We are building a regenerative community in Galicia - it's thyme Ep. 001
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- We found an abandoned stone house village in Galicia, northern Spain. With the help of many incredibly skilled people we will restore it to its former beauty and beyond. We are creating a community around this project and are excited to welcome you to this documentary series that will follow us on our journey and teach you a little more about what we do here - bioconstruction, permaculture, regenerative ways of living and leading together for a more beautiful future.
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Tracklist:
Lalinea - Aperitif
Shinto - Dinner
Lalinea - Will You Dance with Me
Cosmonkey - Put On Your Fire
Magiksolo - Air
Out of Flux - DABOOMJIGGLE
Phury - Running feat Ladé
Okaya - Textures
#community #ecovillage #building #permaculture #naturalbuilding
Oh wow, my dream. More and more people moving back to the land, thinking about regeneration and living in harmony with nature. I love it.
It is a dream that includes lots of hard work but in the end it is worth it, especially if you have such a fantastic community :) Thank you for watching!
Ah...my dream taking root. Wonderful! We are in Galicia, south of Lugo. We are off-grid, in a stone and cob house, we grow most of our own food and work in alignment with Nature as much as possible. Galicia is crying out for folks like you,
Ohhh, how beautiful. So nice to hear what you are doing and that you're not too far and to connect to people with the same dream! Was it also a ruin that you transformed into a stone & cob house?
Yes!! We are looking for land now to do the same in Galicia. Can we all somehow connect??
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@@amarillasolo5864 😢
I'm in New Zealand, and we're homesteading on our farm. There are heaps of people who are starting to homestead & farm in their area as well. I specialize in naturally tanning skins for the purpose of making natural clothing, my brother black smiths & wood works. We have a big garden, fruit trees, animals we farm/hunt. We all know the truth, nature has everything we need & we need to return to it. Awesome video ladies.
That is awesome to hear, New Zealand is such a beautiful place on Earth. What is one of the biggest lessons you've learned so far on your journey? We're always keen on getting input from people all over the world how they solved problems (ecological, social or technical stuff). Thank you so much for the kind words and good luck to you and your family & friends.
Very wellcome to Galicia!!!. Interesting and very exciting proyect. I have my own permaculture proyect in Comarca do Morrazo, in south west Galícia. Hopefully we'll meet in future. My best wishes in that paced race towards happyness and another pov of freedom.😊😊😊
Hey there, we are so happy to hear from people already living a life with permaculture design in mind in Galicia. We will for sure meet in the future. Greetings back to the south west and sending much love there. ¡Hasta pronto! :)
The ending scenery video made me cry it is so beautiful. Thank you for that🌱
Thank you, it is so heartwarming to read that. A lot more beautiful scenery is coming your way, we promise! :)
Good luck with this awesome adventure 😃
Yeahh, thank youuu 😃🥰!!
its good to see more and more people getting out of the crazy life in the cities and restoring this abandoined villages creating self suficient comunities ..... i wll be following youre development ..... support from portugal
Hey Hugo, thank you so much for your support and for following our journey :) we have lots of friends and also family in Portugal. Sending much love back there!
Lets go guys!!! Good luck on your project and hope to see you thrive!! 💪
Lets gooo! Thank you very much, glad to have you with us on this exciting journey :)
So green and lush,not at all like where I live in CLM...... good luck and God bless 🙏
That is one of the reasons we fell in love with Galicia. The amount of rain in winter can sometimes be a little difficult to deal with, especially in the beginning of this project when not a lot of infrastructure is ready yet, but it is great to see so many different plants growing here. Thank you very much!
Ein faszinierendes Video, interessant und spannend. Dankeschön für diesen Einblick und viel Erfolg bei der Arbeit und der großartigen Vision.
Hach, vielen Dank für diesen motivierenden und lieben Kommentar!
Love it ! Im very excited to see how this develops! It is time to start the changes that this planet needs dearly.
So true, thank you! It is also very exciting to hear there are people like you who are excited about this ☺! Thanks for following along!
Bravissimi 💪💪👋
Grazie mille, siamo felici che siate qui! :)
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It made us all so happy to read this today, thank you so much! We will do our best :)
❤We will change the world fast with our ❤'s
We will absolutely change it, step by step, sometimes fast but also slow, as the moment requires it from us :)
Good luck guys ❤
Thank you :) good to have you with us!
