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[metal rattling]

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[squeak]

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[soft music]

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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 would describe as peasants.

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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 pack down for the winter.

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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 means
new peasantry

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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 privilege that we have to choose

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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 back
if it's just brewed.

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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 bit of honey in there.

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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
and we started watching

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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 I was being so repulsed by

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in my own culture of birth,

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I started to see people acting
in different ways

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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 I could earn lots of money.

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One of my big motivations

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that was propelling me away
from the values of the culture

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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 told
was the right way to live.

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

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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 parents,
of the culture at large,

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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
years were actually quite difficult,

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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 came together
-[calm music]

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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 the west wind, Zephyrus.

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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 a zephyr this morning."

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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 one,
I would take him down

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into the forest
and into that sedge swamplands

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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
out of stone in the forest

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

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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 need a misting event to happen,

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

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to constantly mist as you're…

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-[slow flowing]
-as you're throwing material in.

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

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

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

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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
inputs as possible,

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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 all because it doesn't work.

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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 our centralized systems.

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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,
doesn't feel resilient to me.

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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
of those centralized systems.

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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 were turning away from,

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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 somebody would decide

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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
in the industrialism-ness

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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

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[laughs]

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

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And I came home
from school that day and said,

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"I am never eating meat again."

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-[calm music]
-[birds chirping]

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When I was 30,

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I decided that I wanted
to start eating meat again.

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So I did a short course,

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it was called
Kill and Dress Small Livestock,

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

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and all of us were crying at the end.

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It was really emotional
but incredibly empowering

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and it taught me
that you can eat an animal

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

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

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that you can do it in an honoring way.

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

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This feels like a really important process

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that I want to do myself.

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I want to live an accountable life

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and for me that means
taking personal responsibility

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for all of the actions that I take.

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[Indistinct words of prayer]

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[Meg] We eat roadkill,

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we take the lives of our own animals

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and these are animals
that we name and that we tend

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and that we help birth and that we…

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We love these animals.

00:17:44.780 --> 00:17:49.689
They're a big part of our family dynamic
and our family system.

00:17:50.356 --> 00:17:53.370
I just feel like I'm channeling

00:17:54.490 --> 00:17:57.744
my foremothers. Feel very connected.

00:17:59.161 --> 00:18:01.876
Yeah, just to my peasant ancestors

00:18:03.434 --> 00:18:05.420
[tender music]

00:18:08.462 --> 00:18:12.634
[Patrick] We're saying this level
of violence at this scale

00:18:13.175 --> 00:18:16.560
is an ordinary part of ecological life

00:18:17.522 --> 00:18:22.842
and we wanna say no to the systemic,
manmade mass death

00:18:23.642 --> 00:18:24.663
of the food system,

00:18:24.746 --> 00:18:27.321
whether you be a vegan,
vegetarian, or omnivore.

00:18:28.471 --> 00:18:29.477
[rattling]

00:18:33.020 --> 00:18:34.020
[crackling]

00:18:34.647 --> 00:18:35.713
[rattle]

00:18:40.445 --> 00:18:41.497
[crackling of fire]

00:18:43.718 --> 00:18:44.932
[tender music continues]

00:18:46.498 --> 00:18:47.818
[soft murmuring]

00:19:06.340 --> 00:19:07.686
-[gunshot]
-[rattle]

00:19:16.709 --> 00:19:17.722
[gunshot]

00:19:19.356 --> 00:19:20.362
[Patrick sighs]

00:19:21.835 --> 00:19:23.052
Thank you little rabbit.

00:19:25.258 --> 00:19:27.710
[sighs] Thank you for your life.

00:19:42.030 --> 00:19:43.264
[birds chirping]

00:19:46.250 --> 00:19:47.256
[thud]

00:19:49.174 --> 00:19:52.733
[indistinct murmuring]

00:19:57.029 --> 00:19:58.156
Acorn beer.

00:19:59.225 --> 00:20:03.745
Remember the acorn
and feijoa cake recipe?

00:20:06.751 --> 00:20:08.946
-Yeah.
-[Meg] I also got so many flowers

00:20:09.029 --> 00:20:10.615
coming on a whole lot from…

00:20:11.627 --> 00:20:14.919
I know the acorn… the feijoa flowers.

00:20:21.555 --> 00:20:24.121
-[engine in the distance]
-[birds chirping]

00:20:25.566 --> 00:20:28.027
[Patrick] Both Meg and I,
we're really just watching

00:20:28.110 --> 00:20:31.790
and observing how kids, through play,

00:20:31.873 --> 00:20:36.427
like human mammalian play,
is just loaded with creativity

00:20:36.510 --> 00:20:38.506
and that's, that's how we learn.

00:20:39.483 --> 00:20:43.900
This is Zephyr's and my dad's drawing

00:20:44.070 --> 00:20:46.252
and we're gonna rub this out

00:20:46.335 --> 00:20:48.670
and then we're gonna do another drawing.

00:20:49.166 --> 00:20:50.958
[squeaking]

00:20:53.410 --> 00:20:55.210
[Zeph] Can we put some music to this?

00:20:55.959 --> 00:20:57.882
[high-tempo music]

00:20:57.965 --> 00:21:01.158
[Patrick] He was born
with one ear that wasn't formed,

00:21:01.241 --> 00:21:03.119
one ear that was closed over.

00:21:03.202 --> 00:21:06.506
Often kids that have hearing deficits

00:21:07.683 --> 00:21:08.684
mask that.

00:21:08.767 --> 00:21:10.007
They don't want anyone to know

00:21:10.090 --> 00:21:12.887
that they've got
a hearing disability at all.

00:21:12.970 --> 00:21:18.319
So they act in ways that
make sure that people forget that.

00:21:18.492 --> 00:21:19.498
[rattle]

00:21:20.321 --> 00:21:22.640
Because of his physical prowess

00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:25.997
and his incredible athleticism,
he would be the kid

00:21:26.080 --> 00:21:28.917
that was scaling the 40 foot tree

00:21:28.997 --> 00:21:30.003
[upbeat music]

00:21:30.749 --> 00:21:34.540
running across the roof
of some three-storey building.

00:21:36.617 --> 00:21:37.677
[upbeat music continues]

00:21:38.777 --> 00:21:40.634
[screams]

00:21:40.717 --> 00:21:42.966
[Meg] He was always hurting himself.

00:21:43.052 --> 00:21:45.677
You know, if there's a dam there
and it's a party,

00:21:45.760 --> 00:21:47.537
he was always the kid
to fall in the water.

00:21:47.620 --> 00:21:50.357
So wherever we went,
I had to take first aid kit

00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:52.445
and change of clothes.

00:21:53.462 --> 00:21:54.526
[loud steps]

00:21:55.706 --> 00:21:57.519
[rustle]

00:22:02.334 --> 00:22:03.621
[music fades]

00:22:04.030 --> 00:22:07.785
[Patrick] So here's a lively active,
a very physical kid.

00:22:08.536 --> 00:22:10.824
Hi cousins, I love you very much.

00:22:10.907 --> 00:22:16.048
I play... I play Auskick
and soccer and I do rugby.

00:22:16.128 --> 00:22:17.128
Thank you.

00:22:18.422 --> 00:22:20.439
[Meg] Zephyr was three when I came along

00:22:20.523 --> 00:22:24.408
and every step of the way
of being a stepmom

00:22:24.491 --> 00:22:25.917
I struggled with,

00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:28.037
is this the right thing to do?

00:22:28.120 --> 00:22:30.377
If Zephyr's mom was here,
what would she say?

00:22:30.460 --> 00:22:32.449
Am I being a wicked stepmother?

