You dont have any idea. I am Basque and I know Euskera. Ederra means pretty and Ederrena means the prettiest....

I’d like to see an update to this story as it has been nine years already.

@joanfotli

4 жыл бұрын

the latest I know is that they got sued by energy companies for the use of renewables. Renewables were kind of illegal in Spain. I´m just not sure if it was them that got sued of another similar community. so trust me a 100%

@cosmicsprings8690

4 жыл бұрын

asaldanapr it’s totally amazing and unspoilt and is now a hippie holiday camp and you can enjoy the rustic charm at just at £150 per night..ps bring your own toilet rolls ✨🤔😮😲✨✨✨✨😂😂😂😂😂✨✨🌸🌼🌺✨🌞✨✨✨

@TheRedTrucks

4 жыл бұрын

joan masoliver Almost 40% of Spain’s electricity is from renewables. please stop

@lolal2502

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRedTrucks what does it mean - renewables?

@TheRedTrucks

4 жыл бұрын

Lola L girl STOP you have google, take some responsibility. Lol

These videos are fantastic. I don't know how you find these people, but they are truly inspired.

You're right. I had that in as a placeholder since my Euskara is non-existent and never checked to find out what it was. Thanks for pointing that out. It's a great name. Much better than "sand".

This is absolutely incredible. I know someone who bought ONE abandoned house in Galicia in North Spain as they are sold VERY cheaply and they are trying to get people to move back to these communities. Some are moving back now due to the financial crises in Spain as they can live off the land. He hired transmen and doesn't even speak the language and it has been a total money pit. He's spent £150,000 and it isn't anywhere near finished. These people have done it all themselves. Tradesmen charge even more out there as it is hard to get materials to the locations and the have to stay in hotels etc. So it could take a week's work for a team of guys just to get the stuff to tile a bathroom to the location. Then you need generators on site as no electricity and powerful lights to work. Then they need to hike in and out each day. I've spent a lot of time in Galicia living with a Galician family and I knew about many abandoned villages but this is the first time I finally got the answer as to why. They always said that "during hard times" in the 1960s people abandoned all these villages. It never made sense to me as if things are tough you want to be self-sufficient and living in the countryside. This woman finally explains that the fascist government pressured the people off their land and into the cities so they had a large powerful workforce to industrialized the nation. At the same time in the UK, we were bringing boatloads of people from Jamaica to fill our workforce. So these people were forced to give up their rural way of life and made to go work in factories under Franco.

Iowa is a no zone state. I have been researching many alternatives to moving off the grid and the communal, off grid, self sufficient lifestyle is legal here. No permits necessary. We are doing this now on my land and it is very fulfilling.

@jesuscarrillo3705

8 жыл бұрын

can I join you guys??

@hectorkeezy1499

7 жыл бұрын

Tim Hark Way to go Dude. 👍 I wish you all the luck in the World.

@yvonnemccullaghward361

6 жыл бұрын

Did you Jesus C

@samnikole1643

6 жыл бұрын

Tim Hark Wonderful to hear. May you make it out what you envisioned!

@DanielinLaTuna

6 жыл бұрын

Parts of Idaho and Texas are like that too. Is all of Iowa No-Zone?

@imanolUriaBlanco Thank you. I realized I'd made that mistake right after I posted. Well, I didn't know how to spell it exactly (Basque spellings are difficult for me) so I just put in my phonetic estimation in the subtitles and meant to ask for help, but never did. So thank you very much for finally pointing that out. And what a great translation. Gracias por la ayuda!

@KdubbG I would agree it's a waste to bulldoze perfectly good homes as one commenter put it, but I also stop short at those who would like to literally "occupy" the homes of others. I think it's important to critique our system and fix many things that are broken (banking regulation, our tax system, etc), but I also think we should protect basic individual freedoms (the right to own private property, etc). Perhaps that's an obvious distinction, but an important one to keep clear.

@AnyoneCanSee

3 жыл бұрын

This village seems to have been truly abandoned unless you are aware of the old owners asking for the land back? As you state there are thousands of abandoned villages and a way of life was destroyed when they were forced off their land by Franco to create a workforce to industrialized Spain in the 1950s. The government should sell these houses for 1€ to anyone that can prove they have the funds, time or skill to fix them up and then give them a timetable to begin and complete work. This would breathe life into abandoned communities and 100s of sustainable communities like this could be created and others could be used by people able to work from home or even for holiday homes. Spain has many unused homes but here in the UK there is a terrible shortage and many home and flats built for one and cut into studios for several families. In Edinburgh, where I live, they proposed a law forcing property owners either to live in a home, fix it up and rent out or sell it as we have tens of thousands of unused homes and tens of thousands of homeless or those wishing to buy and fix up a home. Land is finite and although ownership rights should be protected that doesn't allow the right to let a house fall down and land going unused. Abandoned homes mean abandoned communities and abandoned communities cannot get taxes for school and infrastructure for the few people that do live there. This is why you cannot just abandon a home and leave it to rot. Especially in the countryside where new builds are limited as they protect green spaces. The owners need to sell or give up the properties to be sold on to revive the villages destroyed by fascism.

