hello good morning today we are in rural bulgaria i am in a small village called said
in a spot called sverica it's a geodesic dome project permaculture farm and in this video i'm
going to be interviewing a lot of the locals and telling you more about both these topics
but first we're gonna go get some breakfast all of these domes serve a different purpose
that one right here is the kitchen let's go in now you're probably wondering how i ended up
in this bulgarian village and that's a fair question if you're a subscriber you might
remember i recently volunteered in scotland through a platform called world packers and
that's exactly how i found this fetico project as a little refresher world packers is a volunteering
community with hosts in more than 140 countries around the globe this is honestly the best way to
travel the world for free that i know of you can work on farms permaculture and building projects
like this one you can try homestays volunteer and hostels holistic centers there is so much
variety all you need is a membership and i've got this promo code girl versus glove which will save
you ten dollars of the annual membership which is already super affordable so yeah thanks to world
packers for helping me find this project and now let's get back to it so that was breakfast
on most days i've been here we've actually eaten something that was either grown in this garden
or produced locally today we had delicious deep fried dough so that wasn't too representative
but now i want to show you around this garden hopefully find someone who's going to
explain it permaculture obviously comes from permanent culture as opposed to agriculture
in permaculture we observe a lot first the surroundings usually you should be at a place
at least for a year before you start your farm garden just so that you see the place in all the
seasons and all circumstances and its principles could be adapted for every walks of life like not
just gardening it's just like a certain attitude that you have you follow things that are natural
lately especially with the whole pandemic it seems a lot of people are going back to their roots
at least in bulgaria there's a huge movement of people going back to the villages
buying houses away from the city and looking for this calmer cleaner way of life
we play these sounds to the plants this is 432 hertz which is said to be the vibration
of the entire universe so those are the two tones we've been playing to the plants
all winter music of the plants the next one plants with it and it starts playing music and so
we get to hear what uh each individual plant sounds like which is amazing
and it really is beautiful the music sometimes we play it for like the entire night
hear the sound of the rain falling onto the dome and the music playing in the background it's
incredibly soothing this white noise just drowning out you know your persistent thoughts it's very
grounding very re-energizing um very peaceful this right here is the dome
i've been sleeping in let me give you a little tour open up here take the shoes off of course
look at this this is my bed
this is a bed i actually helped build while here
so we see the mark here yeah and then we level by the
if you're curious what happens when nature calls this is what happens
there's a toilet here in the garden here we go and i'm sure you can figure out the rest
wonderful okay i've just dragged annabelle who's another world packers volunteer onto a
little rainy walk and we're exploring this small village very nice very rural yeah yeah very cheap
annabelle's a world packers volunteer from argentina and she's been traveling around
europe for the past two years thanks to world packers staying and volunteering in different
countries for extended time periods now i often get asked whether this type of travel
is safe for solo female travelers so i was really happy to meet annabelle who has been
doing this for so long look i get it being a woman can be hard at the best of times
but do try not to let it stop you from living the life you want annabelle and i are back from a walk
and now we're gonna check what he's doing and do it i'm currently cleaning mushrooms for soup
all of these mushrooms have come straight from the compost so i'm trying to find ones that are still
closed at the top like this one so that they're easier to clean and then as soon as i find them
i put them in this bucket and i wash off some of the worst dirt and then we're gonna do a round two
and now i've been summoned by demo to do some building work what are we doing today boss
let's do it let's do it prepare uh the wooden four in the big door if you've never heard
of geodesic domes here's a short interview with genchogenshev the founder of spherica
who has been building these structures around the world for years now this is georgie's ceremony
i like it what i want to know is about you judy sigdoms and why did you start spatika
i'm a part of the third wave of the today's down building the first we've started like becky four
richard buckminster fuller second wave is not stood also in the united states during
the 70s and the third wave started the year 2000 actually with two new epicenters latin america
it's east europe according to the psychologist it's one around place which
not beginning here with no end this is not an angle for confrontation and people which are
living in such a place they are living in harmony we help in spain in czech community of dhammachur
with international crew we make team we make uh temple of the health yeah
we share everything what what you know you're not thinking about the prophet but once you're doing
just unconditionally that's all the business of the universe is coming to you
i really did learn a lot during my stay let me show you one of the projects we worked on
start to finish first we cut and smoothed down about a dozen wooden planks which we
then arranged to form the base for the hallway then we cut down these huge bits
of polystyrene and arrange them to form the walls and ceiling of this hallway
and that was sort of it i'd helped build this entire extension we did lots of other stuff too
including mixing cement and filling holes with it i've also finally learned how to use a power drill
did you see those two bags of sand that the two large men were carrying
um i just attempted to carry both them in a wheelbarrow
it didn't go well um so i'm now exhausted and we're going to have lunch currently demon are
picking salad from the garden for our lunch instead of picking the whole salad yeah we can get
some of the side and then the plants taste and it grows
is it good mr salad was a success
so pretty let's see what we can scavenge there's loads of pickled stuff let's grab some olives
this is cheese and this is some kind of a unidentified pickle
lunch was predictably excellent and now i'm going to show you something really cool look at that
i would be really curious your transition from living in hollywood and going to casting
spending four hours in your car every day to being here what did that do for you mentally
since i was 20 years old up to when i turned 30. yeah that's where
i lived in los angeles i didn't quite feel like i fit in the whole uh bling-bling thing was a little
bit overwhelming to me coming back to bulgaria i started trying to live a more sustainable life
though these things might sound like a cliche i really i really enjoyed it and it's it's made
me yeah definitely a better person i've grown a lot it i don't know it brings out something very
ancient that's in me that i've never known before i only spent a week at the farm so i
can talk about some huge personal transformation and look i'm a big skeptic so some of the stuff
about the vibrations of the universe etc yeah i'm not sure what to make of that but i do have to
admit i felt a shift my eczema significantly improved my stress levels went down and
i was genuinely excited to get up every morning which isn't something i necessarily always feel so
if you'd like to experience this do sign up to world packers and don't forget to use my
discount code to save ten dollars or if that is not your vibe at least try to integrate some of
these principles into your everyday life we are doing one final stop before i leave
today the final stop was a sound healing ceremony which i actually loved i'll let
you enjoy it without my commentary i know it's more powerful in person but see what you think
okay gancho this is it yeah my final moments well my final moments here not my final moments i hope
your final moment just for this time yeah okay maybe we'll be next time i
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