https://commons.tube/about/instancehttps://commons.tube/videos/localhttps://commons.tube/w/9xgxB4PPg9fj46tVoBz4Zmhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/320cd549-ca79-4339-a521-aa3d1d52dda2.jpgClarry Bowen bush medicineGuugu Yimithirr man Clarry Bowen takes Artist as Family through the process of making bark medicine brews.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/4526befc-6987-4969-b471-656980660a42https://commons.tube/w/1LW1zrDUnLqjLYUPWCu1fghttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/aa54233e-f907-424a-b0af-c3c616ee1302.jpgGary Trindall's bush medicineGary Trindall takes Artist as Family for a short bush medicine lesson on Gamilaraay country, Walgett NSW.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/064602bc-8219-4f30-aa36-c405cbab855bhttps://commons.tube/w/dK7ML7ymv3kNX38eyxB8v9https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/321be3f4-9203-4b0a-a798-042851becab2.jpgGutting a fish 101Zephyr takes us on a quick crash course to gut and scale a fish.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/6732d473-50c5-4caf-965e-bddb51dc01behttps://commons.tube/w/84QQS2rdm8AhtMrbXSjnzZhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/a4e5e15c-052d-4052-a61b-82e4d1f13f00.jpgHow to eat (and enjoy) garden snailsHow to eat (and enjoy) garden snailshttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/39394d5a-94f4-4370-9fdb-7800c37454f7https://commons.tube/w/pVHzKDCESCjq1SmbzoqhSPhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/2b9ac3e6-311c-4b18-9695-83241bec4d5c.jpgNear missAFTER A NEAR MISS WE CALL THE COMPANY OF THE TRUCK THAT NEARLY TOOK US OUT. WE RECKON ABOUT 40% OF AUSTRALIAN DRIVERS NEED SPECIAL BICYCLE AWARENESS TRAINING, AND THE TRUCK DRIVER THAT ALMOST KILLED TWO OF US IS NO EXCEPTION. THERE ARE MORE AND MORE BIKES ON AUSTRALIAN ROADS AND YET SOME MOTORISTS ARE NOT ADAPTING THEIR DRIVING SENSIBILITIES TO THESE CHANGING CONDITIONS.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c1c23c19-f819-43b8-95fc-6fc710d98d03https://commons.tube/w/o1qmPhMxyqwfRNUTpQJfuYhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1a05cf76-d17e-4d21-8109-373f03e3222f.jpgKenyan topbar beehiveRobyn Rosenfeldt of PIP magazine Australia, gives an introduction to her newest craft – Kenyan topbar beekeeping.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/b2380fed-6466-4cbc-8214-6841052bfe38https://commons.tube/w/k3du1UfiLjoR45nJiKaD93https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b30226eb-2478-4e39-8dbb-a5799c7e1d1f.jpgThe Art of Free Travel (Book Trailer)A peek at Meg Ulman and Patrick Jones' book 'The Art of Free Travel' published by NewSouth Publishing and Audible.com as an audio book. Release date: 1 Oct 2015.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/9a2cd0a5-0783-4d9e-95a2-6af65c703dbehttps://commons.tube/w/pYspiGpJLtKLXe5HUVMQW2https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/40f471ee-54be-4dc7-92de-2e9126df4f67.jpgFamily on bikes punishedArtist as Family are punished on NSW roads once again, and this time they capture a fragment of the horror and reality of being non-polluting travellers in Australia.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c2241c6a-2622-4f83-ab53-b85c55967a15https://commons.tube/w/kWXSFAgxFFLkY3wo3YFV8Rhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/eec2f2ae-a31c-4ae4-8752-41e86904b8b2.jpgA poem for Zephyr on his 14th birthdayWritten by his old man, with love.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/a18a3b49-ddc2-417b-be18-6eede7206f93https://commons.tube/w/82TKz57ePctRDP2PudZr2dhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1e18cda1-729b-4ff1-8e99-53f5d9ff6a8e.jpgRingtail possum drey built in hawthorn and blackberryNewcomer species such as hawthorn and blackberry have no ecological status in Australia (at least within conservative epistemologies), but they provide food and habitat for indigenous species such as ringtail possums. While using David Holmgren's method of turning fire-risk blackberry canes into soil building ground covers we uncover a ringtail's home. If we don't do this work, reducing the dominance of the blackberry, the CFA and other land managers will burn the lot, killing the possums and making more pioneer weed species prominent. Our method of land management is not dualistic, it works with what species have naturalised (old and new), and sensitively creates the possibility, understanding and propensity for biodiversity.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/38f39b71-dfbe-4de7-b51d-10c0961bc332https://commons.tube/w/fMq9hMEcVV8J7TR6p7w3xZhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b7b4846c-1dae-483a-bec3-d3ce833c184f.jpgThe CumquatAn apprenticeship to build a small abode using mostly salvaged materials from the local tip and secondhand gifts from our community.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/77b74a1c-42e0-4eb7-86e3-9087d823d2b7https://commons.tube/w/2mbKLhD9bFxeongHFLKNMAhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/9a10f6d5-b7e6-484b-a8fa-e281cd0bf458.jpgLand Cultures: Aboriginal economies and permaculture futuresLand Cultures tells the story of the day award winning Aboriginal author Bruce Pascoe came to Daylesford, shared his remarkable research, and met permaculture co-originator David Holmgren. A film by Anthony Petrucci and Patrick Jones.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/0aeaa44b-ea50-4503-b4aa-1d08944c8064https://commons.tube/w/gqDo5hgA5wDKYmxa6xZhSDhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/bf7f748a-82ad-4347-b37f-11bf5e9b33e2.jpgLand as communityA brief explanation of alternative land management practices on public land in Daylesford, Victoria. Practices that centre on weed, fire and erosion mitigation, soil rehydration, biodiversity adaption and regeneration, as well as including some of the gifts returned in doing such work. Featuring the ideas of Patrick Jones, David Holmgren, Tim Burns, and some of our young people developing the art of blackberry surfing.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/7ce9f78c-29f8-44e3-8370-2500f2e88771https://commons.tube/w/hcpMNBTcYSqCcEbgD3ftfmhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/68257972-7853-4669-8184-1ec29e473a8f.jpgA typical permaculture dayArtist as Family catch a swarm of bees at Melliodora Permaculture under the direction of Nick Ritar from Milkwood Permaculture. This earth shattering film features swarm capture, responsible mobility, cockatoo calls, frog song, little people, chooks, knowledgeable others, broad beans, life giving and making possibilities and much much more.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/832a0f9b-7455-4a28-93ed-f9aaf451693chttps://commons.tube/w/oFKjs4BUuPoyQMpo95VfKBhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/fa1e30ed-fec2-4346-84cb-e5af6e517958.jpgGet on ya bikeArtist as Family take Mal Webb's song, Bike, for a ride...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/b7b5c0d6-79af-4626-8dc7-2555a4659561https://commons.tube/w/uHLLjC6w3yeoZeDeeScUighttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b52672e0-a796-41fe-9487-329eda59f490.jpgNeo-peasant hack #1 - Dried pigfacePatrick uncovers dried pigface at Sandringham beach...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/e894f6c4-db38-408a-887e-7893310341f1https://commons.tube/w/8AJMfaj9NnRBQ4nWEgRZCdhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1c94e713-d7c3-489b-8d5d-eae10047296c.jpgNeo-peasant hack #2Woody demonstrates the art of drinking through a dandelion straw. No plastic, no steel, no glass, no dollars, no greenwash. Bonza!https://commons.tube/videos/embed/3d899f7a-06bc-447e-a48f-bf04b85ee590https://commons.tube/w/nm7bJKpLMq5EDeqFG9wMhLhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/31329d14-3e62-4cce-8299-6c8586d753f0.jpgNeo-peasant hack #3: rubble wall from the garden soilRubble stones out of the garden bed to grow vegetables, rubble stone walls to store (said garden bed) vegetables in the cellar...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/acde9956-825b-426b-9cfe-6a9d3dd22410https://commons.tube/w/5FYqQL4xrj36VuDFuSBbgUhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/da6d6a84-1f43-4347-bd95-d4dbda439940.jpgWoody on bow saw4 year-old Woody teaches himself how to operate a bow saw in a vice of his own making.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/25f9563b-0090-4836-8a8d-144b6c8d3f5ahttps://commons.tube/w/eM96nqm3eKd1DKPQvZLWCKhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b7550db2-6415-4975-a3e4-15ba135a09ac.jpgNeo-peasant hack #4: fermenting tableMeg takes us on a tour of Artist as Family's fermenting table – a must have for radical homemakers, where true culture is brewed.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/6f94426b-b423-4f2b-96fd-19a83af1befbhttps://commons.tube/w/tzXcBem1XdoqUVD4PGJFHvhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/e76d4338-c7aa-4284-a869-b84dbb3a2705.jpgNeo-peasant hack #5: 'Nature strip' food forestPatrick shows how a 'nature strip' can be exactly that.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/df644e77-e8fb-49ef-a449-34a230941b93https://commons.tube/w/d14b7dA35UUE6dBs26TGeihttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/fbb3a7de-e98c-4f38-8148-fc5f29311bcb.jpgMaking hawthorn fruit leatherA pome-recipe.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/612f9ec0-b9e9-49a6-a524-24b95cfb558bhttps://commons.tube/w/76ZqH92CyKwTGY76YpQfrbhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/c8b32619-5ef7-488f-869d-8173cb7a2e46.jpgAutumn celebrationFire twirling by Connor accompanied by Patrick on guitar as part of a community gathering at Tree Elbow to celebrate all the gifts and storing labours of autumn.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/316cf0db-c65d-40e1-9c3a-2ecb6f0d7edchttps://commons.tube/w/fnqcxqjtSeW59r3GhHmVjchttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/6fa89069-90ac-43cd-a363-1c7048e5a0de.jpgCommunity krauting dayA snapshot of Daylesford Culture Club's June free workshop.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/745d793b-e906-40d7-b997-8820a7880143https://commons.tube/w/aevsiMdHiyCaRCn1SG3F4Khttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/030fe8a3-f974-48db-b68f-2704c34dd3c6.jpgNeo-peasant hack #7 Locavore tool making4 year-old Woody begins the process of shaping down a fork from loved hawthorn, an emplacing newcomer tree that provides crucial habitat for ringtail possums in our neck of the woods.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/4ac5117f-8239-4c31-bc38-51953738b7e5https://commons.tube/w/7FjS4rBVkw1oso3LjwvknDhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/0dcd48fb-b23e-4db2-9bfc-b0fa6be72814.jpgOur relationship with carbonIn this video Patrick describes the many interactions, returns and uses of carbon within our household's economy, modelling a proper relationship to it which doesn't cost the earth, and gives back to the cycles that makes more carbon possible.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/361476ba-8321-4184-ba72-90e951081c3bhttps://commons.tube/w/nKr1TWkjGivwCesjYNtLPJhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/03032685-5329-4342-a9fc-b704bc91b626.jpgNeo-peasant hack #8: Blackberry stompingArtist as Family SWAPs, Marta and Connor, demonstrate our method of turning fire-prone blackberry canes into an edible green mulch.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/b0204f6e-a0be-468c-822a-6d811c72a998https://commons.tube/w/wQgUkr7aP4wJsdsoHpJ1oDhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/5a5e00d7-08a1-4534-a454-78646f5e6666.jpgNeo-peasant hack #9: Low carbon technologyFour year old Woody demonstrates how to use a hand-made fishing spear, borrowing from ecological cultures past.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/f9afa931-e841-4016-a9be-f60437642541https://commons.tube/w/v1WjTQTFc5xLvAxY8URqgchttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/bf8b6613-107d-46e2-ae0d-09c751b7ee2b.jpgRingtail in HawthornA video that shows how ringtail possums have chosen hawthorns as their preferred habitat tree to build their dreys. This is important to understand as it dispels the myth that newcomer species like the hawthorn are problematic weeds. Instead they offer an ecological role for an oldtimer Dja Dja Wurrung species, such as the ringtail.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/eafa8025-c523-4806-84a4-06fe7d225e99https://commons.tube/w/wBmXFYiProYKRbepaZrn32https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/08047c04-cbfc-44a5-b1c0-93cccc4c7f9e.jpgRetroSuburbia book trailerPatrick made this vid with his friend Ant Petrucci. It gives an insight into David Holmgren's forthcoming book 'RetroSuburbia: the downshifter's guide to a resilient future'. Available early 2018. Visit www.retrosuburbia.com to find out more. For more info: www.retrosuburbia.comhttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/f7e21be1-4137-4ac4-b01d-b671d69235c1https://commons.tube/w/mNG7ojmRVZsY3eNCHmHMvdhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/a431f1f1-6abe-4ed8-9571-fc0a95ffa21c.jpgDaylesford Community Food Gardeners NYE parade 2017Marco Lucero beautifully captures the spirit and fun of the community food gardeners at the Daylesford NYE Parade 2017.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/a87bb490-e9ec-411a-a4ef-87eeb99d873ahttps://commons.tube/w/vx4XGzvae5FmuDSJYS12uhhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/979e0106-2313-4d65-bff7-dc1ff5857f39.jpgBandits play Retrosuburbia prelaunchBunch of Bandits play their song Angus (about the hipster-vegan eating cactus) at the prelaunch celebration for David Holmgren's new book Retrosuburbia: The downshifter's guide to a resilient future. Jubilee Lake, Daylesford. 21 January 2018. Thanks Yael for the vision.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/ef2f84c6-8fa4-40db-9553-4ad4a13ed42chttps://commons.tube/w/fSZsfk3Z3C1UNAcdiw9HGhhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/a47de933-c2d9-409d-88bc-f08361a33fbd.jpgTerra Nullius BreakfastThe second annual Terra Nullius Breakfast took place outside the Daylesford Town Hall on January 26, 2018. The inaugural event last year at the same site was the first of its kind and joins the Change the Date movement, which is so rapidly growing in Australia. Speakers included Patrick Jones, David Holmgren and Ann E Stewart.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/787e893f-5601-489b-ad11-8e1389644924https://commons.tube/w/aJ56FtrQGoV65YH9G5Ebsthttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/63827998-91a1-4451-a673-4f3e9a15bbcc.jpgNeo peasant hack #11: The rocky clay carrot bedWe've been grow veggies in small patches of around 1-2 metre strips. This means we always have a big range of food to gather from the garden. In this vid Patrick demonstrates the prep required to set a carrot bed in rocky clay soil. The top soil has been built over time with composts and humanure.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/4ec20300-74ba-4d58-85cd-cddf8717bd17https://commons.tube/w/dRpSqKCnCn5v2wdjKTEqfyhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/c756d974-a094-4c54-ae71-481148ac8ca5.jpgWho wants to make ecological culture?What does it mean to be an ecological creature of place? In this video Artist as Family's Patrick Jones presents a case for the home economy as the primary place from where ecological culture is remade, reclaimed and refermented. Watch this video or listen to it as a podcast.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/6813d196-c5ea-416c-a340-71fb695a272chttps://commons.tube/w/cPtk1C27yB47DcMvT4WHVChttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/737f0f67-ec08-4a2e-91d3-1b4a35728f43.jpgLawrence Leung meets the neopeasantsLawrence comes to Tree Elbow to investigate the sleep patterns of Artist as Family and their friends for ABC TV's programme Catalyst.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/5fb552e3-b4ca-41ca-92a4-f063397dfc2ahttps://commons.tube/w/j4LaLmhzSSB5WgrVK7osTZhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/e5fdf8cf-b0ff-42d6-b2db-e5a6529b61cd.jpgFermenting seasonal vegetablesMeg's fermenting workshop as part of the Macedon Ranges Sustainability Festival 2018https://commons.tube/videos/embed/924af268-747a-4383-9d4c-aa04243e55dfhttps://commons.tube/w/9nRe3e6DXbSR68te4Z4wZLhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/aaf12793-ad7b-42fc-a2bc-1b490cc1c8fa.jpgReperform the commonsArtist as Family have developed a way of knocking back the dominance of blackberries in the near forest, but not by burning, poisoning or bulldozing this tenacious species – those heavy-handed tools just promote more pioneer weed species. Rather, by crushing the canes – sending them from fire prone to fire retarding – the medicinal berries can still be harvested, the soil improved (the woody canes break down beautifully) and the soil is held up from erosion. This only needs to be done once a year for about three years. Now, as a groundcovering plant, the blackberry acts as habitat for many small critters and allows for other plants and trees to come up through the lowered canes and eventually shade the blackberry out. This is fun, family and community forest management, and another example of reperforming the commons and establishing a flow of gifts between people and their lived and loved biomes. Footage by Happen Films! Many thanks Jordan and Antoinette and thanks Meegan, Brett and Huon from Woodstone Farm who went blackberry surfing with us...