Rebel against the pod and bugs!
Yay!! I am so happy to be here in the beginning of your journey! My soul sings with all these beautiful Earth / human / humane and the cosmos friendly projects! Bless you all for vibrating higher and I'll pray for your success 🕉️🌱🌻
And we feel so happy and blessed to have you with us right from the get go! Welcome and let's discover together where the next few episodes lead us to.
Greetings from an abandoned hamlet in Ribeira Sacra in Galicia. Benvidas!
Greetings back to west Galicia! Moito amor para ti
❤we have been decades of experience ❤before I was born
Well done video! I am so very happy to see what you have started and how you are going about to bring your vision into reality! To have a balanced approach sounds so very wise and mature, which is something that has not happened often so far. As an older generation I can only say: you are the ones that we older ones who saw (when we were young) what was going wrong and now is the time for you to bring it all to life. I am not saying that the older generation is not needed or should be part of this or similar project, what I mean is that we really need to see such dedication and powerful desire in action (as our way to do our best has been a very long one). Thank you for doing what you are doing and if it's meant to be I will see you on site one day. 🙂
and please don't get discouraged by criticism! It's easy to criticise, very easy! But: we will always know them by their actions!!! And your actions are showing your ability to create holistically! Thank you! 💜
Thank you for your beautiful words and being so very encouraging. We really have such a big longing to see a different world that for us it only makes sense to use all that we have got to make it happen. But we know it will take some time, so we think we need all of us and shouldn't be too harsh on ourselves or compromising with our joy ❤. Life is too beautiful! It will be a big pleasure to see you on site ❤!
So so so great, keep it up ❤
😍We will, thank you for cheering us on ❤!
Cool cool but the biggest emitters are the rich who travel a lot… Mobility & time to travel equals the carbon footprint. The idea of going back to nature is great, but not in the context of more & more traveling. Make this happen in your hometown & introduce a new way of living where the people actually live. ❤
Hi Chris, you're absolutely right to point out that traveling is responsible for a big part of emissions while only a small percentage of the global population is actually having the privilege of going places. We also deeply agree with starting projects like these close to where you live. Manolo, for example, is from the area here in Galicia and a few others are already living full time here and are registered as well. More are planning to move here in the next months.
We believe it to be important to bring together people from all over Europe and the world because the meta crisis we as a species are facing is one that can only be solved if there is international cooperation on all levels. This means that not only politicians and experts should be meeting each other at conferences but citizens should intermingle and connect to create a human identity beyond national borders, languages and cultural traditions. We don't believe that decreasing mobility per se is a solution for us to figure out how we can live a regenerative life together on this planet. It will require a balance between reducing carbon emissions while still allowing people to connect with each other.
Moreover, the north of Spain will certainly see an increase of population over the next few decades and infrastructure will be built here to serve the people one way or another. Ideally we want to be a regional influence that pushes for a regenerative approach. We are very happy to continue the dialogue and learn from you if your view on these matters is different to ours. Thank you for providing a honest and critical voice in the comments.
Great work gals hope your community grow and inspire peace for years to come.
Thank you so much! It is already growing in such a beautiful way with so many wonderful souls engaged in the process that we feel humbled to see it all happening before our very eyes.
@@itsthymeforregeneration I want to do something similar as you ladies in U.S California however the laws here is ridiculous too many.
Goodluck with your project. I look forward to your future videos.
Thank you Robert, it truly means a lot to all of us here. We're excited to see where this journey is heading to and we will do our best to take you all along as best as we can!
❤ love this... 👍🏼👍🏼
🧡 Thanks for your support!
The sight of the dig is some of the best parts
I agree! We are working more with the digger - so more of it soon 😁!
Sweet project! Inspiring!
Thank you very much for your compliment. Glad to have you with us!
Good luck. This looks like an amazing project.
Thanks a lot!
