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dear fruit eaters of the world, join me on my quest to the fruitarian communities in Ecuador!

2020-12-30T14:50:53.000Z

hello everybody,

i'm super happy and excited about the revival of this webpage, it's so important for the frugivore community worldwide.

myself, i'm 28, from Israel. been on the wagon (to varying extents) for 8 years now.

living in Israel has always challenged me, nutriotionally speaking.

getting my hands on high quality fruits felt like a constant struggle, as i was nevet able to get the amount and quality needed in order to thrive in this lifestyle consistently.

3 years ago i returned to israel from another trip to a wonderful fruit destination (far north queensland, australia), with the intention to find my way to live here harmonically and healtfuly.

3 years later, i feel like i've given up on that. it's too hard to attain it here.

so..

after couple of years of contemplating about it, i've finally booked a ticket to Ecuador.

i've been following Terra Frutis (https://www.terrafrutis.com/) and Fruit-Haven (https://www.fruithavenecovillage.com/) from long distance for couple of years now,

and finally i've made the decision to go and test the water myself.

living with like minded frugivores, growing my own food, eating fruits straight from the trees, and living happily and freely as possible is a dream for me,

and i believe that traveling to there is a huge milestone in the journey of fulfilling it.

so, please join me!

i think that an abundance of like minded ppl will allow us to live our best lives!

write me here, message me privately (here or on my FB page), or whatever.

hope to see you there!

Yotam.

Hey everyone 🤗❤ I am looking for like-minded to create a paradise 💚

2020-12-27T09:39:50.000Z

Hi ❤ I am new to this community and very exited to be here. I am a spiritual, 34 year old female from Norway and have been vegan and raw till 4 since 2015. I have had a dream about building a fruit paradise for many years. I have been traveling around looking for a place, and there has been bumps along the way. I would like to check out Nicaragua for a potential spot, but it would be so nice to create this place together with someone like-minded. The main plan is to buy some land, not to far from the ocean for surfing possibilities. Growing food, offgrid, have a river close by for water and cleaning would be awesome. Then in the future when we have enough food to share, welcome people who are sick and want to get well. Donationbased. Also maybe host retreats of different kinds. If this sounds soulsoothing for you, please reach out 💞✨

Join our discord group: https://discord.gg/FQW3M9apye

and or telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/H1PBl9ZBKS9rZEoi

Raising your kids in a raw vegan community in Costa Rica

2020-08-14T21:36:51.000Z

Hello Folks, since Corona Virus many people around the world have understood the need to move to the tropics and start growing their own food, you can say it's a survival idea. Many want to do it but the task seems way too enormous, and it is if you are on your own!! That's why i decided to spread the word about us, a forming raw vegan tribe on a beautiful land in the jungle with already growing fruit forest, and our amazing vegan neighborhood. We are called Purafruta and located on the Carribean side of Costa Rica, 15 mins drive from the beach, and 20 mins from the nearby town, Puerto Viejo, the larger community of Talamanca, populated mostly by foreigners, in total of 4 close-by surf-towns along the beach, sums up to 10,000 amazing like-minded people that benefits from constant energy/resources/skills exchange.

Our Purafruta tribe welcomes people that want to take advantage of this amazing local community, but to live in our own raw vegan eco-village, where we work together maintaining and further expanding the fruit forest on our 15 hectares land, raise our kids together using educational techniques that we all agree on and apply. We also share tools, community gardens, and much more. If you end up finding out you are more of an individualistic type, we also have a friend on our road that sells land for cheap, in the heart of a Vegan road! So together with them we make a very interesting neighborhood.

If you want to know more click here and read through our values, our structure, pictures and more... See if it's somthing for you...
Webspage - http://PuraFruta.org
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/PuraFruta6

The borders just opened up so we are expecting 10 new families, so if you want to come this will be the best time ever for investing since that within the next few months the lots we have to "sell" are the cheapest and have the best locations on the land, so get ready!

Let's get ready for the coming era, things are changing fast, so please share this message around this is a crucial time, people need to know that there is an option like us, and others that we can refer too in Ecuador.

Thank you!!

-The Purafruta Tribe-

Vegan and Raw Vegan Eco-village(s) “Total Union”

2019-06-12T15:17:31.000Z

Hi!

I hope you are as excited for this as I am.

