Common Vegetable Growing
Growing our own organic food is important to our village. We value locally grown crops that have not been transported over long distances - and the shared vegetable garden helps strengthen our community.
Community and Lifestyle
Here you can read about how everyday life works in The Self-Sustaining Village
The village has 15 hectares of agricultural land, some of which is built-up land. There is plenty to attend to when such an area needs to be maintained - and it is one of the things we use our common work days for. We all participate in a common food arrangement - and pay a monthly contribution towards bulk purchases of organic food. You can actually eat healthy and varied in the village without ever visiting a supermarket - but of course it is entirely up to the individual what they supplement with from outside. It is important to us to keep animals together. In permaculture thinking, animals are a central part of nature management as well as a support function for growing vegetables and plants. The village has a flat structure. We have no leader, and everyone can influence and decide what they want to have a say in. The village’s many tasks are distributed among working groups. We have for example the sheep group, the vegetable group, the rye bread group, the accounting group and the Højgården group. We have always had common waste sorting - and are pleased that sorting is spreading in the country’s municipalities. In our waste area (which we think is pretty pedagogically set up :) we also collect batteries, medicine and other waste that Svendborg municipality does not automatically collect.
Common Land
Common Food
Common Animals
Common Decisions – and Responsibility
Common Waste and Recycling