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/43d61076-a751-4c35-8e2d-60be030658f6https://commons.tube/w/rLkbeHYXSdbCg5DAoRmAS3https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/63522846-0a18-47c8-ac6b-66491d36964c.jpgGreen tomato chutneyWoody makes his first film. He wanted to document his recent task of bottling our green tomato chutney. He chose the song – Formidable Vegetable Sound System's Grow Do It – and his folks put it together.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/d0a502a3-eaeb-4bd8-8d31-131123a7d40ehttps://commons.tube/w/6c2pbt3jakwjcDwShJ7BLvhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/e1e4cb93-703a-4dca-aa0c-561bee5a03ba.jpgA neopeasant acknowledgement of countryOn behalf of Artist as Family, Patrick gives our acknowledgement of country at a recent house and garden tour at Tree Elbow.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/2a07bcc2-80f8-4bbf-8c3e-411580daf011https://commons.tube/w/vzYRQXYPAkFFiiE49S1Z7Yhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/4be4fefa-e6be-4571-8094-89b51e1bf81f.jpgNeopeasant radioArtist as Family's Patrick Jones talks to Ben Bush and Adam Grubb on 3RRR's Greening the Apocalypse about all things Peasant Insurrection Chess, wild edible mushrooms, eating weeds and ferals, neopeasantry, blue light pollution, guerrilla forestry, good sleep and generally living a carbon-positive lifeway.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/ef979b3c-5997-4887-8fa4-e82654723978https://commons.tube/w/airBQTNVzM5fCRrGieVsvLhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/0550805a-fa36-42d3-8c38-b6381c0567df.jpgPermacultural neopeasantry in the burbsPatrick speaks at Melbourne Free University and engages with a myriad complex of questions in a lively Q&A afterwards.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/4b51adff-05c2-4cde-8de6-345d5f1f619ehttps://commons.tube/w/omrjc1sRuPPjbXePnN3VAahttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1ab29967-137a-4574-847c-3849d9642d6f.jpgA poem-song for Rod May at the Daylesford hibernal gatheringAnthony Petrucci arranges Patrick's poem for Rod May at the Daylesford winter solstice dinner, 22 June 2017.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/b50386a7-51b7-4a13-a6fc-9b67ca4accc1https://commons.tube/w/9KKZDT9efoDkycArE7mCy9https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b769702f-ec3a-4a98-9fa4-675dd7c26862.jpgIdentifying wild mushrooms 101There's a lot of fear around foraging wild fungi, but eating this nutritious food and getting old beneficial microbes that probably don't exist in the supermarket is reason enough to forage wild food. Patrick takes you through the safest wild mushroom to forage, because if you follow these steps you cannot get it wrong.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/46e53423-9226-4762-9963-ae387ad24fd8https://commons.tube/w/2juCjkPAsq3ZroGcsF7aW6https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/acae2691-da96-4c7d-8cbb-9d2be47cafc7.jpgre:)Fermenting culture: a return to insight through gut logicPatrick Jones outlines a case for how myths are alive in the microbial present, detailing how the story of the Greek goddess, Pandora, has transformed his household through her brewing insight and how this story calls for a return to initiation. (Audio only).https://commons.tube/videos/embed/0aae2b02-7ea2-4d6c-962b-151e8136cbe5https://commons.tube/w/qLuGRNSumbVvySJWQetcFqhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/d01b7c32-a84d-479c-aef1-848374db7801.jpgPoetics permaculture biomes and deathPatrick speaks to Geelong Sustainability about the poetics permaculture biomes and death of radical homemaking.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c891be54-3846-4eb4-901d-2753b8168c02https://commons.tube/w/ek18BiPLFTvkmAzjvvQmTQhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/65d9c2f0-4c38-4869-b918-ca92a0bff912.jpgArt, food, ecology & economyYesterday Patrick spoke at La Trobe University as part of the Art Forum lecture series. Here's an edited version of his talk and the questions that followed.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/6bee03da-b016-4add-8461-e319218000fehttps://commons.tube/w/uTwBYR3Tm2uF1NbxdDCJkrhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/ccea512d-2cc1-4464-8b1d-4b758ee38935.jpgHolistic fire preventionFire prevention work doesn't have to be ecology destroying, on the contrary it can be ecology enhancing. This is an example of holistic community managed forestry on the south-west margin of the town of Daylesford on Djaara country.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/e9f1af69-d688-40ef-8131-f48b7509c57fhttps://commons.tube/w/gRWcuepm9gZF1B5JgFRd6hhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/c7cb3ef2-3ff4-4e1d-b466-ee49885b7077.jpgOldtimer newcomer ecologiesPatrick explains what he is observing of oldtimer and newcomer species biodiversity at Lake Jubilee, Daylesford. What do these ecologies, left to their own organisation or "sympoesis" (to call on Donna Haraway), have to teach us about recuperating communities?https://commons.tube/videos/embed/8071ece4-9aa2-45f4-a7a8-eb0ff17249dahttps://commons.tube/w/wucCKp6pHqKuxj5peM9zyvhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/4a6eaa3e-edfd-4f00-b9d8-d18ac62e914a.jpgWood energyWoody films the gathering, processing, storing and cooking of walked-for wood.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/f6e227a1-ec51-4804-942a-572c495ee8f1https://commons.tube/w/wUGkQZASaZyhxqoaKJryjZhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/5df648b9-cd6c-41bd-bd83-d943a90c271f.jpgChopping & droppingWoody describes some of the fire prevention and humus building work we've been carrying out before the fire season.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/fa4db294-25cd-45a2-989f-370c2f314a75https://commons.tube/w/5Vt2rTKZ1JXNi3E4rQxQsXhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/5cf3de96-d9ed-462c-aa80-3d26818c6e39.jpgA sneak peek into a thriving permaculture quater acreThomas Dorleans films Tree Elbow in true spring, sung to by Charlie from Formidable Vegetable Sound Systemhttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/27dba110-9fd3-479b-be98-5c4025af0513https://commons.tube/w/1s9XiHETk4gnsermfweGumhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/75e4c03a-6c63-46d9-adbe-06754c0f3fcb.jpgDealing with our shitOn behalf of Artist as Family, Patrick outlines a case for humanure (human waste) as a very powerful biological antidote to linear, extractive economy. This talk was recorded at Hawthorn Library in Melbourne last week. The portrait of Patrick was taken by Juanita Broderick speaking in his hometown of Daylesford recently. We used this pic because none were taken at Hawthorn Library. Enjoy!https://commons.tube/videos/embed/03a6db18-2046-40fd-94c3-dd30f810cf34https://commons.tube/w/hGTbkHWcf3WJuWU4R1CBfNhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/d8ef41f4-7479-48fb-95a8-e20812eb592b.jpgScrapA moment of gallant salvaging captured on Artist as Family's third Permaculture Living Course.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/87478253-f396-4360-af55-47e80d059b46https://commons.tube/w/pq5fg5pCwJx2wvv6MTsGbbhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/16f76616-dc57-4237-9bf7-9105cd93f461.jpgThe Rattlers perform at Tree ElbowCara and Marty, former Permaculture Living Course participants at Tree Elbow University's School of Applied Neopeasantry, sing us one of their songs after a PLC alumni get together dinner.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/bd9ea800-f2fa-49d3-bd13-041edf1e540ehttps://commons.tube/w/54qUNCrkZrSudGJ7pNC9VThttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/4fad64e3-bcfc-4b63-b596-50f37fa1c818.jpgCommunity fire prevention as ecological enhancementPatrick describes alternative methods of weed mitigation as part of the response to fire prone environments in a climate change era. Disturbing soil continues to put ecological succession back at stage one. This is a serious problem, especially concerning bush fires as environments move into dryer and windier futures due to anthropogenic climate change.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/20df2335-a397-43ef-9850-9b2cd11e7bb5https://commons.tube/w/71nWziDyJS31tFwGcatB3ohttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/16fd5b24-2750-4fd3-bd3e-645ed128d4d8.jpgClosing the poop loop with Charlie MgeeCharlie Mgee (Formidable Vegetable) is the special guest for the Make & Play (neopeasant bush school) summer solstice party.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/30a45a81-afd3-4041-aea8-964cacb81c1ehttps://commons.tube/w/weUSxZgQcz8sHKKdrNeKRUhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/6bd9cc01-1075-412e-b904-a75487da48dc.jpgIf you want to reduce your carbon... NYE styleDaylesford Community Food Gardeners join the Daylesford New Year's Eve Parade once again for 2018. Thanks to Cath and Annie, Leah and Jeff for volunteering your organisation of the parade, and to the Regional Centre for Culture for funding the food forest plants, which will be planted out at the skate park on January 12.Thanks Vasko for filming and thanks gardeners for another great year. Artist as Community!!https://commons.tube/videos/embed/f4e3697d-e362-4153-b27f-5bf7dab77d62https://commons.tube/w/hSFcckng3u7iyk4NHURjpthttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/0b128607-3b74-4b18-9f9f-1d6c82549a6b.jpgHousingA song we wrote last winter to voice the housing crisis. It is dedicated to our friend Eka Eiff.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/88a58f84-be7e-445e-b0cb-a1aeac2cb761https://commons.tube/w/m531AHLYBBET4UoXBCuoLohttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1fd32c30-087f-4d60-90a9-e19ee447ddca.jpgProtecting Djap Wurrung sacred treesWe spent today on the front line with Djap Wurrung people protecting ancient sacred trees on their country. Here's the footage of a first win against VicRoads and Victoria Police acting on behalf of the climate-wrecking interests of the state. We will return if the courts rule in favour of the destruction. Our bags remain packed and ready to go. Please be on standby to come join Djap Wurrung mob on country protect their culture, the climate and their heritagehttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/a286fcb8-1a7e-458f-bdbc-880f29a2df66https://commons.tube/w/kHmAE3sfVARDCJm2gaode8https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/00eb0061-9a68-45af-8cfc-1c51d430ae8f.jpgProtecting Djap Wurrung cultural heritageDjap Wurrung man, Zellanach (DT) Djab Mara, takes us onto his country to give us further insight into why his trees and culture need protection.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/9fa3d2a1-b1ae-46ba-a428-9a2227b58049https://commons.tube/w/8YEJd5GTNx6C987RN7NuDthttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/14608456-ec3f-4494-96b6-e7b7287dc3b3.jpgBlackberry surfingRadical scouts, the Feral & Free kids of Hepburn and Daylesford, show how blackberry surfing is fire prevention and weed mitigation all rolled into one big afternoon of fun. Music by Belle and Sebastian.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/40997d11-ae90-4361-be77-de4e9bb8ecfdhttps://commons.tube/w/3vdnbaWbd6hw32EqhApUtzhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1f2d84a8-fd29-4992-95e5-b01540d55831.jpgArtist as Family on Gardening AustraliaA visit from Hannah Maloney (Goodlife Permaculture) and the crew from ABC's Gardening Australia visited Tree Elbow University's School of Applied Neopeasantry about 7 weeks ago. This is what they produced.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/14467787-591f-4eb7-97a4-7aefc54b0347https://commons.tube/w/7CVa7BcBuzJ3Vp28TBMHRghttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/c6f16618-6c17-48bb-93f7-d1c187979355.jpgCommunity krauting day (by Woody)The annual community kruating day put on by Daylesford's Culture Club, is an opportunity to buy locally grown cabbages direct from the farmers and learn how to convert them into life-giving yumminess. Held in the Senior Citizen's room at the Daylesford Town Hall on 4th May 2019.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/35be5def-127b-498f-951e-6a436b048e45https://commons.tube/w/j19bmZS1zjU8coM6dzd9hkhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/8bf03833-2932-402c-b6b5-3cc612e5413f.jpgPublic fruitA celebration of an apple commons, an honouring of grand pruner, Ian Clarke, and how to make a suburban street a sacred place.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/91c98941-7b97-4480-ac71-f046e2212103https://commons.tube/w/dWqAHhnKgCaZqV1MQppdnzhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/c18ff6f2-18d7-4752-8e02-e0c7e420c839.jpgGoathandAn introduction to Goathand cooperative – a cultural, biological and local response to climate era bushfire risk and weed dominance.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/68c6fca2-4402-4dd5-868c-049fd18c00dbhttps://commons.tube/w/t51J2fj1B7ky12jHkL9pFAhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/adfbb072-542b-40f5-8ad6-c3a1a94287b4.jpgGoathand 2 (a community response to climate era land care)Goathand cooperative detail our low carbon methods, the bureaucratic challenges we face and the growing community support we have in rolling out this gentle but powerful approach to bushfire and weed mitigation in the Hepburn Shire in a climate changing era.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/db362a57-4235-4b30-989d-538db28b3854https://commons.tube/w/rKrxRBYQk1bY2vRY2PxXFZhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b071acf1-9282-4a51-b089-c6d601f8f4c6.jpgLand for life: Indigenous, permacultural and post-capital perspectivesThe second in a series of talks that began with Land Cultures (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2IrBoLbWU4). In Land for life, Dja Dja Wurrung storyteller Bec Phillips, permaculture co-originator David Holmgren and US critic and scholar Eric Holt Giménez in conversation at the Daylesford Town Hall.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/d08531a2-635b-4053-9669-c038006b29b3https://commons.tube/w/1mPjAFJ3SPr4AREstSt532https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/bc6cdb32-6687-46a8-818d-ea41cb26f4ab.jpgAnimism respokenThree environmental storytellers’ journey to reclaim their senses, relationships & worlds. Permaculturist and dancer, Maya Ward (author of The Comfort of Water), neopeasant hacker, Patrick Jones (from Artist as Family) and rewilding facilitator, Claire Dunn (author of My Year Without Matches) share experiences of contact with more-than-human consciousness, and speak to the societal trouble of foregrounding the city at the expense of the animate and creaturely.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/02e809ac-9c36-4b20-b632-0c2ea62ac6bdhttps://commons.tube/w/qEfdWvUgAAZRKJ8w3NXRthhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/bd72cf45-83a3-4eaa-abb9-a13c753944e1.jpgIn praise of weed soup: towards a posthuman biodiversity movementDr Patrick Jones speaks at the Daylesford Horticultural Society about the many givings of common and outlaw plants. This talk features an excerpt from botanist Hugh Wilson speaking on Happen Films' Fools and Dreamers.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c7b25b3c-e3c5-4ddc-91d9-108622a645cahttps://commons.tube/w/f4LZ4qhcMekq7gh7gcZcpWhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/8e12ef1d-4097-4067-b4de-c01a835d7d71.jpgPeople, goats and land careGoathand cooperative invited co-op members, neighbours, community land participants, neopeasants and permaculturists to join them in a celebration day. Here's a wee snippet.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/71e6e510-b389-477b-b609-2e17230ebd70https://commons.tube/w/oekfd2u87pZtczctS1GHCPhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/eb555c79-46b2-47f4-8db7-ea45875245fd.jpg7 year-old unschooler demonstrates greater ecological literacy than most politiciansWoody Ulman Jones is captured by news media at the Sept 20 climate student strike in Melbourne. The full story here: https://7news.com.au/news/environment/kids-skip-school-to-lead-biggest-climate-rally-in-australian-history-c-464393https://commons.tube/videos/embed/b4059464-3672-480b-ac27-7f1942ec31dbhttps://commons.tube/w/kZvKpZhJrF9z9Wa6xrFGoPhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b1e190ce-c53b-484c-b628-0ad448978f6f.jpgBaking & making day at Tree ElbowWoody makes a video collage of a cold day spent mostly inside with volunteers Phillippa and Oriole from Barcelona.