Homestead, mixed farm in Dolný Tisovník (Slovakia) - To avoid poverty tomorrow, choose sobriety NOW.
Location: Dolný Tisovník, Slovaquie
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Off-grid homestead in central Slovakia, looking for volunteers, long term partnership and a life partner. It's not a lifestyle experiment, but an answer to a question most people are still avoiding.
I'm David, Belgian, running a fully off-grid homestead in a forest clearing in central Slovakia, 400m altitude. Wood heat, rainwater collection, no flush toilet, over 1000 fruit trees planted, animals and gardens, recently created. A lot of what's here was built from salvaged materials and hand tools. Currently building natural structures with straw-clay.
This isn't romanticised off-grid content for a feed. It's the daily version: snow and firewood in winter, food preservation in autumn, animal care every single day regardless of weather, and construction whenever there's time left over. No curated shots of a tiny house with good lighting, but actual subsistence.
Why it matters, beyond me:
Most people talk about sustainability while changing nothing structural about how they actually live. A radical reduction in consumption is livable, and it can be chosen voluntarily, before circumstances force it on everyone anyway. Resource depletion, declining net energy, soil degradation, biodiversity collapse, climate instability that's still only at its beginning: these are physical constraints, not opinions up for debate. Degrowth isn't a future scenario. It's already underway.
Volunteers who come here don't just learn orchard grafting, food preservation, animal husbandry, or natural building, though they learn all of that. They re-learn what they actually need, once constant novelty and distraction are stripped away, and most leave with a completely different relationship to time, effort, and their own resourcefulness than when they arrived.
I'm looking for:
Volunteers ready to commit at least a month, ideally longer, who've already started questioning their own way of life in practice, not just in conversation. And, longer-term, a life partner: someone who wants to build this permanently, not help for a season.
I'm not a fan of veganism or vegetarianism (I eat very little meat, but what I do eat, I raise and prepare myself), any quasi-religious worldview (energy healing, astrology, Mother-Earth tales), identitarian ideology in any form.
Long term partnership welcome.
In short: material SOBRIETY, DEGROWTH, ANTICIPATION, LOW-TECH, OFF-GRID FARMING/LIVING, aiming to self-sustainability, RADICALITY.
I'm David, Belgian, running a fully off-grid homestead in a forest clearing in central Slovakia, 400m altitude. Wood heat, rainwater collection, no flush toilet, over 1000 fruit trees planted, animals and gardens, recently created. A lot of what's here was built from salvaged materials and hand tools. Currently building natural structures with straw-clay.
This isn't romanticised off-grid content for a feed. It's the daily version: snow and firewood in winter, food preservation in autumn, animal care every single day regardless of weather, and construction whenever there's time left over. No curated shots of a tiny house with good lighting, but actual subsistence.
Why it matters, beyond me:
Most people talk about sustainability while changing nothing structural about how they actually live. A radical reduction in consumption is livable, and it can be chosen voluntarily, before circumstances force it on everyone anyway. Resource depletion, declining net energy, soil degradation, biodiversity collapse, climate instability that's still only at its beginning: these are physical constraints, not opinions up for debate. Degrowth isn't a future scenario. It's already underway.
Volunteers who come here don't just learn orchard grafting, food preservation, animal husbandry, or natural building, though they learn all of that. They re-learn what they actually need, once constant novelty and distraction are stripped away, and most leave with a completely different relationship to time, effort, and their own resourcefulness than when they arrived.
I'm looking for:
Volunteers ready to commit at least a month, ideally longer, who've already started questioning their own way of life in practice, not just in conversation. And, longer-term, a life partner: someone who wants to build this permanently, not help for a season.
I'm not a fan of veganism or vegetarianism (I eat very little meat, but what I do eat, I raise and prepare myself), any quasi-religious worldview (energy healing, astrology, Mother-Earth tales), identitarian ideology in any form.
Long term partnership welcome.
In short: material SOBRIETY, DEGROWTH, ANTICIPATION, LOW-TECH, OFF-GRID FARMING/LIVING, aiming to self-sustainability, RADICALITY.
