Cloughjordan Ecovillage 360 Tour

cat's head pig snout golden spires Sam young belly fat and greasy Pippen dog knee honey bold summer John Gibbons rest City Pro Queen eight square ladies early under the golden canopy oh and Davi Philip Han one of the members of the Education Group o'clock Jordan ecovillages and I'm gonna and start this virtual 360 tour due to the current circumstances we can't give you a tour of what we're doing here in club Jordan so and this is what we're going to offer now so clock Jordan eco village started 20 years ago and we selected clock Jordan as a place where we would and bring our ideas and thinking too and we've been looking exploring how we mainstream and normalized sustainability and therefore joining an existing smart rural village rather than setting up a new village in greenfield site was part of our intentions so this is the the stone building that will be there is that the threshold of clock jordan eco village and here clock jordan community farm members pick up their vegetables we have a whole food buyers club once a month where people pick up Whole Foods and so but this building hopefully is going to be redeveloped along with this whole entranceway into education and tourism a Welcome Center for the Eco village so as we come down and through the pedestrian entrance of the Eco village we and we come down into where the housing is and you're going to meet different eco villagers and talking about different parts of the community on this 360 virtual tour so let's go enjoy this hi my name is Pavan erskine and I'm the owner of jaundice Hospital here the green building you see over here it operates as this visitors accommodation center for visitors to talk Jordan but more importantly it operates as a visitors center to those who are intending the educational courses that we run here in fact Jordan Jordan eco village project is an educational charity we're standing in the market square what we call the market square and plan afar the residential area TV privileges 130 houses 56 have been developed so far and there are approximately 100 they had 30 people hundred and thirty-five people living here in the Eco village now we've used permaculture principles in the design of the residential area look at eco village and one of those would be an edible landscape edible and productive landscape the tree is a beautiful thing if you want to plant a tree why not plant a tree the supposed to produce when I found an apple tree or a fruit tree are not trained we have planted about a thousand trees in the residential area of upper trace native Irish apple trees and they're all in bloom you can see that blossoms now coming in there how it's a wonderful time of the year here me personally I think this is a great project I'm very happy to be part of it and proud indeed it was the best decision I ever made thank you hi I'm Patrick O'Connor I've had an allotment to your Anika village for maybe over ten years or so but only in the last few years really gotten into it so between our allotment between a growing space back at the house and a small 5 meter by 5 meter polyclonal I would provide most of the vegetables that we need for our family for so allotments typically here they're 10 meters by 10 meters so some people choose to share an allotment because it can be a lot to take on when you're just getting into it but once you get into it you want to do more and more so they're a lovely space to arrive to on a day like this and be a social space to work alongside other people who are also growing their own food and people do it for a lot of reasons one level you know your mind feels good more connected and ground it also in terms of food security between what's evident from modern agriculture is impact on nature and the complex supply chain environment daseanax it's not very resilient so we saw on the snow last year over the current pandemic it's been able to really like gonna look after our own food source connect locally and understand how food is grown go back to the past everyone would have probably grown a bit of food for their own family so it's important that you get out there enjoy it and bring home centers are close man self yeah hi my name is Bruce Terrell and I live in this eco village and I spend most of my time up in these gardens which I call the red Gardens project it's an educational and research project that I manage under the overall educational remit of this project I tend Gardens and there's a number of different family scale gardens that I manage plus a larger educational space and research space and I make youtube videos about it all and upload it to my red Gardens YouTube channel the Gardens range in a number of different methods and approaches each one following a different philosophical a practical approach to growing food I have an extensive garden which focuses on growing the best quality vegetables by spacing plants farther apart and being really meticulous with soil fertility beside that is the intensive garden which plants spaces plants very close together in an attempt to try to get as much food as possible out of a limited growing space that involves a huge amount of compost and a huge amount of labour and digging the soil then there's a no dig method which is right beside that which follows a very different philosophy I also have a polyculture garden which takes a much more integrated approach of growing plants together rather than segregating them I have a simple garden which is trying to get the most food out of a space with the least amount of work using a carefully designed system of rotation of a couple of key crops and then I have my polytunnel garden which ran at the moment and that is by far the most abundant garden in this ecosystem in Ireland because I can grow a lot more crops or throughout the entire year and all of this is part of an effort to try to figure out what is the best ways or how the different ways of growing food compared to each other and what are the pros and cons of all of these different gardens and I try to synthesize all this stuff and broadcast it to the rest of the world through my youtube channel hi my name is Jean and I live here in Jordan eco village and I took up the cudgels of coordinating this project which had been begun by other community members and it's very much a collaborative thing with the community is was set up as a sensory garden we've kind of added in the wildlife element and because we've so many birds