I am in Massachusetts, and representing myself and the idea of a few people to band together to create a community in Westminster, MA, or another area of Eastern Massachusetts.

The goal is about 30 to 50 people or families, each having a private 2.5-4 acres each, all the same amount. The remainder will be a common area, common woods, etc. It’s so exciting. I don’t know about you but it’s a dream come true.

So far, the consensus is these parameters to make life easier for all of us to support each other in how we want to move forward.

- No animals inside walls or fences

- Vegan, Raw Vegan

- No power tools used for building, or outdoor work

- No air conditioners, no gas or propane or other fossil fuels.

It may be that the best use is sections of wifi-free houses, or common area wifi, phone use, so that people do not need cell phones or devices.

While it’s a desire to use less freezers, wifi, and cell phones, it’s not necessarily where one is at right now.

It’s this goal that we are moving in this direction, towards being in a safe space, total union with other life, developing a gentler and non-busy life.

All buildings will be built by hand by anyone who wants to participate. That way anyone who wants to can learn to build a house, and some lucky one gets the house whether they design it, or not... and then one is freed up can help others build one. No rent.. This is in contrast to what people often do, which is work all week, paying for a contractor to build their house, to rush through a more toxic building of the house. When people try to buy a paradise alone, it is more expensive and more lonely later. This way, the builder needs little money and finds him/herself amongst friends who also want this freedom and together they can actually make the dream a reality.

There are a lot of people who want this, right? Like really!

Don’t be shy! I really want people to feel like they can let this be what they’ve been wanting. It’s really not a attempt of a few individuals it’s just this dream that includes a lot of people even if we don’t know eachother, yet. You know if it’s yours. Come in some way, please! We want you. We want friends. We’re all on earth and we might as well come together on earth.

Maybe you want to start another community? How bout it. More the merrier. There is a movement in Russia calling itself the Kin-villages. Some people get together, raise enough money to purchase some land. Then they divide it into 2.5 acre sections, each one for a family. There is independence for the residents in this model, and the goal is to develop a space of love for the family that can last for ages and satsify everyone.

This is the video describing this happening in russia <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bmaNy76ic94>;

Community support for raw vegan athlete!

2016-06-22T16:37:39.000Z

Because community matters, at the Raw Fruit Festival, we would like you to get to know Elena, a spanish paralympic athlete going to Rio 2016 Olympics in Sep! Check out :
http://raw-fruit-festival.net/subdomain/festival_donate.php?&lang=en#cause3
and her page to know more about her http://elenacongost.com/
Elena is following a vegan, 80% raw diet. She won't be at the Raw Fruit Festival, but in Rio, running marathon and 1500m!
The Raw Fruit Festival is supporting Elena financially this year, and we suggest you to do the same if you can.
Wishing a good preparation to Elena for this summer!

Re-born Vegan looking for motivational supportive vegans

2016-06-21T16:36:26.000Z

Hi! I am going to call myself a "reborn" vegan, because for the last couple months I fell off of the ethically fruit-lined path of veganism. I feel horrible! Both physically and ethically and need to get back to the light-side. I am currently based in the US and am looking for some motivational friends in the vegan community to keep me grounded. I do not necessarily need people to guide or motivate me, because I feel like being vegan is a journey you need to commit to for personal reasons and not for others or because it's "cool." Freelee has taught me so much and given so much guidance that to not use and spread this knowledge would be exceptionally wasteful. I do not have vegan friends or know any vegans in my area and it has been difficult to describe or talk about things I'm feeling or share common interests.Any advice?Thanks!(Oh by the way; I am raw till four vegan)

Raw Fruit Festival in Andalusia, Spain

2016-05-28T08:19:19.000Z

Schedule for the Raw Fruit Festival in Andalusia Spain Aug 28 to Sep 3 now available!

Sport art fun friendships nature, with great fruits!

http://www.30bananasaday.com/events/2016-raw-fruit-festival

www.raw-fruit-festival.net

RFF2016schedule.pdf

What to plant in my community garden?

2016-04-15T15:52:06.000Z

hey guys,

So I'm new to gardening and I'm gonna be going to be spending some time @ the community garden @ my university. The guy I talked to about it said that most of the beds are currently out of use so I can plant stuff in them if I want.

I was wondering if any of you veteran gardeners have any advice on what stuff I should plant.

