has anyone had an inspiration like mine ?
Posted by pano | Under Herb Garden Monday Jul 19, 2010I am 15 year old boy, and I dream of setting up a communtity when im older, I would love my community to involve NO money! I would buy a big piece of land, set up yurts (some sort of little house to live in) no electrictity, we use candles for light and have small fires and wood burning stoves for cooking, we work the land for food, eg, vegetable patches, herb gardens, fruit orchards, chickens, pigs, cows ect..
using horses, ponies, bikes, and feet, for transport. and everyone in the community trusts each other, everyone is there to help each other, we work as a community to survive, (eg, people who can knit make clothes for us to wear, gardeners and farmers grow the livestock for us to survive… ect) sheep for our wool, I was just interested to know, has anyone else ever had an inspiration like this, and thinks my dream may work one day, because life today is all about money, I was thinking take the money out of the situation and hopefully no problems, no worries, we live as a community to help everyone in the community.. look forward to hearing from some people, (hopefully) thanks for reading 
Yep, thats pretty much what the Amish are.
I’d like to be in the modern equivalent, a community where all the houses were built of a sustainable material, power was from shared sources like a windmill and solar panels and a waterwheel if near a river.
Rainwater would be collected for use on the shared gardens, food waste would go into a compost bin, human waste would be used to help power generators.
The trouble with both yours and my versions are that some people would work hard but there would always be others that sit back and let others do the work.
Sounds like Communism… So yes, many people have thought of this before you. And failed.
Money is there only to X out any cofusion as to who is going to get what, wants what, needs what, and goes out and gets it.
It would be difficult to decide who likes beef, who likes pig and who might be vegitarian, or who doesn’t want to eat what you grow everyday of the week.
But I did see some light in your presentation. I just wonder if working on the farm/ranch would ward of boredom, and beleive me, it sounds like a lot of work. But I could go for that right about now.