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/a1e55cd3-628d-4214-be9b-93e0a2300b93https://commons.tube/w/bg5NizYLGYYm95tjuLasechttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/2a41f63a-28c6-4e68-839a-8a971589ea72.jpgAn outbreak of democracyHepburn Shire residents gather for a community-led information session at the Daylesford Town Hall to hear concerns about the proposed Local Law No.2 2019.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/5316800e-d80c-456a-8fcb-37045aa6d04dhttps://commons.tube/w/vYAQv8q6fqejjTN5iNFwXyhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/dc7fc70a-83cb-4785-bced-6dbd68811e4f.jpgAgricultural weeds featured at the Daylesford Agricultural ShowPatrick speaks on the benefits and uses of agricultural weeds as both food and medicine at the 2019 Daylesford Agricultural Show. Documented by Michal Krawczyk.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/f2c0240f-4ba8-44d9-8b51-596cdc184e66https://commons.tube/w/1cWwFJaD79d9sveUHkhQeUhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/db451801-2ff9-4ceb-9209-76d00503a9e5.jpgWhat is safe?In an time of unprecedented waste, Hepburn Shire Council are bringing in overreaching laws. Here, Patrick attempts to demonstrate the difference between safe and unsafe use of the Daylesford Transfer Station.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/01aac943-d9d2-4630-8af8-b8b7fbf699b6https://commons.tube/w/hju7mC4a2HH1ZaJsVxwukDhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/6da514e0-622e-42b0-ac7f-fe396d1f5ca2.jpgNew enclosure laws effect neighbourhood weeding and fire guardingForthcoming local laws will effectively end neighbourhood weeding and fire guarding initiatives, thus costing the council thousands of dollars annually for work the community does voluntarily.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/8426edf7-d72a-44d8-9787-64f2ec04daa3https://commons.tube/w/pP3HrG3MMCNZjdXQc3ngCmhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/8269c09b-0b9b-4c6a-9479-fc62775d3624.jpgNeighbourhood Bushfire Mitigation using Boer goatsPatrick describes a year-round fuel reduction method in Victoria's high bushfire risk town, Daylesford on Nine News.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c0d3d1bb-0ce9-4d0e-8247-d32df5bc3c20https://commons.tube/w/mG8V5MJCSjzspi7r7shAR4https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/7c56098c-bd7c-497f-8de7-5cdbfbf4175a.jpgABC radio on Anti-bicycle local laws in Hepburn ShireMeg speaks with Nicole Chvastek on ABC Ballarat, 14 February 2020, in relation to new Local Laws Hepburn Shire Council are wanting to impose on residents.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/a79166e4-93a0-47a7-9f08-90cd263dd405https://commons.tube/w/3Z6DZoh7H6AWApJgfESNy3https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b1e35b38-c622-45d3-8ef4-f7847040fec5.jpgFestival of renewing democracy in Hepburn Shire on ABC radioSingers, bicycle riders and other residents assemble outside the Daylesford Town Hall before going into the council meeting to witness the council adopt Local Laws No.2. Patrick speaks to ABC Statewide Drive. At this stage we didn't know the outcome of the decision.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/182b283f-a21c-4d76-b47d-4d7ab0da186ahttps://commons.tube/w/34zo9MQFRYb4S6qoPiTgjZhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/d882da7d-a843-4ad4-8ef1-1bb70013fac5.jpgLocal Laws adopted in Hepburn Shire AGAINST the community's willThis is the beginning of a new democracy movement in Daylesford. Local democracy with Local Laws 1 and Local Law 2 is anti-community and anti-democracy. Together we will rebuild a broken system! Many thanks to Michal Krawczyk for capturing this vision.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/10b214ba-87bc-4e8d-a938-bbad26f19051https://commons.tube/w/14tZmn2XZYJ87bFaQTpXurhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/f51b7a6e-6bd8-4d2a-a463-3f0aaa48fd25.jpgWhat a load of No 2! Local Law No 2 being adopted by an out of touch Hepburn Shire CouncilThis loss of rights is the beginning of a new chapter of community-led democracy in the Hepburn Shire. It's time we take back our council, repopulate it with people who are exiting the matrix, and develop circular democracy and peoples' assemblies.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/007c7ae3-1edf-46ec-8fde-10ee2a37beb5https://commons.tube/w/pFH3e2dVkqAMCv9BxZj6WQhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/729d0e58-6cf4-4e16-abbb-3671a3b5ad64.jpgSocial distancing – Day 1The Australian Government Ad above is nothing to do with us. It has been imposed on this page without consent. Like the recent bushfires the Australian Government have again failed to act swiftly and so the pandemic will cause much more harm in Australia than necessary. We have asked YouTube to remove it and as yet they have not responded in kind. Meg and Patrick speak about why Artist as Family are socially distancing and where they're at in this moment of unfolding global crisis. Thank you Michal Krawczyk for filming.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/bfcd7cab-9e00-4eb7-a140-61c40335a3a0https://commons.tube/w/9v3vRiJqGhHpUXXZDq9HzUhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/a5cb14b4-969f-4308-96c9-baefa96455c6.jpgJust how fragile...Day 2 of our social distancingMeg speaks to ABC radio on Day 2 of our social distancing.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/44d73a73-5400-4eb4-a72e-770c61aa9612https://commons.tube/w/oQw7vrmvdPC6vGVFBPj1cfhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/a3c10149-b7e2-47f5-a06a-66399d6801bf.jpgRagtime revisited – Family cloth 101Patrick takes you on a tour of the magical land of Artist as Family cloth. Stay tuned for more free online Permaculture Living Courses. Thanks Michal Krawczyk for the cinematography! Bonza m8!https://commons.tube/videos/embed/b8ef4f0c-5105-4aef-aa85-3e930eb5526chttps://commons.tube/w/mYRpqhs8xy2QxamtxwuEgQhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/50ab245e-2987-4b9b-9a6e-617e0ef7e694.jpgFeral tuckerOn the sixth day of our social distancing Patrick and Woody take a long, health-giving walk, picnicking, making spears, swimming in the life-giving creek and coming home with nearly 3.5 kg of foraged food medicines. We started permaculture living courses several years. We pioneered them recognising that applied or embodied knowledge is missing from many educational forums. Our courses have always been non-monetary because we believe knowledge belongs to a commons. We will continue sharing knowledge free online as our way of contributing at this time of crises.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/a9e6ded7-7408-4681-a81f-4829ae59eb4ehttps://commons.tube/w/1Maiu7ce5caqSB6VTTY6KRhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/091b78f4-644f-48a7-b57a-0bbf3f2f9e4a.jpgSkinning and gutting a rabbit – permaculture living non-monetisedAfter Zero brings home a rabbit, Patrick demonstrates how to prepare the precious animal for food, and talks about reclaiming a direct, hands-on connection with the very lives that make our lives possible.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/064e33ae-3efd-4c9f-839f-91ee600cfc33https://commons.tube/w/4PjzHdZsdxZpnNFzwBN9Jyhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/079c3fec-1ef4-4e03-93db-f24a809dfd3f.jpgRabbit pelt stretching and drying – permaculture living non-monetisedPatrick shows a simple process of stretching and drying a rabbit pelt to prepare it for a textile project. After this stage the pelt can be scraped of any dried flesh and then softened if required.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/1ee6d302-492d-4fab-a135-75c9067e43a4https://commons.tube/w/93BZYrJZYouU3cAWZfTjuThttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/d3ce288b-b355-4bd7-a0bf-9345e058ce52.jpgMaking rabbit liver patê – permaculture living non-monetisedMeg takes us through how to turn rabbit liver into a delicious patê.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/4126c846-53ab-4cfb-8303-e1fbdd28160bhttps://commons.tube/w/u67v5c41LYADzCywXg9Qqshttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/09dc6465-fce0-4dec-9ee5-7e9a6344eed8.jpgFeral food gives us feral energy – permaculture living non monetisedWoody takes us on a little foraging expedition where he finds magic, wild nutrition, non-monetised food, and much more besides.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/e3769b9d-05aa-4f4d-a877-7bb9b624a45ahttps://commons.tube/w/tHmSWfWJxJXijewHwMmU6phttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/3815b738-6cf9-446b-ad74-c86725abb81d.jpgSix preserving methods for apples – permaculture living non monetisedPatrick and Meg take you through several processes for extending the life of an applely abundance.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/e06d1ae3-a8b9-479f-b0e1-55cdd991c479https://commons.tube/w/sMy5bQsTPstvNL8Po7whkLhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/2896c5f7-8831-41eb-b35a-e4d3f2ada6bd.jpgReplacing growth with belonging economiesLived, written and spoken by Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman. Text editing by Anitra Nelson and Ferne Edwards. Video editing and seven drawings by Patrick Jones (the second, third and fourth are in collaboration with David Holmgren). Photographs and footage by Artist as Family, David Jablonka, Nina Sahraoui, Mara Ripani, Michelle Dunn, Thomas Dorleans, Michal Krawczyk, Giulia Lepori, Nicholas Walton-Healey, Ponch Hawkes, Gab Connole, Zac Imhoof,, Anthony Petrucci, Jordan Osmond, Jason Workman, Ian Robertson and David Holmgren. Sound by Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman (assisted by Jordan Osmond). Sound track: 'A place of simple feeding' – a poem-recipe by Patrick Jones, arranged and performed by Anthony Petrucci. Gift Ecology Films (shared under a creative commons license/non-commercial). An Artist as Family home production Please let us know about your own transition from hypertechnocivilityhttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/d8e9d70a-0a3b-4c01-8c95-d765fccaa4cahttps://commons.tube/w/jBamvxNBu17sodg9ZSLQAwhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/170f7e41-a6e8-4385-9957-8307d944bb0d.jpgBuilding the household economy with acornsAnother online permaculture living course by Artist as Family.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/96ad4acd-7599-4baa-89ca-8e6424094ab2https://commons.tube/w/vkRN8vx2jFUHCWMuAMz4z4https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1108b379-759e-4a5f-a46e-390bb93df7f2.jpg6 easy steps to clean and sharp secateursBlackwood takes us on a secateur cleaning workshop as part of our ongoing series of non-monetised permaculture living courses. This video is dedicated to Ian Clarke (RIP), who taught us everything we know about orchard care and orchard tool care offering his gifts to the universal knowledge commons.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/ed9ed719-aed9-43fe-aec9-e865275812a1https://commons.tube/w/fqoSE1rnfpqiGJajd43gqPhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/202afc03-1cf8-4fb5-86c2-5e194e6ad395.jpgTurning toxic fly agarics into delicious food – advanced neopeasantryIn another of our permaculture living courses (non-monetised), Patrick takes us through the process of converting toxic Fly agarics (Amanita muscaria) into highly valuable and desirable food, thus further building the home economies. For our video on identifying Saffron milkcaps (pine mushrooms) go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mncNajRa6HAhttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/74c7e34f-9871-40fb-9a40-34aa03f606bbhttps://commons.tube/w/gFn4gGUrFJAWBhFR8oyXm6https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/97fd87ea-d03d-47a7-bbdd-a910277c0631.jpgPlay & participation in the home economyIn creating a risk averse culture what have we lost? What personal and collective agency have we given away? And who has benefitted? This video features Blackwood (age 7) cutting firewood with an electric chainsaw, contributing to our home economy. Play, participation, risk, skill development and purpose are all values we promote in our neopeasant belonging economy.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/7ef8103a-84e8-4ed5-a5e8-57a41c5da4c9https://commons.tube/w/8MSJ4p3rKsHrjfUWSJTBSehttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/8293487b-4c50-42e4-87b3-017f647a7601.jpgGarlic ferments – permaculture living (non-monetised)Our household is corporate-medicine free. We do hundreds of interconnected things throughout the year that all stack up to such freedom. In this video Meg teaches us to make two of her more powerful natural flu shots using garlic, honey and salt. No need to hand your money over to powerful interests, make it yourself and in doing so honour your body, your economy, your community and your local land. Meg calls this another example of 'community-immunity'. If we are well in ourselves we are better able to be in service to life.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/3f17b364-8be8-4b47-aef9-5b39c062cca5https://commons.tube/w/5iPTFwGxikimtjAyV5gvrDhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/59ebd8cc-1d21-41ca-8f2a-29d9b906b4c1.jpgNeopeasant cider making – permaculture living (non-monetised)Patrick takes us through putting on a wild fermented cider, bottling a wild fermented cider, and showing his methods for zero-waste alcohol production and consumption.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/22e1b66f-e66d-4037-800e-462bb9dc9e9bhttps://commons.tube/w/1Ah3pSJWwjs8PK4MfG5QSuhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/fc8fd6fc-c8c1-4ccc-a8ff-c88cd3e8a2d4.jpgSunchokes – from garden to gut (permaculture living non-monetised)Patrick and Meg reveal some of the delights of Jerusalem artichoke, AKA the sunchoke. A drought hardy, gut healthy and generally useful plant for the home and community economies. Did you say fartichokes? Not after they've been through Meg's lacto-fermentation process.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/04c92c95-69e5-41d7-93ca-97a5902e79d0https://commons.tube/w/tvWuyGFEQR1krzNPSuJodFhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/95deb6d1-60a7-4358-8695-41a677f3b473.jpgWalked-for mushrooms as divestment – permaculture living (non-monetised)Woody and Patrick take you on a foraging walk and find four delicious species of edible wild mushrooms for lunch.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/ded4e534-92fa-4e29-9fcf-fb6f60882547https://commons.tube/w/rxW1DYgfPL15LMBszTwNmhhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/8feaf013-a460-4e02-be41-be8731c499c9.jpgMagpieWe wrote a love song.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/cee9cf1b-27be-48a8-b8ab-3ad60d2b3c90https://commons.tube/w/qU17Dc3n5AUTXSjcVHDMzFhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/3e01a024-cc5d-47ea-be23-cd691d49739f.jpgFlattening the curve (of growth economics)How do we flatten the curve of the greatest pathogen the world faces right now – growth economics? Patrick speaks to the possibility of transforming our economic realms to become again peoples of place, or what Tyson Yunkaporta calls a "custodial species".https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c99e130e-d5fc-4903-bd5f-dca6b0e1462dhttps://commons.tube/w/81U2atmsdhmwrN8HQnfqDthttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1fdbb390-b6aa-4a0e-80ff-1c3147bd603a.jpgWater (a neopeasant theme song)We wrote this last summer after receiving many requests from our blog subscribers for a post on all the water saving strategies we implement at the School of Applied Neopeasantry. We thought a music video would be a fun way to do this. We hope you enjoy our latest offering in which we celebrate water, life, and terrain theory.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/38d00774-5924-4026-a964-cf3722cb2c1dhttps://commons.tube/w/8JDGHRFWJ7g83JN6U72hHGhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/ade435b6-72c2-48a4-bc9c-8e7337eea167.jpgBooks we love (at the School of Applied Neopeasantry)Meg and Patrick share some of their most loved books and reveal why you might like them too. For their full resource list please go to https://tinyurl.com/neopeasanthttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/3ea47196-880b-4814-815e-252bebecfcfahttps://commons.tube/w/mUeo5b6Ai4esnTR8LQzGNZhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/283e95d8-49d6-42b5-b682-0cc239fcd468.jpgMake mead like a neopeasant (permaculture living non-monetised)Meg takes us through making a simple mead, accompanied by some historical points and practices and her big love for bio-terrain theory, as it applies to our various lifeways. After this video you will be able to go forth and make mead like a neopeasant!https://commons.tube/videos/embed/a941b1ff-02d5-4296-b20a-5b5c3f1d452dhttps://commons.tube/w/tJ6N3DTA4KMoTUiCvK8VB5https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/a8c760fa-8f02-4da3-866b-c56ff1943463.jpgWhat is initiation?Patrick introduces the subject of initiation and makes a case for its return.