For this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World Podcast (sense-making.buzzsprout.com, I am in Lammas Ecovillage, Wales with the founder, Tao Wimbush. I loved visiting this community and was so warmly welcomed by Tao. I hope you enjoy this conversation - full of so many practical tips for one planet living.
Lammas is an off-grid permaculture village with a community of 50 adults and many children, with interesting natural homes and is the first One Planet Development Ecovillage (www.oneplanetcouncil.org.uk/) in the UK. Tao tells me how it is possible to buy land and build a home like his for around 20,000 UK Pounds. That's incredible! There is a lot of potential for young people to create land-based communities like Lammas in the Welsh countryside very affordably. We tour his house - it's beautiful and hand-crafted from local resources.
Tao and I talk about the ideas behind One planet Development, how the village works and why people come there. He helps others make a shift to this way of life through education and consulting and is an expert in One Planet Development.
Tao is the author of 'Birth of an Ecovillage' and presented an internet TV series 'Living in the Future'. His background is in architecture and carpentry, and he's lived in a wide range of alternative communities, and dwelled in tipis, yurts and roundhouses.
I recorded this conversation pre-covid when I was in Wales last year, and will release the extended version with tours of the landscape and common spaces soon.
Lammas (lammas.org.uk) was featured on Kevin McLeod's Grand Designs.
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I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live, play and work - the Gubbi Gubbi people - and pay my respects to their elders past present and emerging.
Thank you to Rhiannon Gamble for sound editing and Kim Kirkman for the music.