6 Reasons we started a high tech homestead
In 2020 we crowdfunded a 400 acre property in rural BC Canada. Here’s why. We’ve been discussing concerns over AI on our podcast Future Thinkers for years. AI is going to disrupt almost every industry and wipe out a lot of jobs. People are going to be looking for alternatives, and we saw a need […]
We bought land to start a community
Buy a farm, live off grid, and start a community—you hear people talking about this all the time. Well, back in 2020, as the pandemic was hitting a peak, we crowdfunded a 400 acre property with a campsite, golf course, and RV park in Wells Gray, British Columbia, Canada, with the intention of building a […]
Communities of the future
Having a full time job used to be enough to get food, a home, healthcare, education, and raise a family. But nowadays, it’s kind of like… pick one. I think community land projects could help. These places can provide a place to live, teach new skills, make you more resilient, improve your health and food […]
Why do 90% of eco villages fail?
When people think of failed ecovillages, they often blame cult dynamics, crazy gurus, or big egos. But the real reasons are much more practical. Developing an eco village costs a lot. Without funding, villages struggle to build and sustain themselves, and if the members can’t make a living, more problems come. Bad infrastructure—like housing, drinking […]
The Next Big Asset Class
Forward thinking investors should be looking at villages as the next major asset class. Cities are becoming more expensive and fragile in the face of global crises. The old escape was suburbs or rural homesteads, and now some are building bunkers or isolated compounds. But isolation isn’t resilience. History’s most enduring, healthy, crisis proof communities […]
Ai In The Village
You might be surprised how you can use AI in a village in the middle of the woods. In our smart village project, we’re developing an AI to coordinate repairs, harvests, events, and shared tools. We’re building it to observe the rhythms of the land, get to know the people on it, monitor sensors, water, […]
Dacha Culture
Eco villages kind of have a bad reputation. A lot of people still imagine them as off-grid communes where everyone’s trying to escape society, avoid taxes, or live in some kind of free love experiment. But the truth is they’re becoming a real solution to the problems most people face today—isolation, rising costs, burnout, and […]
Digital Nomads and the New Ancestral Future
I think people are desperate for a different way to live. We’ve been digital nomads for years and have seen that industry explode firsthand, just seeing so many more people traveling to new countries and working online. There are just so many more people looking for a healthier lifestyle. Wellness, homesteading, homeschooling, and city life […]
The Real Wellness Fix
The screwed up thing about the health and wellness industry is that it’s designed to fit within burnout culture. It’s designed to treat symptoms rather than actually dealing with the underlying causes of why people are burning out and getting sick and unhealthy in the first place. It’s like doing a yoga class because you […]
Third Place Environments
Why do some places feel alive the moment you arrive? It’s because they’re designed that way. Think about your favorite cities or neighborhoods, they don’t just happen to be vibrant. They’re intentionally built to welcome culture. When art, music, and food spill into public life, a place starts to feel safe and inviting, because beauty […]