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3 Years Off Grid: A Life of Harvesting Food, Painting and Creativity

Original was uploaded on 2023-11-26

Our book is out! http://geni.us/MothertheMountain 💚 Join us as we celebrate, harvest, paint, sew and pick many flowers from the garden for a special event.

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Julia’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliavanderbyl/

We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land.
In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined.

Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country.

We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial.

Music By Indira Elias
https://indiraelias.com/
“Restart”, “Lend Me”, “Urania” and “Dreamy Youth”

Chapters:
0:00 3 years off grid
2:41 Painting in the studio
4:04 Sewing a dress from handkerchiefs
4:49 Painting a mystical landscape
5:28 Draping the top of the dress
6:38 Finishing the huge painting
7:31 Sewing zero waste from scraps
17:04 Harvesting blooms for something really exciting
19:40 Hosting a book launch party
21:10 Being interviewed for national radio!
22:21 Our work being showcased
22:32 Visiting Greenpeace
23:14 Attending a gala