Fruit Haven Ecovillage Full Documentary

Raw vegan/fruitarian community in the jungle of Ecuador, Fruit Haven brings you this full documentary movie about their life.
Thanks to everyone who has come to Fruit Haven and helped us to make it what it is today.
www.fruithaven...
#permaculture #homestead #ecovillage #organicfarming #ecuador #rawvegan #fruitarian

[@ErickZ-mi3lb]

Fascinating community, i hope they thrive and flourish

[@lindarodriguez5806]

Just wonderful! If I were younger, I would come and join you! What a beautiful life.

[@Warriorvegan]

You really have me questioning my life and my place in this world. Thank you.

[@TheFrugivorediet]

wow guys that was great! very cool you mentioned 30BaD too, so many memories flood back. i must remember to share this on my channel. wishing you all a fruitful future

[@FruitHavenEcovillage]

The start of the community thanks to your forum! Thank you!

[@Diabolis616]

Permaculture is the future, bless you all!

[@truthexposed839]

Great video! Thanks for sharing this valuable information.

[@deannaliebman3743]

This has been on my list for the past 6 years. I’ve gone to Haven for Humanity- another raw vegan community and I want to experience this one!! Can’t wait

[@GariksGarden]

Did you go yet?

[@raw-viking]

Nice to see this finished. ☺️🌱🌴👍🙌🙏

[@shyakajbk]

These is lovely guys. Thanks for documenting and sharing

[@SavoyProductionz]

Narrator: "One day, Fruit Haven would like to achieve world domination." I don't think they said that haha

[@Jahmastasunherbalist]

Maybe on older tf videos we said that a few times..

[@MeMe-fy3pp]

@@Jahmastasunherbalist is the narrator AI?

[@ericchristen2623]

Watermelons of mass destruction😅

[@galeriadesol948]

🤬 These people are awful, Peter may be raw food fruitarian but sometimes he sounds like a little führer. Disgusting.

[@RawVibrantHealth]

this place been on my radar awhile. Thinking long and hard about coming. Love the narrator hahah ~BIG LOVE

[@SavoyProductionz]

Great documentary. I miss you guys!

[@MsLaurenPanda]

Amazing, I want to visit and volunteer next winter! Just hit day 10 of the fruit diet, feeling great, this would be a dream come true

[@serdemyildiz4856]

High quality documentery !!! We the future

[@patrickm9373]

Thanks for sharing. Maybe one day, when my budget "allows" it.

[@MrPatrick05lester]

This is so beautiful! I cannot wait to come! 😍

[@vickieincalifornia7957]

WELL DONE ALL!

[@rickmccall4715]

well done guys. hoping to get out of Canada soon. cant wait 🙏🙏👍

[@rawveganzest1571]

Can't wait!!!! 😍🤩

[@ruhied957]

Great initiative. I hope as you grow in age this becomes a process for graceful aging needs within as ageing and handing over cartaking is an important part of continuation of land and soil and soul.. Aging is a natural part of life cycle. Sadly It has been also a painful journey in many communities as projects dont reflect and include the needs of elders..as we find the need for constant doing in the process consuming .... just like an older tree and forest that supports many more species than a young one... many communities have fallen short with this picture of life as we chase our dreams and projects ... after 40 years sadly it becomes a very difficult and undignified for mostthe original people leave... going back into the world and having been taken care of by society again...!! Another part is the local knowledge of local indigenous knowledge is far superior to permacultur ...please be mindful...😇

[@raskebratafari4658]

Beautiful village, majestic energy, wonderful vibrations. Nu flower empire

[@sweetcandycane2688]

Awesome!

[@artemis1style]

LOVE THIS.

[@lammy9733]

Give up your attachments give up your confusion and fly to that space that's beyond all illusion you are forever pure you are forever true and the dream of this world can never touch you❤ one of my favorite songs

[@justtheplantsmaam]

Oooh, definitely excited for this!

[@MoyferZy]

I LOVE EVERYTHG about all of this!!!! Life goals fr!!

[@MiggyLove]

Bravo bravo!!

[@GojiberryTerri]

Have u got my spot up high by Kevin yet? I’m ready ?!!!! Love ❤️ the video ! Miss Ecuador and u guys! Lots of ❤️ LOVE 💕 and kisses !!!

[@raw-viking]

There should be lots for sale up there at FH3. If not now then in a couple of months. ☺️ We’ll be neighbors. 👍

[@kira-im-einklang]

It looks so healthy and I think community and diverse nuture around might heal many people - let us all covert farm land back to nature. And reduce our consumption in exchange and start a happier Lifestyle:)

[@truthexposed839]

Beautiful

[@RobertFulop]

Awesome, congrats to y'all! Once these stupid lockdowns are over I'll come and build a house on my FH2 lot!

