The Idea!
Published: 2013-02-25
Translation
This is a translation of a Bulgarian-language post. It conveys the content faithfully but is not the author's original English writing.
As most of you know, we live and raise our children in nature, trying to do it in accordance with its laws and, at the same time, doing the work we love. But this adds up to an impossible amount of work for a single family. In the past, when people lived naturally like this, it was in communities of people who helped each other in every way. Here we don't even have grandparents, and volunteers come only briefly and mostly don't care much about anything 😃 — to manage, we need a network of people to help us. We can't be in a hundred places at once. There's no way that, while I watch the children, cook, run the household and raise seedlings, I can also do the accounting. Nor do I have any idea how to make a business plan! I don't even have time to read which programmes we could apply to, in order to make the Happy Horses Estate project a reality.
We want to create a cooperative — here is what we imagine for it:
WE HAVE LAND, ENOUGH TO FEED A WHOLE LEGION... WELL, AT LEAST 10 FAMILIES, WITH PLENTY LEFT FOR MARKET! WE HAVE HORSES — HAPPY AND READY TO MAKE US HAPPY — SPORT, TOURISM, THERAPY, EACH ACCORDING TO STYLE AND TASTE. WE HAVE 28 декара OF RASPBERRIES, WHICH ARE A SEPARATE BUSINESS IN THEMSELVES. ADD TO THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF KEEPING BEES. WE HAVE ABOUT 30 GOATS. PASTURES. FORESTS WITH FAST-GROWING, RENEWABLE SPECIES. UNIQUE MEADOWS WITH RARE HERBS. IN TWO WORDS, GOD GAVE AND GAVE UNTIL HE QUITE FORGOT HIMSELF 😃. WE ALSO HAVE BUILT HIDES FOR OBSERVING AND PHOTOGRAPHING BIRDS. WE HAVE CHANGED THE STATUS OF MORE LAND AND CAN MAKE ONE WONDERFUL ESTATE, A PARK — WHICH LOVERS OF HORSES, FREEDOM AND BEAUTY, YOUNG AND OLD, CAN VISIT AND SHARE, LEARN AND TEACH US EVERYTHING THAT IS NATURAL — PRACTICES, TECHNOLOGIES, CRAFTS, ARTS, SPORT, GAMES, CLEAN FOOD, AND SPIRITUAL FOOD TOO. A PLACE IN NATURE WHERE PEOPLE CAN GATHER AND, WITH THEIR FAMILIES, BUILD DOMES, LITTLE CLAY HOUSES, BRIDGES, PONDS, GARDENS — NOT LIKE IN THE SILLY [GAME] FARMVILLE, OR SOME OTHER VIRTUAL THING, BUT FOR REAL!