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/e0878d82-819d-41b0-9974-56481d7721cehttps://commons.tube/w/cM791KDafJHZLGmNu8emUkhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/cb2c972d-f685-45e7-88d5-3a5c6d6b1882.jpgReturning gifts to the biomes that support us (or, how to make potash & activated charcoal)What gifts back to the living of the world can we make? Patrick shows you how to make potash and activated biochar and describes some of their uses.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/5f60c716-2cce-4bb2-bcb0-774d0940bd23https://commons.tube/w/22WtkibCf4A4MzYz1dqnCbhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/e5b7ce5a-aa3d-4f70-a10f-293d57a43496.jpgPermaculture's dilemma – a matter and spirit of Commons?Permaculture can be considered liberation ecology when it comes to food, energy and medicine resources, but what's the larger political project for permaculture? In another chalkboard episode, Patrick sketches and explores permaculture's dilemma – the interrelated complex of land access, historical privilege and capital relations.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/085e7397-a3e9-4f59-ba72-787020d445e6https://commons.tube/w/pGEDLwstySfkkrZhzLESsbhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/cfd6faf5-878b-4e8e-b294-616e27afb7d8.jpgThe gift of feral nettleMeg takes us through making a gift of stinging nettle with wild vinegar and other feral medicines.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/bfefc275-a4f9-4d6d-ac78-281ab17cbec6https://commons.tube/w/bpXi2s1DX9KDyeQgBm7Nk2https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/4083b98c-66a5-479c-a786-46476584f526.jpgGifts, repairs & tools (unschooling 101)Woody needed a pick axe so we asked around. A friend had an old forged head. We traded a bottle of stewed apples for it. We went into the forest to look for a handle. We asked an old ancestral Hawthorn tree for a limb. Waited. Listened patiently for the reply. The answer, in this case, was yes. We returned potash to the tree with thanks. #unschooling #flowofgifts #repairingtools #commonshttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/545391b4-8889-4a14-a7cc-69856f134697https://commons.tube/w/1spkaEWSUtz6iz647jKN7Lhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/4387becb-da6f-478d-be6f-cc33c7e3ac58.jpgOur food co op: building community resilienceBlackwood makes a short documentary about our local food co-op – Hepburn Wholefoods Collective. Apart from some editing help the entire video project was created by him, forming the concept, devising the questions, and setting up and taking the footage. Go Woody!https://commons.tube/videos/embed/03afb747-0772-433a-9dd4-aedb74bb7dd8https://commons.tube/w/3jbV8UfoqKcstGTrux5DbYhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b4d79c72-187b-49e8-bdef-f222f008d5d7.jpgCold climate gardening (to extend the growing season)Patrick takes us on a brief tour demonstrating a number of the responses we've made to the cold climate we live in and how to encourage food production of marginal food bearing crops, such as citrus. If we didn't do this we'd have little fruit (filled with vitamin C and fibre) in the winter months.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/12bc647a-502c-4052-a58b-2cf19334ed80https://commons.tube/w/3Cc3naZAUE4B3Q9UA7obHjhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/e760deab-1fa2-44ee-9112-0eda8ecb4331.jpgDomestication, feralty, fifty orbits & many more moonsMarking the arrival of his 50th birthday, Patrick organises a collection of thoughts and observations into a collage poem. The poem is a kind of self and societal portrait. The recording was made at Patrick's beloved sit spot in the forest and captures many of the bird songs of mid morning. The poem concludes with the final verse of a song written and sung by our dear friend Brett Adamson, composed as a gift for Patrick.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/153fdb6e-db08-45c7-bc9f-6dbac26f3ad4https://commons.tube/w/rQ2qtR9zwEhk2xDpV6yCr7https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/91e36872-1c37-4c66-bcc1-caa4850b3f13.jpgComposting capitalism to grow a new storyMeg was recently in conversation with Laura Poole on the Mahasoma podcast where she discussed being part of a commons, circular time, climate grief, unschooling, upskilling, building the home and gift economies and the complexities of living on stolen country. For more show notes head to: https://www.mahasoma.com/journal/mahasomapodcast-megulmanhttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/d1290b39-3e40-48ce-b4e2-880796b0b870https://commons.tube/w/fRjWJfzgQrHLJkJyzpagdqhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/a1935d58-d96e-45ae-a18c-ee3abce5f625.jpgThe View from the Shore – truth telling, resilience, language, health & family educationThis video podcast is a yarn between two families who are augmenting their own cultural paths, largely independent of government and business. A yarn between our family and Gadigal elder Uncle Charles Davison and Wiradjuri woman Jen Ridley's. Jen and Charles are Aboriginal leaders living on the Central Coast of NSW, bringing back to country some of what was taken from them. In this film they share both their pragmatic and philosophical wisdoms – as parents, grandparents, family educators and as speakers of Aboriginal knowing. We hope you enjoy The View From the Shore, and you feel inclined to share it widely with friends and loved ones. It's an important story, one which aims to open up discussions, or continue them, and bring about much needed kitchen table conversations.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/78430f74-b64a-4d89-ae8e-987265922964https://commons.tube/w/ahYaAmViLKzkw7XeFYX812https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/3ee10181-6f19-4939-808b-0b703a76f659.jpgDouble burner brick rocket stoveIn order to reduce our energy use another few notches we needed to pay attention to the outdoor kitchen and improving the efficiency of our cooking tools. We decided that a rocket stove was needed because they only use a handful of sticks to boil the kettle or cook dinner. But most rocket stoves we've seen seem technically too sophisticated for our skillset. Then we found a simple brick stove design online, one that isn't fixed and can be moved around. We knew making a fixed version and doubling the cooking capacity was within our skillset and we jumped in this week. This stove doesn't just reduce our energy use but cuts down on our labour of cutting, hauling and storing firewood. The intention is that the outdoor kitchen be used for 4-5 months of the year and potentially reduce our firewood use by a third. We hope we've shown you enough to be able to follow this design, or at least have given you some inspiration to develop your own design. We are so grateful to our neighbour Adrian for gifting us bricks, and we're grateful to Kristin Rule for gifting us the use of her incredible music. More of Kristin's fine compositions can be found here: http://www.kristinrule.com/https://commons.tube/videos/embed/4b40c2eb-b76b-4973-9a06-9275009d0a35https://commons.tube/w/qDgFx6DiD2TtsavKU934Uzhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/c4426fcb-c5a3-48c9-9a7c-3407d5d181a2.jpgRocket stove modification and cook upAfter a week of using our Double burner brick rocket stove (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsgBpBtgXb4&t=1s) we realised we needed to do some tweaks. We also thought we'd take you through the lighting of the stove, something we left out last time. In this video we also do a cook up, lighting both stoves, and give you a little taste (albeit very abbreviated) of the honouring we do before a meal. Thanks again to Kristin Rule for her wonderful music: http://www.kristinrule.com/https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c78f82f1-52ef-451c-9684-eb5457ba72e5https://commons.tube/w/7ejDtwaNKLGzFHnP7DAvGShttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b24881a2-7bef-4092-94ff-3bc6f82be6f1.jpgMy random unschooling day by BlackwoodIn another iteration of teaching himself to make films (calling for help as needed), Blackwood takes us on a little journey into a day in his life as a neopeasant performer and Artist as Family participant.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/3272fdf6-a2fa-4836-9299-4b96f53169f6https://commons.tube/w/cSAEFPE2QmZYhSGuk23t7Chttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/9ed96c60-cda0-4ba2-984d-ceace1350ee6.jpgGoatman dreaming (feat. Glen Dunn)Patrick cuts through the blackberries so goats can attain browsing access in a post--herbicide present in Djaara Peoples' Country. His labour is accompanied by an old teacher from art school, Glen Dunn, who covers an old gem from the heyday of alt-rock. Young Blackwood hangs with the goats and with them we all inherit the dance. Big thanks to Glen and The Dandy Warhols.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/602513fb-fe7b-4a8f-9f60-a079b1442d8chttps://commons.tube/w/w3k8gteo6tzeMnU5VA3nD8https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/7fcdc098-2238-4aa6-8799-c35e81c38b56.jpgMaking nettle, hawthorn, calendula, borage and elderflower teaMeg picks leaves and flowers to dry for tea.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/f3456f08-18ea-449a-b0e0-cc54829554edhttps://commons.tube/w/m7JN646ymbvdnaUPgcFAAKhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/2e19d95f-2803-43ab-9421-8c36c9f5f4a9.jpgA twig song (for Maya Ward)In the second of a series, and marking the arrival of our dear friend Maya Ward's 50th birthday, Patrick organises a collection of thoughts and observations into another long collage poem. The poem concludes with a short musical outro featuring Patrick on goatskin drum and Meg on recorder. Maya's work and thinking has brought many gifts to Tree Elbow and Artist as Family are among her many admirers and collaborators. For the first in this series click through to here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in9Ie1hcSBE&t=2shttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/a2e79be3-0126-4180-a7e9-0b4063d2a18fhttps://commons.tube/w/3DjMaZteXqDKik2aNBJZzehttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/a1a74cf2-c3e7-4b46-8735-f516270ac508.jpgDjaara flora count after managed Boer goat herbivoryThis video documents 35 species of Indigenous flora that have returned to Country after two years of extensive winter browsing and grazing by Boer goats. The goats have eaten down 2-4m high blackberry and stripped the flowers of other woody weed species such as gorse and broom, and this has enabled a significant recharge of biota in a small community-managed forest in southern Djaara Peoples' Country. Thanks Tanya Loos for your plantsmithing knowledges and assistance. Djaara and other First Peoples please be advised. We acknowledge the names of the flora in this video are not the true names given by Mother Country. Imperialist classification is regrettably used here as a temporary identification measure and not to continue to support a colonial lineage. We believe that one day language will return to Country. Flora species in order of appearance: FISHBONE WATER FERN (BLECHNUM NUDUM) FIREWEED GROUNDSEL (SENECIO LINEARIFOLIUS) SLENDER SPEEDWELL ((VERONICA GRACILIS) KANGAROO GRASS (THEMEDA TRIANDRA) PALE SUNDEW (DROSERA PELTATA SSP PELTATA) WATTLE MAT-RUSH (LOMANDRA FILIFORMIS) MILKMAIDS (BURCHARDIA UMBELLATA) GREY PARROT-PEA (DILLWYNIA CINERASCENS) SPIKY-HEADED MAT-RUSH (LOMANDRA LONGIFOLIA) POA TUSSOCK GRASS (POA LABILLARDIEREI) RED-ANTHER WALLABY GRASS (RYTIDOSPERMA PALLIDUM) EARLY NANCY (WURMBEA DIOICA) COMMON RICE FLOWER (PIMELEA HUMILIS) BLUE BOTTLE-DAISY (LAGENOPHORA STIPITATA) BIDGEE WIDGEE (ACAENA NOVAE-ZELANDIAE) AUSTRAL BUTTERCUP (RANUNCULUS LAPPACEUS) AUSTRAL BRACKEN (PTERIDIUM ESCULENTUM) BLACK ANTHER FLAX LILY (DIANELLA REVOLUTA) YAM DAISY (MICROSERIS WALTERI) PALE VANILLA-LILY (ARTHROPODIUM MILLEFLORUM) AUSTRAL CRANESBILL (GERANIUM SOLANDERI) PORANTHERA (PORANTHERA MICROPHYLLA) BLACKWOOD WATTLE (ACACIA MELANOXYLON) SWEET BURSARIA (BURSARIA SPINOSA) TIGER ORCHID (DIURIS SULPHUREA) NATIVE VIOLET (VIOLA HEDERACEA) BILLY BUTTONS (PYCNOSORUS GLOBOSUS) CHERRY BALLART (EXOCARPOS CUPRESSIFORMIS) COMMON RASPWORT (GONOCARPUS TETRAGYNUS) PRICKLY STARWORT (ST...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/15685ea3-1c8e-4fd6-aed7-eb30afb54ecbhttps://commons.tube/w/cFNQzyZ8GZM2mZp5DppEHshttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/ca893c13-350c-473c-ab3c-95b6cff965c7.jpgThe Annual Terra Nullius Breakfast (Daylesford, Djaara Country)The Terra Nullius Breakfast takes place each year on the 26th of January. We gather outside the Daylesford Town Hall on Dja Dja Wurrung spoken-for Country and share breakfast together between 8am and 10am. The breakfast is a community coming together to 'acknowledge the legal fiction that the nation-state of Australia is founded on. We come together to grieve the suffering First People have endured due to terra nullius, and to praise Aboriginal resilience and renewal in the face of continued colonisation and the continued use of the legal fiction – terra nullius. Always was, always will be! All are welcome!https://commons.tube/videos/embed/5ea3659f-7dca-4ddf-a00f-b1e2f4b58a64https://commons.tube/w/rB7NTe5aaMJDAfgARMsD34https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/effc90dd-309c-4630-9149-b7bf0be6659d.jpgDancing on the seed heads of our feralty (for Meg)The third in a series, Patrick weaves together a string of little insights of daily life in our neopeasant homefront. The poem takes place between late true spring and early summer here in Djaara Mother Country. A time of dancing, seed forming and night-chilling listening. Dedicated to Meg on her 47th birthday, for all the summer dancing that she is.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/cf5bb1b9-3cfe-4110-9874-2eff40ec062bhttps://commons.tube/w/vTD4hr9V76fXn1pEwV69XUhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/81db22ad-2b64-4b03-8184-6bb3395964d7.jpgRiding for the feelingBlackwood checks on the goats.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/f20eca54-cee7-4c33-91eb-338d2da432a2https://commons.tube/w/5LeeCRkqHFpWVVjv2mzVZzhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1c02494f-7379-4770-8372-8b1581b86e92.jpgReclaiming a “custodial species’ approach (to forestry, using goats)Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) and the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) hosted the recent webinar, 'How goats can regenerate our forests'. This is an edited version of Patrick's latest presentation, which includes excerpts from Happen Films 'From weedy forests to grassy woodlands.' The films and books referred to are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9yiclBCxMo&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cVruJL0wOw&t=11s https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/sand-talk https://www.francisweller.net/the-wild-edge-of-sorrow-the-sacred-work-of-grief.htmlhttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/26916fda-ff98-4a71-bf82-275b83f268c7https://commons.tube/w/q913KsGFd1p3q2XahKq8pUhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/677e5974-f404-47ce-850b-223d4e65fdc3.jpgWhat is Scientism, and how does it differ from Science?Our take on what we perceive as a fundamental blindspot in global society.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c3794ea5-7691-4ad8-8bd4-87b968756b96https://commons.tube/w/9Zp3h7AYsqMDNayEvVVBYZhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/380e263d-5a7c-43ac-bd99-ef2c964ed911.jpgTyson Yunkaporta & Anitra Nelson – Land makes life: Indigenous and degrowth perspectivesIn this video Indigenous thinker Tyson Yunkaporta meets degrowth scholar Anitra Nelson. 'Land makes life: Indigenous and degrowth perspectives' traverses subjects as broad as goats, Gaddafi, housing cooperatives, story currencies, and provides some timely material for those thinking beyond hypertechnocivility's money story. Djaara woman Rebecca Phillips performs a Welcome and Smoking, and the event took place at the Daylesford Town Hall on the autumn equinox in Djaara Mother Country.