[@3sotericCompassionist1976]

Beautiful incient livity ❤️🙏🏽❤️

[@foxybiroxy]

It’s beautiful but the bugs would drive me crazy!

[@fabiancanada8876]

Thanks, that was very interesting and refreshing to see e.g. producing minimal waste, working physically, living more in harmony with nature, working together, etc. The vegan thing is extreme and adding fish and livestock for a more balanced diet and joy with food (eggs, steak, yoghurt, etc.) is a good improvement. We are in Nova Scotia with a only 3 months frost free (mid June-Mid September) growing season for most vegetables. We have a lot of storms (8-100km/h) and the odd hurricane (120-150km/h). Then of course too much rain and snow/frost. However, what grows really well here in the summer time is grass. You dont want to eat grass but cattle turn grass in the most tasty and nutritious foods (steak, yoghurt, ice-cream, cheese,..). What also grows really well is potatoes and blueberries (low&highbush). If you put it all together you get a good diet that you can produce yourself. Livestock is crucial here also for fertility (manure).

[@FruitHavenEcovillage]

Sure, in a temperate climate it's impossible. Where we are fruits and veggies produce year round :)

[@fabiancanada8876]

@@FruitHavenEcovillage Being able to grow fruit&veggies year round without expensive greenhouses, root cellars, freezers, etc. is amazing and makes life a lot easier! I have not lived there but I am pretty sure that I still would want a balanced diet with fish, eggs, steak, yoghurt,.. Its tastes so good to and brings so much joy as well. Just had lamb roast, red cabbage and fried potatoes together with blueberry wine. Yoghurt for desert. It was a fantastic meal and we enjoyed it so much. Makes for a good tasty and nutrious meal.

[@sallycrawford2729]

​​@@fabiancanada8876eating death and denatured food is not nutritious , but that's the programming from organized society for ya!

[@fabiancanada8876]

@@sallycrawford2729 I am very aware of what society does with people and constantly try to question and rethink things. You are delusional to think that meat is no nutritious. Turning grass (not nutritious for people) into meat, yoghurt, etc. makes a lot of sense where we live (Nova Scotia. We have been having a 15 inch snow storm for the past 2 days with temperatures around 15 Fahrenheit).

[@sallycrawford2729]

@@fabiancanada8876 Humans are in FACT Frugivores. There's Nothing delusional in the truth 🙄

[@JohnMacDonald123]

Looks amazing. WIsh that Jason could have been depicted as more of a badass.

[@patrickm9373]

40k with selling canna. Thats badass

[@andrejofak4787]

Thanks!

[@EarthFarm9]

Great work 👏🏽

[@uzomarose]

PURA VIDA!

[@hridayameditation]

fantastico !!

[@msdramamusic]

I would love to live like this.

[@realrefuge]

low stress, good food, lean and strong

[@vasilispap9234]

Me and my friend have been raw vegans for the past 2 years and we are thinking about moving from Europe to a fruit village for good. We are 25 years old, educated, hardworking, with a budget of 5-6k €. Would it be possible with hard work to be part of your community? Thank you in advance 😇

[@FruitHavenEcovillage]

Of course! check out our website www.fruithaven.org/

[@kwhatten]

@@FruitHavenEcovillage I'm curious how Ecuador handles foreigners, what kind of visas are provided?

[@uggali]

23:00 What is this flower? To me it looks like rātā or pōhutukawa which are from New Zealand. I have seen rātā growing wild in the cook islands bcuz they were introduced hundreds of years ago by voyaging Polynesians. I know in NZ our precolonial staple was sweet potato so perhaps we introduced rātā to south america when we got sweet potato from there? What is that sweet heart can you please let me know?

[@randomanonymoushuman]

Looks great! Ive planted a temperate fruit forest, not vegan as humans are omnivores ( i have biology degree and have lived with indigenous peoples) but to each their own, keep up the good work.

[@mariacaicedo3627]

World domination? Hmm... Sounds rather ambitious. I agree with the sustainable and eco-friendly kind of living, and would be very interested to learn to grow my own food. How easy or difficult was for the founders to negotiate the buying of the first plots? And who was the previous owners? And this being in the Amazon region, aren't you all close to indigenous communities where you are?

[@PeterCsere]

Buying the lands was fairly easy. Just lots of paperwork. The owners were local Ecuadorians who were selling for various reasons, mostly because they were old and had no interest in maintaining their farms anymore. Yes we are neighboring several indigenous reserves totaling thousands of hectares. All of our neighbors are indigenous Shuar.

