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Month: November 2025

The New Peasants (now available to watch worldwide)

Nov 24, 2025 | Artist as Family online event, Artist as Family tour, belonging economies, community, David Holmgren, film, Happen Films, neopeasant culture making, permaculture, post-industrial thought, radical homemakers, reculturing, storytelling, village rebuilding | 4 comments

 

Hello! We are very happy to share the news that The New Peasants is now available worldwide to watch. Last night we attended a Q&A screening in Hepburn, the 15th screening in Australia, which was MC’d by our friend and elder, David Holmgren. Now the film can be watched anywhere at anytime.

On Kinema, the movie platform where The New Peasants is hosted, you can privately watch the film ($5) or host a community screening. We are very happy to attend online Q&A sessions after community screenings of the film, so please get in contact with us if you’d like to host to such an event.

We are also open to groups getting in touch with us to organise house, garden and forest tours, so again, please let us know and we can discuss it further. A reminder we have two public house and garden tours coming up. There are still a handful of places left. Go here for more details.

With spring warmth, from our patch to yours,

Artist as Family

A Colombian GP visits Tree Elbow University (a yarn with Diego Castaño Valencia)

Nov 17, 2025 | colonialism, community, Covid-19, ecology, economics, experts, health, Industry science, lifemaking, permaculture, Pharmacolonisation, post-industrial thought, regenerative culture, relocalisation | 14 comments

 

Patrick speaks with Diego Castaño Valencia, a Colombian GP who found permaculture in Australia, and came to volunteer with us this past week.

Diego regards permaculture as an antidote to the industrial medical complex and to globalised industrial society more broadly, and is about to head home to Colombia to put into practice what he has learned on his travels.

Listen to the audio (46 mins).

 

We had such a wonderful week with Diego. We hope this yarn gives a little insight into our time with this special young man who is taking his life seriously, with grace and curiosity.

As always we welcome your reflections and your comments.