14 years ago, Crispin Moorey quit his city job to start a beautiful permaculture farm and homestead in the Japanese countryside together with his wife Kazumi. Dissatisfied with their life in the city, they craved a deeper connection to nature. Their unique off-grid permaculture farm and homestead includes many self-built structures such as a yurt, a shed and a barn as well as a productive mandala garden. Crispin’s permaculture farm is a great example of regenerative agriculture and shows that it is possible to carve out a living from taking good care of Mother Earth. Crispin and his wife add value to the crops they grow by turning them into delicious shelf-stable products first, processing and packaging everything in-house before selling them directly to their customers across Japan.
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Seeing a boot jack for the first time has just changed what I believed about existence.
Gorgeous – and yes sir modern man has engaged more so than ever this enormous GREED to keep him going. so seeing your life style emerge to a lifestyle that I would love to have had with that opportunity, so wonderful and that satisfaction having done it all on your own. Cheers
It video is so close to my heart ! After 3 years of effort , finally, my husband and I got a piece of land just like this. 🙏
ahh yeah that makes more sense 7 years in a yrt is nutz wonder if they ever considered building permanent accommodation on sight
What a peaceful and rewarding Life
it is nice to be rich
this really strikes me as end-game capitalism right here – we gotta balance with nature, find the beauty in things like this ol chap has done, brilliant work 2:30
This is the way we should be all living, in tune with nature.
What a beauty people,and good job!
Namastê 💖💖
Like so many types of such videos: Beautiful! Und very privileged. I am sad for all the people who long for this but will never afford it because of the financial opression and systemic violence we are flooded by.
Farms destroy ecosystems
I think psychologically he felt undermined by his economics job. The Brits make this role for Economists which is ruthless and unbreachable. And he was in a Japanese corporate culture, where execution overshadows personal things. Good that they made a child out there. But then he sounds so formal about that too. It is a personal situation.
I wish i could be satisfied living like this, but ive grown up in a way that i need my fancy headphones and wifi and video games. I think there is still a lot to be learned from a lifestyle like this though. even for us that live in a modern world, what might be enough for us would be a little more than an off the grid homestead, but living for only what makes you happy and wanting the things you only truly want is a good mantra for all of us.
Ahh the things you can do with lots of money, no need to worry when you have it.
No reason I can’t do this in my backyard
Very interesting video
Creating your own natural haven. What an achievement and I Love it.
Off the grid living with items from on the grid. not exactly true off the grid living.
inspiring
I love this
my family live on a 26 hectares land in my country and its soo peacefull here. we have free spring water
it's all fun 'n' games until you get old and need medical assistant.
Sir, I love the way you did wow simply but very effective and practical ❤❤❤
If you make a house like that and a garden like that in Bangladesh you will lose everything. People will even steal the sheet that you put on the wall
Living the dream! Love it, bravo Zulu
Nice story… the Weeds are Nature's way to identify and begin the rebuild damaged soil. They do not compete with the crops, then compliment them.
We are all on our own journeys without end … What a wonderful path was chosen here.
you can grow a much more colourful place with all kinds of fruits vegtables looks litte bit sad.
Another great video. Maybe I start find place in Japan.
Amazing! Can’t wait until my Creator leads me to my simple lifestyle as a regen farmer!
Imagine to have all that money to be able to buy so much land and then build your dream.. Love it 🙂 the way we all shoud be living
Absolutely lovely but I don’t think that life would be for me.
Really love this video!
Clever man
Sometimes he literally took words from my mouth. Mad respect
How do you pay taxes? Were you extremely wealthy in the city? Not to mention the amount of stuff you have had to cost something somewhere