Fascination with alternative lifestyles and possibility to live more sustainably and in harmony with nature, led me to research Permaculture (sufficient and environmentally friendly lifestyle) and live by it’s rules on my grandparents abandoned homestead which has mostly turned into a forest.  I lived on the land: in the yurt. I lived with the land: gardening, making a forest garden, trying to observe how living in isolation and so closely with nature would affect my creative expression and focus. Living within this live style made me be in charge and organise every little detail of my life; like food, living space, and understand mine role as a human being on the planet earth, through the scope of physical presence, as opposed to social which is always mostly experienced living in big cities like I do in Manchester UK.
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