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Experiences with a deep connection with nature and disconnected from internet
Through WWOOF Italy you can have the oppurtinty to go WWOOFing while disconnected from the digital world. Do you want to try?
There are Hosts in WWOOF Italy who, by choice, have decided not to use the Internet. You can contact them directly by phone or letter or you can send a request from the platform and wait for a coordinator or association staff to contact you for further details. There are also disconnected realities that welcome members without the need to make a request. Check out the list of free internet hosts below and try this experience.
Emanuel
Emanuel’s description on the platform:
Uele and Nehir (2015) we guard 5 hectares between meadow and forest, grow for subsistence vegetables, fruits, legumes and corn; we heat and heat water with a wood stove and work only with hand tools without a motor. By choice and for pleasure we light ourselves with oil lamps and use neither electricity nor gas….
Max
In a world bent whirling on speed, we feel it is our duty to allow ourselves time to slow down. Writing a letter and waiting for a response is a good exercise to that end.
Max and Geraldine
Max and Geraldine’s description on the platform:
We live in simplicity in an old country house reachable only on foot, surrounded by forest, on a 5 ha plot at the foot of Mont’Igno (1440m). By choice we do not own electricity; for cooking and heating we use heat from the wood stove. There is a spring near the house to get water. We are a couple with children (born in 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012), we need help all year round for different activities…
Happy
Felice’s description on the platform
I live a very simple life trying to produce as much daily food as possible. I do not use mechanical equipment except sporadically. Those who come to visit me come to find another dimension of life. I have been on this path for 22 years after a long search for freedom and independence….
Fabrizio
For a long time I have chosen to live as close to nature as possible, in a simple way and respectful of everything around me.
At some point came the computer, then even the so-called smart phone that quickly established itself in the hands of virtually everyone. A true prosthesis, without which one can no longer live.
The mirage of being connected to everything.
I chose not to acquire this, like other objects that are punctually presented to us as convenient and indispensable. I choose not to be dependent on multinational information technology corporations, not to contribute to increasing the already existing electromagnetic pollution, not to take advantage of the wars over Coltan or so-called rare earths, of all the factories in so many parts of the planet that are used to produce components for the magical toys.
How much energy is consumed all this time? How much does it take to run the Internet, the various search engines, artificial intelligence? Where does all this energy come from?
Ultimately the one who always loses out is mother earth, the environment we live in and all its inhabitants.
I have never understood how even people in the so-called alternative have fallen into the trap of so blithely using these harmful devices.
I try to be connected with myself and everything around me through my awareness, my senses, my perceptions. This is the reality, not the one that is available at all times through a screen.
When I want to communicate with a distant person I use the pen, paper, letter envelope, stamp and postal service and wait for a response. This for me is real time, not the artificial time of all and now of a computer machine.
When I want to go to what new place or when I travel, I have the map with me, I look at directions, I ask for information. And if I get lost, if I take a wrong turn, who knows what unexpected things may come my way?
When I have curiosity or interest in something, I have books and the slow, demanding pace of reading; and then there are encyclopedias, libraries.
It seems that on the Internet there is everything, whatever you ask, the answer comes. But who is it that published that information? I was told that sometimes the author is also unknown. So you attribute truth to information, just out of blind trust in the magic screen.
A book has an author and a publisher, it has consistent content or not and to these elements you can attribute trust or not, credibility or not.
And then I am content not to have the illusion of “knowing” at any time anything, not to be able to “communicate” at any time with any part of the world.
That to me is living naturally.
Living naturally has its limits.
The limits are in nature.
Fabrizio’s description on the platform:
We live in an old house in the hills on a plot of about 5.5 hectares. Our main purpose is self-sufficiency. We produce honey, propolis, olive oil, bread, fruit, jams and grape juice. By choice we do not have electricity or water in the house. We use only hand equipment to work. Currently we are 2 stable people, Fabrizio and Siddhartha (born in 2007). We consider our tribe to consist of the 2 of us plus returnees (those who return) and guests…