00:22:33.102 --> 00:22:36.689
When I was telling him off,
I really was so unsure of myself

00:22:36.772 --> 00:22:38.065
the whole time.

00:22:38.148 --> 00:22:40.697
And as soon as I became
pregnant with Woody

00:22:40.780 --> 00:22:43.208
and definitely when he was born,

00:22:43.291 --> 00:22:45.531
-this knowing came into me.
-[calm music]

00:22:45.614 --> 00:22:48.312
-[soft tender music]
-It's like I know exactly what to do here

00:22:48.742 --> 00:22:52.413
and I have followed that strong thread.

00:22:56.083 --> 00:22:57.292
When you grow up,

00:22:57.375 --> 00:22:59.588
are you gonna kick a football with me?

00:23:01.338 --> 00:23:02.423
Yes? Okay.

00:23:02.506 --> 00:23:05.343
-[Patrick] I think that was a yes.
-[Zeph] Deal. Deal.

00:23:05.426 --> 00:23:07.220
[Meg] That strong knowing said,

00:23:07.303 --> 00:23:08.974
"Don't send him to school.

00:23:09.054 --> 00:23:12.096
What you are doing here is important."

00:23:15.509 --> 00:23:16.522
[thud]

00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:20.296
Yes, he can learn to read and write,

00:23:20.379 --> 00:23:23.187
but ecological literacy
needs to come first.

00:23:23.270 --> 00:23:26.125
And because I was brought up
in the suburbs

00:23:26.208 --> 00:23:30.827
in a very loving home,
but very nature disconnected,

00:23:30.910 --> 00:23:33.415
-[splashing]
-I knew that I didn't want that for him.

00:23:35.331 --> 00:23:36.498
[calm music]

00:23:44.856 --> 00:23:48.537
[Patrick] Woody learns through a path

00:23:48.620 --> 00:23:52.370
of his own inquiry, his own curiosity.

00:23:53.610 --> 00:23:55.297
[loud buzzing]

00:23:56.185 --> 00:23:58.647
This is a big piece
of spotted gum that I've got

00:23:59.355 --> 00:24:01.441
that a friend gave to me

00:24:01.524 --> 00:24:03.717
and I've already got one
chopping board out of it,

00:24:03.800 --> 00:24:05.517
but I should get another three.

00:24:05.600 --> 00:24:07.328
So it's a really nice wood there.

00:24:07.942 --> 00:24:10.662
[buzzing]

00:24:12.660 --> 00:24:14.705
[Patrick] We've learned
a lot through Zeph.

00:24:15.512 --> 00:24:19.408
Admittedly Zeph
was in a school environment

00:24:19.491 --> 00:24:20.750
and peers

00:24:22.586 --> 00:24:24.923
were, you know, replace parents

00:24:25.006 --> 00:24:30.357
and peers are manipulated by big systems,

00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:31.842
particularly industries.

00:24:34.682 --> 00:24:38.146
Whereas with Woody being
fully community schooled,

00:24:38.229 --> 00:24:40.024
unschooled, home schooled,

00:24:40.104 --> 00:24:41.814
combination of all those things,

00:24:41.897 --> 00:24:47.209
it's this dance between
not being too warrior-like

00:24:47.736 --> 00:24:50.365
while also in context

00:24:50.450 --> 00:24:53.307
allowing him to understand
the dominant culture

00:24:53.409 --> 00:24:54.994
that he's also born into.

00:24:55.077 --> 00:24:57.283
Flood. Spade.

00:24:57.396 --> 00:24:58.656
[Meg] If I saw kids,

00:24:58.736 --> 00:25:01.879
high school kids for example,
thriving and helping,

00:25:01.959 --> 00:25:05.295
healthy and happy
and like in their own sovereignty,

00:25:05.378 --> 00:25:08.510
then I would say, "Wow,
I want Woody to be part of that."

00:25:08.590 --> 00:25:10.009
But that's not what I'm seeing.

00:25:10.092 --> 00:25:14.667
I'm seeing a lot of kids looking
like this a lot of the time and…

00:25:14.763 --> 00:25:17.058
-A lot of anxiety.
-…depressed, anxiety.

00:25:17.141 --> 00:25:20.056
It's not an environment that promotes

00:25:20.139 --> 00:25:22.141
thriving of our young people

00:25:22.222 --> 00:25:23.248
[snap]

00:25:23.329 --> 00:25:24.545
-See you, Woods.
-Bye.

00:25:24.625 --> 00:25:25.682
[rattling]

00:25:30.346 --> 00:25:32.044
[calm music]

00:25:37.995 --> 00:25:39.413
[Patrick] And that happened before.

00:25:40.456 --> 00:25:45.584
My hopes for Woody when he's older
are none of my business.

00:25:47.212 --> 00:25:51.722
He is free to do what he wants
and to be who he wants.

00:25:51.805 --> 00:25:54.891
And that feels really
important for me to know that.

00:25:54.974 --> 00:26:00.680
And I believe it in my guts,
like the whole of me believes that.

00:26:01.812 --> 00:26:03.199
[rustling]

00:26:05.892 --> 00:26:06.964
[rattling]

00:26:07.045 --> 00:26:11.657
I would like him to have inner resources

00:26:11.737 --> 00:26:14.657
where he can cope
with whatever comes his way.

00:26:14.740 --> 00:26:18.950
So I would like him
to trust his own intuition,

00:26:19.953 --> 00:26:23.754
to work out in his own way
what his gifts are

00:26:23.837 --> 00:26:26.150
that he can then give back to the world.

00:26:27.211 --> 00:26:29.032
Forty. Exactly.

00:26:29.115 --> 00:26:30.157
That was a good guess.

00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:31.631
There's exactly 40.

00:26:33.383 --> 00:26:36.678
Whatever future he's going to inherit,

00:26:36.761 --> 00:26:39.890
I want him to be able to find

00:26:40.516 --> 00:26:43.478
a good balance of being appalled

00:26:43.561 --> 00:26:48.337
and being in love with what,
with whatever comes.

00:26:48.420 --> 00:26:52.196
Because we can focus
on the brokenness of the world

00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:55.772
and it can break us as well

00:26:55.855 --> 00:27:00.173
or we can notice it and be appalled

00:27:00.256 --> 00:27:03.497
and notice the beauty
and have that in balance.

00:27:03.580 --> 00:27:05.597
Have a look at that grain.

00:27:06.333 --> 00:27:07.750
Such beautiful wood.

00:27:12.589 --> 00:27:14.176
-[calm music fades]
-[birds chirping]

00:27:31.752 --> 00:27:35.760
So these are parasol mushrooms
and they're really good eating.

00:27:36.572 --> 00:27:39.908
They're often found in eucalyptus forest.

00:27:40.590 --> 00:27:42.277
So that's the umbo there.

00:27:42.360 --> 00:27:46.624
And then these little lines here

00:27:46.707 --> 00:27:49.867
in the mushroom are the gills
and the spores are in the gills

00:27:49.950 --> 00:27:52.675
and then they fall down
onto the forest floor

00:27:52.758 --> 00:27:55.297
when you put them like
that in your basket.

00:28:02.182 --> 00:28:03.329
[rustling]

00:28:09.228 --> 00:28:10.607
Now these are saffron milk caps.

00:28:11.154 --> 00:28:13.091
Can do that,

00:28:13.567 --> 00:28:17.238
and no other mushroom
that look like this, do that.

00:28:17.721 --> 00:28:19.886
See that orange on your finger?

00:28:19.969 --> 00:28:21.690
That means it's a saffron milk cap.