Cheers

raw food community australia

2015-09-23T12:59:22.000Z

I am living on a large property in Australia south of murwillumbah growing hundreds and fruit trees and veggeis for local market, i have been eating a raw food diet for about 10 years and would like to turn this space into a raw food community to share with other raw food eaters, let me know if you or know of others that share a similar idea, guess i would like to have others share an interest in growing food and living sustainably, looking forward to hearing from interested folk

looking for likeminded community in brazil

2015-04-23T16:29:44.000Z

We are an artistic, open- minded, hardworking couple with a baby on
the way! We are very happy and upbeat. We have many years of combined
experience in many areas of self sufficiency including, sustainable
infrastructure set up, permaculture, bio-construction, agro-forestry,
grey water management, tree and orchard care, water collection
systems, composting systems, humanure set up and composting toilets,
managing large scale community gardens and the greeting of and
directing of volunteers, and much more. Also have experience as a
nanny and providing child and home care and small scale garden care on
homesteads. We love cooking, creating art, making music, and working
on all endeavors of this sort. Have over 3 years of volunteer
experience, and many of paid experience. We love peaceful living,
meditation, yoga, juicing, living in the rhythm of the land, and
nonviolent communication. We are longing to learn Portuguese and would
love to language exchange, currently we are taking courses! We are
native English speakers with Intermediate level of French and Spanish.
We are looking for an opportunity to work with long term potential.
Since we are expecting a baby, we are also seeking the perfect place
with community to find a mid-wife and welcome in a new life and are
seeking to become permanent residents and eventually citizens of
Brazil. We maintain a responsible, upbeat work ethic and have a great
love of the land and trees, a great love for all life. Thank you
blessing! Looking forward to sharing and getting to know your family
more!

Fruity WWOOFing in Florida?

2015-02-15T17:17:06.000Z

I'm officially looking for fruity paradise!!!! So excited! Not quite as easy as I thought though.

I was hoping it would be really easy to find a place with a huge abundance of fruit. On the WWOOF website, I found only one place in South Florida that seems easy to get integrated with and has a decent level of variety of fruit trees.

Does anybody know of any places I might want to check out? I might settle permanently in the area, so entry-level jobs at cool places would be nice too. Any advice at all would be appreciated. Thanks a lot guys!

College

2014-09-05T20:01:05.000Z

I'm currently a student at the University of Utah, and I've decided to change colleges. I'm from Utah and can't stand being here much longer. The winters are far too long, the quality of the fruit sucks, and the people are way too conservative minded.

I'm still deciding on what I'd like to major in. I love food, nutrition, health, veganism, and human evolution. I attended Intro to Nutrition at the U of U and could not bare it. They just taught the importance of eating meat, and low fat dairy. I was pulling my teeth out the whole time. I'm really interested in taking nutrition classes, anyone know of a college with a nutrition program based on research, instead of subsidies like major universities?

I'm a liberal minded 20 year old male, who loves community and sunshine. I'm thinking about California, Oregon, Washington, or Colorado, but I'm open to anywhere awesome.

Basically, I'm going on a road trip from Salt Lake City to different schools and couch surfing and wwoofing around the country. Give me your stories, give me your thoughts and ideas, about where to wwoof, where to study, where to flourish on a RT4 lifestyle with like minded people.

NorthEast Brooklyn Vegans unite!!! Bushwick/Bedstuy!

2014-08-09T21:44:36.000Z

Let's start carpools to New Generation!

Want to plan interesting pro-earthling discussion/activist groups? How about helping out a pet adoption events and networking them to your friends?!

Let's go do group tours of breweries, bakeries ( I work at Clementine Bakery!!!), restaurants, musical gigs or cruelty-free art installations!

Potlucks in the park...heck yeah! Or my sweet new house's backyard.

Let's kindly demand and ask for our local businesses, eateries and pubs to start catering to vegans with our money and commit to helping local businesses!

Need help growing a balcony garden, learn about sprouts, trade/swap fruits and veggies, share/troubleshoot recipes or looking to make veghead friends in the neighborhood?

LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!!

winter gathering for the creation of a fruitarian community in Costa-Rica!

2014-08-09T00:38:26.000Z

Hello dear fruit heads of the world!

Gathering for the creation of the fruitarian community in Costa-Rica!!

