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“We are an unintentional community” Jon Jandai
Jon Jandai is a Thai Farmer, earthen builder, seed saver, teacher. Philosopher, father, and community activist. Jon Jandai continuously strives to find more ways communities can be self-reliant and people can come back to connecting with the land and each other.
His philosophy is that life is simple and works to connect people to understanding this themselves and ways to achieve it.
In 2003, along with family and friends, Jon founded a community called Pun Pun, north of Chiang Mai city in northern Thailand. Pun Pun is a self- reliance learning center and seeds saving center.
In 2018 Jon and his team founded Pun Pun Isaan, in Yasothorn province of northeastern Thailand. Pun Pun Isaan will be a model of how to design your farm to be sustainable by itself. At both places they experiment with alternative building, farming techniques, processing products from the farm and community as well as teaching and workshops too.
This is the second episode in our series on regenerative farming/community building/and alternative lifestyles.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- The importance of saving seeds
- Why Jon has not bought clothes in 30 years
- How many acres of land Jon needs to feed 20 people
- The importance of having your health first
- How Jon lives without an income
- How the Pun Pun community is structured
Jon Jandai Quotes:
“It has been 30 years since I bought clothes”
“When people work so hard, but don’t have a good place to stay and food to eat – that is not normal”
“It is dangerous not to have seeds in our hands”
You can build things in America even cheaper than in Thailand”
“[In a career] We think we work for ourselves but we are not really working for ourselves”
“You only need 1/2 acre in the tropics to feed 6 people”
Continue the adventure:
Jon’s TEDx talks: Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?
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