00:28:24.244 --> 00:28:25.497
[rustling]

00:28:33.837 --> 00:28:38.175
I feel like in the future
I'll be pretty set, my skills

00:28:38.258 --> 00:28:42.397
and I can teach like
a lot of my friends all that stuff too.

00:28:46.109 --> 00:28:47.256
[rustling]

00:28:52.005 --> 00:28:53.732
[birds chirping]

00:28:58.911 --> 00:29:00.303
[quacks]

00:29:03.201 --> 00:29:04.617
[clucking]

00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:12.186
[motor humming]

00:29:21.718 --> 00:29:23.011
Thank you, girls.

00:29:27.287 --> 00:29:29.007
[birds chirping]

00:29:31.341 --> 00:29:32.487
[Meg mumbling]

00:29:32.854 --> 00:29:36.417
[Meg] So we have a volunteer program,
it's called SWAPS

00:29:36.500 --> 00:29:40.342
and that stands for Social Warming
Artists and Permaculturists.

00:29:40.821 --> 00:29:42.140
It's an immersive experience.

00:29:42.220 --> 00:29:44.537
They really become part of our household

00:29:44.620 --> 00:29:47.869
and get a taste of what
our daily rhythms are like.

00:29:49.871 --> 00:29:52.246
I really love to have the volunteers

00:29:52.332 --> 00:29:56.174
it's a really special part
of what has built this place.

00:29:56.257 --> 00:29:59.067
And as we always say
to the volunteers who come,

00:29:59.150 --> 00:30:02.504
you know they're eating
the preserves and the ferments

00:30:02.587 --> 00:30:04.854
and they're warming
themselves with the wood

00:30:04.937 --> 00:30:06.847
that the previous volunteers
helped to get.

00:30:06.930 --> 00:30:09.893
So it's like a pay it forward
to the next lot of volunteers.

00:30:11.430 --> 00:30:12.470
-[snap]
-[rattle]

00:30:12.769 --> 00:30:14.271
[Woody speaking in the distance]

00:30:14.354 --> 00:30:15.751
Yeah, really well.

00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:18.352
Yep. [sighs]

00:30:20.259 --> 00:30:21.285
[sighs]

00:30:21.445 --> 00:30:25.616
Twenty minutes of sweating a day
keeps the doctor away.

00:30:26.156 --> 00:30:27.161
[thud]

00:30:27.242 --> 00:30:29.475
My health ambition.

00:30:29.556 --> 00:30:30.607
[Woody sighs]

00:30:30.688 --> 00:30:31.894
I want to die chopping wood,

00:30:32.622 --> 00:30:35.558
in my nineties, preferably. [laughs]

00:30:37.985 --> 00:30:39.297
What about your hundreds?

00:30:39.725 --> 00:30:41.214
Oh yeah, I'd take that.

00:30:41.297 --> 00:30:43.245
As long as I'm chopping wood,
I don't care.

00:30:45.772 --> 00:30:48.186
[loud buzzing]

00:30:52.814 --> 00:30:53.834
[buzzing stops]

00:30:57.921 --> 00:30:58.933
[thud]

00:30:59.014 --> 00:31:01.819
[Patrick] Layer by layer,
season by season, year by year,

00:31:01.902 --> 00:31:04.180
gleaning the necessary skills,

00:31:05.141 --> 00:31:07.271
building the necessary relationships

00:31:07.563 --> 00:31:08.582
[crack]

00:31:08.663 --> 00:31:10.288
and also having a lot of fun.

00:31:10.371 --> 00:31:13.747
So moving from anger
and defiance and warriorness

00:31:13.830 --> 00:31:19.190
to play and fun
and a big fuck you to the system.

00:31:19.273 --> 00:31:21.490
As we're starting to find our confidence.

00:31:26.222 --> 00:31:28.502
When I'm going for a walk in the forest,

00:31:28.585 --> 00:31:30.880
I'll bring back some kindling

00:31:31.723 --> 00:31:35.747
and it makes sense that we
get most of our wood from this forest

00:31:35.830 --> 00:31:38.924
because it's so close to our home.

00:31:39.007 --> 00:31:43.402
And we with many others
that who live around here

00:31:43.485 --> 00:31:45.242
are stewards of this forest.

00:31:46.363 --> 00:31:49.523
We're in relationship with this forest

00:31:49.606 --> 00:31:55.346
so we understand what's
happening seasonally, ecologically.

00:31:55.883 --> 00:31:57.048
And...

00:31:57.785 --> 00:31:59.634
we love being in this forest.

00:31:59.717 --> 00:32:02.932
We love this forest, we tend this forest

00:32:03.015 --> 00:32:07.291
and we want this forest to flourish

00:32:07.511 --> 00:32:08.792
as we flourish.

00:32:10.097 --> 00:32:11.496
[rattling and rustling]

00:32:12.682 --> 00:32:13.805
[bleat]

00:32:15.600 --> 00:32:16.642
[Patrick] Hey Eric.

00:32:17.477 --> 00:32:18.530
[Woody] Hi sheep.

00:32:19.490 --> 00:32:20.503
[rattling]

00:32:24.186 --> 00:32:25.186
[thud]

00:32:30.655 --> 00:32:31.660
[crack]

00:32:31.741 --> 00:32:33.659
[Patrick] That should keep us
going for a while.

00:32:34.536 --> 00:32:36.832
We basically
don't have electricity bills.

00:32:37.474 --> 00:32:40.020
The key to it is our firewood.

00:32:44.671 --> 00:32:46.463
The heart of our home.

00:32:47.231 --> 00:32:51.352
So this is our stove top, it is our oven.

00:32:51.435 --> 00:32:54.591
It heats our house,
it heats our hot water.

00:32:54.674 --> 00:32:58.430
It is our dehydrator, toaster, kettle,

00:32:59.229 --> 00:33:00.674
and our clothes dryer.

00:33:01.438 --> 00:33:03.648
And we also like to say it's our TV,

00:33:04.149 --> 00:33:07.131
so we just sit and watch the logs burn.

00:33:08.417 --> 00:33:10.431
[calm music]

00:33:14.692 --> 00:33:17.212
[Meg and Patrick chatting]

00:33:20.664 --> 00:33:22.390
[slow violin music]

00:33:25.730 --> 00:33:27.137
[indistinct chatter]

00:33:39.144 --> 00:33:41.144
[chirping and creaking]

00:33:47.231 --> 00:33:48.491
[music fades into the rain]

00:34:14.344 --> 00:34:16.300
[calm music]

00:34:18.640 --> 00:34:22.561
This little building is a building

00:34:22.644 --> 00:34:26.390
Zeph and James,
a volunteer here, built.

00:34:27.274 --> 00:34:31.530
Made almost entirely
from recycled materials.

00:34:34.656 --> 00:34:36.777
At the time of building the kumquat,

00:34:37.165 --> 00:34:40.045
there was a major exhibition of Banksy,

00:34:40.130 --> 00:34:42.664
the graffiti artist,
that came to Melbourne.

00:34:43.331 --> 00:34:45.792
Zeph was sort of struggling between, like,

00:34:45.875 --> 00:34:48.200
on the one hand this is illegal

00:34:48.283 --> 00:34:50.517
and risky and he was excited by graffiti,

00:34:50.600 --> 00:34:54.092
but on the other hand he,
it's been culturally celebrated.

00:34:54.586 --> 00:34:57.627
I said, "Well, why don't you do
the history of graffiti

00:34:57.710 --> 00:34:59.487
as a homeschool project?

00:34:59.570 --> 00:35:01.542
Why don't you really go into that?"

