Welcome to the School of Applied Neopeasantry
at Tree Elbow University.
Hello! We are Artist as Family – Zero, Meg, Patrick, Blackwood (Woody), and back in the day, Zephyr.
We live in Daylesford, Australia in Djaara Mother Country on a quarter-acre permaculture plot, home to our School of Applied Neopeasantry at Tree Elbow University. We practice a unique form of performance art, comprising how we live, get our food and medicine, and move around; performing modes of life making we call permacultural neopeasantry.
We teach a unique skill set of radical homemaking, community economy making and other accountable living skills to volunteers called SWAPs (Social Warming Artists and Permaculturists) and online through our various videos, talks and blog posts.
We are bloggers, fermentors, writers, public speakers, goatherders, gardeners and video makers who also make music, but mostly we’re a family who belong to a bloody great community and a beautiful small patch of sacred forest, and therefore we’re much more than the sum of our parts.
Understanding the importance of relationships throughout our transition has been essential. Relationships with soil communities, with individual trees, with messenger birds, with clouds, with dog kin, goats, bees, microbes, with one another and with ourselves.
Our Latest Video
Highlights from the blog.
Artist as Family’s Book of Neopeasantry (sixth excerpt – between the town and the forest)
Politicians worldwide can no longer claim ignorance of harm – an open letter to an MP
Artist as Family’s Book of Neopeasantry (fifth excerpt – Blue Wren & Magpie)
Until we come together (song)
Subscription options
We can send you an email whenever we create a new blog post or video.
Choose your level of engagement:
| We live, love and labour in Djaara Mother Country, on unceded sacred land |
Site Credit | Made with LOVE by meta4digital