I love this. Talk about breaking out of the Matrix.

It was a music loop from my editing library (part of the Apple program Garageband).

Respect to the people who built this eco-village instead of staying in a crowded city. 👍💚

It’s wonderful to see people restore such beautiful properties.

@LiliannahBudlidottir I'm glad you raised the question. Mauge actually was very clear to say that there is no room in their town for more inhabitants. Though they occasionally have visiting work parties/overnights, they have a waiting list for those who wish to move to Lakabe. There are other medieval towns turned ecovillages in Spain (we heard of a dozen or two) and I know there are others in Europe. You could try the "Global Ecovillage Network" under a google search and they list by country.

These people are rich beyond their wildest dreams. I would swop my life style for this any day of the week. Not sure my family would understand though. Brilliant just brilliant! :)

@SonicVisualGR

10 жыл бұрын

same thing is happening to me !

@indiracamotim2858

4 жыл бұрын

So true ! 🌹🌹

@anazumbalia

4 жыл бұрын

I agree!!

la casa Ederrena (que significa "la mas hermosa" en Euskera) ha sido subtitulada como "arena" en inglés.

@brolin96

7 жыл бұрын

Gracias por el dato. Yo había escuchado "aRRena". ¡Saludos!

That is a wonderful way of life. I wish it was a place that we as people able to create something like that here in America. I would love to live like that as a community where all members do their part to sustain the community.

In this village people can say "YES WE CAN" without being manipulative, hollow or fake.

@iconicon7354

5 жыл бұрын

The sublime power of the third eye-sixth sense and monastic, consecrated lifestyle are instrumental in the transcendental rebirth of human civilization.

I wish I saw this first before I left the US! I will move in in a New York second! I love everything about it! I was thinking of doing something like this in my country but with foreigners so that my people see it and hopefully start using these concepts for a better life instead of sleeping in boxes on the streets!

amazing and very eye opening :) thank you for all your efforts in recording and sharing with us.

OMG! I would love to live like that my living & giving would be quilting, sewing, crafting & etc. I would even help with the bakery & cooking, cleaning & gardening.

Wow... Absolutely perfect! This has been my vision for the last few years! Would love to live there even for a few weeks to get the experience! WOW!

Fantastic. This is what I have been craving, simply living. Clearing the mental cobwebs. TFS

@testradav

10 жыл бұрын

yeap; #1, no internet... :)

Thanks for posting and sharing. Nice to see this one again after some years. Third viewing. Still a wonderful project to get a chance to see.

the more I watch the video like this, the more I want to move to a country side....

id like to live there,that place would be beautiful in autumn.City life is stressing.

@larrysherk

7 жыл бұрын

You're right Karl. These eco-villages are showing us all how we have forgotten how to live. We are part of the Gaia ecosystem and will suffer when removed from it.

@beccalittlespace6331

6 жыл бұрын

Karl.S. Hilario I am in the process of creating an Eco village in Missouri. :) it’ll take some time but I’m getting there.

@samnikole1643

6 жыл бұрын

Karl.S. Hilario Life is what you made it! And only you can change it for the best or worse! Dont think too long, just do it. Go and see what you can do when you dont think about money and bills. A whole new life waits. Are you courageous enough to take the road to it?

@rubinakhan666

6 жыл бұрын

Larry Sherk the Gaia ecosystem as you mentioned is something I am reading for first time, can you please help me to understand it what exactly it is?

I love the part where she says, this lifestyle clears the psychological cobwebs, I agree the closer you live with nature the less mental problems we have

Inspiring! So many valuable lessons in this video...EVERYONE should watch this. This is what every city, town and neighborhood in America should be like: self-sufficient, communal, humble, intelligent, hardworking, and appreciative.

This is beautiful Kristin! One of your best. So authentic, real!

@nagaempress I would be careful about assuming that these towns can sustain too many people. Mauge was careful to point out to me that Lakabe (population 32) is full with a wait list because the surrounding land just can't sustain that many people. Urban environments often use less resources than rural ones because of the way urbanites share resources (walls, floors, heat, public transport, etc).