00:35:02.350 --> 00:35:03.369
And he did.

00:35:03.450 --> 00:35:06.977
And that was quite a beautiful time.

00:35:10.066 --> 00:35:13.947
He was doing that project
as more a formal education

00:35:14.030 --> 00:35:17.083
or a research-based project,

00:35:17.166 --> 00:35:18.700
but more and more going out

00:35:18.783 --> 00:35:21.627
and then practicing
his own graffiti in the town.

00:35:21.710 --> 00:35:23.276
So much so that one night

00:35:23.359 --> 00:35:25.738
he completely bombed the town

00:35:25.819 --> 00:35:28.340
with like 30 huge pieces.

00:35:28.421 --> 00:35:29.610
[spray paint hissing]

00:35:29.690 --> 00:35:32.367
He was caught

00:35:32.450 --> 00:35:35.913
and ended up in the local police station.

00:35:35.994 --> 00:35:37.338
-[police sirens]
-[latch clicking]

00:35:37.419 --> 00:35:40.591
I was trying to guide him on this careful,

00:35:40.674 --> 00:35:45.447
nuanced path of contributing culturally

00:35:45.852 --> 00:35:50.394
as a graffiti-ist or a stencil artist

00:35:50.899 --> 00:35:55.822
and you know,
the problems of offensive destruction

00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:57.900
to other people's things.

00:35:59.032 --> 00:36:01.839
So after six months
of community schooling,

00:36:01.922 --> 00:36:05.527
he started to talk about
going back to school

00:36:05.622 --> 00:36:07.541
and to go to the local high school.

00:36:07.624 --> 00:36:09.131
Onto ah… to brighter things.

00:36:09.214 --> 00:36:11.437
If your idea of a holiday
is packing up the kids

00:36:11.520 --> 00:36:14.587
and heading to the beach,
then you need to meet this next family.

00:36:14.670 --> 00:36:18.167
They have taken the idea of a road trip
to a whole new level,

00:36:18.250 --> 00:36:19.718
spending more than a year traveling

00:36:19.799 --> 00:36:22.338
up and down
Australia's east coast by bike.

00:36:22.421 --> 00:36:23.521
But that's not all.

00:36:23.604 --> 00:36:26.852
The family also ate
for free along the way,

00:36:26.935 --> 00:36:31.560
foraging for wild food
and even cooking up road kill.

00:36:32.357 --> 00:36:36.415
Some parents got to know
that this kid Zephyr

00:36:36.498 --> 00:36:38.302
with this unusual name.

00:36:38.385 --> 00:36:41.407
Oh that sounds
like that family from Daylesford.

00:36:41.490 --> 00:36:45.062
So he became quickly known
as that dirty hippie

00:36:45.145 --> 00:36:47.141
that eats roadkill, from Daylesford.

00:36:47.831 --> 00:36:51.545
He started his high school years
with that story

00:36:51.630 --> 00:36:53.167
and couldn't throw it off.

00:36:56.305 --> 00:36:57.925
[birds chirping]

00:37:03.035 --> 00:37:04.214
[loud crack]

00:37:06.208 --> 00:37:07.894
-[both sigh]
-[crack]

00:37:08.235 --> 00:37:09.248
[Patrick grunts]

00:37:12.815 --> 00:37:14.548
[buzzing]

00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:20.591
-[birds chirping]
-[squeaking]

00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:30.292
[clatter]

00:37:30.373 --> 00:37:34.723
[Meg] We are now mostly not living
in the monetary economy,

00:37:34.806 --> 00:37:37.057
but we still have rates to pay.

00:37:37.140 --> 00:37:40.717
We still have some bills,
we still buy in some food

00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:42.620
and you know, secondhand clothes.

00:37:42.703 --> 00:37:46.381
So we, we have very low
overheads and low costs,

00:37:46.464 --> 00:37:49.980
but we still do participate
in the monetary economy.

00:37:50.063 --> 00:37:54.392
So I work two days a week
for David Holmgren and Su Dennett.

00:37:54.475 --> 00:37:57.137
So David is the co-originator
of Permaculture

00:37:57.220 --> 00:37:59.370
and I work in David's office.

00:37:59.836 --> 00:38:01.103
[calm violin music]

00:38:03.448 --> 00:38:08.372
We live below the poverty line,
very happily and very easily.

00:38:11.570 --> 00:38:15.509
How we're able to live
like this is because we rely

00:38:15.592 --> 00:38:17.628
and live mostly in the gift economy,

00:38:17.712 --> 00:38:19.087
not the monetary economy.

00:38:19.577 --> 00:38:21.877
[girls speaking]

00:38:24.562 --> 00:38:26.039
[Meg] Thanks, guys.

00:38:26.120 --> 00:38:27.767
[girls chatting]

00:38:28.014 --> 00:38:31.598
The flow of gifts is really about trust,

00:38:32.477 --> 00:38:35.076
living with a knowing that

00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:37.636
what we put out comes back.

00:38:38.233 --> 00:38:42.316
It's being generous,
knowing that generosity is contagious.

00:38:43.655 --> 00:38:45.991
Things like our bush school,
Forest and Free,

00:38:46.074 --> 00:38:47.826
we operate in the gift economy.

00:38:48.409 --> 00:38:53.191
So we take 20 kids out
every Monday from 10 till 4.

00:38:53.274 --> 00:38:58.998
In exchange, parents gift us
produce from their garden,

00:38:59.081 --> 00:39:00.377
hand-me-downs.

00:39:00.460 --> 00:39:02.650
So we get meals made for us.

00:39:03.821 --> 00:39:06.174
[indistinct chatter]

00:39:09.556 --> 00:39:13.756
When I was working in an office,
I had money so I could buy those things,

00:39:13.839 --> 00:39:18.272
but it was, it's an economy of
meaninglessness, of disconnection

00:39:18.356 --> 00:39:22.274
and I choose hard work
and connection any day.

00:39:23.609 --> 00:39:25.389
[birds chirping]

00:39:30.245 --> 00:39:33.645
Okay. Do you remember
how to play neo peasant with villaging?

00:39:33.726 --> 00:39:34.764
Yes.

00:39:34.845 --> 00:39:40.387
What we do is work together
to get all the money out of the bank.

00:39:40.660 --> 00:39:44.213
So we bankrupt the bank
so they no longer are a part of the game.

00:39:44.601 --> 00:39:45.601
[rattle]

00:39:46.005 --> 00:39:47.047
Three.

00:39:48.136 --> 00:39:50.269
One, two, three. [sighs]

00:39:51.556 --> 00:39:53.308
[Meg] Market Garden? Three dollars.

00:39:53.391 --> 00:39:54.491
Look at this.

00:39:57.020 --> 00:39:58.040
Small goods.

00:39:58.498 --> 00:40:00.317
-See if I can…
-Oh, yum.

00:40:00.398 --> 00:40:01.650
That's really good. That one.

00:40:01.733 --> 00:40:03.347
Anyone wanna lend me a dollar?

00:40:03.430 --> 00:40:04.513
-Yeah.
-Sure.

00:40:04.833 --> 00:40:07.569
-I need some new beans.
-Sure.

00:40:07.652 --> 00:40:09.542
One, two, three, four.

00:40:10.283 --> 00:40:11.284
Chance.

00:40:12.329 --> 00:40:15.306
Fraudulent banking services.

00:40:15.389 --> 00:40:18.791
Pay each player ten dollars each.

00:40:18.874 --> 00:40:20.376
That's good. I did do that.

00:40:20.457 --> 00:40:21.482
Ten dollars each?

00:40:21.563 --> 00:40:23.547
No, that's actually not what it says.

