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"I used to be a city kid. In the early 1970’s, when the back-to-the-land movement in the States emerged from its urban hippy roots, I thought I knew how to change the world. By the time Nava and I were married and I was six months pregnant with our first child, we had loaded up the old Rambler American, kissed our worried parents goodbye, and headed north to Canada. With only $500, and the words of Bradford Angier and the Nearings to guide us, we set out bravely to live the good life.

A quarter of a century has passed. Our three homeschooled children ride horseback through this isolated mountain valley in northwestern B.C. as effortlessly as I used to bike through the city streets of my childhood. We live in the house of our dreams which is powered by a home-made hydro system that produces a surplus of electricity even during the coldest, darkest months. We have green fields, a small apple orchard, organic gardens that feed us the year round; we have milk goats and chickens and a view to take your breath away. And even though our oldest daughter, Leaf, attends university, she still returns home whenever she can to ride her horse, to help bring in the hay and to just plain be here."

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