My sister lives there and everytime I visit her is like living a dream. The Irati forest on autumn is gorgeus.

Kirsten, you're a gift to KZread. You're contribution is immeasurable.

Totally understand their point of view. I love this type of living.

It looks like poverty but basics are meet the people own the ghost Town and have work very hard to make a community in wich they live down to earth and Mother Earth personally I love this kind of towns after all material things are not all loving their neighbors and helping each other give then peace of mind, congratulations god bless them all,

*We need more people like them.*

What a beautiful way to live! This is how I would like to spend my life.

Entiendo que hay un pequeño error en la traducción y que una de las casas se llama EDERRENA (que significa la más hermosa en vasco-euskera) y no ARENA.

Thank you so much for posting this!

Loved this! So energizing and inspiring!

If this village is truly all that the speaker claims it to be it is a beautiful example of how collectives do not negate but rather they empower individual freedoms.

@wolfy1987

6 жыл бұрын

Collectives are a beautiful thing when not forced on people by a central government. Here in the US the Amish have been living in collectives for 300 years

@iconicon7354

5 жыл бұрын

@@wolfy1987 Pseudo-gov't serves the puppet master and its role is the negation of liberty and its sole purpose is to perpetuate the plutocracy. Anarchy precedes natural human evolution.

@henrikpetersson3463

4 жыл бұрын

@art cafe That's why it's a good idea to keep them small but large enough to be self sustainable.

Kirsten, you have a wonderful channel, full of wonderful people!

These people make me feel we can strive all this craziness that is going on now. Thank you for this great video!

It's an amazing life to be living in a secluded place away from Cities and towns. but this family survive by using the available materials that made them live a sustainable life.

There is much for me to ponder in this video, whether I stay in a rural community or relocate to a dying urban center... One--community, community, community. Two, flexibility. Three, willingness to try. Four learning from mistakes and successes... I have a lot to learn and can learn from this video. Saludos.

Thank you 🌱🌼❤️ I wish you love peace joy and happiness!

This video has inspired me so much. Thanks for sharing.

I hope you'll do more on different ecovillages. I've become really interested in them, and I love the way your videos are educational while giving an 'inside tour' element to them.. If that makes sense ;)

humbling and inspiring. Thank you.

Muchas gracias por vuestra gran dedicación.

I love history and ruins. this is great.:D

Thank you Kirsten!!!!

Waw me he quedado con el ojo 👀 cuadrado !😍😘🥰👍🏽🤍💖🖤🤍💖🖤Brutal increíble 😉 Hermoso 🌹🌹🌹🌟🌟🌟

thank you Kirsten i love this

what an inspiring story...thanks so much for posting

These are my kind of people. I hope to achieve what they have soon. I don't mind hard work and labour at all. And I want a serene life, such as this.

Really lovely. The absence of people in the shots, together with the spooky guitar music make it feel as if it is still a ghost town!

Gracias para compartir! ❤️

Thank you For the video. Very positive to see people living self sufficient without the need of money.

thank you this was beautiful.

Very inspirational one of my favourite videos iv seen on your channel though they're all good!

A real inspiration. Like Marinaleda, also in Spain, it shows what can be done. Mental Cobwebs. I think we all have a few of them. Well done folks. Actions speak louder than words, my dad always said. How true.

@Darknight73457

6 жыл бұрын

marinaleda is a comunist micro dictatorship.

@alvarogarcia1062

4 жыл бұрын

Marina leda it's not the same. Marina leda it's a little communist village whit a major very dictador.

@GerardC75

4 жыл бұрын

Marinaleda is a shithole that receives a lot of state money. 85% Of Marinaleda's budget is taxpayers money, fucking SCAM

@alvarogarcia1062

4 жыл бұрын

@@GerardC75 Very very good information. OK.

@thesapphirem5469

4 жыл бұрын

Marinaleda is just CORRUPTION and poverty.,

Enhorabuena! Excelente presentcaion!

Since some of you have asked about eco-communities... someone just posted to our new faircompanies "forum" section that they are starting a sustainable living community east of Phoenix, Arizona and they are interviewing people to join. You can find more on it here: faircompanies . com/forum

You had the vision been a load of hard work ive no doubt, yet its come good living how you wish to , i congratulate you all on your ingenuity and skill.

Thank you Kirsten for making so many videos in so many places. I love your European videos most, but IIRC you've been from Lisbon to BCN and Paris, as well in small villages of northern Italy and now Nafarroa. Having lived in Madrid and on a Portuguese beach, it's fun to see places I recognize. Perhaps you'll find something in Holland or my native Belgium, or Morocco or Vietnam soon.

Really inspiring, thank you for sharing.