00:40:23.630 --> 00:40:25.792
Daddy, you can't just do that.

00:40:25.875 --> 00:40:27.572
-Yes, you can.
-That's not good.

00:40:27.655 --> 00:40:30.916
-This is our reality.
-You have to earn your money.

00:40:40.632 --> 00:40:41.658
[rattle]

00:40:43.525 --> 00:40:44.645
[crack]

00:40:47.112 --> 00:40:48.124
[clatter]

00:40:48.948 --> 00:40:51.075
[crackle]

00:40:51.158 --> 00:40:53.327
[liquid pouring]

00:40:53.410 --> 00:40:54.629
[burble]

00:41:06.172 --> 00:41:10.152
Yeah, and around the back here, isn't it?

00:41:10.235 --> 00:41:11.327
Yeah.

00:41:11.408 --> 00:41:13.817
[Patrick] We rarely get sick

00:41:13.900 --> 00:41:18.340
and we certainly only get
a cold and sometimes a flu.

00:41:25.983 --> 00:41:28.499
About a year ago I was knocked off my bike

00:41:28.582 --> 00:41:31.856
and I still have residual shoulder pain.

00:41:32.228 --> 00:41:33.990
So this is some stinging nettle,

00:41:34.659 --> 00:41:38.390
which is like acupuncture.

00:41:39.435 --> 00:41:43.107
Yeah. So yeah, it's really stinging.
I want that.

00:41:43.190 --> 00:41:47.300
It gets all the blood
there and yeah, medicine.

00:41:51.676 --> 00:41:53.683
[Patrick] You know, a lot of people
at our age

00:41:53.764 --> 00:41:57.766
are very unwell
and have many different diseases

00:41:58.056 --> 00:42:01.835
and it's not because we're somehow
biologically superior.

00:42:02.078 --> 00:42:05.757
It's because I think we trust,
and our economy,

00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:08.007
and way of relating
is based on relationships

00:42:08.090 --> 00:42:11.210
with things, we touch things,
we absorb things.

00:42:13.653 --> 00:42:17.727
We only ever seem to think of parasites
as negative in our culture

00:42:17.810 --> 00:42:20.571
because we're in this ideology
of germ theory

00:42:20.654 --> 00:42:23.787
that the world is dangerous
and we should fear it.

00:42:23.875 --> 00:42:26.736
It's full of viruses
and bacteria and terrible things.

00:42:26.819 --> 00:42:31.467
But of course we are walking forests
of many different

00:42:31.552 --> 00:42:33.359
more-than-human participants.

00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:37.851
So if we think of ourselves
as a relating body,

00:42:38.078 --> 00:42:43.087
then it's possible to then trust
all those relations.

00:42:45.438 --> 00:42:47.590
[upbeat music]

00:42:59.148 --> 00:43:00.154
[squeak]

00:43:05.656 --> 00:43:06.669
[rattle]

00:43:19.185 --> 00:43:20.191
[music continues]

00:43:42.108 --> 00:43:43.114
[screech]

00:43:53.091 --> 00:43:54.097
[clunk]

00:44:05.702 --> 00:44:06.708
[screech]

00:44:10.135 --> 00:44:13.237
Gives me great satisfaction
straightening these,

00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:15.215
which I get for about ten cents.

00:44:15.820 --> 00:44:18.575
'Cause to buy a new one
off the shelf is about ten dollars.

00:44:21.854 --> 00:44:22.874
[music continues]

00:44:24.790 --> 00:44:25.903
[clang]

00:44:41.554 --> 00:44:44.329
[Patrick] Probably the first ten years
we had come

00:44:44.412 --> 00:44:47.437
to the neighborhood,
we just were walking in the forest

00:44:47.520 --> 00:44:51.157
and observing it and learning
about the edible mushrooms

00:44:51.240 --> 00:44:53.640
and falling in love with this area.

00:44:54.990 --> 00:44:58.905
The CFA did a big burn all the way around

00:44:58.988 --> 00:45:00.742
this edge of the forest

00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:04.357
and it was a really destructive
and fast and furious burn.

00:45:04.452 --> 00:45:07.702
It wasn't nuanced,
it wasn't like indigenous burning.

00:45:08.493 --> 00:45:10.477
The forest didn't feel good for a while.

00:45:10.560 --> 00:45:13.294
And I remember saying to myself then,

00:45:13.377 --> 00:45:16.387
"I want to start working in this forest

00:45:16.470 --> 00:45:18.552
and give them no reason to come back."

00:45:18.633 --> 00:45:21.425
And so that was a nearly decade ago.

00:45:23.429 --> 00:45:25.960
I talked to neighbors
about introducing goats

00:45:26.040 --> 00:45:27.307
and then sheep.

00:45:27.390 --> 00:45:31.410
So farming it
with no legal tenure to land.

00:45:33.648 --> 00:45:37.485
The sheep and the goats are particularly
interested in the newcomer species.

00:45:37.568 --> 00:45:40.987
That's their main thing.
With an elder or a hawthorn

00:45:41.070 --> 00:45:42.407
or a blackberry or gorse.

00:45:42.490 --> 00:45:44.536
They'll absolutely go it.

00:45:47.286 --> 00:45:52.551
You've got this nuanced
and relationship-based land management

00:45:52.634 --> 00:45:55.410
versus pesticides and bulldozers.

00:45:56.754 --> 00:46:01.267
We eat the surplus goats and sheep
and that's our payment

00:46:01.350 --> 00:46:05.797
for working in, in public land
in Djarra people's land

00:46:05.882 --> 00:46:07.366
in real terms.

00:46:07.447 --> 00:46:09.879
And also doing that with relationship

00:46:09.962 --> 00:46:12.346
with Uncle Rick,
who's one of the Djarra elders

00:46:12.429 --> 00:46:15.720
and an emerging elder
called Beck Phillips, who's a friend.

00:46:16.482 --> 00:46:20.280
There is this beautiful
indigenous renewal in Djarra country

00:46:21.490 --> 00:46:23.017
and alongside that

00:46:23.100 --> 00:46:26.450
there's what I call
permaculture subsistence,

00:46:27.118 --> 00:46:30.902
which is we white fellas
reclaiming our indigenous soul

00:46:30.985 --> 00:46:32.790
in how we work with land.

00:46:35.790 --> 00:46:39.080
Subsistence permaculture is a way back

00:46:39.163 --> 00:46:44.027
in to how we as second people,
our ancestors performed life

00:46:44.110 --> 00:46:46.050
as land-bonded people.

00:46:51.365 --> 00:46:52.980
[Woody] Look out. Look out.

00:46:56.459 --> 00:46:57.491
Hang on.

00:46:57.572 --> 00:47:01.546
This is Alice
and she is about five years old.

00:47:03.279 --> 00:47:06.096
They're really good fire mitigators

00:47:06.179 --> 00:47:09.330
and they're also

00:47:10.200 --> 00:47:13.167
putting all this lovely poo on the ground,

00:47:13.250 --> 00:47:16.098
which is really good for the soil.

00:47:18.834 --> 00:47:19.840
[birds chirping]

00:47:25.357 --> 00:47:27.667
-[Patrick] Thanks, chookies.
-Thanks, bunnies.

00:47:27.755 --> 00:47:29.880
-Thanks, bunnies.
-Thanks to the forest.

00:47:30.256 --> 00:47:31.262
[clang]

00:47:31.900 --> 00:47:33.101
Sunshine.

00:47:33.184 --> 00:47:36.558
I'm gonna take her
through bottling the cider.