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/48ccb3df-50c1-4801-9416-a671c342990dhttps://commons.tube/w/aovFg1BLy99RpSQLiF1aa6https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/775cefe2-32c9-4a81-8b86-0b55384ee3ae.jpgUnschooling experimentation – The importance of risk, danger and failureThis video shows a brief insight into Woody's world of playing, discovering and learning. Blackwood has never heard of NAPLAN (National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy), but he and his friends certainly know a thing or two about taking risks and seeing what happens. That's the sort of testing we value here at the University of Tree Elbow.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/4c06e660-2463-435a-b3da-d2110c02fc63https://commons.tube/w/3iMCmhkRYiDs5FZMfQvDvWhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/4e01e534-d1b0-43eb-9b26-bf01fc3a3df3.jpgSimple low-cost charcoal and tiger worm grey-water systemPatrick takes you through our low-tech grey-water system. Appropriate technology is all about relationships and biomes and less about technology.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/12ae0a35-364e-4304-a2e8-6f02f3650404https://commons.tube/w/6kYFioXXG3YoyBmdFWZNH2https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/4c9c8a9b-6f2e-4cb1-98fd-59ce5d48df21.jpgSpiced Quince Fruit LeatherJoin Meg in this autumn workshop, converting kilos of inedible raw fruit into light, delicious, and spicy storable gold.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/2b47c0f4-a10a-46dc-baee-990a80ad5d6bhttps://commons.tube/w/vxUekZtA5ah77yq9hSMLt8https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/d36ad2e1-4aa2-45b0-a532-3cdf25a10b6b.jpgThe Goose & the Common – a neopeasant remixWe gave a talk a few years back in Warburton with Maya Ward (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PdTX6VgByU&t=3661s), and as part of that event we sang one of our songs – The Goose & the Common – an old ancestral poem that we set to music and updated. It was recorded on the night by Pete Downey and later remixed by Glen Dunn.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/ef4d4414-acd3-45ea-8da7-32dc6436fa7dhttps://commons.tube/w/qU1eVFKFbA3sUzGaJm6a2xhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1990b9f9-3e19-4f10-bdb3-f12bcebcbb09.jpgHumanure compost workshopA 30 minute how-to workshop on converting the unspeakable into pure gold.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c99e26df-499f-49fe-af23-b0d01396c825https://commons.tube/w/wJVSjVAfH7dwkHwjoQoMPhhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/4c0e906a-df7f-4bd2-b96d-cb62d55fac57.jpgSix preserving methods for citrus – permaculture living non-monetisedMeg takes us through all the ways we extend the life of citrus abundance.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/f8f09864-a77c-4a9b-9465-43111d8402bahttps://commons.tube/w/fKQxXzG5zKUfjTrjnHyFedhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/bbafdc72-0f44-4061-8284-f0322700c3a5.jpgWild mushroom and acorn piePatrick experiments with some acorn flour, ground dock seed, Pink Lake salt, olive oil, rain water and five species of walked-for mushrooms to produce a delicious, post-broadacre-farming pie for the fam. Vegan, locavore and gluten-free.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/777ed80e-6757-450e-8393-10ad3a22cc2ahttps://commons.tube/w/fGRKAqDr7w31eZoh9uFXmyhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/2bd40a43-ee65-470e-8238-c0a0e46ebed5.jpgRetroSuburbia & neopeasant trans – a yarn about diverse cultural transitionsA French film company collecting stories of dynamic responses to the predicaments of our time set up this yarn between David Holmgren and Artist as Family at The School of Applied Neopeasantry, Tree Elbow University, Djaara Country. We recorded it to share with you.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/77145a41-67fd-4212-b109-95878081543chttps://commons.tube/w/qQDUfRSCRUqPLzUpzWV57ahttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/3c752ae9-cd59-433a-aa8a-1da092065373.jpgThe Pandemic Game – a collageToo many silos, not enough collage... another in our chalkboard series.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c92662d7-9172-49c7-9d5a-29af3e44f1fdhttps://commons.tube/w/enY57cMtz1RiRBkvWJDFUbhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/724cc4f7-fa17-47a3-bcec-9341d8525193.jpgTyson Yunkaporta on Artist as Family, process and the privilege gapAn excerpt from Tyson Yunkaporta speaking with Dan Palmer on Dan's 'Making Permaculture Stronger' podcast. To listen to the whole episode go to: https://makingpermaculturestronger.net/tyson-yunkaporta-permaculture/ See also our video 'The View from the Shore' for more on the chronic privilege gap between settlers and Aboriginal people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0VPTcjjqAU&t=3034s For more Tyson on this channel go to 'Land Makes Life': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euHwldFO70Yhttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/6c57fa03-5f87-4b69-8f95-61ddaeceae36https://commons.tube/w/9g636XjmUecz8RjVBY3vzRhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/27d4858a-4084-461b-8a03-67c783db9ee7.jpgThe longest night – a ritual antidote to engineered virusesWe came together with community to mark and celebrate winter solstice. We gathered, listened, recited, sang and feasted. This is an excerpt from the long night.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/42e45e99-92e3-4ca6-b2cf-920ef74de4afhttps://commons.tube/w/7Z6wJ86qnSTaTFfpUA1Mw1https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/16b05dbe-2f17-44e6-8c0d-9791b85c0695.jpgForest & Free – our community bush schoolThis is a little snapshot into the exploratory world of Forest & Free, filmed and edited by Fizzy Mitchell. Fizzy (Thornbill) has been a wonderful third adult assisting with the weekly community bush school we re-established this year. Thanks also to Andy White (Blue Tongue) for his assistance earlier in the year. We run F&F voluntarily as a community resource, though families often bring gifts of gratitude and we gratefully accept them. Thanks to all the children, parents, and carers who have contributed to Forest & Free, and thank you to the forest and Mother Djaara Country for holding us and providing the magic we all feed on.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/388fa27a-df38-4648-9c40-005f4b384a80https://commons.tube/w/cTPm62CbwF77KyejZK5hGXhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/12414944-02a0-4f27-9197-25d752d4373d.jpgPermaculture neopeasantry – Sense-making in a changing world podcastWe had a yarn with the indefatigable Morag Gamble on her Sense-making for a Changing World podcast, where we explore the sense and nonsense of permacultural neopeasantry, and end with our song of Martha Postlethwaite's poem, Clearing. For more on Morag: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-bU0T-JKZ3kVpO77Nt1hMA https://ourpermaculturelife.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sense-making-in-a-changing-world/id1517044365https://commons.tube/videos/embed/6050a2bf-b435-4ef5-85a6-e84376353577https://commons.tube/w/2gNBsXtJXBVVrRpt4w92yThttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/24fd2171-1b91-4581-a836-96e5352b11cd.jpgClearingWe took Martha Postlethwaite's poem, Clearing, added some instruments and arranged it into song. Thanks Martha, and thanks Nana Jones for sending this poem through to us. This song is the first of a series we'll make on the road over the next twelve months. Filmed in Djaara and Wadawurrung countries.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/0a4e0542-5b4f-4a95-a578-6fd30a99afd7https://commons.tube/w/gSfrxiK71uT2J2VvZqE4Aghttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/5a78143c-5cc5-473b-934d-1f463e39010e.jpgJab the kids (a neopeasant remix)In this video we're joining our buddies in the Australian arts fraternity, including the extraordinary Virginia Gay and Tim Minchin, to call out vaccine hesitancy and put an end to alternative voices in the Australian arts industry. Come on Australia, jab the kids and let's get back to the theatres.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/807d2ae6-41c9-44a3-8909-21acb4db1dffhttps://commons.tube/w/eaNLJW7SMKY6NrrrA1Wab5https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/2b73ffb7-0f73-40f6-95cd-c911c20157e4.jpgAnthropogenic pandemic – how to trust 'the science'In this piece we compile a number of sources who speak on the growing evidence for the lab leak theory and why we are championing the term anthropogenic pandemic. Below are the links to the media we draw upon in this video, in order of appearance. Hamilton May 2021 https://www.smh.com.au/national/where-did-covid-come-from-the-case-for-a-leak-of-a-virus-engineered-in-a-wuhan-lab-20210526-p57vgt.html Hamilton July 2021 https://www.smh.com.au/national/suddenly-the-lab-leak-theory-can-t-be-so-readily-dismissed-the-stifled-search-for-covid-s-patient-zero-20210716-p58agn.html Not how science works Jan 30 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGWLLDSA3c DW July 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nuyPQzU18 Paul V Fauci July 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQdyegf4n1U Fauci advocate of GoF May 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTxyWjpZOdo Whistleblower 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3IcxSfueY May 2021 BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pktSL5kL3ZI YG July 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwUtjG3u8l0 Daszek 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYDL_RK--w Dr Ai Fen 1:35 April 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beDmuDDknNI TedX science corruption 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDp9JxhWFsc Montagnier May 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5e3Xa_PlPU Medicines Censorship Ivermectin July 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=434yCGZRH9M Engineered viruses 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBBIfGaml0c Peter Daszak ‘Recused’ 25 Jun 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFc-ynWIync Bret Weinstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfjrpjqdQxIhttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/6aa55205-a950-4e5c-ac9f-b7cf1599a7fchttps://commons.tube/w/9QkJvoDqaj5AAFodthQrFFhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/af3b6934-8534-4591-a9c3-42e205f63468.jpgA whale of a timeIn the absence of boats whales are swimming around jetties and seals are occupying them in Gadubanud Mother Country. Read our latest blog post: artistasfamily.ishttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/4788f897-206d-473d-83b0-048d8ea186e1https://commons.tube/w/bDTuqJW5nzDo6ghRkhWJyghttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/3c240095-7bf6-4ab9-b3db-3ee667d0a16a.jpgRoadside fruit (a musical postcard from the road)A little snapshot of life on the road accompanying our a new song, Roadside Fruit.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/5645a353-ef49-4ee4-87e5-2bf5b5aa9ac7https://commons.tube/w/wYTFfCVCMMcqNEXbz4GJJ9https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b19d1ab8-70bc-4aec-9412-e6d2b09d099a.jpgLove real high (our Warrnambool lockdown)A new song from our stay in the Gunditjmara city.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/fae3a869-592f-4836-a960-8581894fb284https://commons.tube/w/tGDVtF5HhMFmUyLQMQsjAdhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/38df518d-3838-43b8-ba3e-3a220653046f.jpgA three-way with Gillian Blair (permaculture on the road and at home)Meg and Patrick are interviewed by Gillian Blair from 3WAY FM Community Radio Warrnambool in Gunditjmara country, 6 September 2021.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/e053dd69-bbd8-4ef3-9050-05323aeb9678https://commons.tube/w/1TFsfUjkyNpTypG74Q8FLEhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/3d855e10-89d4-4f74-b204-9981204b2c28.jpgIs Australia's Covid roadmap already outmoded?This video consists of a medical opinion by Dr Bret Weinstein. It is not offered here as any form of medical absolute but rather in the spirit of societal enquiry. If you're interested in the initial discussions with Geert Vanden Bossche and Bret Weinstein back in April 2021, please click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyAovuUxro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po7d67JAAvMhttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/07373ef0-ed6e-47ea-96af-7129c9ab1a12https://commons.tube/w/iCZGthH4kQdprfVS67v42Hhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/f2c99049-6e59-4735-b39f-2a615c789c3f.jpgLet them eat starter! Neopeasant sourdough on the road in Gunditjmara countryPatrick demonstrates our low-tech, high-microbe sourdough flatbread method for travellers on a neopeasant budget. Dedicated to the memory of John Gardner Reid (18/10/1962 – 16/09/2021), master sourdough maker-teacher, and activist for Indigenous rights and food sovereignty.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/8ed5b0c1-77be-41d6-85c0-41548fdcd1d7https://commons.tube/w/viPP6EExyyLJZBh83PRHoVhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/2217057b-d71a-45e8-b94b-880b9244f807.jpgHomemade megadose vitamin C (Grandfather University with Dr Peter Couttie)Prof. Linus Pauling, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962, said the answer to many human ills was ascorbic acid (vitamin C). The pharmaceutical industry and its media cohort have been trying to discredit this ever since, collapsing benign supplement levels of vitamin C and megadose treatment as the same science. In this video Dr Peter Couttie, a 91 year-old orthomolecular practitioner and veterinary surgeon, shows his family how to make megadose vitamin C at home. Thank you to the Couttie family for making this workshop available to everyone. Dr Peter Couttie B.Sc., MRCVS., MACNEM. Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (MRCVS) Member of Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (MACNEM) Here's the recipe For this method you require seven main things – a measuring jug, a blender, 1 litre of water, an ultrasonic cleaner, a plastic mixing tool, 1/3 cup of pure sodium ascorbate salt crystals (vitamin C), and 1 cup of sunflower lecithin granules. Measure 700 cubic centimetres of water in your measuring jug. Add 1 cup of sunflower lecithin granules to the water and stir. Place this mix into your blender and turn it on the lowest setting. Measure 300 cubic centimetres of water in your measuring jug. Add 1/3 cup of pure sodium ascorbate salt crystals (vitamin C) to the water and stir. Place this mix into your blender with the lecithin and leave for 5 minutes. Tip the litre of mix into your ultrasonic cleaner (UC) and turn on. Gently stir the mix in the UC for 30 minutes. Bottle the mix and refrigerate immediately. Administer as required. Use within a month. Here's a link to a recent review in the British Journal of Pharmacology: "Therapeutic potential of megadose vitamin C to reverse organ dysfunction in sepsis and COVID-19: https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bph.15579?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_zEDgq6D_1K6KvsPKHEtsQ8bhd43W5prvZp4xSr_Tq3g-163252...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/ed562164-7e87-4065-a97e-7abe6da99b8dhttps://commons.tube/w/3u8Eng6DQ8rj5pBMesyAaPhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/05a2e1d2-0e0e-4859-8242-7677ac8f4d91.jpgThis is how a 91 year old man cured himself of cancer (more Grandfather University)The health opinion expressed here is based on Dr Peter Couttie's experience of treating himself. A vet and orthomolecular medicine practitioner, Dr Couttie was diagnosed with carcinoma of his left kidney in February 2019. Here are Peter's notes of the 12 things he did to send his carcinoma into remission. 1. An initial 8-day fast and occasional small ones afterwards. 2. Liposomal vitamin C giving a 20-40 gm blood level + ½ teaspoon, about 3 gms with meals and drinks, of sodium ascorbate to achieve animal blood levels. 3. Selenium trace element 400-500 mcg /day. 4. Iodine, 1-2 drops/day Lugols Iodine, 1 drop = approx 6 mgm. 5. Reliv, a broad spectrum vitamin mineral, trace element, herbal supplement. 6. Milk kefir, a probiotic ancient culture to recolonise gut and boost immunity. 7. Diet of raw veggies, fruit and eggs from own farmlet at least once a day, no carbohydrates, sugars or processed food, except home grown potatoes, multigrain rye bread, and occasional fresh fish (no other meat). 8. A short bout of rigorous exercise daily or every second day, mostly swimming. 9. Steam sauna after every swim for 30 mins to sweat out toxins. 10. Meditation, prayer, or sleep for ½ to 1 hour daily. Most importantly: 11. Dr Budwig’s protocol of flaxseed oil Quark mixture giving rapidly absorbed water soluble oil. 12. Sunbathing to augment vitamin D and follow Dr Budwig’s theory of quantum physics producing pi-electrons with the omega 3 and 6 fatty acid sulpha protein molecules. Omega 6 is necessary for the skin and reduces burning.