[@CoconutsnCarryons]

@@PeterCsere

[@surfviewgardens2396]

Hi Peter and fellow Fruit Haven participants. Congrats on your great documentary. It was mentioned that you have your own internal currency. That would be good to know about in greater detail. Also, with the problem with those nasty flies, I'm curious if you 1.) have a biogas digester, and 2.) if you could have a slow controlled burn-off of the excess methane combined with a bug zapper where the flying insect is attracted by the Co2 and then get zapped - (lots of KZbin videos about it - see kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYjCoICZndZnfLc ). With all of the "contributors" that you have at Fruit Haven, and especially because you don't cook (not using methane for cooking) - due to your preference for raw foods - you could be attracting and zapping those flying insects 24/7 and making your environment a lot easier on your residents. Keep up the great work. - Jim from Phoenix

[@PeterCsere]

The biting insects are not really a problem. Just new people who have been around 1-2 months have been bothered by them. The rest of us are fine ;-P The gnats stop going after you once your blood smells like everyone else's.

[@surfviewgardens2396]

@@PeterCsere Thanks. Sounds similar to the reaction to No-See-Ums elsewhere in Ecuador. Thanks again.

[@StevenLoby]

Wish they would have done this in banana republic

[@Amorfodexign]

Congrats!

[@hintofwealthpodcasth.o.w5598]

there are quite a few herbs that repel insects, basil, lavender, mint, lemon thyme to name a few

[@elrassantagar6955]

Strange question. But do people date within the community? You know, since people have their ”needs” If you understand me. Or is this not allowed in Fruit Haven.

[@FruitHavenEcovillage]

Sure, why not. We want the community to grow :)

[@ribeninua2874]

Were there any interactions with the indigenous citizens and if so, did they benefit in any way from them in their establishment there?

[@PeterCsere]

We have hundreds of indigenous Shuar as our neighbors. We've learned a lot from them. Also we share rare fruit tree genetics with them and help to improve community infrastructure that benefits them (like the bridge and public path.) TBH the main reason they appreciate us is we provide a lot of full-time employment. Many of the men can now support their families due to having a steady job rather than occasional sporadic work. For them, dignity and financial stability is priceless. As in the United States, there are issues with poverty and alcoholism in the indigenous communities here. Turns out removing their nomadic way of life and giving them European vices was not such a good idea. But, with economic opportunity they have more options in life.

[@ribeninua2874]

@@PeterCsere thank you for the information, which was absent in the above video but may have been included in others. Keep up the good work 👏.

[@truthexposed839]

Is it true that the only way into Ecuador is to take the snake bite? I had plans to visit you.

[@valentineotto1099]

Yes sadly so. But I think there are some ways if we really want. Was planning also to visit but found it difficult to reach there from India. And now even more so

[@PeterCsere]

This requirement only lasted 2 months; it was struck down quickly as the government had no interest in fighting all the court cases / lawsuits / criminal charges filed against the president. Now there is no snake bite required ;-P yay ecuador

[@seb3317]

Awesome guys looks Great !

[@TeaAndCroissants]

This is so interesting! I'm curious, are the Fruit Haven communities in contact with any of the local indigenous peoples? With the way our European ancestors persecuted them and their way of life I feel we should always be looking to work with them in projects like this. Especially because there is so much we could learn from them and their ancestral knowledge of the land.

[@PeterCsere]

Yep. Next to us is a huge indigenous reserve land, hundreds of them live along the river. We are friends with many of them, and some work here full or part time doing construction or agriculture.

[@Leitz_kraft]

are there many ticks there?

[@rohithrajendran3830]

Wow.No words🥰😍💚🔥💪🏼😇

[@martonmezei7054]

for the algorithm

[@adriennemiller.music.]

:)

[@crystalclearcompass]

Yes

[@crystalclearcompass]

This also for the algorithm

[@crystalclearcompass]

Thanks

[@louisehogan8192]

Yep

[@EnergiA854]

Awesome! Maybe a bit difficult without the grid and civilization

[@duncanbananatyne3890]

Community hubs have electric, civilization is only over the river. There is also FH10 on that side with grid, further north closer to Terra Frutis.

[@EnergiA854]

@@duncanbananatyne3890 interesting

[@aliannarodriguez1581]

I did notice on the last video that there are marching giants (power towers) across the river, so not so isolated after all. They scar the landscape everywhere in the US now, and the power companies say they will be building far more in order to meet the needs of AI running in data centers.

[@servs8075]

Are there any kids in your community?

