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  • Hey there everybody my name is Jordan

  • and welcome to the first film of the 'living the change" series

  • For this series we're travelling around New Zealand in our van Bluey

  • sharing the inspiring stories of the people making change to a more sustainable way of life

  • In this first film we're visiting Andrew & Beth at their permaculture property in the bay of Plenty

  • I felt this void in my life, like there's something missing

  • so...When I was living in big cities,

  • I had to get away to connect with nature

  • but when i wake up every morning, I come here outside and I'm immediately in nature here

  • I don't have that void anymore, I've just got this instant connection and satisfaction

  • I'm Andrew Martin and today we're here in our permaculture property in the bay of Plenty, New Zealand

  • we've got 5 acres and

  • we've planted hundreds of fruit trees

  • which you'll see later

  • So this is our main garden

  • just close to the house in zone 1

  • so, yeah, we can say we've got a lot happening here

  • We've got, you know, lots of kale and

  • spinach silverbeet,

  • beetroot,

  • bok choy,

  • rhubarb,

  • zuchinni...

  • And, how I started this is

  • Basically a sheet mulch

  • so I've got some used paper cardboard

  • some manure

  • and some food scraps

  • and then build it up and then just put straw on top

  • and then just planted straight into it

  • and since then i just kept adding to the soil

  • with compost

  • So, yeah, I studied business

  • I was involved in finance

  • and more specifically in stock market

  • So we used to help people

  • manage their money

  • Whether the organisation are worth

  • we used to manage hundreds of millions of dollars for people.

  • I think i just did business

  • because it was one of those things that I thought would lead to something

  • And sure, I've been successful

  • in a certain regard

  • given us the wealth to be able to buy some land

  • And that sort of stuff.

  • But I felt myself being drawn into this materialistic world

  • Because all the people around me

  • had material possessions and it was all

  • this wanting and creating of attachment and

  • wanting, wanting more stuff

  • It can be contagious,

  • this consumerism

  • materialism lifestyle

  • I wasn't from that background.

  • I'm from a sort of a conservative sort of upbringing

  • Then all of a sudden I'm involved with,

  • you know,

  • guys that are driving luxury cars

  • living in an expensive house in the Sydney suburbs

  • A lot of guys are, you know multimillionaires and...

  • they were trapped into a system

  • and they thought an extra, you know,

  • 10 or 20 or 30 million would make them happier.

  • And i worked out early on the paste that, that is not the case

  • And i think, a lot of people think that

  • the more money they have,

  • the more happy they're going to be

  • and it just doesn't work...

  • So, the idea is to

  • you know, have native plants mixed among fruit trees

  • so we've got you know, natives here

  • we got a tamarillo here

  • we got marno, [...], [...] and [...] natives

  • We've got a cabage tree here

  • This is a... uh

  • a pine nut

  • So those are really expensive nuts you get in the supermarket

  • This is one of those that takes about ten years to get any fruit on it or any nuts

  • So that's a long term project.

  • And then we've got, over here, we've got a

  • fig tree.

  • Which is fruiting quite nicely.

  • And another carob tree here

  • And then for the monarch butterflies

  • We've got a couple of swan plants which

  • they really enjoy real much, so we'd be lucky to see one

  • Here he womes now...

  • There was a lot of little moments of realization

  • I saw a few documentaries and movies

  • that were about some of the bigger picture issues

  • But when you're in the coporate world

  • And you're so busy with your life and achieving certain things

  • I'te hard to get off that train

  • Beth, my wife and I we sort of

  • had grown

  • over the corporate lifestyle

  • and the trap of

  • having and wanting more...

  • So we thought "Ok, let's just cut our ties from what we've known" and...

  • we'd been working for many years

  • We thought "Ok... let's just

  • ...start a fresh"

  • So we'd been to New Zealand a number of times previously

  • And we just thought that's a great place to...

  • just start, we'll look at alternatives and live a simpler, more sustainable life

  • And just explore what's out there.

  • It was then the realization sort of hit home

  • I started to research more

  • read, you know, hundreds of articles and watch hundreds of documentaries and sorts of stuff.

  • Then i started to really understand : "Wow,

  • We got some serious issues here..."