here it's quite at the moment but good mornings and the evenings are beautiful and firstly I suppose the tree here on the right I feel really anchors this project into mother earth and we are dealing with the five senses and for me I work with mindfulness the five senses can help us to really anchor into the present moment so over here then we put in the grasses again just no wind today and this would be the sound area and then over here we have the touch area and we've got different elements including wood a narrowly shaped wood and some nice slates recycled slates and different shrubs and then the food area as you can see is emptying it because we're really just about to plant it up this is a work in progress and another community member recently took some pilots from the bakery so again recycled material and built us a wonderful compost area I will probably face that in wood and then behind me here we have the scent area and we have various herbs basically which are particularly usable and then the side here behind me and there are little areas in between which have been slightly changed since the original but these lovely places where we can sit and and over here we have and there where we may put some sculptor community sculptor so all on a shoestring budget hi I'm Oliver Moore I'm a member of clock jordan community farm we're standing in a field of green manure and that's part of what we do it's an agro-ecological regenerative farm where we operate to the highest ecological standards so we don't use biocides or mineral fertilizers instead we have green manures we have crop rotations we have composted farmyard manure and we have hand labor to produce dozens of vegetables for dozens of people over the course of the year so anyone can be a member anyone can join from the region so up here on my right we have a pollutant and education area that's for learning and for social farming here we have loads of green manure because the proper rotation dictated that's what should happen now and then we have chickens you have mushrooms we have a few different poly tunnels propagating and getting things ready lots of little zones and then the fields care crops which this year are over here our leeks and onions lots of kale lots of carrots and lots of potatoes and then a compost area and a seed burn so this whole area is one turd in green manures at any one time just as a member owned firm so the members get a say in what happens why it happens where it happens and get to get involved in what we do we also have open pollinated seeds primarily and we save our own seeds so that's more resilient yes so it's a fantastic way to guarantee your food security and your food sovereignty your food metres rather than food miles because the food is delivered to a distribution center really close to here just a few hundred metres away twice a week so we get to share in the abundance that the farm provides twice a week on the Main Street there so yes so the community pharmacists are really really important and interesting and vibrant part of living in Jordan and it's a great way to to get to interact with people and to get to have some say in what happens to land that is all around us my name is Erin Bailey I've been living here in the Eco village for 10 years now so I've seen the development of this space community amphitheater so this space was realized as a 1916 rising centenary project referencing the poet playwright and revolutionary Tomas McDonough who was a native here from Clark Jordan and this space is an example of creativity within the community it's always been creativity has always been central to the eco village and this space came about because we didn't really know what to do with the subsoil as the houses were being built so we're all piled up and then somebody had the idea to turn it into an amphitheater and also a dark sky bowl and other aspects that are still being developed so President Michael D Higgins actually opened this space in 2017 and he spoke about it as a place for reimagining to retell old stories to reimagine the future that we want to get to so this space really speaks to that width in terms of arts and creativity so this back field has been used for events such as the permaculture gathering we even had our own festival here last year and this space here can seach 300 people and has had poetry and music even film and amateur professional and local theater still in developments I'm merely Mihan I live here in the Eco village and I'm a labyrinth facilitator so Fulcher welcome to our labyrinth that was built with stones from our land by some members of our community for the community and since it has been built it has really become a still point for many people in the community and for me it's become a heart centered focal point of the community there are now groups all over the world including in Ireland and millions of people walk labyrinths people from all cultures and traditions and there are various types of labyrinths and this labyrinth here that I'm standing in is the most ancient labyrinth and it's commonly known as sometimes a second seventh circuit or a classical labyrinth or a Christian labyrinth and so we'll call to care a global and it is part of our Celtic spiritual traditions so it's an ancient mystical imprint on the land so a labyrinth is a very gentle space and when we come to market was always encouraged that we come with a non-striving approach that counter balances the busyness distractions and disconnections present and in everyday life so there are many reasons for work in the labyrinth people waka for all kinds of races as a mindful walk to reduce stress for solace to release grief and anger and for some walking labyrinth is a spiritual practice you can also walk it for another and in this time of the coronavirus it's a really comforting thing to walk 11 for somebody who you love and care deeply about but who cannot be with because libraries have a very settling effect and they're also lovers are also pity transformative they can also as we walk and be a metaphor for how we're living our lives so as we walk around the labyrinth while we're externally walking in it it really is an inner journey and there is an early water you have that lovers walking can be sustainable and it can help us sustain ourselves and it can help us build inner resilience which are very consistent with eco village living so if you have an opportunity to walk a labyrinth I would suggest you