The Art of Living with Nature

Preorder our book here! http://geni.us/MothertheMountain ❤️ this past year we’ve been working in secret, pouring our hopes, our truths and our inspirations into this—a book that is written from the depths of our hearts. Full of reflections on nature, grief, creativity, gardening and our lives in nature, it tells our story from the very beginning. We are so excited to share it all! ❤️

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We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land.
In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined.

Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country.

We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial.

Music by Indira Elias:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw4WFubYJBZZdtD3wqXrq5A
“Soon Enough”, “Lend Me”, “Dreamy Youth”, and “Urania”

Chapters:
0:00 The art of living with nature
1:24 A huge secret we’ve been keeping!
2:17 Harvesting in a flower forest
4:02 We wrote a book!
6:18 Cooking from nature
7:50 Baking from wildflowers
9:46 Picking kiwis in the orchard
11:22 Gardening, our plans for the year
14:47 Sewing from old waste
17:43 Walking with the goats
19:16 Painting in nature
22:01 Our morning routine with the ducks
22:44 Sharing something super personal