Happiness Isn’t Real: The Reality of Life Off Grid

5 years living off grid has changed our perspective on success, purpose and simple living. This week we plant an orchard of bananas, rest at a waterfall and fix so many fences. Meanwhile, there’s a tropical cyclone developing off the coast so we’re preparing for it to hit.
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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 @indiraelias
Soon Enough, If I'd Known You and Urania

Chapters:
0:00 Happiness isn’t real
1:36 Planting an orchard of bananas
5:37 A waterfall deep in the rainforest
9:50 Fixing a fence because goats are naughty!
12:04 Digging a hole for our off grid water
13:48 More naughty goats, broken fences and cute ducks