Its with pleasure that I invite all the fruit heads of the world to come and either witness or be part of this wonderful event that will occur this winter, from December first to end of... April!! Or come for however long you want! If your looking for a nice place to spend the winter, surrounded with tropical fruits and fruitarians from all over the world keep reading! Or you can take a look at the progress we've made so far, like gathering all the information you need to know about Costa-Rica, or the people already on board, or the possible land we are interested in... And more, all on our website http://www.fruitariancommunity.tk

Now here's the index of everything you need to know about the gathering... With my phone number at the end for more information...

Housing
Cost per month and available food
Activities
What to bring
Topics of circles

HOUSING

I hope to have at least 20 people present for the event. We'll try to fit everyone on the same property. So bring you tent! We will share a kitchen, which will be a good opportunity to learn about sharing a kitchen among fruitarians... Or good opportunity to show how we behave in communal spaces, after all, one of the main objective of this gathering will be to see each other in many situation! We will also plant a garden as soon as we get there, so all you green thumbs can be satisfy! We hope to move to a land that interest us, to learn about it as much as possible about it before the big investment.

COST PER MONTH

For hoursing, food, communication, and transport, i say from 350$ to 650$ a month minimum, let me explain... The housing will not cost more the 600$ per month, all depends on how many people will show up, the rent will be split among us, it can cost you as little 20-50$ a month if enough people... Food is quite expensive, so if you want to eat awesome food like sapote or durian (if available), it might cost you up to 15$ a day, so 450$ a month. BUT!! If you decide to give a little effort, you'll easely find food around that nobody cares about, like coconut, rose apple, sugar cane, some jackfruit, many varieties of bananas, plantains, coconut palm heart, oranges, and many greens like local spinach, colllards, katouk or cranberry hibiscus, my favorite, etc... If you go this way it could cost you only 5$ a day or 150$ a month. I will buy a truck for everyone's groceries, at least for as many people as possible, and for looking at lands, going to the beach etc... So I will ask for gaz money, not much, but with other transports like bus's, I would say 100$ a month. Then for communication, its easy to spend 2-5$ a day on internet, so about 100$ a month.

ACTIVITIES

We hope to be as proactive as possible, and not just surf all the time...lol. Looking for land and building a garden will be a good part, but we need to get to know each other as much as possible. So we need to play together!! Any sport like soccer, frisby or even tag will be part of our days. I also will try to get a Risk board game, believe it or not this game worked very well last year to learn about some people... Any suggestions will be welcome, I bet we won't run out of ideas!

WHAT TO BRING

A tent that is well aired, or a large mosquito net with a tarp over it, or a hammock with a mosquito net incorporated in it, with a tarp over it. Don't worry though there's barely any mosquitoes year round! Some good hiking shoes, as light as possible, crocs and five fingers might get wormed out fast on the gravel roads and long hikes we take to look for land. A sleeping bag is not essential, a blanket can be plenty, but some summer sleeping bag can be very compact compared to a blanket... Outer then that you know the essential, tooth brush, cloths, ceramic knife, wooden spoon, etc...

TOPICS OF CIRCLES

The group will be divided into 2, the ones truly interested in becoming a resident of the community, and the ones whom are there simply to witness the event... the fist ones will have lots of circles to attend to, even home works!! We will be talking mostly of the vision. We need to find out what is the core goal of every one, the long term one. Then we need to choose a legal entity, a cooperative probably, that is to buy land under many people's name, to protect each other financial and legally. This will be the toughest thing to accomplish. After we learned about each other and made a fancy document, one or two of us will have to go back with me to Montreal Canada to finalize the entity... Which will take about a month of work. Its important to understand the necessity of this, I really hope you did or will read Diana Leave Christian's book Creating life together... Our bible if you ask me... In there you will see what we will talk in details, and how we will talk, like with a facilitator, some of us are trained in this. Also we will talk about the different branches of the project, such as a animal shelter, a yoga center, a PRI (permaculture research institute), a healing center, etc.. Lots to talk about!

So I hope i gain your attention... And like I said, you can simply come as a witness, enjoying the fruits, the beach and the fruitarian company! No stress!

For more information please don't be shy, add me on Skype, I'm pom.vincent, and on Facebook I'm pom vincent, with no period in between.

Blessings!

Fruit friendly places in Spain or Portugal

2014-07-23T20:40:36.000Z

Hi!
I was wondering, does anyone know any fruit friendly places in Spain or Portugal?