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/141fd30e-a83c-42f0-a30c-649703c35a81https://commons.tube/w/bP66V739g4GL5rBCv2ZkgShttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/944d351b-ff69-42de-8162-7e819c347666.jpgIndigenous v industrial Covid (a comparison between two countries)Unlike Australia, Madagascar is not a rich nation. The country is experiencing severe drought and famine, they've had few lockdowns, and less than 1% of its population is Covid vaccinated. So why are they doing so much better than Australia? We are a family of gardeners, fermenters, goatherds, writers and unschoolers who are currently travelling Australia by bicycle. We are telling this story in good faith but it is by no means complete. We are not journalists, rather travelling storytellers who draw on Indigenous cosmologies and lifeways (including our own heritages) to help keep the world from being further enclosed by state-corporate collusion and values. There has never been a proper cost/benefit analysis of the corporate state's approach to Covid. We do refer to some data in this piece but do not believe data should be the only metric used in health policies as it does not, to our minds, honour the whole human or the whole story.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/578e7ced-e092-48a0-97b3-11ff4c17c1dchttps://commons.tube/w/p414qrwQNqeg2UCCMRduKVhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/fead63f4-3f30-4f59-8c54-d9151c628f5e.jpgThree-cornered garlic kraut (liberation food medicine)Meg takes us through her trusty three-cornered garlic #kraut recipe from our kitchen-on-the-road in #Gunditjmara mother country.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/baad74f3-ada3-4aee-be32-14e057e52df3https://commons.tube/w/pudKC53jukcHBe64C8WAGzhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/838e8de4-4411-4c53-b805-4bd8fa92878b.jpgKol Ha'Olam Kulo (כל העולם כולו‎) The Whole Entire WorldArtist as Family cover the Jewish folk song, The Whole Entire World, written by Baruch Chait. We sing this song to the souls of those who have dehumanised us. In Australia today those who resist experimental inoculations have become the scapegoats of the nation-state. We endure abuse, punishment, ridicule and enclosure. We are fast becoming another dehumanised class, being locked out of participation from many places – social, economic, food, transport. People want to believe that the experimental inoculations work and are safe. They want to 'protect vulnerable people', as the messaging goes, but who really wants to protect the rights of people who are critical of the long, heinous track record of human rights abuse committed by the pharmaceutical industry? Who wants to defend and protect those who have been calling for the alternative treatments to be depoliticised and made available? Who is going to speak up when there is so much silencing, deplatforming, and shadow banning taking place? We are a family of many ancestral cultures, including Judaism. Our old people have endured witch hunts, pogroms, enclosures and dispossessions at the hands of authoritarianism. We sing this song to that history and to the present moment. No matter how we are treated we will not be fearful and we will not incite retaliatory hatred. We remain resolute that the only human health worth defending comes from universal access to nourishing food, water, medicine, land, culture, society and governance. This is the world we continue to work towards.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/be32df9d-cc5f-45c4-96de-f2da4e14a099https://commons.tube/w/feCQptbwYmbF8EThmZRNPdhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/c9087c25-8ce1-41bb-8b68-d03c27243819.jpgStory time in koala countryWe came across this furry fella in Nelson in Gunditjmara peoples' country, and we dusted off an old song of ours and put the two together. Thanks to the Nelson Hotel for allowing us to film out the back.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/73474f73-771b-4eb2-9a76-d18348c1e562https://commons.tube/w/7keJdf7XpEJv5snEV9K9Hbhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1a926102-f6b8-489a-92e9-b0a4f6b8ebab.jpgHow do we solve a problem like the unvaccinated?Is it conspicuous to you that the corporatised media treats unvaccinated people with one brush and that there is never a fair representation of who we actually are and why we have reached the decision we have? In this video we address a newspaper editorial called, How do we solve a problem like the unvaccinated? and give an explanation of why we cannot get jabbed with inoculants made by unethical companies.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/33466c73-3cfb-463e-b4dc-a6cfce3a89cchttps://commons.tube/w/6m6MZSDfNn2kS6fwiMyCWjhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/4c41d402-7dc1-4ced-9169-95591d483ac5.jpgTending the post-corporate campfires (Artist as Family on Big things Little things podcast)This is an edited version of the yarn we had with Sophie Spencer from 'Big things. Little things' podcast last month.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/2b4c2388-a12b-4490-934b-c705a2d4514ehttps://commons.tube/w/g773UMrTtsGvKexC457keShttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/a8e02129-e2ab-4585-923f-f33dbaefbd0c.jpgFact check: Covid vaccines work, they are safe and are stopping transmissionIn this video we examine the claims that Covid vaccines work, they are safe and are stopping transmission. We draw on the work of Associate Professor Peter Doshi and Professor Nikolai Petrovsky and hear from a vaccine injured mountain biker who testified at the US senate. Here are the main videos we drew on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZd6aTCAkM&t=42s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x2ieHuj8zU&list=PL-wpAYBCPhA6vdnggaegCecvKowebvba3&index=3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rZZTPp-eYU&t=2200shttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/7a534564-f4be-4fdd-b23e-a14ed5e17460https://commons.tube/w/h1oQwmYgcckWtDw8LxbuoEhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/e663ebeb-1fff-46c7-b558-6da5563b849f.jpgCovid-19 mortality risk reduced by higher levels of Vitamin DWe take a look at the scientific literature pointing towards the importance of vitamin D in the unfolding Covid story. Here are the references we used: https://artistasfamily.is/#subscribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5g9AVqRsjo&t=2s https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/10/3596 https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/vitamind https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00513/full https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/103/4/1033/4662891 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7723676/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHVqfJg4h-I https://www.health.vic.gov.au/publications/low-vitamin-d-in-victoria-key-health-messages-for-doctors-nurses-and-allied-health https://content.health.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/migrated/files/collections/policies-and-guidelines/l/low_vitamin_d_info-pdf.pdf https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26864360/ https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/expert-answers/coronavirus-and-vitamin-d/faq-20493088 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4018438/https://commons.tube/videos/embed/81a04ac8-7e6a-417d-8c7c-e92845c470d2https://commons.tube/w/wGHAfty7yqrw4fCgaBK5F8https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/59de6bc7-7223-4065-b62d-fc9e69e2a5d6.jpgNeo Nazis? Who are the anti-mandate protestors?What the hell is going on with language and shame labelling in Australia? Will the othering movement help create the sort of civil unrest that's occurring in America?https://commons.tube/videos/embed/f8a18aaa-5d09-4f23-9f4d-4fe6f79161b5https://commons.tube/w/k9ESZ1rBJ1DiBH5S98PYSwhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/7f9bfb03-c962-48b0-84ff-06d3c3172ea4.jpgLeaky facts (more Covid misinformation?)Are the vaccines extending the life of the pandemic and therefore harming vulnerable people?https://commons.tube/videos/embed/9b138b74-5d0a-48bd-a4fb-9c8b93b2069ahttps://commons.tube/w/cjuwsLrmtfKWvx7rSdtUsahttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/fc250675-1a30-4f1c-a20f-da20a6ac8ea2.jpgOmicron, fundamentalist politics & internment camps in AustraliaIn our latest Covid story compost we examine ways to end the pandemic, the political fundamentalism that's dividing families and communities in Australia, and the alarming measures being put into place to further punish non-compliers in this new era of omicron.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/5ba97e0d-c7a7-4a2a-8451-e242ce3745b5https://commons.tube/w/4MFk6Uz2uDabczzndp7WBUhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/127eac40-ce99-4fa8-91a5-a53baf71e9df.jpgCan we trust the ABC and the FDA?Have we become so blind as a society we no longer see conflicts of interest in plain sight? In this video we examine this question and more, looking specifically at two public institutions, the ABC in Australia and the FDA in the US. Our references (in order of appearance) https://artistasfamily.is/ https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/pharmacy-fact-what-is-the-best-selling-prescription-drug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2dHQSj90-A https://www.tonicmedianetwork.com.au/what-we-do/ https://mumbrella.com.au/tonic-media-network-successfully-spins-out-chemist2u-677337 https://chemist2u.com.au/ https://about.abc.net.au/correcting-the-record/abc-statement-on-dr-norman-swan/ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/12/abc-takes-down-catalyst-heart-disease-episodes-after-review-criticism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn2RAggNN8w https://theconversation.com/why-is-the-fda-funded-in-part-by-the-companies-it-regulates-160444 https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-basics/fact-sheet-fda-glance#:%7E:text=Program%20Funding&text=About%2055%20percent%2C%20or%20%243.2,for%20by%20industry%20user%20fees https://www.tga.gov.au/book-page/cost-recovery-model-12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Z_LhPMhkEdw&feature=youtu.be https://www.vox.com/2015/9/24/9387987/fda-expedited-drug-approvals https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0122 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/07/if-drug-firms-take-public-funds-they-must-make-their-discoveries-available-to-all-covid-19 https://www.allsides.com/news/2021-12-08-1553/fda-says-it-now-needs-75-years-fully-release-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-data https://pnhp.org/news/taking-back-the-fda/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz4aAJUTQ7s https://www.statista.com/statistics/254341/pfizers-worldwide-viagra-revenues-since-2003/#:~:text=During%202019%2C%20Pfizer's%20Lipitor%20generated,billion%20U.S.%20dollars%20in%202006 https://maryannedemasi.com/publications https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data https://www.youtube.com/watch?...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/1eac1f89-e980-48ba-933a-a15f8b3c375ahttps://commons.tube/w/wvqUAGHvtzADUXtUqpWSsPhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/d597c1de-98f2-4d13-a0de-68456c7b1c10.jpgFact check: Covid vaccines reduce hospitalisationsHappy New Year dearest supporters and critics! This week we investigate the often touted claim that Covid vaccines reduce hospitalisations by more than 90%. Where did this figure come from? What is it based upon? In our latest video we take a deep dive into some of the literature investigating the method used to determine this magical figure of 90% reduction of hospitalisations. What do you think we find? Let us know what you think in the comments. Here are our references in order of appearance: https://jembendell.com/2021/12/23/lies-damn-lies-and-hospitalisation-statistics/ https://lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkIGXDkPqEY https://www.routledge.com/Food-for-Degrowth-Perspectives-and-Practices/Nelson-Edwards/p/book/9780367436469# https://mackaycartoons.net/2020/03/18/wednesday-march-11-2020/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/world/middleeast/israel-vaccine-4th-dose.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbeMdbE1aOQ https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7038e1.htm https://maryannedemasi.com/publications/f/covid-19-vaccine-benefits-exaggerated-say-experts https://artistasfamily.is/videos/ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(21)00069-0/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/cms/10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00069-0/attachment/bb4bb1cf-8d64-453f-a2b7-e1b95194c109/mmc1.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVG2OQp6jEQ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1041593/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-50.pdf https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/doctors-face-deregistration-for-expressing-concerns-about-covid-vaccines/ https://www.immunisationcoalition.org.au/about-us/ https://www.medicinesaustralia.com.au/ https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/professional/federal-government-confirms-new-covid-vaccine-item# https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2787643 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(21)00143-5/fulltext ...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/f70e141a-adde-47a1-9f85-bbb04605c27bhttps://commons.tube/w/8nSMA8wLrJwE8MrFmWsTMhhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/015f53e4-1879-4595-8d44-0e9bec3ea5cd.jpgMore harm than good? Level 1 evidence against PfizerToday's story is a presentation published by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance - a cohort of over 500 independent doctors, scientists and health care practitioners providing evidence-based information regarding Covid-19. It is 40 mins long, so we recommend you put on the kettle and settle in for the duration. #CCCA #MoreHarmThanGood https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/https://commons.tube/videos/embed/3bbde345-7f42-4b12-8420-61e9aa12279ehttps://commons.tube/w/9221cvXMjXsKE5M6bQQ6R4https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/f1a44497-770c-45aa-b6a4-fd620060e175.jpgVideo removal from YouTubeFor independent media not captured by big money, please subscribe to us at www.artistasfamily.ishttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/40ed78af-bdd8-4ba5-ab91-f4ad4d572351https://commons.tube/w/gUM9yQx8FYGXo77TbJJ87hhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/f0158067-5f35-47f9-8089-f2533619024e.jpgAFP fact-check shows Pfizer jab more harm than goodWe scrutinise an AFP fact-check on the Canadian Covid Care Alliance's evidence that reveals Pfizer's jab causes more harm than good. Here are the references (in order of appearance; pls note if we refer to a reference multiple times we only list it the first time): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agence_France-Presse https://factcheck.afp.com/http%253A%252F%252Fdoc.afp.com%252F9VJ3DA-1 https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/ https://artistasfamily.is/2022/01/05/more-harm-than-good-level-1-evidence-against-pfizer-2/ https://www.mediaweek.com.au/business-reposition-tonic-health-media-rebrands-to-tonic-media-network/ https://www.tonicmedianetwork.com.au/covid-jabs-and-comms-jobs-top-pandemic-marketing-lessons/ https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/faq/ https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-COVID-19-Inoculations-More-Harm-Than-Good-REV-Dec-16-2021.pdf https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-commence-global-clinical-trial-evaluate https://world-signals.com/news/2021/11/26/500-rise-in-deaths-fifa-players-in-2021/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot/ https://artistasfamily.is/2021/09/08/where-are-we-now-our-lockdown-in-warrnambool/ https://apps.tga.gov.au/PROD/DAEN/daen-report.aspx https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/us/fda-pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/fauci-collins-emails-great-barrington-declaration-covid-pandemic-lockdown-11640129116https://commons.tube/videos/embed/80d79446-0b19-412f-b34c-3c0fcdc86098https://commons.tube/w/8Fz8R5jHqceBBEy7HMWw8shttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/5e6d4ee1-a6b5-4451-acae-3d57f31cfaee.jpgThe shadow world of Jab the kidsWe introduce the origin story of our Covid coming out rap-opera, Jab the kids, six months on, and re-present it with some sonic and visual remixing. https://commons.tube/videos/embed/3e3665e2-b319-4b3f-a958-c7cfb9378048https://commons.tube/w/sidPgkik1Kw9A48bMincSThttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/65e29d7d-e528-4de3-8597-e7366c822440.jpgSome politics of permaculture (from inside and outside the tent)What occurs when politics are taken offline and back into the community, face to face? Covid-19 policies have split communities and fractured movements, and permaculture has not been immune. In this video we examine some of the politics encircling the permaculture movement currently, both inside and outside the tent, and we hear from permaculture co-originator, David Holmgren, on what sense he makes of the present moment.