Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman slowly and lovingly turned their dusty, lifeless parcel of land into a verdant plot lush with fruit, vegetables, chickens, ducks, bees and off-grid dwellings they built by hand. It’s here they are raising sons Zephyr (15) and Woody (5) and working as a family to be resilient, knowledgeable and community-oriented environmentalists.
Calling themselves ‘Artist as Family’, they are philosophers, poets, artists, farmers, musicians, fermentation wizards, chemists, activists and, most importantly, a family, whose sum is far greater than its parts. They live off the land in sustainably built and run housing, regenerating the soil beneath their feet and slowly attempting to remove themselves from the debt cycle of the modern economy and the damages of our disposable society. “It’s a model, albeit small scale, for…