The Natural Living Centre (NLC) is a Smart Village that uses a new design pattern for living, learning, work, play, and stewardship of land, communities and bioregions. 

Key features of the NLC are

• • Provides a model of a thriving, resilient community living in harmony with nature.
  • A fully integrated village including a live in school, farm, business, art, land care, green energy, play and community space. 
  • Holistic design covering social, cultural, economic, environmental, legal and governance dimensions of regenerative systems
  • Incorporates the best of regenerative and sustainable living in a unique single-site solution.

The NLC’s village architure integrates technologies across the following areas:

• • Wellness: health, nutrition, exercise, mindfulness
  • Cultural: art, ritual, gatherings, celebrations, nurturing community, story, world view
  • Economic: deep wealth, collaborative economy, local currency, unique ownership models, community commons, business incubation and grants
  • Environmental: stewardship, environmental regeneration, water management, food security, green building, food forests, farm incubation, carbon sequestration, bioregional responsibility and perspective
  • Community Empowerment: community decision making, governance, restorative justice, participatory design and processes, secure legal structures

The Natural Living Center’s mission is to create a healthy society. We do this through building community and bioregional resilience. We create resilience by teaching a personal empowerment, community empowerment and stewardship program. This equips our students with the new ways of thinking that are needed to transform the social, economic and environmental challenges of our modern period.

Our goals include: 

1. 1. Foster the conditions for emergence and psycho-spiritual growth
   2. Demonstrate that humans can live on this planet in a life-enhancing way
   3. Deepen the adaptive capacity of our species
   4. Reconnect to natural lore
   5. Embody regenerative living
   6. Create a collaborative economy

We use the best regenerative design approaches and technologies.

Key Technologies include:

• Stewardship viewpoint – place based, bioregional, people led
• Participatory Design
• Self-managing Organisations – Holacracy
• Collective sense and decision making
• Resotrative Justice
• Permaculture
• Holistic Land Managmet
• Circular Economic Design
• and much much more

1. 1. 1. New Farmer Incubation: We will provide the facilities, housing and training to new farmers on our six farms (4 acres each) and our 30 acres of Syntropic forestry. Establish a CSA to the 70 homes and businesses in the village and a marketing program to local food buyers. We use massively regenerative approaches such as Biodynamic, organic and regenerative farming
      2. Food Processing Businesses: We provide the facilities for four food processing business to add value to the food production from the villagee and support them to market their products.
      3. Syntropic and Food forestry: Covering 30+ acres of land area, creating carbon sequestration, food security and furhter produce sales.
      4. Small business centre: provieds a co-working space and small business incubation, coaching, grants, microloans and operations to newly establishing or relocating small businesses that are fully or partially owned by the village
      5. Teaching rooms and student work spaces
      6. Community space
      7. Beautiful village landscape – permacultured and regenerated, forests and lakes
      8. Nurturing eco-cabin accommodation – both long and short term
      9. High speed internet
      10. Local organic food garden
      11. Low impact living
      12. Green energy

An educational centre for advanced harmonic living with nature teaching core areas of life including permaculture, land regeneration, organic, biodynamic and food forestry / syntropic farming, and community, small business management and village living skills including: governance, decision making, visioning, planning, conflict resolution and maintenance.

• • Collaborative Education
  • Purposeful, Significant and Important
  • Holistic and Interdisciplinary
  • Foundational Skills
  • Applied Education
  • Transpersonal Inquiry
  • Service based learning
  • Immersive Setting
  • Scientific Rigor

• • Community Owned
  • Local Economy
  • Supportive Ecosystem
  • Fair Share

Please reach out if you have land, capital, ecovillage skills or knowledge or have a strong desire in being a resident in our Ecovillage project.

Wild Community Ecovillages – Michael New – 02-8006-2525 or +61 492829298 – mike@wildcommunity.org