Super proud of this gang, whoop whoop! 🫶
You're already part of this gang, muchacho! Haha❤
@@itsthymeforregeneration 💚
Great work❤
Thanks for your unconditional support dear Claudine!❤
I love it! Currently I'm on the hunt myself for an abandoned Stone house in Galicia, it could be great to get in touch and learn a thing or 2 from one another. How can I reach You guys
Cool! Get in touch with us through our Instagram or E-mail (see video description) and we are happy to connect & share.
Beautiful ❤😊 ...
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Oh ❤So nice!!
I loved the well-done documentary and the vibes of everyone in the aldea! Besides, the vision and nature are breathtaking!
I'm so happy I was able to visit you there and give a workshop about Active Hope. It was a truely great experience.
We loved every second you were here, dear Nele, and we all can't wait to have you back and give more amazing workshops that touch and move us so deeply and profoundly. Thank you a thousand times!
What the hell! I never knew spain could be so green! Greetings from australia
The north really doesn't look anything like the south where most tourists go and most people think of if they think of Spain as a country. It is so incredibly beautiful here in Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria or the Basque Country! Greetings back to Australia :)
Brave girls. Wonderful project ❤️
❤Thank you!
There is nothing better you can do.
I would like correspondence for ideas.
Europe is definitely more ready for this that the United States but Europe had the crises end of the patern first, mirror side of the patern would be that United States would need the crises soon to be able to accept change.
This is all theory, but it's how everything else behaves in nature.
Eh, you meet all kinds online 😅
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Magical !!! I came to Galicia too , to do things similar to yours after 22 years in Scotland and Ireland.
I got lost in the energies of all you guys so well done . Galicia is truly magical and as you described it
What a wonderful comment, thank you so much! We would be really happy to connect with you and listen and learn from your experience. Cheers to you! :)
@@itsthymeforregeneration I would love to connect with yourselves too . How can we do this ? I would not want to publicly write my phone number or email here . Look forward you becoming part of my journey too
@@journeyithaki7772 you can write to us at hey@itsthyme.org - we are currently very busy though, because of personal stuff as well. We can't reply quickly at this moment even though we wish we could do that. Cheers and Love :)
Welcome to Galicia , good vídeo. More kiss
Thank you so much for welcoming us. We are very happy to be here and to become an integral part of this beautiful region! Kisses back to you :)
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I Love your Projekt. I want to come visit one day. I have two healthy hands to help wherever help is needed and a brain full of ideas and inspirations and a giving heart.
That would be wonderful. See you around one day! Grüße aus Deutschland! ❤️🙏🌸
Thank you so much! We are very happy to see so many people wanting to come visit us and help. Please drop us an email (gerne auch in Deutsch!) at hey@itsthyme.org and we will try to get back as quickly as possible. We are a small team right now, though, so it might take a while! Grüße zurück nach Deutschland
I’m looking at houses to renovate in Galicia (my mother is from there) and want to volunteer on a project like yours to learn from what you’re doing. I have training in carpentry and I’m a neuroscientist focused on trauma and neurodevelopmental disorder, though I suspect my woodworking and building skills might be more useful to the project? Would love to get in touch.
Very nice video. The only negative thing is the music. Why putting these terrible sounds under the spoken words of the people?
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Hey Pauline, Lars here (editor and responsible for choice of music). We will try to include different styles of music in the coming episodes. I guess it is impossible to meet everyone's taste but maybe you can tell me which of the songs in this episode was the least terrible? I can use that as a great feedback for the future. Wish you a great day :)
Thank you ❤! Haha, oops, our dad also didn't like the music very much 😅- let's see whether we can hit your taste of music more in the next videos 🤗
@@LarsRichterMedia No music when people are talking! In my opinion this is disrespectfull.
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I really like to follow you on your journey but can you please skip the music in your video’s?
Thank you for watching the start of our journey and your feedback. We will try our best to make as much people happy with the choice of music but it is very difficult. We might be doing a poll at some point to see what the majority of the community wants.
It is especially distracting while someone is talking that’s why I mentioned it. Good luck on your special journey, really beautiful what you are dreaming in to reality. ❤
Manolo y tu donde estás???
O donde está la gente de este pueblo interagindo,esto es importante p la conversación de la cultura y tradiciones de los pueblos españoles!!!
Tienen que buscar gente, pero con mucho cuidado. Mantener todo bien banquillo.