I've been rv811 for a year, but I would like to go to a retreat and heal from IBS and UTI. Does anyone know any good retreats in Spain or Portugal?

Otherwise, does anyone know any good places to stay for a while in Spain/Portugal? It would be nice to live with fruit friendly friends and share different experiences on this lifestyle.
Perhaps a community, or maybe something including volunteering (like a organic fruit farm or so).

Hope you all are well!
Maria

goingraw.se

In reference to the WFF pioneer drama, definition of a "pioneer", and continued growth of this lifestyle

2013-12-01T07:15:11.000Z

This is my observation on Harley and Freelea not being "pioneers" anymore at the WFF and the massive growth I've seen in the popularity and exposure of this lifestyle to the masses.

First of all, I don't think it's very fair that Harley and Freelea have been removed as "pioneers" at the festival, when there are obviously other "pioneers" who are selling animal products/ taking animal products, other "pioneers" eating cooked food items, and other "pioneers" who are eating a higher fat intake than the 80/10/10 diet suggests, all of whom have not been removed from the list of pioneers. So why have they not been removed? Is there a statement made by the organizers of the WFF about why Harley and Freelea have been singled out, that I am not aware of? Can someone share this with me?

Second of all, we have to decide, as a community, what "pioneer" means? Is it someone in the public eye, disseminating information about this lifestyle to the masses? Does it have to be someone who only eats raw? If so, many of the people we call "pioneers" are not so. If it's not ok for someone to eat cooked food, then how long must they be completely raw in order to be considered a pioneer again? Does this apply to pasteurized juice? what about gel-chews that many distance athletes in the community eat? what about mangoes, they are often not raw due to common practices in preparing them for shipment? What about raw nuts and seeds, many of these are also not raw due to common shelling practices? What about processed foods like can or coconut sugar, agave nectar, coconut water, and dried fruits? Where is the line? Is it good enough that someone is disseminating the message that we, as a human race, need to carb-up, stop eating some of the crap that our individual governments label as "food" and wake up to the option of living a fruity, high-carb, bountiful, high- vibration lifestyle? Or must this individual, this "pioneer" if you will, only eat entirely raw fruits and vegetables, every meal, every day, for a determinate amount of time, in order to be given such a title? I just think the whole conversation is full of gaps because no one is the "authority" on who is/ what diet is considered raw and what is not.

In addition, what does this mean fro the WFF? Will some people boycott the WFF because Harley and Freelea are not titled "pioneers"? What does that mean for the continued information-dissemination to the masses of the benefits of this lifestyle? Is it better to display a more easily-attainable, carbed-up, fruit-focused lifestyle, with some addition of cooked carbs, that more people can obtain? Or is it better to display a raw-only, purity- focused lifestyle that less people can obtain? I don't want to sound biased, but I think the whole purity thing creates a huge pitfall for many newbies in this lifestyle.

I have been a part of this community for years and have had many ups and downs with the lifestyle and trying to stick-to purely eating raw, high-carb, fruit and veg. However, hearing Harley and Freelea, and a few other other people, namely Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram, Megan McDonnell, John Kohler, VIctoria Arnstein, Josh Fossgren, Chris Randall, Tarah Shannon, Adam Frewer, and Doug Graham, who have all been inspirations, leaders, and mentors for me, through their work, have shown me that there is no one right way to be raw, high carb, low fat, healthy, happy, vibrant vegan. Each one of them has shown me their own ways of dealing with the struggles on this lifestyle and that it's ok to deal with them in a constructive way, even if that way means integrating cooked carbs into my diet. I think it's very honest and brave. I have not seen any one of them denigrate the truth that raw fruit and vegetables are the best sources of energy and nutrition for our human bodies. However, some of them have simply expressed other ways of looking at the raw, high-carb, vegan lifestyle that include cooked foods. In addition, over these years on within this community, and specifically on this forum, I have seen a huge increase in members and interested, health-seekers coming to this lifestyle. I cannot for sure say that this is because of the message of a more-easily attainable diet (raw til 4/ adding in some cooked carbs, but focusing on fruit), but it makes sense.

I don't have an answer to all of the craziness that is going on with this festival or this community. I know for sure that I'm still going because not only do I want to be a part of a movement that I believe in, even with it's imperfections and small dramas here and there, but because as a high-carb, raw vegan, I need this for myself. I suggest anyone who can go, to go, for your own benefit.

