We live in the woods for just £120 a month with no bills – we grow our own food and don’t go to shops…we love it
WORKERS have opted out of modern life to live on a commune in the country for just £120 per month.
The Tinkers Bubble commune, set on 40 acres in Somerset, was set up by workers keen to escape the nine to five grind and supermarket run.
The residents at Tinkers Bubble grow their own food and make money from making fruit juicers and organic cider.
The commune is powered by solar powered 12v electricity and they burn wood to cook food and heat their own bathhouse.
Residents pay around £120 per month which covers the commune’s costs.
Alex, a former civil engineer, told website PositiveNews: “Most of our food is grown or killed by us.
“Our fuel is wood we’ve chopped. It feels empowering, we’re not reliant on shops.”
The commune, teeming with wildlife, has become a haven for professionals who are alienated by modern society.
Alex added: “If I look at the crises of modernity, there’s so many aspects, whether it is loneliness, mental health, housing, access to food, climate change – life here provides an answer to a lot of that stuff in one go.”
Alex said that most members were in the late 20s and early 30s, and that life on the commune was physically demanding.
Self-sufficiency first became fashionable in the late 1960s and 1970s, as was strongly associated with Hippy led counter culture movement.
TV show The Good Life , starring Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal, told the story of a middle class couple who embraced self-sufficiency after becoming fed up with the rat race.