Working Parties

A practical and efficient way to establish a big and multilayered project as building an Ecovillage is to divide energy and labour in different working parties. Every member has different talents and these can florish best when everybody on their own accord shares knowledge and effort to carry the project. Every (future) inhabitant is an equal member of the community and carries equal responsibility. This means that every member gives an equal share of work and energy, of course dependend on preference, personality, health and age. A working party or creative group can exist of one or more persons and the motivation lies in the enthousiasm for the vision and the project, the drive to create results and the longing to develop ones talents and share these with others. During the initiating fase there are less workparties necessary but also less people available to keep them up and running.

Later on when the Eco-Village is completely inhabited there could arise new creative groups of people who whish to live their dreams and passions. Joining one of these creative groups is of course not mandatory. Possible income derived from these creative groups will be shared among the participants. This will be a personal income on the one hand and an enrichment for the community on the other.

• Management: general organisation and coordination, secretariat, financial management, planning of meetings
• Activities : public relations, website, creative activities
• Exploration: searching for suitable area's
• Self-sufficiency: investigation and construction of practical applications concerning housing, energy, ecology ...
• File Rivendell: writing a motivated file about living in an Eco-Village meant for politicians and authorities
• Flora: creating a database of edible wild plants and permacultural crops, organise herbal walks
• Food: exchange recepies and nutricial knowledge e.g. preservation of foods
• Law: administratial duties, statutes and official documents, subsidies, laws and regulations
• Planning: design and arrangement of the Eco-Village and communal buildings
• Building: construction, coordination and organisation of building houses
• Greenteam: forestry, waters, construction and maintenance of communal nature, collecting plants and seeds
• Schooling: educating the soul
• Energy & Water: sustainable energysources, free energy, collecting and purifying water

• Bakery: bread and pastry for inhabitants, neighbours and markets
• Fruits & Vegetables: fresh organic food for communal meals and markets
• Shop: Rivendell village store for inhabitants en visitors
• Cheese: artisinal goatcheese
• Herbs: tinctures, dried herbs, essential oils, skin and body treatment
• Horticulture: tree and plant nursery, old and endangered species of fruit and vegetables
• Animals: taking care of free animals
• Talk-inn: juice, tea and vegetarian food
• Music And Dance: organisation of concerts en parties
• Clothing: design and creation of clothing made of natural materials (hemp, linen)
• Energywork: yoga, tai chi, reiki
• Wellness: massage, shiatsu
• Ecotourism: guided naturewalks for reconnecting to the source and destressing
  

  And the time came to pass that the risk to stay in bud
  was more painfull than the risk to blossom.

  

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