I would love to be part of something like this, but as of now instead of positive and constructive I am angry, spitefull and not fit to join such a lovely place. I would bring it down around me..
Hey there, you already took the first step of recognizing that you're in a negative space of mind and heart. You also already know where you want to be in the future. Be proud of that and don't give up. You're on the right path :)
Hey, thank you for commenting! We know a lot of people that have been in similar situations and they bounced back to live a life full of joy and love. As Lars already said, you have done the first step of recognizing where you are and where you want to go. Don't give up and if you can, connect with people that brighten your day rather than keeping you down. Feel free to write to us whenever you feel like it. We are all wishing you the very best
Pleas vind a way to not blame your self what is around you wil be what you become go to a place have faith and you wil heal in time
Try woofing fore a month and do what you know is richt and you wil feel like a fish in the water again men
Thank you guys for the encouraging words. I will travel and free my mind of the dead weight soon. There needs to be room to reinvent oneself.
hey this is great, i've been looking for a nice piece of land with a ruin to renovate for me and a few other people, to start living in commune with a shared mission. i'm in italy though. I was wondering, how hard is it in Galicia to go about building and renovating on a piece of land? Is there a lot of bureaucracy involved? Do you get any funds from the government?
In Italy it's tricky cuz there's a lot of paperwork (some of this paperwork is also expensive to obtain), but the positive thing is that you could get some funds if the building abides by energy sustainability standards. Would be interesting to know how it is there! Anyway, sending my support for your journey, it'll be a pleasure to follow you!
Hey Jimmy, thank you so much for your support! We are at the very beginning of our journey and so far we haven't yet approached the government for any funding but we are on it. Probably for places that have a public interest (like the theater and community house we want to build) it is more easy to get some funding but we will have to figure it all out in the coming months and years.
We are currently in the process of talking to officials to be able to build on some pieces of land here that currently we legally aren't allowed to. So far it looks good. We will be talking about this more in the future for sure! Greetings back to Italy :)
Молдавия развивается
my land mother
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I only know English,subtitles are helpful
We are not quite sure if we read your comment correctly. In case you're asking for english subtitles for the spanish parts, they are included in the "spanish" subtitles you can turn on in the settings. For efficiency reasons we only provide one subtitle file that translates spanish to english and english to spanish at the same time.
Nice project do you guys teak volunteers?
Hey Tobias, thank you very much! We do indeed take volunteers but since this project is at the very beginning and not a lot of infrastructure has been set up so far we can only invite a certain amount of people. Please write to us on Instagram @heyits_thyme or even better write an email to hey@itsthyme.org and we will figure something out together.
@@itsthymeforregeneration I am going to north Spain this januari and have a camper setup maybe I can visit I am looking fore a place to buy a farm maybe in your area it's nice do you think ?
can hear a German accent. Nice video thanks!
We love accents! Thank you very much :)
This is my dream. I would like to learn more. Do you think Manolo would invite me there to learn more about your village? I am a hard worker.
Hey Susan, in general we are very happy to welcome people here and for sure Manolo and the others would teach you everything you want to know about bioconstruction and permaculture. Please write to us at hey@itsthyme.org but be aware that we are currently in a very stressful phase of the project and it might take a while before we can reply and offer a spot here. Thank you for your comment :)
Schönes Projekt! Nach 9 Minuten habe ich aufgehört, das Video zu sehen, weil die Hintergrundmusik einfach zu nervig war. Sorry, aber ohne Backsound oder aber mit angenehmer Musik, wär eure Doku einfach besser. Viel Glück!
Hallo Peter, vielen Dank für dein Feedback. Wir haben mehrere Kommentare bezüglich der Musik bekommen und werden in der nächsten Episode mal etwas anderes ausprobieren. Liebe Grüße an dich!
Awful music, grinding on the soul, to harsh, sorry 😢
hey, Lars here (editor of the video and responsible for the choice of music). Sorry to hear that you didn't like the music. I think we will try to have different styles of music in the coming episodes but I guess it will never meet everyone's taste of music. Which song of the ones I used is the least awful in your mind? Thank you for your feedback :)
Sorry to hear that you felt the music was grinding on the soul and too harsh. We will try to make as much people happy with the choice of music going forward. If you want to, please let us know which one of the songs we chose was the least awful in your mind. It would be helpful feedback :)
So what are the realistic solutions you propose to today's complex problems? Complex problems in the area where you are located are many, such as little to none working opportunities, lack of internet connectivity or phone landlines, (you depend on your mobile phone) , long distances to amenities with no public transport whatsoever, very poor public infrastructure, rapidly decreasing aged community (average of 85-90 years old) and the list goes on.