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/d4f5258f-0e70-47f9-bd62-e12d608f0b8bhttps://commons.tube/w/kf3uHE8pnPkuPa1tcRM7JNhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1da927cd-d249-4248-8baf-e1a430ed7d88.jpgTerra Nullius – grief, politics and praise (in Djaara mother country)We came together with community this week for the annual Terra Nullius breakfast, held outside the Daylesford Town Hall each January 26. The Terra Nullius breakfast is a public ceremony, open to all, that examines the historical legal fiction used to establish the nation-state of Australia; reflects on the grief and suffering of First People as a result of this legal tactic of colonisation; and celebrates both the survival and renewal of Indigenous cultures in the face of systemic violence, segregation and discrimination. Warm and special thanks to storytellers Rebecca Phillips (Pangerang and Djaara woman) and Dale McDonald (Papal-kil tharat Tjinang-Muddy featherfoot Mukjarrawaint tribal lands Garweid), and didgeridoo player Mitchell Boney (Kamilaroi and Kooma Merri Wurri man, known as Warrabaa, meaning Saw-neck turtle in Gamilaraay). This year’s gathering was documented by Miles at Ideas Agency. Thank you so much Miles and your assistant, Briega, for your thoughtful work.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/9bd395c2-edc5-4e99-89b7-9bbc65d80f42https://commons.tube/w/s8rifcuxJf8gvAfVzaYzjAhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/de3dacd3-d6f6-4812-8c59-8f81b36ad643.jpgFollowing 'the science' (and why swimming pool segregation is a red flag in any era)Why does swimming pool segregation keep appearing in moments of governmental tyranny? In this video we explore the unfolding science, ideology and politics of the Covid era and reveal science under a different kind of microscope. We welcome your respectful comments. Here are the links we reference (in order of appearance; all accessed on 8 Feb 2022): https://artistasfamily.is/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52291654 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/31/daniel-andrews-and-brett-sutton-yet-to-discuss-victorian-mandate-for-third-covid-vaccine-dose https://www.google.com/search?q=Israeli+covid+deaths&oq=Israeli+covid+deaths&aqs=chrome..69i57.6801j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/world/middleeast/israel-vaccine-4th-dose.html https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20220205_00.aspx https://ourworldindata.org/ https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-greg-hunt-mp/media/australia-launches-latest-covid-19-vaccine-communications-campaign https://unherd.com/2022/01/the-left-wing-case-against-vaccine-mandates/ https://www.xiahepublishing.com/2572-5505/JERP-2021-00034 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/anti-vaxxers-should-face-penalties-for-their-selfish-choices https://greenwald.substack.com/p/led-by-jeremy-corbyn-the-british https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/defining-the-enemy https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/macron-declares-his-covid-strategy-is-to-piss-off-the-unvaccinated https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4022798 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-high-cost-of-disparaging-natural-immunity-to-covid-vaccine-mandates-protests-fire-rehire-employment-11643214336 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-22/aboriginal-mothers-fear-children-will-be-taken-away/12166450 https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/prior-covid-infection-more-protective-than-vaccination-during-delta-surge-us-2022-01-19/ https://www.health.gov.au/ini...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/d39766cd-eb9b-4b8e-8977-7ac9fa41740ahttps://commons.tube/w/fh63WaTP4tvjXKxr281GhXhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/0c898a46-12ce-4fc5-a1fe-e09c9bda4934.jpgDivision, politics and love in AustraliaIn this video we present stories of discrimination and loss, shared from our homeplace in Djaara country, which propel us to join tens of thousands of protestors in Canberra, in Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples' countries, where we also recorded stories of grief and of love.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/739ef43f-7fde-42c4-8f96-b9f9ac2a8547https://commons.tube/w/nwYYTgVQ8JWT7GkbCHV2duhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b99340f9-2e7d-488b-b0a7-18cce9df97af.jpgRed flags and the state-pharma nexusWe have found ourselves in foreign political company throughout this epidemic for being courageous or foolish enough to question the government-pharma revolving door. This is something we’ve long thought of as important critical work by anyone interested in examining global power relations and what makes a fair and just world.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/ae635731-96fd-4dce-a763-77d11cd8e250https://commons.tube/w/7M2iWGPFzRhbTb2UBFctohhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/e3996031-2e4a-40d4-9ec4-31fa50b52a7e.jpgHearing you slowly – TraceChildren's book writer and illustrator, Trace, speaks of her Covid experience as someone made health-vulnerable by being overprescribed antibiotics as a teenager, and she offers her many Covid learnings for a post-pandemic world.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/36e01bc8-ef55-40ad-9fbb-5df08843b960https://commons.tube/w/uZeYBdnsZBpMLF8sGXf6sbhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/93a96a13-fffc-42d7-a16a-e35f02586cda.jpgHearing you slowly – MaritaPermaculturist, Marita, describes her youth educated in Germany and why Covid segregation and mandates triggered her emotionally and politically.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/eabde3ef-b58b-489c-bf10-c12c23b4cc42https://commons.tube/w/tYENm2KUfHPdRHhofvyHrHhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b9fe43b7-5d0a-4b24-9d36-e73e190a7f56.jpgHearing you slowly – JamesHighly vaccinated traveller, father and solar energy consultant, James, despite being advised not to get vaccinated (after major heart surgery) was not able to get a medical exemption.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/e2904e42-eb51-4bad-819a-21ec4eb0dba7https://commons.tube/w/m58L1t217JWgLBi5huPDCNhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/e430b719-f963-40ca-a5f5-a10c75e6c5d3.jpgHearing you slowly – DianneRetired elder Dianne tells the courageous story of nursing her Covid-ill parents while she was also suffering from the illness, and offers us the gifts she learnt over the past two years.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/a28a879f-fd7b-4b48-aecc-413ec0a1f622https://commons.tube/w/98ZpFomLdFuwUVGoe2ygGwhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b554cae4-b8f4-4bfb-96ed-78d5d55148c6.jpgForbidden women – International Women's Day in segregated AustraliaWe held a peaceful protest outside our town hall today, protesting our exclusion from entering the International Women's Day event.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/41e6b1dc-3f7e-4bd2-83b4-751ec8ae0bfahttps://commons.tube/w/9boYGyMSFCDknhTpY1ym3Mhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/aa5cd75d-2449-48d3-a7cc-e9bbe6dd6dad.jpgFrom pandemic to war through a geo-ecological lens (with David Holmgren)This week we spent a few hours with co-originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren, at his home Melliodora in southern Djaara peoples' country. Our conversation ranged from the personal to the geopolitical, dark green ecology to bright green billionaires, pandemic constriction to war construction, and returned once or twice to the ongoing gamings of the progressive liberal media.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/423cb519-18c4-4cd9-8c1d-4985be8814b1https://commons.tube/w/asyMzgEk6p2QwU55Y4x9YEhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/8d53aba1-8b3c-4365-be8c-3dd708178e11.jpgCommunity unity in a time of division (with Nikki Marshall)Meg yarns with friend and community elder, Nikki Marshall at her home in southern Djaara Peoples' country. https://commons.tube/videos/embed/4c97ca78-4273-45c7-92cd-0052d4f7fdfehttps://commons.tube/w/fPsQ5QsGFuSNXqbBfnrZPfhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/f854abaa-9c5d-4502-bebf-b60719b06085.jpgA regrarian meets a neopeasant (with Darren Ó Dochartaigh)Regrarian Darren Ó Dochartaigh (Darren Doherty) meets neopeasant Patrick Jones for a yarn in the Doherty family cafe in Castlemaine, in Djaara peoples' country. What unfolds is a complex discourse around biology, ideology and politics, and a slow building analysis of how white institutions and shareholder science in particular have eroded family and community sovereignty and responsibility.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/78006eb1-f890-4c8a-825e-1bfb54b52070https://commons.tube/w/uMFhb9Sb2D2F857uQYMugMhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/5de0f2f7-aef6-4103-9e7c-eee4dad64213.jpgVoting to disrupt global corporatism (a neopeasant take of a political potluck dinner)Patrick and Meg give an account of the political potluck dinner Artist as Family hosted last night at the School of Applied Neopeasantry at Tree Elbow University, Djaara Country. https://commons.tube/videos/embed/e9208f00-631e-41b0-856b-2b2073d4f20bhttps://commons.tube/w/aPpWsWSPgYbQeBYDeycRzqhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/c84efa83-4c34-4108-ae61-393ca9055734.jpgTowards a sacred politics (with permaculturist, health practitioner and AFP candidate, Kerryn Sed...Taking back politics from the transhumanists with permaculturist, health practitioner and Federal political candidate, Kerryn Sedgman explores what a return to a human scale politics might look like. Kerryn is standing against Labor transhumanist MP, Catherine King, in the forthcoming federal election. Kerryn has joined the Australian Federation Party. We do not necessarily endorse all the views of Kerryn or the Australian Federation Party, rather we offer this video as an alternative political perspective to encourage generative debate.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/4f80f545-686d-4054-b992-4671c6d89e8ehttps://commons.tube/w/eZYorWMBcygVsut8NytBUthttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/6ee9ec56-d740-41df-ac80-f599e7a15ffe.jpgHow vaccine mandates crushed an Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Victoria (part 1)This is the story of Eric, Angie and Mandy, who worked together to build the profiles of numerous local Aboriginal artists and develop an important cultural hub recognised across Australia and around the world. But then the vaccine mandates came into force in late 2021. This is the story of loss and dismissal, and the crushing of a vibrant Aboriginal cultural centre.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/715ef27c-2da8-40f0-8fcc-b669b355f207https://commons.tube/w/4z44qf7EJYcKTqWxrLdJkNhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/6b307cd1-dcc8-43fe-bbbf-6717f55892f2.jpgHow vaccine mandates crushed an Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Victoria (part 2)In part 2 we hear from Anna, a human rights scholar, who has been offering Eric, Angie and Mandy paralegal support in their fight against what they deem as an unfair dismissal, loosing their livelihoods and the Aboriginal cultural centre they built from scratch. https://commons.tube/videos/embed/1ce8d874-3341-4841-8940-7b5b0adb6464https://commons.tube/w/4RA3SF48EQ4FMJs2Rsyacghttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/f706526c-5a4f-40cd-86c4-0181419d04a9.jpgThe majors & the Greens (an election ditty)Towards a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible... Big thanks to Glen Dunn for remixing the audio.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/1f37d830-639a-4993-8f65-c41a42c05c51https://commons.tube/w/cqUhreAUgZ66zq5Xz5bkRhhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/2f39ed00-565d-4820-9ded-1bc3bb464313.jpgSacked while in hospital recovering from her vaccine injury – Liz Mann's storyLiz Mann, a farmer and ag consultant for the organic diary industry, was still in hospital recovering from her first Pfizer jab when her contract was terminated because she refused her second. This is her story.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/5c8e98b4-b58f-4bdd-9419-8e1ffc8d0806https://commons.tube/w/rE4axFWfQmX7U29NEeErjshttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/8186e903-7e4b-48a9-be43-db65beb3f07f.jpgVaccine injury: a pathway to enquiry (with filmmaker Dave Meagher)It was Dave's second Pfizer shot that shook him to look further into the state-Pharma nexus and notice that even as a double jabbed person vilification can occur just for raising uncomfortable questions. To read the whole post go to: https://artistasfamily.is/2022/06/02/vaccine-injury-a…ker-dave-meagher/https://commons.tube/videos/embed/cfc4ae15-1261-4ad8-a065-a938314efab2https://commons.tube/w/7AgQCpNxBQRSS2WDRJkeR6https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/42402552-9305-4489-9436-43f1b2c82b2c.jpgWe are here togetherWe wrote a song...just for something to do...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/355fe183-1aaf-4cae-9ebe-dfd8f191326bhttps://commons.tube/w/qN5uMR5mgf7qPVK3w8NCzUhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/d24fc03a-ab33-444b-8cdf-921d3851d65e.jpgCold water immersion – powerful medicineIn today's video we take you through our daily ritual of cold water immersion, which we call a full bodied 'acceptance ritual', and speak to the physical and mental benefits for going into this aqueous underworld every morning before dawn. https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c8ca4ff0-0e7d-47b6-8f7d-d397ace6131ehttps://commons.tube/w/o6bfDzwUKJP4KK1sEwfAX1https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/fbe8d38f-c874-40d5-a79f-e625c0e302a2.jpgThe end of industrial insurance (more liberation from the fear economy)It feels a little embarrassing that we've held on to the idea of industrial insurance for all these years, but today we finally drew a line in the sand and cancelled it. This is some of the why, how and what of that decision, and the unpacking of this next step in our de-transition from reliance upon industrial culture and economy, or what we're now calling The Fear Economy.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/b2e21675-5abb-444a-b18b-dd1c5763e68ehttps://commons.tube/w/gqotsgZrg4nzG4nC6sjMaAhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/34c57b40-e5b4-4f2c-a1fb-7df8704699fd.jpgPeople Care includes Voluntary Consent (with Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav)"Those who declare that Holocaust analogies are "off-limits" are betraying the victims of the Holocaust by denying the relevance of the Holocaust." Vera Sharav speaking at the 75th Anniversary Event of the Nuremberg Code in Nuremberg, Germany, on August 20, 2022https://commons.tube/videos/embed/7ce0c7b2-091c-45fc-920e-6569d3059490https://commons.tube/w/5Zz41oYUiSuJm28kXtPoWbhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/011a4b41-5de2-4b07-b221-08bac0d57b7d.jpgHosting a community grief ritualMeg and Patrick speak the story and the form of a recent community grief ritual they hosted.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/286e5186-0570-4afa-bb6f-b2d21a429206https://commons.tube/w/j4nDb8kqgCPvpj7VcpNHmfhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/b723a726-9a7d-4af0-a846-4b74a19bb342.jpgArtist as Family's Covid protocolsCovid finally arrives in our home and we use this event to explain our protocols for both prevention and early treatment.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/923d105b-56ea-4f32-83b4-0e0ac02f2b1ahttps://commons.tube/w/3uCAbmwBeKNDKPnw7MnnH6https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/97b8b8f7-0c88-467e-9a46-29b9a28a5704.jpgDavid Holmgren on Julian Assange and the 'inversion of values'David Holmgren and John Shipton speaking at The Julian Assange rally in Melbourne on Saturday 8 October 2022. Holmgren discusses the "inversion of values" between left and right politics.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/1431a6de-3136-45c6-9c5d-ef4e2b9e491bhttps://commons.tube/w/mnDpSPvCVz7dsoi42PEXZQhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/16124870-ec24-4399-9c74-549e4f255846.jpgMilk Kefir - neopeasant food-medicine in an age of post-industrial subsistence economiesMeg sings the praises of milk kefir and shares our favourite recipe for turning this wild ferment into pure gold, from home.