What do you think? what determines raw? who determines raw? I believe the authorities on this matter should be us, the people of the high-carb, raw movement.

designing a new spiralizer/ help me with your experience

2013-10-26T21:18:17.000Z

Hello 30 bananas a day!!!

I am an industrial design major in college and I am entering a NATIONAL DESIGN CONTEST. We could pick any house ware item to design, and being a raw vegan of course I needed to redesign the spiralizer ;]

I need to do lots of RESEARCH on peoples opinions on current spiralizers already out in the market.

I would greatly appreciate if all of you guys could HELP ME by giving me insight into your experience with spiralizers you own or have used.

If you could please state the spirilizer(s) you used/owned by name/model; describe the experience you have had with them (what you like/dislike about each) and what would u absolutely loveeeeeeeeee to see in a spirilizer (tell me what your dream spiralizer would be like)

If making a video would be easier, then please make one. this way would could better show me how you use the spiralizer, which features you like and which you would change.

If I am successful with this project and win, I could then have this product actually made and we would all have a much better and improved spiralizer in the market!! Now doesn't that sound exciting?! hahahah

THANK YOU soooo much for the help. I highly appreciate it ;]]]]]

THE RAW VEGAN COMMUNITY ROCKS!

Traveling this winter 801010 style, anyone?

2013-09-17T15:13:19.000Z

Hi,

I am traveling this winter to a warmer place, I was thinking about Hawaii, Thailand, Costa Rica, Indonesia, or somewhere else. I can't decide where I want to go cause I would like to meet other fruits lover or meet up ? Anyone have plans for this winter to meet somewhere where i can join ? I know that last year some people were in chiang mai ? is this happening again this year? Anyway I would love to make new friend or find a community somewhere! :)

A space of healing, love and care: setting up an inspiring community

2013-07-27T20:26:33.000Z

Hello everybody.

I have a project which I believe it is a great and a noble one and I d like to share it with you all.

I have been travelling in the last 3 years looking for a nice place in nature where to live and learn about nature and natural diet when I finally found a nice place in Brazil, Bahia state. I'm living on somebody's property but I have been around enough (7 months) scouted for land, got infos on prices, laws, neighbours etc.. I m confident I have gathered pretty much all the infos needed to know prior establishing a community/healing space. Now I need people willing to join this project and willing to plant their own fruit orchard, work the land, giving courses and classes on diet, health, yoga, water and juice fast etc

My plan is to se up a place for inner and outer healing, reconnection with Nature and the Self.

If you are interested and want to know more about my ideas and views for this project, do not hesitate to ask me! Thank You

Fruitfestivals in Europe

2013-04-13T14:11:17.000Z

Who is going to Spain in September, or to Slovenia in August, or to Denmark in July? I will be going to the first two I mentioned, am super excited and want to connect with peeps already. I really feel we need to strengthen the European network a bit more, and meeting at the festivals seems like a great first step. :D

Love and tropical fruits,

Olivia

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* Fresh Food Festival in Denmark, 18th - 21th July, http://freshfoodfestival.com/2012/ (with Rozalind Graham, Grant Campbell, Douglas Graham, Petr Cech)

* Fruits & Health Festival in Slovenia, 1st - 4th August, http://fruitsnhealthfestival.wordpress.com/ http://www.facebook.com/events/153550268132792/ (with Grant Campbell, Douglas Graham, Rozalind Graham,)

* Raw Fruit Festival in Andalucia, 1st - 7th September, http://www.811-friendly.net/festival.php Stephane Conti

Engineering a more fruitful society

2013-03-30T10:47:32.000Z

Join the discussion! http://www.reddit.com/r/Fruitopia/

Creation of a Fruitarian Community in Latin America

2013-02-11T03:24:35.000Z

Hello everyone!!
Some of you know me, I'm the guy who was in Kenya, doing the all natural fruitarian community. Many things happened. Now I'm with a different team, things are looking good, we are 100% committed, we all are working on this project 100%. If anyone wants to know more, please check our updates either on facebook or on our web page in the news section. and here from now on too. https://www.facebook.com/self.substainable.fruitarian.community
http://www.fruitariancommunity.tk/

We have teamed up with awesome people, there are 6 of us now, so it won't be like my last project in Kenya, but hopefully very close to it anyway... Like very natural, no or barely any electricity, lots of permaculture, and lots of love and peace.

we need more people on board!! who's in??

