BBC Our Lives - Saving Our Ecovillage (2020)

Off-grid with their own food, animals, power, water and waste disposal, a Welsh eco-community try to come up with a plan to save their homes and their future.

Follows the community of Brithdir Mawr, near Newport in Pembrokeshire, over six months as they attempt to raise the cash to buy their own homes. The owner will put the farmhouse, converted cowshed, eco-houses and 85 acres of land on the open market with a price tag of ?1 million unless the residents can raise the money to buy him out.

As they try to develop businesses that can generate enough income, the residents also have to work the land, care for the chickens, goats, sheep and geese and learn Welsh in an effort to integrate with the community. They juggle the demands of part-time jobs - three of them are working as carers during the pandemic - while looking after children and running volunteer weeks.

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