AnimatedHuman.org
Copyright September 2008
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Animated Human is a web site about the adventures, opinions, and shared knowledge of Jonathan and Lillith Avalon.

 

We are Animated Humans, always creatively playfully passionately in motion. Here Be Dragons of idealism about permaculture, sustainability, and spiritual evolution tempered and informed by our experience of real life.

Our site is undergoing a major revision using new software. It may take some time to get it done. Please come back and visit with us again to see what is new!

At 5500 feet elevation under the wide open sky of the High desert, in Apache County Arizona overlooking the Little Colorado River, Jonathan and Lillith Avalon, along with their daughter Zarah, are stewarding and transforming 40 acres into a self-sustaining environment.

 

In keeping with their desire to walk lightly on the Earth, the Avalons have integrated the ideals of Permaculture and adopted the use of technology such as French intensive gardening and controlled bio-dynamic growing environments. They seek to live off the grid, use renewable resources, and be in direct relationship with their food supply as they continue to build the infrastructure of their small family farm.

"It is our love and devotion for each other and the land that awakens our passions which in turn excite the day to day challenges that lead us to the creative problem solving necessary to create a different way of being in relationship with our environment." ~JA
The Avalons are now in relationship with alpacas, goats,  and free range chickens. We have colony raised rabbits and are expanding an intensive vegetable gardening program that incorporates the use of greenhouse and season extending technology.
Future expansions of the Avalon Farm will be a passive solar house, vineyard of table grapes, raspberry plants, fruit trees, Guinea Hogs, and some draft animals (Ox, Horse, or Mules tbd) as well as the cultivation of the land necessary to grow organic feed for all the animals.
Water management is our biggest challenge and we’ll be tackling that with grey-water and water catch in the future.

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