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In search of.... Raw.rtists!!! First issue for a raw vegan ZINE!.

2013-02-06T14:35:59.000Z

Hi fellow fruit lovers,

What is Raw.rtist ZINE?

Raw Awesome Wonderful Artists, Doing Really Awesome Wonderrful things!

I am compiling a zine to appeal an educate young people on the raw vegan lifestyle!!
the zine has been selected to be featured in the Chicago Zine Fest this March!..Ultimately it is a celebration of life, you don't have to be super art savvy to join, as long as you have a helpful/inspiring message, it will be added.

Details below:

Rawrtist Zine is an online quarterly publication on the Raw Vegan Lifestyle This is for people who aspire, are transitioning, or already live a raw vegan lifestyle.
Interested?
Raw.rtist ZINE is a both print and online quarterly published zine.
Where the artist in you spreads inspiration to learning and living a raw lifestyle.
There are no rules to what to do, share what comes from the heart!
The content should be able to fit in a half a letter size page, but it you need more space its cool too!

Here are some ideas in what you could do
*drawing
*collages
* recipes
*poetry / songs
*writing on raw living tips, personal stories etc
*diy guide to ___________.
etc!
This zine will be both in print and an e-zine to publish online.
That being said, if there are specific videos you would like to include, send me hyperlinks and I will link them to the e-zine.

No limit in your creativity.
I will cover the expenses of the first print, no problem - my goal is to really
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many more —- by showcasing the colorful, vividness of it through inspiring people like yourselves!
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Local Sustainable HCRV NYC

2013-01-16T20:57:54.000Z

Hola.

I don't want to ruffle any feathers but is there anyone in NYC that thinks it's possible to be HCRV year round locally? I've been watching Matt Warner's latest videos on youtube and he raises the point of sustainability on this lifestyle and the questions the origin and transport of the fruits (labor, environmental impact). I currently live in NY (Queens) and would love for all my fruits and vegetables to be local and preferably grown myself or within community. Perhaps we can create a community when we can do this year round. I believe food should be free. We shouldn't have to work jobs we are other than fond of to afford high quality organic fruits and vegetables. I don't know the answer or what can grow here year round, maybe we can use greenhouses or other techniques. But I do believe that if we come together as a community in NY it will be much easier to come up with a sustainable solution.

Go Fruit the World!

2013-01-09T05:36:25.000Z

How nice it would be if the world was one big fruit forest... Lets all put our heads together to think of ideas and initiate some action!

I'm lucky that around my city there are quite a lot of wild mango trees that I can forage from in season, but I think if I started going around planting more and different varieties of trees here and there they would just be ripped out by council workers... So I thought maybe it would be a possibility, for example, to approach local/national environmental conservation groups (eg. Landcare Australia). If we could convince some big organisations to plant fruit bearing natives in some places that would be a start. Has anyone tried this before? Or planted trees around their community?

To inspire the community to plant trees in their own back yards is another big one. There should be community 'city farms' in every city where people can go to learn about permaculture and how they can grow their own food. Does anyone have a program like this in their city?

What are your ideas? How can we can spread our fruity love all over the world?

Come live in friendly fruitarian house in Asheville, NC (or Santa Cruz, CA) :)

2012-12-30T15:06:57.000Z

Please let me know ASAP if you're interested in maybe living in a drug-free home with a fruit-and-veggie and yogi/healer vibe in either Asheville, North Carolina - or - Santa Cruz, California :)

DETAILS:

I'm the one who yesterday posted about some of us fruit-lovers working on pulling together a new home in Santa Cruz, California.

Here's the very detailed post I wrote (it's obvious I adore Santa Cruz):

(http://www.30bananasaday.com/forum/topics/come-live-in-friendly-fruitarian-house-by-cali-beach)

But some of us are now strongly considering the idea of instead (or at first) moving to Asheville, North Carolina.

I personally would only live there 3-5 months probably then return to Santa Cruz for summer (being a beach/hiking town, Santa Cruz is especially fun in summer anyway...it's winter is pretty rainy). But maybe they'll like Asheville and stay there longer.

