Ecovillage Big Stone

The ecovillage was named Big Stone in summer 2005, but its history began in 1992 by the initiative of Kulasov's family. Economist Antonina, medical doctor Ivan and their daughter Aleksandra decided to live in the countryside in their patrimonial house. They were inspired by the idea of ecological ethics. Kulasovs began to live ecological life, turned into vegetarians. They inherited 0,5 hectares of land and keep organic farming and gardening, used the other 0,5 hectares of hayfields. Shilkovsky pinery, big swamp Lebiyaj'e, hidden lake Glukhoe, river Kubena and a big flooded plain gave enough herbs, berries and mushrooms. The family was surrounded with the Russian northern Taiga forests. They found the land where there had been no wars. They enjoyed beauty of nature.

To visit ecovillage Big Stone you should contact Ivan and Tonia Kulyasovs by email at info@ecobs.ru. Tell about yourself and the aim of your visit and discuss the time of your stay in Big Stone. After you buy the tickets to Vologda and back we will send you an e-mail with the detailed information about getting to the place (because the time-table of local buses changes every season).

We ask you not to visit Big Stone without the invitation. Between the periods of volunteer program and Solar Festivals our inhabitants are usually occupied with their own family works and they will not have any opportunity to spend time with you. Our people can be out of Big Stone. In this case your uncoordinated actions and problems with lodging, food, leaving the place etc. will become a burden for the nature of the place and for the neighbors who are not ecovillage inhabitants.

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Dziesmas Settlement of Kin’s Domains

At the present our ecovillage is in the stage of formation. Since spring 2004, one family has been living in the village on a permanent basis.

Land in Latgalia has been acquired as private property.

The size of the parcel is equal to about 227 hectares. On the north, the parcel is bordered by a river and a woodland belt approximately 20 hectares in size. A forest also continues beyond the river. It is for good reason that Latgalia is said to be a “miniature Switzerland”: the nearest lakes where one can swim are at a distance of one, two, three, and five kilometres from the borders of the parcel. On the south and east, the parcel is bordered by land-reclamation ditches, about six metres in width and so deep in places that they are inhabited by beavers, which, in especially hot years, when all the neighboring natural reservoirs dry out, manage to preserve and maintain a high level of water in their ditches. On the west, the parcel is bordered by a country road and, in places, a woodland belt. People once lived on this land, as evidenced by the foundations of houses, and abandoned fruit orchards and wells that are found here and there. Near the road is a house, whose total area is approximately 50 square metres, and several farm buildings, which also belong to us and are the starting-point of our settlement. An electrical power line has been run to the house. The landscape of the parcel is formed in such a way that there are natural depressions, which can be transformed into artificial ponds.

There are neighboring farmsteads one to two kilometres away.

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Kin's Village Svetloe

A project of the Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine

Our settlement is located in the cozy Dobrovskaya Valley. The people who have gathered here are very diverse in their views, life experience, age, and occupations, but we are all united by our aspiration to live on the land, our love for the land, and the desire to make it more beautiful.

We want, as they say, to make our mark: plant a tree, build a house, raise a son, so that later we would not agonize over wasted years of our lives.

We want our children to eat not just ecologically pure produce, but vegetables and fruits grown with love. We want to be happy, and share our happiness with others. When we wake up, we want to walk out onto the dew-soaked grass to the orchard we grew with our own hands, and not onto a filthy stairwell. To breathe fresh air imbued with the aroma of flowers, and not cigarette smoke that creeps along a ventilation duct. To hear the singing of birds and the buzzing of bees, not the stupefying rhythms from breaking hydrants and the bangs of firecrackers.

Our experience shows that it is not necessary to return to the cave or to reject the knowledge and skills we have acquired, but this knowledge and these skills, together with the achievements of civilization, should be used with maximum caution in order not to harm nature. It sometimes seems that, by leaving the city, we are escaping from our problems, but we are really taking them with us.

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Welcome to SPACE of LOVE Magazine!

Third Issue is out!

Many of us agree that our planet and world are in profound transition - facing a turning point in human history. Some say that we as a people have had this same chance many times before in our near and far history. Each time, so history shows, humanity sank back once more, en mass, into the same spiritual sleep. But once more, we are also closer than ever to be able to turn this planet into the paradise it was meant to be.

At this time on Earth, more people than ever are committed to awaken and to stay awake even as a large percentage of the world's beautiful people are being hypnotized and mass-manipulated out of their divine powers by only a few dark minds. We seem to have forgotten our most inviolable power, to love each other and co-create this beautiful Earth as a Space of Love, the metaphorical and literal paradise-like garden it was meant to be.

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