A little about me since I am realizing that not everyone who reads this will actually know me.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Ca in the 70’s to 2nd generation immigrants from Europe and Mexico. I started my career in the IT field in the late 80’s, building the backbone that became the modern internet. During the time of IT work I also created a company that managed bands and created online presence for bands when none existed. (think back before cell phones and wifi, when pay phones still existed. I toured the country as well as parts of the world with the bands. When my IT career ended around 2001 during the .bomb my company called it quits. Shortly after that I was picked up by a company doing web sites which eventually turned in to my decade in the travel industry. I spent over half that decade traveling with groups and to training events and sat in on a lot of personal development seminars. In that time I also raised my son, attended college classes and chased after the dollar.
About 3 years ago my contract ended with the travel company and I was now a middle aged woman who holds no degrees, has been her own boss for 15 years working from home and had the huge overhead of a person making big dollars. Luckily I had already started a non profit and had already “awakened” to the truth and even struggled thru cognitive dissonance. I had focused my fight on the toxic food system, I did lectures and started to learn how to grow food. I created a patio aquaponics system and taught others about what I was learning. I helped design, build and manage a community garden, held summer camp with inner city youth to teach how to grow food and attained a UC Master Gardener certificate.
Also in that time I spent a lot of time doing selfless service. I started cooking for the homeless every week which eventually led me to going out into our communities and learning about people and how they became homeless. Hearing their stories, and yes many are out there due to mental illness, which begs me to ask why our health care system is not caring for the mentally ill, and also, why are so many people suffering from mental illness. There are also plenty of people currently in their addiction, which could also be solved with a real health care system (not the toxic one we have who created this mess) and true support systems for the addicted. The other people out there maybe lost a job, got divorce, death of their primary caretaker (like parents) and of course the ever sky rocketing rent prices.
In my education on gardening and farming, and my awareness to what is going on. I started devising a plan for myself. A way out of paying rent every month for the rest of my life. A way to live happier, healthier and hopefully longer with a smaller footprint on the planet. I had also started to read and research intentional communities that have solutions to a no money system and embrace sustainability, as close to freedom as we can get. My plan was simple. Buy the land and build my intentional community, however, I was 10 years too late and all the money was gone. Then I started to more research and learned about the need for labor at organic farms and these communities that are now popping up everywhere.
This June I suddenly realized that this plan I have crafted and detailed out for personal use, could also be a way out for others in my situation. That we could in fact form a “Nomadic” community of people who comprise a labor force across the countries organic farms, people using the public land as intended and meeting like minded people along the way and eventually for some, finding a new place to call home. A new purpose in life one that reconnects a person to nature, eating healthier, living on their own terms which in turn will elevate their happiness levels.
Don’t we all just want to be happy?