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/a4fc72b8-38ec-4670-bcc0-d38902914c96https://commons.tube/w/pNnxU2QyxxSJL9e51fjHpkhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/c006bc00-6a86-482b-8355-069148e512e0.jpgStinging nettle for arthritis and allergies: neopeasant medicine food seriesPatrick speaks to just a few of the virtues of Urtica dioica – the common stinging nettle – and how we use this generous and powerful plant as food, tea and medicine in our home.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/c0bbaee8-0c65-4d47-b599-79100f29773dhttps://commons.tube/w/wDoU6NuPromLHpaiYNu74bhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/28e3a3f5-598e-4ea6-9b98-7c440e130443.jpgPermaculture & community sufficiency – regenerating ecological culture and economyAlongside permaculture elders and friends Su Dennett and David Holmgren, Artist as Family is featured in a new French TV series directed by Thierry Robert and starring Cyril Dion as the narrator. The series is in three parts and this short clip is an excerpt from 'Regeneration | A New World (Part 3)'. You can watch all three parts here: Resistance I A New World (Part 1) I ARTE.tv https://vimeo.com/774129173/e50401bd4e Adapting I A New World (Part 2) I ARTE.tv https://vimeo.com/774129271/6ded24fdca Regeneration I A New World (Part 3) I ARTE.tv https://vimeo.com/774129368/761f2dc1f5https://commons.tube/videos/embed/f82aca75-662e-436e-959d-d58b9cc81990https://commons.tube/w/1e5d2rPsfUfwLNEm5Qswkthttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/bd3fd1a7-7c4b-4325-8569-9855170f7d92.jpgStories from the School of Applied Neopeasantry (podcast) with Coni, Ilenia and CarlaJoin us as we shell broadbeans at the kitchen table and listen to the homeplaces, wisdom and wildness of Constanza Hidalgo, Ilenia Theuriclat and Carla Gallego. These three women are the latest volunteers to visit Tree Elbow University and join our School of Applied Neopeasantry. It was a wild week of story, laughter, dancing and communing as we lived life richly together honouring earth, our food, more-than-humans and each other.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/01d34309-b4d8-4b1a-924b-005740d0da31https://commons.tube/w/25Q5xGyXkozYokZQwKQp2bhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/2457f7c8-8b41-41a8-9def-d43a9442b722.jpgDirty TreesMaya Green and Artist as Family collaborate as Dirty Trees in the Daylesford community food gardeners summer solstice gathering in Djaara Mother Country. In this clip we play an instrumental version of Mairi's Wedding (also known as Marie's Wedding, the Lewis Bridal Song, or Scottish Gaelic: Màiri Bhàn 'Blond Mary'). It is a Scottish folk song originally written in Gaelic by John Roderick Bannerman (1865–1938).https://commons.tube/videos/embed/08c5be3b-c907-4d54-9b46-60c04f4709f0https://commons.tube/w/bi23RGYXfrT6Am8NDhH4cBhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/ca8816b5-ad84-4b64-98e7-a97da9d71808.jpgStories from the School of Applied Neopeasantry (podcast) – Rebuilding the local village with Bei...Join Patrick as he asks timely questions of Bei Yin and Jashan Singh. Bei and Jashan's stories offer clarity, warmth, honesty and generative responses to the discussion of how we might reclaim the local village.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/535bad64-c064-4daa-aebf-37b619185895https://commons.tube/w/p4Ha8kMMBL1ciRuQ6pjBcGhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/82a8487f-7cfe-4261-9912-44e17ec294b1.jpgMother of mountain (a pickle recipe music video)A new Artist as Family song to celebrate Meg on her birthday, featuring Maya Green on fiddle. See our blog for the written recipe...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/bac6c8dc-40a5-47ba-95a6-1aca4c2c26f2https://commons.tube/w/j1xegXx1Lv2jFapPXBDvwvhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/2f746284-2d8b-4bc6-bcec-e365ca5c4895.jpgNeoliberalism or neopeasantry? Patrick joins Sacred lab podcastHow do we transition from neoliberalism to something more beautiful, even as the Empire falls apart and takes so much life with it? An excerpt from Ryan Dickerson's interview of Patrick on his podcast Sacred Lab. https://commons.tube/videos/embed/91d7bdc9-e409-4ed2-be6d-0376c535f095https://commons.tube/w/7DMZQ5fZmhwxJriiynCAA9https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/a8e01423-2943-4e35-aaa1-be6432907149.jpgSchool of Applied Neopeasantry podcast with Meg Ulman – on mothering, lovering, schooling and eld...In this podcast, recorded a month ago on her birthday, Meg reflects on the intimate, the big picture, and everything that stitches them together. We hope you enjoy this hour with Meg Ulman, chief executive witch at the School of Applied Neopeasantry.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/35ddb2b9-3712-4450-a0d8-3c1a9093c034https://commons.tube/w/sMfcH2viN5fTTLXe48xnw2https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/e437d40c-7a3b-4c92-b868-336f65cd7779.jpgThe body politic (youngtimer edition)Our latest missive. For references related to this piece head to https://artistasfamily.is/2023/01/12/the-body-politic-youngtimer-edition/https://commons.tube/videos/embed/d8ded3b7-01c1-4fe0-bc8f-4594df62eaa9https://commons.tube/w/f8XXSZRWah3nqPktYLAFu1https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/400bd5d2-0ace-40d4-9df4-32f437e945a3.jpgMandate refusal & custodial responsibilities as decolonisation - Jen Ridley & Uncle Charles DavisonWe had the pleasure of hosting Uncle Charles Davison, Jen Ridley and their youngest children, Minya and Yindi at the School of Applied Neopeasantry last week. Patrick, Jen and Charles made some room for a kitchen table chat for our podcast. Jen and Charles' inner strength and wisdom to respond to colonialism within the sovereignty of family and community bonds while keeping a close eye on the continual threats and incarcerating mechanisms of white institutions – colonial spaces that continue to contrive to enclose, limit and construct minds of scarcity and fear – is empowering to behold.  We hope you enjoy this conversation and you appreciate that Jen and Charles' voices are not widely heard Indigenous perspectives within the highly conformed publishing environment of neoliberal (mainstream) media. We elevate them here in a spirit of a truer diversity and call for your deep listening. The video we made with Jen and Charles can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0VPTcjjqAU&t=183shttps://commons.tube/videos/embed/727ca2e6-07cf-4624-9ab2-2dc8dfa5cd24https://commons.tube/w/aHTWm2aze9CuBbTW8wfUXrhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/5031dd9a-8a0c-4b7f-9f3d-6de3664765c7.jpgWhat is The Industrial Diversity & Inclusivity Complex?Patrick shares some thoughts on diversity and inclusivity.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/4ebbbff3-d9a7-4a69-b63a-d32db2ab164fhttps://commons.tube/w/1m3PG9hBGTrPWuLQvggRHNhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/f37a1e29-c70c-47da-a8d0-d003c252ef0e.jpgLife beyond the Industrial Medical ComplexIn this video we take you on a tour of the top 10 medicines that keep us outside the industrial medical complex. If you've never considered this list as medicines before, we ask you open to this next half hour as we reveal our story of health and well-being, and why our family hasn't required a medical centre or a doctor for many years. 1. Ritual, ceremony & love 2. Barefeet, earthing & sunlight 3. Cold water immersion 4. Walked-for wild foods 5. Sleeping, nose-breathing & circadian rhythm 6. Fasting & listening to Country 7. Home-grown food & kinship with soil 8. Fermented foods & honouring death & decay 9. Sauna to cook out winter toxins 10. Meaning making as creatures of place As always your comments and additions are heartily welcomed.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/02cc9d5c-5c2e-405e-89a1-563a939832c4https://commons.tube/w/7VNRmktQk932z7k9zAA8Hhhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/48a5e800-d47b-48bf-8c2c-b7b0ddc7a9f7.jpgTyson Yunkaporta & Patrick Jones yarn disinfo, RFK & pharmacolonisationPatrick is guest on Tyson Yunkaporta's podcast The Other Others. In Tyson's words this is an "[i]ntimate yarn between two friends from two different families, cultures and online communities who ended up in... let's say incompatible algorithms, during Covid lockdowns, resulting in horrendously oppositional worldviews. Nothing we can't sort out with a good yarn. Because a yarn is almost like a 'conversation' but without the bullshit. Nobody is 'just asking questions' in a yarn, because you talk from your relation, not your position. The end result is not a resolution, compromise or any of that crap. It's... nah I'll let you listen through and find out for yourself." Subscribe to Artist as Family's website at https://artistasfamily.is/ Go to Tyson's podcast episode at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tyson-yunkaporta/episodes/Pilled-and-Shilled-e248to5https://commons.tube/videos/embed/381a1fe8-ced4-4ae1-ad01-77531fdbb1e6https://commons.tube/w/rSqWnJJ6dffwgkJmV9LD4Uhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/087d484f-ac84-4f4c-b07b-e649012cf265.jpgComposting industrial schooling to regrow the forest villageIn our latest video we give an insight into the philosophy and structure of our bush school, Forest & Free, which we established several years ago. This is a 'school' built upon gifts, with few organisational costs, little administration, and a whole bunch of community trust, where the principal teacher is Mother Country. For those turning away from the polarity trap of AI schooling and the neoliberal-transhuman programmes attached to it, and you'd like to start your own community-based learning group, you may find some useful things here. As always, your comments are not just welcome but appreciated. We'd love to hear your thinkings and doings as you push further away from the global culture of hypertechnocivility and lean further into your local culture of magic making.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/d17f05f5-86ed-46c0-9d53-83268f007f96https://commons.tube/w/8cNBJ4unAuy4MS4H4c54Ehhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/cd7a765d-533a-42f6-95a5-7b3e20e803ed.jpgArriving at the Church of Mother CountryIn this unscripted, barefoot generation of thought through Mother Country, Patrick returns to the Pandora myth, which is necessarily entangled with the twinning myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus, and he connects these major western origin stories to the present culturing, making and remaking possibilities of Mother Country. Patrick here offers an embodiment experiment into what he's calling the reclamation movement, or the returning movement. This spirit of consciousness willing to draw on origins and ancestors is in direct contrast to the groundless, innovation-anxiety, becoming thrust of hypertechnocivility, which Jonathan Pageau, John Vervaeke, and Paul Kingsnorth are all critically and eloquently examining right now, among others such as Artist as Family. Krishnamurti speaks to the "utterly religious" experience being characterised by a lack of fear in his 1972 work, The Impossible Question. This wisdom is unspoken in this reperforming of the feminine sacred by Patrick, but it underpins this experiment. Relevant references to this piece include: Paul Kingsnorth's 'What is there left to conserve?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EObWLbJqGkI Jonathon Pageau and John Vervaeke's 'Pandora's Box: Jonathan Pageau and Dr. John Vervaeke Discuss AI, Hope, and the Biblical Worldview' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDmyRgv7XYw Patrick Jones' 're:)Fermenting culture: a return to insight through gut logic' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v49bB6YC9zw&t=1798s As always your commentary is most welcome.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/3a55e154-2c6f-47af-ac77-9be6bbdd5908https://commons.tube/w/eqmnNSS9wo7UJpQ4BQ2iEchttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1e9a94c8-19e1-4f91-92f5-f5ebcea1ef33.jpgGoats as biological controls of gorse (neopeasant land management)Patrick from the School of Applied Neopeasantry takes us through the management of gorse by goats and the ecological significance of slow and small solutions for post-industrial, subsistence and land-less farming.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/6cad35d0-df72-41d5-bae7-5b889c70efd3https://commons.tube/w/jiorvL84HLpVhvp9qpTqjQhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/bda3da38-d85a-4f85-a7db-778e031dfcf9.jpgComposting Moloch, returning to the cob, clay & bramble of Pandora, Mother Country (with Joel Gray)Patrick shares a goodly yarn with English artist, Joel Gray. Together they traverse the sticky, dominating, Promethean-go-it-alone world of the machine, of the all-consuming Moloch, and yet arrive at a composting place, restoring Pandora's fermenting vessel, her Gaia, her Mother Country – the entanglements and gossipy liveliness of tending the village seeds beyond transhumanism. Links to Joel's collaborative work are embedded in this video, plus other material from both his and our worlds. We hope you enjoy this yarn as much as we did making it. Love and power to the brothers and sisters who are learning to dance with gut (Pandora), heart (Epimetheus) and mind (Prometheus) logic integration. As always, your comments and pitchforkings are more than welcome.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/9431f812-e016-4bac-bf4a-4d7368a7358chttps://commons.tube/w/a2LC8qJRGKiwHuzUmZiojChttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/45c61ff3-83e8-4972-89ce-8e327c09495e.jpgRecovering birth from the industrial biomedical complex (with Eleanor Young)This week Patrick spoke with researcher, permaculturist and midwife Eleanor Young, and those of us at the School of Applied Neopeasantry are still brimming, enlivened by this sensitive, thinking and wise scholar-practitioner advocating for women-centric birthing.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/49217dd6-0dd0-48ed-b446-a5a403aa3088https://commons.tube/w/i1K5bnGHJhEW9oxskkWmJphttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1de005ad-5a47-4f89-ac8a-f0d1067a1649.jpgNeopeasantry in China with Sunshine YangSunshine Yang is a current volunteer-student at the School of Applied Neopeasantry. In this podcast episode Sunshine shares with Patrick her experience of the back-to-the-land movement in China.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/89c5e6bc-7961-4a05-a88c-2f7d7ed8ddebhttps://commons.tube/w/epX2yYYDQZJBadDfuUT3J4https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/c00bcadd-d8ac-4419-bee0-f2247c1e23ce.jpgChinese musician playing a traditional Lusheng wind instrument in Boten, LaosWe came across this Chinese man playing a traditional Lusheng wind instrument in Laos. Traditionally the Dong people of southeastern China play this instrument.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/6c9ed227-4654-445b-b143-b6b98bf75c87https://commons.tube/w/hLPq3UuNkqxU4eTjjyTCN4https://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/2fd27740-28f6-4cf1-a83c-8e8fefe94634.jpgMinstrelA rough translation from the Nepali: "Hello to everyone greetings with good luck Greetings everyone, greetings to all I am living for you Loving at heart for I sing elegant Nepali Greetings everyone, greetings with good wishes"https://commons.tube/videos/embed/87d42a2d-b9da-4f44-aca5-404b0da26bb7https://commons.tube/w/ofFTk5VGGqF8diytopCQjuhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/1a0ae741-e87c-41b2-a1ae-f00bef24e30c.jpgSpontaneous Punjabi dance party at Dal Lake in Himachal PradeshPatrick and Woody were invited into a spontaneous dance party after playing cricket in Dal Lake with these joyous Punjabi men.https://commons.tube/videos/embed/b4360b15-553d-46ce-8b30-9325ca612680https://commons.tube/w/oDxhYH73gQZjq3QaUfEgWDhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/f858ab0e-aa6e-4346-80a7-c46fb0775947.jpgCan conflict end?This mid summer has seen the birth of a new song in the family. We sing and play it here, juxtaposed with 1950s super8 footage of family taken by Patrick's grandfather Fred Jones. It shows a post war time when life was less hectic and far less mediated. https://commons.tube/videos/embed/b766dad6-5caa-4879-aae0-483d8b5ba10dhttps://commons.tube/w/6WGznczReH1QLRsNCAjnQDhttps://commons.tube/lazy-static/thumbnails/e7f0ce36-faae-427a-9b80-f95e48c5f971.jpgNews of the world (Tree Elbow harvest edition)Our latest musical missive...https://commons.tube/videos/embed/3020dcbe-2edd-438c-8f60-e3525b2a65e9https://commons.tube/c/root_channel/videoshttps://commons.tube/c/artistasfamily.is/videoshttps://commons.tube/a/peertube/video-channelshttps://commons.tube/a/root/video-channelshttps://commons.tube/a/artistasfamily/video-channels