00:47:36.641 --> 00:47:39.100
-You are.
-And we're gonna process the conk,

00:47:39.815 --> 00:47:40.958
the tinder fungus,

00:47:42.182 --> 00:47:43.474
for medicine to take with us.

00:47:44.236 --> 00:47:47.817
I want to write an email to Zeph

00:47:48.783 --> 00:47:50.702
and send some photos.

00:47:50.785 --> 00:47:54.065
I'd like to send a photo of you hitting

00:47:54.747 --> 00:47:59.613
your handmade cricket bat, practice bat.

00:47:59.696 --> 00:48:01.294
-The one I made yesterday?
-Yeah.

00:48:07.384 --> 00:48:09.803
I'm making a project

00:48:09.886 --> 00:48:13.547
on Australia's cricket captain
Pat Cummins.

00:48:13.630 --> 00:48:14.669
I'm really into cricket,

00:48:14.750 --> 00:48:16.948
so it's a good homeschool project for me.

00:48:17.031 --> 00:48:21.656
I'm sticking in photos
of him winning us the Ashes.

00:48:23.336 --> 00:48:24.616
[Meg speaking in the back]

00:48:26.167 --> 00:48:27.866
[indistinct chatter]

00:48:29.073 --> 00:48:30.528
[Meg] Do you know the fungus,

00:48:30.611 --> 00:48:33.295
the tinder fungus that was over here?
The big white one.

00:48:33.376 --> 00:48:36.348
-[student] Oh yeah, yeah.
-[Meg] Put some of that in there.

00:48:36.429 --> 00:48:38.176
[student] Because this is cool.

00:48:39.875 --> 00:48:43.004
[Meg] In June, we are going to hitchhike

00:48:43.087 --> 00:48:44.200
to India

00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:47.619
and we'll see how far we get.

00:48:47.702 --> 00:48:52.247
We can be neo peasant permies in situ,

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

00:48:57.517 --> 00:48:59.436
without our wood stores,

00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:03.006
without our seed bank
and without our cellar bank?

00:49:03.089 --> 00:49:04.937
What does it look like
in a different context?

00:49:05.020 --> 00:49:06.317
And I do love that.

00:49:06.400 --> 00:49:10.116
I feel like in the past
we've found great rhythms

00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:13.367
and I look forward to seeing
what that looks like this time.

00:49:14.535 --> 00:49:17.214
-[calm music]
-[Meg] Woody being crazy about cricket,

00:49:17.872 --> 00:49:19.835
India is crazy about cricket.

00:49:20.086 --> 00:49:21.098
[smack]

00:49:21.179 --> 00:49:23.395
So I made this... [gasps]

00:49:23.627 --> 00:49:26.158
supposed to be like a baseball
bat sort of thing... yesterday

00:49:26.505 --> 00:49:28.450
and I put one of my
cricket bat grips on it,

00:49:29.216 --> 00:49:31.427
and I've already got a few cherries,

00:49:31.972 --> 00:49:33.142
as you can see,

00:49:33.515 --> 00:49:35.017
and I'm pretty happy with it.

00:49:35.097 --> 00:49:39.019
It's good for my defense to practice.

00:49:42.380 --> 00:49:43.486
[smack]

00:49:43.567 --> 00:49:44.652
-[Patrick] Shot.
-[smack]

00:49:44.733 --> 00:49:45.738
[Woody] Ups.

00:49:45.831 --> 00:49:51.752
He will turn 12 on this trip
and to introduce him to the cultural Other

00:49:51.833 --> 00:49:55.784
through something that he loves,
and through a shared passion.

00:49:55.942 --> 00:49:56.975
[smack]

00:49:57.292 --> 00:50:00.590
Just that invitation to...
"I'm from somewhere else,

00:50:01.415 --> 00:50:05.339
but I connect with you
through a game of cricket."

00:50:05.745 --> 00:50:06.845
-[smack]
-[thud]

00:50:07.032 --> 00:50:08.057
-[smack]
-[Patrick grunts]

00:50:08.138 --> 00:50:09.843
-[Woody] Sorry!
-[Patrick laughing] Geez!

00:50:10.520 --> 00:50:11.954
[both laugh]

00:50:12.051 --> 00:50:15.430
-It got stuck with your phone.
-That's funny.

00:50:17.476 --> 00:50:18.612
[Patrick] That's a good one.

00:50:19.705 --> 00:50:22.552
-[Woody] Is it good?
-[Patrick] Yeah, it just shows the…

00:50:22.633 --> 00:50:23.915
[Woody] Let's send that to Zeph.

00:50:23.996 --> 00:50:25.966
[Patrick] Yeah, the craft of it.

00:50:26.064 --> 00:50:27.205
[upbeat music]

00:50:33.222 --> 00:50:34.228
[music fades]

00:50:38.349 --> 00:50:39.401
[keystrokes]

00:50:39.482 --> 00:50:40.590
[Patrick] "Dear Zeph,

00:50:43.103 --> 00:50:49.124
looking forward to our next visit."

00:50:54.005 --> 00:50:57.682
He fell in with a bunch
of very vulnerable boys

00:50:58.555 --> 00:51:01.735
-and they all egged each other on to do
-[Boys chatting]

00:51:01.818 --> 00:51:04.469
more and more crazy things in the town.

00:51:04.552 --> 00:51:06.125
-Petty theft
-[glass crashing]

00:51:06.208 --> 00:51:09.327
and then eventually
moving into stealing cars

00:51:09.410 --> 00:51:12.447
-[car brakes squeaking]
-and running drugs for older boys.

00:51:12.530 --> 00:51:16.790
-[people screaming in the distance]
-And it just became a nightmare.

00:51:16.873 --> 00:51:18.242
[police sirens]

00:51:18.325 --> 00:51:24.030
And at one stage he was in
a high-speed police chase

00:51:24.113 --> 00:51:26.739
-[car brakes squeaking]
-and he nearly killed a police officer.

00:51:26.820 --> 00:51:28.586
-[door squeak and snaps]
-[lock clicks]

00:51:28.669 --> 00:51:30.882
[prison reception recording] "It is subject
to monitoring and recording.

00:51:30.963 --> 00:51:33.012
It is unlawful for this
call to be redirected

00:51:33.095 --> 00:51:34.381
or be part of a conference call.

00:51:34.462 --> 00:51:36.957
If you do not wish to accept
this call, hang up now.

00:51:37.040 --> 00:51:39.899
If you understand the conditions
of this call, please continue."

00:51:42.474 --> 00:51:45.272
-Hey, Zeph. How you going mate?
-[Zeph] Hi.

00:51:46.794 --> 00:51:47.985
Zeph went into...

00:51:49.996 --> 00:51:51.170
[sighs] prison.

00:51:51.775 --> 00:51:56.158
First, youth prison and then adults at 15

00:51:56.240 --> 00:52:00.380
and pretty much has been
in there since. He's now 22.

00:52:01.368 --> 00:52:03.000
And there's the two brothers.

00:52:04.747 --> 00:52:09.320
Yeah, Zeph had just got out of juvie

00:52:10.294 --> 00:52:12.841
the first time, and things
were going really well

00:52:13.964 --> 00:52:17.037
and then lockdown happened
and he couldn't see his mates

00:52:17.120 --> 00:52:18.625
and he broke curfew

00:52:19.809 --> 00:52:22.132
and he was back in.

00:52:22.684 --> 00:52:23.994
[sad music]

00:52:24.077 --> 00:52:27.387
And that's just before
he was then went into weeks

00:52:27.470 --> 00:52:29.420
of lockdown in juvie.

00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:33.297
And that's when he tried
to escape for the third time

00:52:33.380 --> 00:52:35.630
and they took him to adults.