No self reliant sustainably? Depending on funds from?
You talk about hope, so are you targeting hopeless people?
Stablishing these "projects" and "hubs" in Galicia have clearly become a business model, a source of income rather than an sharing space for the actual community.
Your neighbours, who have been living in the area for generations, are already well suited and trained for the natural environment they dwell in, and know a lot about sustainability, living off the land etc... but hey, maybe it's time to reinvent the wheel 😂
I think it'd be quite unfair to put this off as just a trendy business-modell. Of course the neighbours have lived with this land for ages and have great knowledge of how to create systems that work for the region. But they explicitly said, that they seek the involvement with the locals (of whom Manolo is also one who's Family has been living in the region for centuries) to learn with and from their practices. Also if you look at the demographic developments of the rural areas everywhere and Galicia is no exception to this you will see that the youth is fleeing to the cities because there is nothing happening on the countryside. So it's hardly an intergenerationaly sustainable situation if the youth feels like it has no future there. This is why we need more of these projects. The more the merrier.
@@fucklawnsthats exactly what I think too. Thank you.
everything starts with the first step and even small steps will lead to a solution that helps everyone once a group of people is able to harmoniously work together. I have no doubt that this group of people will achieve what they dream of! This is the new world that is being created by heart based people with a strong vision and strong sense of reality and what can be done. Our world is already changing and this group has the authenticity to realise things. 🙂
Projects like this one try to have the reality of today meet with old / new wisdom and old / new technologies like bioconstruction, LiDAR mapping and much more. In a world of 8+ billion people, hundreds of millions of people will be on the move in the next decades and this includes people in Europe as well. In Spain many people will move towards the north and new infrastructure will be built here in Galicia in one way or another. Ideally in a regenerative way that will serve future generations as well. The fact that there is people exploiting projects and hubs solely for profit seeking doesn't mean they all do. Btw, the community here in Galicia is not "rapidly decreasing". If you look at the statistics it is pretty much stagnant for the past 30 years. Also, the average age is not 85-90 years but 47,5 (which is incredibly old) - I don't doubt that you come from a good place and I hope you can give people a chance to prove that there is still groups of individuals trying to built a better place for themselves and "hopeless people" as well. Looking forward to more dialogue.
Great questions actually! I can feel that you care a lot about the topic!
Do you live in Galicia?
Do you have experience with projects like ours?
For us, it's not about competing with the neighbours or wanting to reinvent the wheel - but more about bringing people together so there can be an exchange of knowledge, learning from and with the locals and finding good solutions together for the region - and maybe even inspiring other regions and guests, students and other people on site with our learnings and solutions. We truly want to be well integrated in the local ecosystem so that the locals feel proud and part of this project and not vice versa. Let's see if we can make this happen!
And creating sustainable new structures hopefully brings back the younger generations and with it, more working opportunities, better public transport and so on - without municipalities or people who take the step to create attractive infrastructure, regions will only lose more of it I think?!
We also aim to be financially self-reliant to not depend on regular funds in the future without being only profit-oriented. We will talk more about it in the documentary .
I would be very happy if you continue to share, be attentive and follow and question our approach! This is how we learn!
I’m looking at houses to renovate in Galicia (my mother is from there) and want to volunteer on a project like yours to learn from what you’re doing. I have training in carpentry and I’m a neuroscientist focused on trauma and neurodevelopmental disorder, though I suspect my woodworking and building skills might be more useful to the project? Would love to get in touch.
Hey, thank you very much for reaching out in the comments. It sounds like we could actually learn a lot from you! We have a network of friends here that bought land and ruins and restores them to their former beauty. Please drop us an email at hey@itsthyme.org and we will try to get back to you as soon as possible. We are a very small team right now, though, and can't respond super quickly to the flood of emails arriving in our inbox. Sorry if it takes a while.