  • And no one's really talking about this stuff

  • and it's quite scary

  • In here we got our chickens

  • We've got two breeds

  • we've got a brown shader which is these ones here

  • And then over here wev'e got Araucanas

  • And over here we have little chicks

  • that have just hatched in the last two days

  • You can see them down here

  • Ok the chicken yard here... You can see there's lots of weeds

  • and little shrubs and what not and...

  • We've planted some...there was about 10 or 12 feet Java bushes around the edge

  • To give them some protection. There's a walnut tree down there

  • But now you now the chickens love it. They can get in here

  • and hide under here and escape from predators

  • cause when we first had them, it was cleared

  • and we did have a problem with

  • eagles and hawks so we lost a few chickens

  • Because

  • that was easy for the hawks to see them, then come in and attack them but

  • Now we've...hadn't had a problem.

  • And you wan say there's little hidy house everywher for the chickens here

  • And they love it in here, they just hide through here and

  • over here, they even lay eggs in the hidy holes and her's one here

  • there you go

  • The first thing

  • We did is

  • simplified our life.

  • So once you simplify your life,

  • it frees you up to do a lot of other things. So we just thought "Ok,

  • What can we afford ?" and live within that limit

  • And that way frees you up a lot more, so...

  • Down sizing and tiny homes is excellent because it gives people the freedom

  • to...to make decisions about their lives

  • And that's sort of what we've done.

  • Wev'e consciensly made that effort not to live outside our means

  • And once you do that it's really powerful

  • so I always wanted a pond

  • and a lot of permaculture people talk about ponds and averyone has pond and

  • it's functionnal, it's got some great uses

  • So the idea is

  • I built this pond

  • to feed the beds which are actually under about 2 feet of grass at the moment

  • so what happened is i thought I thought like I'm gonna... I'll just have a go digging the pond.

  • And i started digging it out

  • and i just kept going for a couple of hours

  • and then after four hours i had a pretty big hole

  • it's probably a meter and a half deep

  • And then the second day, I just kept going and dug down

  • And...within two days about 4 or 5 hours each day,

  • I had a pond !

  • And then, I just...

  • got a liner

  • and put it in the pond and I couldn't believe my luck

  • The next day, it belted down rain

  • and then the pond was full

  • So in two days, I've gone from having no pond

  • To a completely full pond, which is awesome.

  • Apart from working on the garden, that takes a good part of my day

  • I also for a few blogs and have written a few books

  • and...

  • i also consult with business local government and community groups

  • on helping raise awarness around some of the big picture issues

  • So I do what they call as a vulnerability assessment

  • So once i analyse the data and identify gaps, then i come up with recommendations

  • For councils to move to a more sustainable model.

  • I'm fortunate... I'm in a position to be able to do this

  • A lot of people who don't have the luxury of being able to have time to...

  • research and...come up with ideas and solutions so...

  • That's what i'm trying to achieve

  • I saw a documentary

  • back in 2007 called A Crude awakening that was talking about the oil shock and

  • resource depletion on peak oil

  • And that really got me interested in the whole energy side of things

  • I read lots of books on energy and watched lots of documentaries and lots of articles

  • And it just seemed that permaculture kept popping up

  • as a solution.

  • Then I started to research permaculture and realized that

  • It was an integrated approach to how we're living

  • So at the moment, our current society...

  • It's a fragmented approach to living

  • So everything's compartimentalised or separated

  • whereas permaculture is a holistic approach to how we're living.

  • It integrates food,

  • environment

  • with your lifestyle

  • and taking care of, you know, people,

  • the planet

  • the natural resources

  • So I really...

  • That really...

  • hit home and I just really thought that was...

  • that was one of the solutions for moving forward

  • Over here we've got some grapes

  • and we've had these in for about a year and a half

  • and this is our first

  • decent yield of grapes as you can see here

  • and what we do

  • so we let the next door neighbour graze our front two pattics

  • and in return, I can go over to her place and I get some pine needles

  • which the blueberries love cause they love acidic soil so

  • I just sprinkle the blueb...

  • the pine needles around the blueberries so it helps mulch them

  • and help give them nutrients and

  • it also keep the weeds down.

  • So what i'm trying to... I do mow and i don't like it

  • but I just try to mow the paths also

  • Um... side the paths

  • So what we do is we leave all the...

  • all the weeds and the ground cover, there cause it...