00:52:36.490 --> 00:52:38.490
-[music continues]
-[birds chirping]

00:52:45.531 --> 00:52:46.557
[rustle]

00:52:48.980 --> 00:52:52.160
For about a year,
I slept in the forest.

00:52:53.296 --> 00:52:54.813
[crying] That was a… [sobs]

00:52:55.040 --> 00:52:57.713
That was a big, big time.

00:53:02.805 --> 00:53:07.938
His story has been a great
gift to my life, as painful

00:53:08.602 --> 00:53:09.690
and unwanted

00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:11.513
[sobs]

00:53:13.995 --> 00:53:15.333
as it has been.

00:53:16.625 --> 00:53:20.364
But I have so much joy and gratitude

00:53:20.447 --> 00:53:23.328
for the work that I do
because of his story.

00:53:25.539 --> 00:53:32.506
Another gift is understanding
how to better raise Woody.

00:53:33.669 --> 00:53:35.007
How Zeph's story

00:53:35.100 --> 00:53:40.087
and my failings as a father
has informed me.

00:53:40.170 --> 00:53:43.095
Doesn't make me [laughs]

00:53:43.178 --> 00:53:44.864
a great father,

00:53:44.947 --> 00:53:48.422
but a much more
aware and conscious father.

00:53:51.482 --> 00:53:54.095
The real gift of Zeph is

00:53:55.062 --> 00:53:59.296
understanding
how me as a father and other men

00:53:59.379 --> 00:54:03.907
who love Zeph in the community
didn't have the skills

00:54:03.990 --> 00:54:08.643
or the craft of bringing him up.

00:54:08.726 --> 00:54:10.087
Not raising him,

00:54:10.170 --> 00:54:14.520
but like elevating him
where he needed to be elevated.

00:54:15.642 --> 00:54:18.700
And that is a nuanced thing

00:54:18.780 --> 00:54:22.302
and it requires a village,
not a nuclear family.

00:54:23.260 --> 00:54:27.757
And I think that the village rebuilding

00:54:27.840 --> 00:54:30.559
that Meg and I have been doing [sniffs]

00:54:30.642 --> 00:54:36.847
over the past several years
is because of that.

00:54:36.930 --> 00:54:38.070
Because of his story.

00:54:38.632 --> 00:54:39.645
[sad music continues]

00:54:40.736 --> 00:54:43.861
Moving what needs to be moved,
for the flow.

00:54:47.334 --> 00:54:48.812
[indistinct speech]

00:54:54.506 --> 00:54:55.626
[birds chirping in the back]

00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:02.148
[chirrup]

00:55:10.557 --> 00:55:12.194
[soft bird chirp]

00:55:20.222 --> 00:55:21.242
[soft people murmur]

00:55:25.078 --> 00:55:29.813
Okay, we're gonna do a thing
we call "blackberry surfing."

00:55:29.894 --> 00:55:31.700
[loud cheers]

00:55:32.041 --> 00:55:33.267
[kid] Climbing to a tree!

00:55:35.227 --> 00:55:36.427
[kids chattering]

00:55:37.278 --> 00:55:39.165
-[indistinct chatter]
-[snap]

00:55:46.552 --> 00:55:50.700
Forest and Free is a weekly bush school.

00:55:51.974 --> 00:55:53.896
We have a whole day with the kids.

00:55:54.770 --> 00:55:55.770
[kids chatter]

00:55:56.186 --> 00:56:00.485
It's an opportunity for kids
to be outside in the forest

00:56:00.570 --> 00:56:02.910
to reconnect to the forest.

00:56:04.570 --> 00:56:07.480
There's loads of different
cubbies that we're making,

00:56:07.560 --> 00:56:09.024
different shelters

00:56:09.107 --> 00:56:13.991
and some of the kids have been working
on their shelters for a year or so.

00:56:15.289 --> 00:56:18.000
[student] I decided that it needs
some work so I added a lot

00:56:18.083 --> 00:56:19.436
of insulation around it

00:56:20.092 --> 00:56:23.967
and it could fit up to,
I don't know, six people, I reckon.

00:56:27.738 --> 00:56:29.261
[student] This is my cubby.

00:56:29.344 --> 00:56:31.433
Here we have a rock bed.

00:56:31.513 --> 00:56:35.651
Hopefully next time we come,
I'll put some broom.

00:56:35.734 --> 00:56:37.186
Here, we have, like, curtains.

00:56:37.752 --> 00:56:39.272
[indistinct chatter]

00:56:41.328 --> 00:56:44.979
[student] When you're in the forest,
it just makes you feel more, like, relaxed.

00:56:45.485 --> 00:56:48.249
It's really fun because when I'm at home,

00:56:48.332 --> 00:56:50.491
it's kind of boring,
but when I'm at Forest and Free,

00:56:50.574 --> 00:56:52.788
I get to express my energy.

00:56:54.661 --> 00:56:57.247
[Meg] When they're building cubbies,
they're learning about

00:56:57.330 --> 00:57:00.737
natural building and architecture
and where to position it.

00:57:00.820 --> 00:57:02.147
Where's the sun coming from?

00:57:02.230 --> 00:57:03.803
And if we have an opening to the south,

00:57:03.884 --> 00:57:05.623
which is usually
where the rain comes from,

00:57:05.706 --> 00:57:08.957
then maybe we need to weave
a door and have that as our opening.

00:57:09.040 --> 00:57:11.117
And they're learning
what materials are around,

00:57:11.202 --> 00:57:13.985
what flowers, what birds, what insects.

00:57:14.066 --> 00:57:18.929
They're just, they're embedding.
They're learning how to be in place.

00:57:19.464 --> 00:57:20.811
[kids chatter in the distance]

00:57:24.778 --> 00:57:27.060
[birds chirrup]

00:57:35.278 --> 00:57:36.858
[soft calm music]

00:57:40.776 --> 00:57:43.680
I facilitate a monthly women's circle,

00:57:44.027 --> 00:57:45.892
it's called For Crying Out Loud.

00:57:45.975 --> 00:57:50.717
And Patrick facilitates the men's circle,
which is called Fire Choir.

00:57:51.468 --> 00:57:55.890
We started these circles
maybe five and a half years ago.

00:57:55.973 --> 00:57:58.433
We gather here at the fire circle

00:57:58.516 --> 00:58:02.978
and Patrick or Woody comes down earlier

00:58:03.061 --> 00:58:04.751
and lights a really big fire for us.

00:58:06.775 --> 00:58:10.282
We live in a culture
that doesn't do grief very well.

00:58:11.071 --> 00:58:14.406
The circle is a way
to acknowledge our grief,

00:58:14.489 --> 00:58:15.739
to share the grief.

00:58:15.822 --> 00:58:17.474
And it's a witnessing circle.

00:58:17.557 --> 00:58:21.001
It's a deep listening, a deep sharing.

00:58:21.081 --> 00:58:24.627
And we speak from the heart
and we listen with our hearts

00:58:24.710 --> 00:58:28.750
and to really practice listening
in a nonjudgmental way.

00:58:29.729 --> 00:58:30.903
[music intensifies]

00:58:34.984 --> 00:58:40.465
This circle is just medicine
and it's something that I crave.

00:58:41.393 --> 00:58:44.837
It was a deep remembering
of something that

00:58:45.464 --> 00:58:47.483
is ancient in our bones.

00:58:47.566 --> 00:58:50.743
Sitting around a fire, sharing stories.