(When/if I return to Santa Cruz around probably this March-May, I'd want fruit-loving housemates in Santa Cruz, so please let me know if that interests you.)

Anyway, if you haven't heard of it yet, Asheville is a really cool town. A vortex (like Santa Cruz is). One of the happiest places in the world, has rose quartz in its ground, extremely musical/artistic, holistic healer vibe, crunchy/hippie vibe. So it's very similar to Santa Cruz.

Two of the main ways Asheville is different than Santa Cruz is no beach and no California perks (California is an amazing, beautiful, varied state). Like Santa Cruz, its downside is it's a bit overly white (as in Caucasian).

Yet Asheville has many, many perks. One is that housing is very cheap - just like $275-500/room. (I'd love to just stay in Santa Cruz instead but having hard time finding rooms for under $630/month there.)

P.S. There'd be a whole room or at least section for a massage/reiki table area that at least one of us would use for our clients... so if you're a bodyworker or energyworker you're in luck :)

Frugivorous Commune Dream

2012-11-08T00:10:59.000Z

Someone told me how cheap land would be in/near Detroit or other ghost-town places. It'd be so awesome if a bunch of fruit loving vegans went there and basically created our own city. We'd elect our own city council and get to make our own laws, because nobody would want to live there except like-minded people. There would be urban gardens and bike-powered/pedal-powered transport. Ahhh.... dream. What do you think?

KENYA: Malaria? Yellow fever? & MANGO SEASON

2012-11-01T21:20:15.000Z

Hey guys,
I'll be heading to Kenya this 'winter', well European winter that is. Flying there on the 12th of the 12th.

Will be doing a 10dayVipassana meditation course there first, and visit Mfangano island.
There is a farmer called Joshua there, who let's me eat all the mangoes on his land since he isn't able to export them... There was another post on this from Wild Light here: http://www.30bananasaday.com/forum/topics/free-fruit-holiday?xg_source=activity

Funny enough, I didn't get in touch with Joshua through this website but he happened to find out that I was visiting Kenya and invited me to stay on his land. This all happened because we had similar friends on facebook...Small world, the fruitarian world. Anyway, I will also visit a Fruitarian community that is living on the same island, to see how they are doing. They have a site on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fruitarian-Paradise-in-Africa/140935866028419

Don't know what to do considering Malaria, should I take any pills that I can take after it may have occurred? Talked to a friend that lived in Papua New Guinea and she told me ''oh yeah I had malaria once... Wasn't a big deal, still have it in my blood, am not allowed to donate my blood but that's all...'' Really? Does anyone here have any experience with malaria and/or yellow fever? Should I vaccinate? Well I don't want to, it doesn't make any sense to, but maybe there are some reasons to consider it? Other things to consider or any other tips on travelling to Kenya/Africa?

Any help would be great.

Wishing you all a great day filled with tasty seasonal fruit!

Couch-surfing in London?

2012-06-27T20:28:29.000Z

Hello I have an unusual & slightly desperate request for the residents of london on this lovely forum.

I am attending New Designers with my university next week and have left it quite late to arrange accomodation. I have no family who love in london like most of my peers.

I really only need a floor or sofa, I have a sleeping bag, and can offer a contribution for letting me stay I will obviously be keeping myself in terms of food etc

I am looking to stay on the 3rd & the 4th of July just for the nights.

The event is at

Business Design Centre,

Islington

However anywhere in london is great because I can travel there easily. (and in return I believe I can give you guest passes for any day of the week that the event is on.)

Thank you

Jon

Hawaii Community starting in August/September this year

2012-06-17T17:47:12.000Z

I'm going to be heading to the big island in a few months to purchase 3 to 6 acres in Puna. Looking to form a community.

My wife and I will be tenting while we build an earth bag home. We will be installing a rain collector and using passive solar heating for the shower facility. There will be no electric as this is off grid... but we are planning on experimenting with solar power to recharge small electronics.

We will be planting fruits and many gardens. There will be lots to do. A self sustaining environmentally friendly community should be a reality within a year.

After the community is started we are probably going to take off for South America for awhile. So it would be great to have plenty of people around.

Anyone is welcome to hang out and be a part of this amazing experience. There will be no costs to live on the property and no obligations... we hope to find and build the most amazing experience of life through this adventure and attract those whose needs and desires are to live this life.

Would anybody like to join us?