  • You know, i hate to waste the resource

  • But what I like to do is just walk up when I'm out

  • in the garden and just pick a bit of

  • weed and just dropped around there

  • it gives it a... I gives a bit of a top up

  • and a bit of a feed

  • and then, you know, it just protects it from the

  • From evaporation and

  • you know, it's just consant soil building

  • So... a lot of people come over to our property and have a look around

  • they go "what about all your fruit trees ?"

  • "Do you get pests and stuff, like bird that eat them ?"

  • I say yeah sure

  • But we don't mind that you know

  • we were not here first and

  • you know we're a part of nature and

  • you know

  • We've had...we have comments from other people that live around near us

  • On the farms

  • and they say

  • they can't believe how much wildlife and birdlife is here

  • and their properties

  • just, you know,

  • a few hundred meters away

  • have almost no wildlife or birdlife

  • so

  • you know

  • we're attracting

  • birdlife and wildlife

  • Through just letting nature be as opposed to wanting to control it.

  • Start growing food that's where alot of this...

  • these initiatives start.

  • Food is central to the way we live

  • our health,

  • and our whole ecosystem and environment

  • so if we can start doing

  • something small like

  • even if you

  • If you just live in the suburbia and you got a small block

  • you can start growing food

  • Even if you're in an apartment you can

  • you know

  • windowsills, pots whatever

  • you can start, and that's the first step

  • once you engage with growing and experiencing nature

  • Then things start to happen to you and it's like a

  • like a flower

  • it starts, you know growing, getting bigger and then that leads to something else.

  • So

  • get out there and explore because there are options

  • We just have to have the

  • capacity to realize that

  • we're not stuck

  • and we can change

  • and just... just do it !

  • I love Andrew's story because it contradicts a belief that underpins our society :

  • that only large amounts of money

  • and having expensive material posessions

  • are what lead to happiness.

  • We've been fad this lie by businesses and governments

  • in order to make profit

  • and to perpetuate the growth economy

  • that's contributing to the destruction of the earth

  • By each one of us refusing to believe this story our society tells us

  • Together we can create aworld where the deep satisfaction we all desire

  • comes from our connexion with community and nature

  • rather than from material posessions

  • in the face of the crisis the world is facing today

  • a new way of being is emerging

  • where we're connected to nature

  • and exist in harmony with all other forms of life

  • and it's up to us to pioneer the transition

  • to this deeply satisfying, nourishing

  • and truly sustainable way of life

  • I definitely feel happier

  • and less stressed.

  • When you work in a coporate world, it's very competitive

  • and I'll tell you, there's not much competition out here

  • appart from

  • a few weeds

  • Which i get

  • upset with. But now I've learnt to let go

  • and now I eat some of the weeds

  • I definitely feel better and

  • I feel more flexible

  • I don't have any actual pains anymore

  • And I just feel more connected and

  • more lively.

  • I eat much healthy now

  • I don't eat any processed foods

  • We have lot of vegetarian meals

  • and it's all fresh, organic produced

  • So we also live a less consumerist lifestyle

  • So we don't

  • need as much stuff

  • So I haven't got this constant craving for more and more things

  • to make me feel

  • satisfied or happy

  • This lifestyle working on the land and...

  • doing permaculture

  • It feels more rewarding

  • and like I'm putting something back

  • with a lot of...

  • current society it's take take take

  • And with this sort of lifestyle I feel like this is long term

  • I'm putting something back.

  • So... ther you have it.

  • We have homegrown salad

  • fruit salad, grain salad and some eggs

  • and I can't believe still

  • that

  • I don't have to go to the supermarket.

  • We've grown all this ourselves

  • in just 3 years.

  • I'm still amazed.

  • So anyone can do it

  • So hope you'll enjoy the first of many films in this series

  • and this project wouldn't be happening at all if it wasn't

  • for the generous support of our crowdfunding backers.

  • So thanks so much to everyone who donated.

  • And I want to say a special thank you to the simplicity institute,

  • friends tiny houses,

  • Michael Albertson,

  • Lou Ridsdale,

  • and Quentin Wilson.

  • If you wanna find out more about the project,

  • you can click here and it will take you throught to our website

  • Or if you wanna watch another film about a permaculture farm,

  • you can click here.

  • So thanks for watching guys and I'll see you all in the next film.

Hey there everybody my name is Jordan

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