00:58:51.611 --> 00:58:56.566
To sit in circle with women
who I've known for many, many years,

00:58:56.649 --> 00:59:00.257
but to witness them
at their most vulnerable,

00:59:00.340 --> 00:59:01.967
at their most honest

00:59:02.050 --> 00:59:06.077
and open expressions
of themselves or their pain

00:59:06.160 --> 00:59:09.550
or their grief or whatever it is
that they're most alive to,

00:59:10.515 --> 00:59:13.600
to really witness women in that rawness

00:59:14.385 --> 00:59:16.030
is just incredible.

00:59:18.092 --> 00:59:20.584
I used to cry with shame

00:59:21.183 --> 00:59:22.559
whenever I would cry.

00:59:22.642 --> 00:59:25.827
You know, I was sort of embarrassed
of my emotionality.

00:59:25.910 --> 00:59:30.170
And now, I'm a proud crier.

00:59:31.735 --> 00:59:34.799
I feel like that's what happens
around this circle.

00:59:34.882 --> 00:59:39.630
Our moments are witnessed
so our lives don't just speed by

00:59:39.713 --> 00:59:42.353
that we are in the grief.

00:59:42.583 --> 00:59:46.638
We recognize and we air the grief.

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.

00:59:57.898 --> 00:59:59.245
[music fades]

01:00:07.575 --> 01:00:08.601
[soft cawing]

01:00:09.282 --> 01:00:12.292
We planted this little kumquat

01:00:12.375 --> 01:00:14.227
[clears throat] when Zeph

01:00:15.445 --> 01:00:17.737
and James finished this building

01:00:17.826 --> 01:00:22.289
and this is the first year
it's fully fruited

01:00:22.372 --> 01:00:25.191
and it has pretty much grown

01:00:26.748 --> 01:00:30.547
over the period of time
that Zeph has been inside

01:00:31.381 --> 01:00:32.626
in the prison system.

01:00:33.299 --> 01:00:35.625
And when we get back from India

01:00:35.708 --> 01:00:37.255
in four months' time,

01:00:37.338 --> 01:00:38.760
Zeph is coming out.

01:00:39.416 --> 01:00:41.150
And these fruits,

01:00:42.116 --> 01:00:45.440
which are in abundance,
look like they'll be ready.

01:00:46.226 --> 01:00:49.478
So that feels like a cycle.

01:00:50.898 --> 01:00:52.445
[insects and birds chirping]

01:00:55.038 --> 01:00:56.598
[clucking]

01:01:04.828 --> 01:01:07.994
[Patrick] I've been noticing
since moving towards

01:01:08.075 --> 01:01:11.025
the departure, a real groundedness.

01:01:11.334 --> 01:01:16.290
I'm so in love with the processes

01:01:16.370 --> 01:01:18.897
of packing down the house

01:01:18.980 --> 01:01:21.267
and filling the cellar and the wood store

01:01:21.350 --> 01:01:26.093
and moving the goats and sheep
to a friend's farm.

01:01:26.174 --> 01:01:27.521
[bleat]

01:01:31.468 --> 01:01:34.677
Thinking through what sort
of meals we can have on the road

01:01:34.760 --> 01:01:38.247
to keep out of the industrial food system

01:01:38.330 --> 01:01:39.681
as much as possible.

01:01:41.698 --> 01:01:44.580
[Meg] I have so much excitement
about going,

01:01:45.201 --> 01:01:49.851
but the excitement only really
extends to closing the door

01:01:49.934 --> 01:01:52.227
and walking out
to the A300 with our sign.

01:01:52.310 --> 01:01:54.461
-I can't really think beyond there, but...
-Me too.

01:01:54.544 --> 01:01:57.000
...even just to get
to that stage, it's just like,

01:01:57.080 --> 01:02:00.428
oh my God, it's just gonna be
the most liberating feeling

01:02:00.509 --> 01:02:01.803
and I'm looking forward to that.

01:02:01.886 --> 01:02:04.759
-Two kilos.
-Kilo and half.

01:02:05.436 --> 01:02:07.468
-Yeah.
-Yeah, yeah.

01:02:07.563 --> 01:02:09.519
That's good
because we have backpacking.

01:02:11.645 --> 01:02:13.606
[indistinct chatting]

01:02:18.390 --> 01:02:19.517
[crickets chirping]

01:02:21.500 --> 01:02:22.841
[laughs]

01:02:24.616 --> 01:02:27.520
[Meg] Officially welcome to Tree Elbow.

01:02:27.603 --> 01:02:31.237
Really great to see everybody.
We're very lucky.

01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:33.973
Feeling very lucky
to be part of this community

01:02:34.326 --> 01:02:37.711
and very lucky to live where we do.

01:02:37.794 --> 01:02:39.423
[Patrick] I had my first pangs

01:02:39.506 --> 01:02:42.546
of unsettlement last night for this trip.

01:02:42.629 --> 01:02:46.194
I felt anxiety for the first time,
which is good.

01:02:46.694 --> 01:02:51.690
Just helping my body
to step into unknown things.

01:02:52.774 --> 01:02:54.240
[people chatting]

01:02:59.819 --> 01:03:01.276
[birds chirping]

01:03:05.083 --> 01:03:06.646
[calm music]

01:03:08.411 --> 01:03:09.964
[Meg speaking indistinctly]

01:03:12.242 --> 01:03:13.282
[Woody sighs]

01:03:19.592 --> 01:03:20.965
[Woody speaking indistinctly]

01:03:25.722 --> 01:03:27.013
[laughs]

01:03:28.514 --> 01:03:29.826
[music continues]

01:03:30.345 --> 01:03:31.601
[Patrick murmuring]

01:03:36.821 --> 01:03:37.834
[Meg and Woody speaking]

01:03:45.242 --> 01:03:47.325
[Patrick and Meg exclaim]

01:03:48.643 --> 01:03:51.676
-[music intensifies]
-[birds loudly chirruping]

01:04:00.146 --> 01:04:01.373
[music fades]

01:04:01.922 --> 01:04:03.260
[music resumes pace]

01:04:09.439 --> 01:04:10.812
[car engine buzzing]

01:04:16.162 --> 01:04:18.189
[indistinct chatter]

01:04:29.086 --> 01:04:30.353
[honk beeps]

01:04:43.387 --> 01:04:44.480
[music intensifies]

01:04:53.301 --> 01:04:54.554
[calm end music]

01:05:05.746 --> 01:05:07.519
[flute music]

01:05:11.991 --> 01:05:18.963
♪ Do not try to save the whole world
Or do anything grandiose ♪

01:05:21.501 --> 01:05:28.486
♪ Instead find a clearing
In the dance forest of your life ♪

01:05:31.261 --> 01:05:38.258
♪ And wait there patiently
Until the song that is your life ♪

01:05:40.103 --> 01:05:47.095
♪ Falls into your own cupped hands
And you recognize and greet it ♪

01:05:49.253 --> 01:05:53.579
♪ Falls into your own cupped hands ♪

01:05:53.662 --> 01:05:57.959
♪ And you recognize and greet it ♪

01:06:00.665 --> 01:06:06.620
♪ Only then will you know
How to give yourself to this world ♪

01:06:06.700 --> 01:06:08.973
♪ So worthy of rescue ♪

01:06:09.465 --> 01:06:15.636
♪ Only then will you know
How to give yourself to this world ♪

01:06:15.845 --> 01:06:18.127
♪ So worthy of rescue ♪

01:06:18.210 --> 01:06:25.142
♪ Only then will you know
How to give yourself to this world

01:06:25.542 --> 01:06:28.234
♪ So worthy of rescue ♪

01:06:29.573 --> 01:06:31.989
[maraca rattles]