I am not completely dead! - Pictures and stories from the Eco Village in the Forest

.. Actually I am very very much alive! So alive that I don't have time to sit down and stare at a screen...!

I am living in a forest with no electricity (a part from som solar panels on a camper), we didn't have any water until 4 days ago. We have hardly any phone or internet reception, our kitchen is basically a fireplace (almost) and everthing is a bit hectic!
Sometimes I enjoy the simple life and other times (like today) it is driving me crazy and I just want a hot shower, a boiler to make a cup of tea and a freaking internet connection!
(especially because life is never really simple when you try to build a fucking eco village on the side, with no infrastructure that works!)
So I went to my mother's house today.. And for once in around a month place my kid in front of the TV to get something that looks like space and time.. And to update you guys a bit!

The funny thing is that I forgot my camera with all my latest photos in the forest, so I can't show you the newest updates!

But I still haven't given you the semi new, so I guess I'll start there!

the 24th and 25th of may we had a Seeding Festival for the project! We worked like crazy to get everything sorted, starting with toilets and kitchen and the space and the stage and everything else you need for a festival!

We kind of made it, the bummer was that nobody really showed up, but that's life and we at least managed to create some infrastructure that we could use after!

Here are some photos from the preparations and the festival:

This is not really a before photo, but I couldn't really find any from before (I always forget that!) This is after spending 2 days on clearing the room from garbage and bringing in the bar and starting washing the floor - it was full of a weird oily substance... Took a while..!

here's some of the trash from inside

starting to make a door to the kitchen

Building compost toilets

Kitchen now with "door" (the real door is actually up now, but I don't have a picture of it yet!

while the kids are playing

and also helping - here clearing around the "Smedje" (Smithy) sign (the building used to be a blacksmith workshop)

now we can cook!

building the stage

and the bar

meeting, trying to connect the dots!

more building up of space

Getting there!

Toilets are up!

And the festival can begin!

Now a place to be :)

The old ceramic workshop was full of all these old plaster molds which we used for decoration

light installations

bands are playing

Viking Moses

night pancakes

Saturday we had a drop in arts and crafts market and workshops for children

Making seed bombs

Our little pop up forest café

Button workshop

leather workshop

seeding station for planting seeds in the used compostable cups

And that was it for the festival!

Since then I have made a home out of this one:

-picture from the winter, looking forward to show you how it looks now :)

and we have build a thriving greenhouse and already harvested the first cucumbers!

We have also developed our infrastructure and made a board for the tasks of the day.

We are working on making a loft in the Smithy and are generally cleaning up the land and always trying to make things a little bit better and just survive in the chaos!

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