[@AdvExplorer]

currently a baby on FH2 lot :)

[@taltosr]

Poor kid... 😢 no playmates no nothing...just half naked smelly fruitcake skeleton -zombies....what a nice way to grow up..🙄

[@mikem5475]

​@@taltosryou're being incredibly judgemental and it undermines everything that you say

[@serdemyildiz4856]

Wuhuu

[@lifestyleoffreedomfamily]

❤

[@jotv7224]

when you show drug use show prescription pill bottles dont show weed. its better than everything the system tells you to take.

[@flashgordon1262]

Durianrider!

[@magnusfreeborn]

"bradley" is a trip lol

[@bicimotoworld4115]

All the men look kind of underweight though

[@ChristopherLecky]

When a country does not have native plants that are a huge store of energy like tubers it indicates that the major store of energy that sustained during seasonal shifts was meat,,,, that being so it also gives us a clear picture of the natural range of animals that would have been present ,,, This obvious yet rarely communicated fact proves to what extent the ecosystem in England has been depleted due to human intervention... historically people here have eaten their way through the food chain leaving only the species that were the hardest to hunt like those that live underground in dens or warrens, those to quick and small to be easily caught and those that could migrate away from areas with dominant human habitation....! if you study the range of animals that are present in the natural environment of countries like England this fact is obvious.....! what ever was large enough slow enough or numerous enough to be easily caught or hunted had been hunted to extinction.....! FACT

[@gabyguzman2903]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@anushreesomani1749]

How to connect

[@sometea4741]

Da jungleboy!? Looks like him on the bridge.

[@jonathanmanzano8661]

All of you people need to start having more children ❤

[@aliannarodriguez1581]

Because the world isn’t overpopulated enough yet.

[@janeslater8004]

🌞👍

[@kayakman9845]

I want to buy land and grow fruits there

[@FruitHavenEcovillage]

Check out the available lots here: www.fruithaven.org/group-land-buys/

[@sipaz73]

Who is this narrator? Hilarious

[@aaronvigil9910]

Probably some gig off Fiverr 😂.

[@BibleSamurai]

so is this one of those groups where some ppl walk around naked and some ppl share lovers....

[@FruitHavenEcovillage]

We're more focused on growing fruit trees, there's many couples and most of us wear clothes around others :)

[@BibleSamurai]

alright cool. maybe ive watched to much movies :)@@FruitHavenEcovillage

[@wendyamrhein1710]

kind of like colonists- i am not in favor, the land belongs to the indigenous people .

[@user-pb1hb1qf9f]

❤❤🎉nice

[@quiveringshadows]

do they not interact with the local people? and learn their indigenous ways of doing things? (or is this exclusively for white foreigners?)

[@duncanbananatyne3890]

Looks like they do to me, check some other videos, they employ locals, live next to and visit indigenous, who already live in their own communities so I reckon this place not as appealing to them, although no doubt they would be accepted. What ways do you mean - house building? Yeah, that would be cool, although a lot of them probably live in more modern style houses now anyway. Boat making? Think most of them ride in metal ones with motors. Clothing - that would be a bit strange, maybe disrespectful and then be criticised as cultural appropriation. Shrinking heads perhaps? :P Have seen volunteers of different skin colours, think they have had short term Ecuadorian visitors although that might have been Terra Frutis, their sister community, there is an Ecuadorian women and child residing at Terra Frutis.

[@uggali]

Their homelands are perfectly capable of growing food. This some settler colonialism type shii im afraid

[@TruthLove333]

They’re making the earth more abundant, loving the natural way, this isn’t bad

[@craighamilton2539]

Buyer beware.

[@Itsjustkarissa]

:)

[@jvdome]

i wonder how some things would work there, for example sex, are you people having sex? and also if someones who eats meat and want to raise chickens or rabbits or goats? and if someone wants to plant their own system on their land with maybe a vertical garden or some monoculture for feeding the animals? and what the locals think of this place?

[@adriennemiller.music.]

Why would you want to live in this community if you wanna eat animals? Arent there enough places and communities already for that?

[@cheerup5267]

this pipz are malnourish..

[@burrochapadogrl]

My question: what did happened to the indigenous people of that area bc I notice most of yall are from Israel and I hope you are not pushing them off THEIR land. And you admit to wanting world denomination?!?!? I’m sorry that doesn’t sound peaceful

[@crystalclearcompass]

For the algorithm

[@burrochapadogrl]

My question: what did happened to the indigenous people of that area bc I notice most of yall are from Israel and I hope you are not pushing them off THEIR land. And you admit to wanting world denomination?!?!? I’m sorry that doesn’t sound peaceful