Working Together

A Norweigan tradition, in preparation for the next season, a dugnad takes place. The community gathers to tidy, clean, and fix a space so that it will continue providing an optimal situation for the community as a whole. In preparation for the next phase in history we suggest a dugnad. The spirit of will to work together is the mind set that will carry us forward. By combining the labor and ideas of many, we can produce something that will support the lives of many. The systems are made possible because of the combined efforts of many people’s desire to make them work; to create a landscape that will continue to grow and provide for us even after we have stopped working the land. Setting up for an increasing yield while decreasing work, we design a landscape and the plant community to be the volunteers in this ongoing dugnad that will support our natural community of people, animals, and plants.

We have been rooted in setting up the main homestead site, but Dugnad Farm is a mobile collaborative of individuals interested in giving and getting back to the land, who are interested in alternative building techniques, low impact forestry, renewable and recycled materials, energy efficiency, self sufficient technologies, and permaculture. We are a collective of people calling a dugnad to explore these alternative systems, to live more harmoniously with eachother, and our planet and take responsibility for our own health and resiliency as well as our community’s.