Primal Commune page 3

[Mr. Anthony]

I'll run security if you want. I'm also a pretty resourceful cook.

Oh, and the orgies. I'll take one for the team and organize those.

[Uncephalized]

I'll run security if you want. I'm also a pretty resourceful cook.

Yup, gotta keep those elk rustlers out...

Oh, and the orgies. I'll take one for the team and organize those.

You sure you really want to use the phrase "take one" in that sentence?

[JoanieL]

I like the co-housing/eco-hamlet model rather than a comune; you have your own private, self-contained space, but share communal space and sometimes facitities like laundry. I'd love to live in a little group of 3 - 5 families, preferably home-edders too, growing and raising most of what we eat, producing our own electricity, growing timber for fuel, and earing enough money to buy what we can't grow by raising high quality meat, CSA, self employed trades and timber products. A lot of co-housing places have vegan or veggie commual meals and have a high number of vegan, I would need people to be meat eaters even if they insist on eating grain and bean (one which needs a large amount of processing and the other dons't grow well in the UK) then that's thier choice, I'll eat meat fish, eggs and veggies that I grow myself thanks ...

I have thought about this quite alot too.

I like this a bit better, also, except I want my own washer/dryer because I don't want your cooties in my laundry. But I'm happy to share crop raising and animals chores, building chicken coops, etc. I just want to be a hermit after I do my share.

Sadly, I'm old enough to remember the attempts 40 years ago at communes. Few survive as they were.

[Primal Moose]

Sadly, I'm old enough to remember the attempts 40 years ago at communes. Few survive as they were.

That's actually something I'm concerned about as well. But I think that something like co-housing...or something like what I outlined a page or so back, a community of like-minded folks that all have their own space and property, but got each others backs and work together...has a better chance than a straight commune.

[Tribal Rob]

There are quite a few communes and communities in this country that are still going stong - Findhorn in Scotland is one of the orginal communes and going strong, Trelay in Cornwall is relativly new but thriving and growing (and I so want to move there but too far from stepsons dad - maybe when he's older he'll just have to grow a pair and suck it up like a man)

Info on Diggers and Dreamers for UK stuff - Diggers and Dreamers - The Guide to Communal Living in Britain

[Kelmar]

There are some communes and self sustainable communities in the US that are going strong too. Not Primal per se but they raise their own animals, grow their own food and usually have another type of side business for income, such as one I know of sells nut butters and rope sandals, another has a seed company, ect. The one I would like to move to has 4 or 5 dwelling buildings that several families, couples share (you get your own room) a communal kitchen, a communal shower house and laundry facility, you work so many hours for the community (in the garden, with the animals, in the nut butter factory ect.) the rest of your time is your own. I think it sounds fantastic and hey when the shit hits the fan around here we might all end up living in little communes like that anyway....

[sbhikes]

Try WWOOFing to see if you like the lifestyle first. WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms

[Sambo712]

I know of some communities, and I've considered wwoofing, but the primal issue arises. Before I became primal I was all ready to sign up, but now I realize that they are almost all going to live on a majorly grain diet. I feel so good being primal that I don't think I could make that trade-off.

I just did a little more research on wwoofing (I had only heard about it from a friend), and see that there is a good chance that I could find a grain/processed sugar free place to work. Thanks for the suggestion

[Tribal Rob]

We are planning on going WOOFING once we have sold up, or rented the house and become nomadic - we'll combine it with volunteering at festivals for free camping in the summer (done Sunrise of Grid before and it was ace) and staying on really cheap campsites. But we are going to be in our own caravan, or a motorhome of some sort if we sell the house (then we can do cheaky road-side and car-park stop-overs more easily for free) so we will take care of our own food, seeing as labour in exchange for free camping and water.

[Chaohinon]

I would love to start a free-range elk & bison ranching commune in the Southwest somewhere (maybe Colorado?). It would definitely be Primal-friendly. My vision would be a semi-permanent community (some permanent and some temporary inhabitants) where the operational tasks and incomes of the ranch would be shared by all the permanent residents, with seasonal or provisional work available for people passing through or deciding whether they want to move in. Each individual, group or family would be provided a living space and a private garden, with freedom to change living arrangements by mutual agreement as desired. There would need to be some sort of vetting process for new members where unanimous consent of the existing residents would be required for anyone new to move in permanently.

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