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8 comments

1 Neshe Curtis { 07.17.11 at 11:44 am }

We would love to discuss your idea. It sounds wonderful… starting a bamboo village.
I do currently take bamboo extract. Bamboo has many benefits. I am very interested making clothes from bamboo.
We have been looking for a safe off-grid for our family. We are a couple with a six year old son.
Currently my husband is working on converting cars to Hydrogen Ethanol Hybrids and he is a tallented carpenter/contractor who dreams of building bamboo tree houses with giant bamboo.
I am a licensed clinical aesthetician and herbologist and we make many health products.
Looking forward to hear from you.
Blessings……..

2 banita { 07.25.11 at 12:58 am }

please contact me. i am a young wife and mother of 2 girls. I have hours upon hours of research on this subject matter and very interested and eager to know how things have progressed for this project.

3 JJ { 08.17.11 at 10:48 pm }

Hello, Bamboo is wonderful stuff and some the buildings I have seen made of bamboo are amazing. I would love to help out. I am a 27 year old healthy male with like minded ideas. Keep me posted

THANKS, :)
JJ

4 Neil { 09.25.11 at 2:02 pm }

Hello, I also believe that bamboo can provide a sustainable living environment for a like minded community. In the same respect I hope one day that hemp(not marijuana, although I say each to his own in this respect) is also an equal if not superior product, medicinally and as a resource. I know I have much to learn, I can be a bit hard headed, but I am begging to just now stand for something, and this can be hard in a city environment, I have made it out to the rural community and live in a yurt built from 80% recycled materials. Would love to hear from you and how your dream is taking shape. I too am looking to further my own dream. I have to dogs, both very smart. An ideal home for me would be an earthship, but this takes land to build on and store materials while preparing. So yurt, then perhaps an ecodome and then the earthship, ten years should do it :) My pace is slow, simple and pretty easy going once gotten to know. I have a few friends in the wenatchee valley area that are also looking, quite the green thumbs. I myself am acquainted with stone masonry, walls, flooring, kilns, I like round things :) hence the yurt. It’s hard to know where to begin these days and I often feel I am starting in the middle having to work my way back and forth. My greatest desire is to learn from good people, share what I know and genuinely connect with heart. God bless.

5 Jeannine { 12.26.11 at 2:58 am }

I’d like to do something like this too in Australia, the climate lends itself very well to this.

6 Alex { 01.11.12 at 4:50 pm }

You can join my Tribal back to the Earth project its a few hours from Portland in the wilderness on allot of land with sun and water. We are starting the spring with the greenhouses and garden. This will be a self sustainable “tribal” community, We seek to recreate the indigenous tribal way of life. But we will have some electricity.

7 Lindsay { 01.23.12 at 11:57 am }

Alex– I would love to know more about your back to the Earth project! I am definitely interested and am trying to find communities to be involved with that are living self-sufficiently near Portland. Please let me know how to a be a a part of this!

8 Robin and Juney { 01.29.12 at 7:42 am }

Alex, where exactly and how much acreage is a “lot of land” a “few hours from Portland”? We’ve been scouting for an attractive, tribal location further south in Oregon, and our snag is finding acreage that’s away, both from population centers and other land-scarring activities, yet near people of like mind. Our preference is to build tree-houses, but we have some experience with cob, yurt, straw bale, and dome construction. We’re putting our “all” into this and that’s why location and “buddies” in at least spirit are so important.

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