[Gallery] Exclusive look at a BC ecovillage preparing for societal breakdown

By Gordon Katic, December 18, 2014

Ecoreality is prepare for a societal and economic breakdown caused by peak oil. But what does preparing look like? Checkout the gallery below, and listen to the full episode to hear what it sounds like.

: Jan’s library

: Rudy’s greenhouse.

: Fixing the goat hilton.

: Steve’s dijurido.

: Gary is says Jan’s unpasteurized goat yogurt is doing wonders for his health, so he buys it every week–without fail.

: Ecoreality’s makeshift wood-splitter.

: Ecoreality (Gordon Katic/The Terry Project)

: Steve practices Qigong, an ancient Chinese practice that translates to “life energy cultivation.”

: Jan is very well-read, and he drops an author name or book title into almost every conversation

: Steve is travelling across the country in a quest to find himself.

: The farmhouse.

: The main greenhouse.

: Rudy went ‘back to the land’ in the 60s, and he hasn’t turned back.

: My gear.

: A woman lives on the land in this trailer.

: Milking the goats

: The main road down Ecoreality.

: Jan and Steve can’t grow all they need at Ecoreality, so they’ve got to pick a few things up at the grocery store

: Milking the goats

: The veggie Van Gogh runs on biofuel.

: Jan’s truck, that “roars” because he had the muffler taken out.

: Jan Steinman died his beard orange in what he describes as “a dare gone wrong.”

: They dry peppers and sell them to people on Salt Spring Island.

: Jan says that banks have a systemic bias against ecovillages. He goes to places that serve co-ops, but he still pays higher mortgage and insurance rates than a typical farmer.