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.

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Highlights from the blog.

A hot, dry week of rich, fast and giddy travel (from Dorset to Cumbria)

We wanted to hitchhike out of London, though the sheer volume of people and roads without shoulders turned us off. We then turned to British Rail, gasped at the costs and struggled to see how we’d get around that way. We settled on a cheap hire car, which scuttled us out of the metropolis, south […]
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A site of Druid procession (First steps in our ancestral pilgrimage, and more screening news)

  It took some bright labours to bump out of Tree Elbow, pack down the house, step away from our community responsibilities, and organise for the care of our animals with fine friends and neighbours. Some labour was the preserving of nourishing food for when we return home, knowing that we won’t always eat as […]
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Our August UK & Ireland ancestral pilgrimage & screening tour (maps and some dates)

  Hello! For the past several weeks we have been corresponding with kindly folk across the UK and Ireland, organising a route and itinerary for our August month of screenings and visitations in some of our ancestral places. The first two screenings: While in the south of England we are attending two screenings/meet ups. The […]
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Community Sufficiency – living within gift, non-monetary and subsistence economies

  We hosted our third July online session last Thursday night, Community Sufficiency – living within gift, non-monetary and subsistence economies. Over a hundred people signed up and many asked goodly questions that expanded the consciousness of the subject. We hope you enjoy this next offering.   Here is the audio-only version,       […]
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