Autenticamente maravilloso, te llega al alma, felicitaciones es increible. Pilar Velasco.

Hello Tony. I have good friends, very nice people in the south of Spain. I will pass your message to them. Good luck with all your endeavors ;) Cheers from Slovenia, Anita

WOW! amazed. thanks for posting!!!!!

Inspiring. Beautiful. Uplifting.

Great story . Thank you for sharing .

Very interesting video and way of life, by the way. Thanks Kirsten!

Thanks for this wonderful video! :)

Grandioso que video mas hermoso!

Da gusto escucharte. Eres una buena comunicadora. Mucha VIDA para vuestra comunidad ! Vais a ser EL FARO, y enseñar a muchas personas, que todavía estamos en el sistema urbanita, en los próximos años.

iiiiiii want to come live here. very, very much. it looks extremely beautiful!

Las utopias son posibles. Se puede empezar de nuevo. Felicitaciones a todos los valientes. Gracias por ser fuente de fuerza y energía.

Gracias 🌱🌼❤️!

La ecoaldea de mi infancia. Fui allí a vivir con mis padres con 2 meses de edad. Nos fuimos cuando yo tenía 5 años. Es una aldea hermosa como de cuento de hadas. Y la gente, muy especial.

Wow, just amazing ! :)

Excellent use of the village. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for posting this! There's one thing I'm not clear on: the guide talks about the importance of preserving/encouraging native vegetation but also seems to emphasize the importance of non-native flora. Can you please clarify? .......... This video makes me feel hopeful.

Que hermoso felicidades, y que genial tour guiado muy coherente en todo lo que dice y explica

@mozdickson

9 жыл бұрын

Javier Ivan Luminus concordo - boa sorte gente!

I liked this. I liked when she said that they became a good at roof building that other places called/hired them to do it. That must have been a great feeling.

This is so beautiful

This is what I want in my life. Thank you

Muy linda experiencia ¡ bravo.

Mauricio Schwarz, es cierto que el discurso ecologista contradictorio que comentas es bastante recurrente por gente que simplemente se lanza a la moda de lo "verde", pero en este caso, en ningún momento dan a entender que desprecien, como tu dices, las ventajas del mundo tecnológico. Simplemente es un grupo de gente que aprovechó lakabe para vivir una vida menos alienada de los procesos de producción y más sana y acorde con principios ecológicos. Me parece una iniciativa estupenda, ojalá la iniciativa viniera por parte de la administración pública.

@trecemundos

10 жыл бұрын

Hay que organizarse mejor para algo global, comprueba la propuesta y el plan de "The Venus Project", es muy interesante ;)

@fredidom

10 жыл бұрын

estoy contigo "geryo88", en el vídeo se escucha que incluso que tienen cerdos, gallinas, tecnología, a mi los verdes recalcitrantes no me van.... pero puede verse en este caso que hay otros pensamientos + abiertos.... La idea es maravillosa, sobre todo para personas que quieren intentar otra cosa en la vida, que no sea la recetita del sistema..... ¡¡¡Parabién!!!

@lmk10000

5 жыл бұрын

A mí me parece admirable. Incluso se dieron cuenta que la vida totalmente vegetariana no es algo natural, sino que en el campo debes criar animales y que todo forma parte de un ciclo. Están recuperando los saberes ancestrales por la experiencia. Un gran aprendizaje y digno de admirar.

@simenabc277

4 жыл бұрын

@@lmk10000 yo creo que el problema del consumo animal, ya sea alimentación u otra forma de explotación es que en la sociedad actual hay un sobre consumo. Criamos animales en muy malas condiciones para luego tirar a la basura gran parte de esa carne, no respetamos la vida animal, producimos sin pensar que al final del día son vidas, no respetamos especies en extinción, no respetamos que esos animales para el consumo puedan tener un mínimo de dignidad. Por lo menos yo no veo el problema del consumo en estilos de vida más primitivos. Sino en la sociedad actual de consumir y producir sin objetivo, sin pensar las consecuencias del exceso

@lmk10000

4 жыл бұрын

@@simenabc277 me parece acertada tu opinión. Ahora bien, no todos los mataderos son lugares espantosos y crueles. Y también creo que debemos diversificar el consumo de especies animales para no criar intensivamente unas pocas especies en desmedro de muchas más que pueden proveer las mismas proteínas y alimento.

Gosh, this is really inspiring :))))

Hola! This is a very beautiful village. I think you guys do exactly what my heart aims towards! I wish you all the best! Muy belo! Un abrazo, :)

Truly inspiring!

Fantastic well done bravo xxx live the dream , enjoy your hard hard work , perfection x