Break Free with these Resources

1. Attend an Earth Skills Gathering: learn the skills to work with the Earth in community with other like-minded people.

2. Go WWOOFing: that’s Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms. Volunteer while learning how to grow your own organic food, exchanging labor for food and lodging.

3. Break free from living in the individualistic home – where you have all the bills and chores – and join an Eco Village or an Intentional Community: learn about these through the Global Ecovillage Network or through ic.org.

4. Make the commitment and immerse yourself in a school such as Wild Abundance in North Carolina or at Green University.

5. Become an apprentice: get the hands-on skills you’re looking for with someone who really knows what they’re doing.

6. Learn the plants that are growing freely and abundantly all around you as food: meet up with foragers who can teach you right in your area. You can use the database findaforager.com to find a forager near you.

7. Go for a long bike or walk connecting with the Earth: websites like Warm Showers and Couchsurfing can help you find hosts.

8. Take the opportunity to go deep in your mind through the practice of Vipassana: do a 10-day silent meditation through the organization called Dhamma. This is available on a donation basis and there are centers all around the United States and the world, so it’s very accessible.

9. Immerse yourself in the practice of non-violent communication, or compassionate communication to bring more harmony into all of your relationships: read the book, visit their website and use their free resources, or take classes with a skilled facilitator, whether online or in person.

10. Through dumpster diving you can tap into the incredible resource of food that is going to waste and eat for free.

11. You can join a radical group like Food Not Bombs to find nourishing food for yourself and to share it with your community.