do walk it at your own natural tears and with an open heart enjoy her Emilia mahadji's donor of Galera hello I'm Tony Rhine and I'm going to talk about the biodiversity trail our community woodland and the apple walk the biodiversity trail surrounds the whole eco village it is both an educational trail and a way to connect with nature it is surrounded by many hedgerows a lot of hedgerows of elem white on black thorn cherry ash spindle and and these hedge holes are a source of a food really for animal species and for humans and the many herbs in the plants are used by us from time to time in we harvest the elder berries and the Hawthorns as tonics for winter and we have harvested their chestnuts and the plums and the cherries the hedgerows are also a wide love culture for many animals we've seen badgers foxes and folds mice hedgehogs and and yeah many many more more and more animals are common and to us they they're also of course hedgerows are a very safe nesting place for birds and the birdsong here is just amazing I've seen and heard Robins and wrens and wagtails and all the different kinds of tits gold it's great it's blue tits and just thrushes and cuckoos and so well that's the that's the hedgerows but the part I love the most is our apple the Apple walk has 78 different species of apple trees all grown from Irish and seeds from Seed Savers and they have wonderful names like cats hair pig snout gray dippin golden spy greedy Pippin golden spire in fact one of our members Maggie has written a song a beautiful song with all the names of this Apple book it is truly wonderful to work with in September when the boughs are heavy with apples and then we at harvest time we celebrate this with our Applefest falen annual which takes place every year on the European day for sustainable communities and it truly is a community celebration where we members press the apples and make apple juice and we always have an apple competition of the best apple tart and and then our community woodland we have 17,000 broadleaf trees including most of our native species weave alder and oak and sweet chestnut and wild cherry rolling birch among many others and all of this with a view to increasing biodiversity and interacting more wildlife and as a way of learning about woodland skills we also have a community apiary to promote beekeeping and we have some trees here which we have grown in memory of some members who have died yes so that's the biodiversity trail it's just beautiful to walk and we have informational signage all along the way for people to read and which we use with our educational groups thank you hi I'm Julie locket I've lived in the Eco village for nearly ten years now I'm going to talk to you a bit about our houses we all have highly energy-efficient houses that are hooked up to our district heating system some of us also have photo photovoltaic panels on our roofs that generate electricity and this tree here was a good example of show new different choices of rooves in the eco village so the house behind me here has a stainless steel roof the house over here with the red window frames has recycled plastic tiles the house behind me just has regular roof tiles this house here has a zinc roof and they also have photovoltaic panels and this house here behind me has a living roof and you'll see they had currently and putting out photovoltaic panels on the walls of their house because they can't put them on a living roof some of the houses in the Eco village timber-frame effect most limiting by frame but we also have some other build systems like cob which is made with clay and straw and soil and sand and water mixed together you'll also see em right right bake house and bread school this is our community bakery and we have a wood-fired oven and Alan Scott black oven and you'll see our store of timber here in front of the bakery and we season all of our timber and for a good year before we put it in the oven and to get the most energy out of the timber hello I'm Patrick Kirby we're coming to the end of our virtual tour you've been around the Eco village you've seen and heard from various members what we're doing both to try to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and to try to foster biodiversity and to to to promote a better way of living and what all this points to is that we need to do this together we need to do this in community it's very limited what we can do as single individuals and that's why our team is this it's building sustainable community each of these three words are really important we seek to promote Irish air as well so we talked about the hecto Goyle coal order in vana her acuity that we go on and when president Higgins opened our community amphitheater in April 2017 he told us and I felt was really full of wisdom he said that in community we encounter each other in our vulnerability country one another in our vulnerability can be very difficult and it may be one the reasons why they say that up to 90 percent of intentional communities fail because you're trying to lay the foundations of strong and enduring community while also encountering one another in all our vulnerabilities so really building community is among the biggest of our challenges and we've had difficult years since we began particularly we were very badly hit by the severe economic downturn of 2008 we've learned a lot about sustainability through all that and I suppose it's at times like these difficult times of the corona virus pandemic or the beast from the east as we called it a few years ago that really cold snap that hit us that we realize that community really does offer that sort of basic support that we need and we're so lucky here to be living in it and it's the lessons that we're harvesting from that that we want to share through through our educational activity so we invite you to come and visit us we invite you to join us on this journey we're together we try to develop the pathways towards the resilience that that low carbon and that flourishing future that we all so bad any gorilla the song ain't among them all has fallen for the sweet for no lily so heavy ripe and ready beneath the canopy [Music] take the Apple home gathered from the ground the breeze is blowing down you'll find them all around some of ruzhin semi-smooth some won't let go dog waiting for the right time times [Music] the Apple [Music] [Music]

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Published: Tue May 12 2020