Welcome to Natural Villages
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Our mission is to help end poverty and homelessness through natural, sustainable microvillage development. With an active board of directors taking primary function roles, we are designing and building this organization for maximum effectiveness.
These homes are safe in fire, wind storms, and, when properly designed they are the most effective protection from harsh weather; either too cold OR too hot. It is time to make zoning, building and community village laws that serve the human need to gather into groups of health, love, food production and no mortgage housing that can be passed to our children in tact, even after 1,000 years.
Earth based homes have been meeting human survival needs since the beginning of human agricultural dwelling. Being safe and COST EFFECTIVE in any climate, shows why they have been used throughout human village existence. Perhaps we can now allow nature to show us once again, how to return to sane development strategies for humanity.
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Natural Villages began our model projects in the Lakota nation, in |
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The hidden toxins in many of our development, agricultural and building processes our nation has adopted are now being used throughout our globe. Today we can focus on our immediate living areas, identify the safety of our soils, home environment and water, and work to bring an even higher level of health and well being to our immediate locations. Natural village development is also environmental restoration in its truest form, when we work to restore our landscapes to their original, natural food producing conditions. |
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We are inviting anyone interested in becoming part of this cultural evolution, to connect with us directly through this website. The village development process is an inherent evolving that includes the best for humanities people from the past, present and future. We promote technologies that focus on natural, toxin free sustainable development processes that support the quality, comfort, stability and vibrancy of healthy community that has been inherent in human evolution for millennia. We acknowlege stress as a toxic energy, and work to support and promote stress free environments. We also acknowledge that in this day of nutrient denuded soils and unpredictable climates, that small community sized perpetual harvest greenhouse systems are now mandatory for reliable, stable food production that will meet the fresh daily nutrition needs of whole groups. |
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| pictured at top of page: Nancy Chase, helping in “Cobville”.Pictured above, Leola’s house: This very slow building project is a reflection of the difficulties working in native nations.Without consistant, reliable funding, gas money, or families in conditions stable enough to support helping build, many many first nations families cannot receive that which is available.Natural Villages is seeking students of sustainable development programs to join us in building homes in the Lakota nation. This way, families like Leola’s can have very simple housing needs met by projects becoming finished, rather than languishing due to ineffective communications, misunderstandings, lack of transportation, resources and living basics, such as a telephone or a shower.Monies collected by villagers of Natural Villages, will be made visible soon on our transparency pages, where all donations that have been collected during our existence can been seen by all, so no confusion will enter about where money goes, or who is spending it…as always, monies go to feed builders, support families receiving homes and obtain the materials needed to complete a family home with a food production garden.Natural Villagers want to THANK LEOLA ONE FEATHERFor her steadfast commitment to showing and supporting her community of Wounded Knee in receiving a finished example of the housing available to them. Prayers in the Lodges of Ohlone women are going out to their sisters in Wounded Knee, in hopes of stabilizing energies of loving kindness and healed communities for all native nations.
Leola is an advisor to our board, and will hopefully be joining us as a trustee, soon. We move slowly in our village, this way, we can be sure our efforts are effective, with far reaching results. A completed example of an earth home will emerge this summer, 2009, in Wounded Knee. We as a community of villagers will continue to work with Leola and her family, if they wish, to try to finish their house, pictured above, to meet with Leola’s plans for her re-design into a “community ceremony space”. Each season this home seems to remerge in a new form… ~an example of the possibilities as well as the difficulties, we continue to follow the story of Leolas house…until everyone involved is content and smiling. Pilamaya. Thank you deeply, to all who care, and all who help each year. |
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