So I'm not the only one who thinks Jimmy (?) is having other people pay for his land owning dream. I am disturbed by the fact that you pay to go and then they use you "build" it. Other than knowing there isn't enough food for all of these people they don't seem to be learning anything.

I completely agree with you. I think this....scam is going to end up very bad and it may permenantly disillusion the young people into apathy for the health of the environment for the rest of their lives. I hope not though.

I hope not too. We do (I believe) need to make more sustainable changes - kids like this, who are willing to enter the unknown are the people who will change the future.

So a few more episodes have gone by and the rate of kids becoming disillusioned and leaving is still high and it is still a let down for me. I am 43 and I am counting on these future generations of kids to kind of save the environment (unless it's too late and we've passed the tipping point). But these kids are just as addicted to their creature comforts as I am. This show makes me lose hope 😦

The laundry situation got me - why are they cleaning the clothes in the river?? How come the one guy who knows that the soap needs to break down in earth hasn't told anyone that? The goat killed me - no one knew how to feed it?? They let it starve for a week? The "hunter" gets annoyed that no one told him it needed grain? Plus, they slit it's throat with pretty much a dull knife. Then have machetes, I have seen them sharpening them. They cut the chickens neck with a knife I have in my kitchen.

I am astonished that everyone is unprepared to be there - did no one do a google search and make a plan? However, I don't think we have passed the tipping point - or at least I pray we haven't. The problem here is the blind leading the blind. The "teachers" don't know anything so the interns have no one to learn from. Although, they have figured out the still.

I agree with everything you said Mrs. Y. I found it funny when you were pondering why no one googled any know-how, because there was a point when a few women got on a guy there about that exact thing - 'why didn't you google how to tan material with goat brains before asking for the goat brains?' How funny! The Millenials are funny like that. They use the Internet for everything BUT info on how to do something. I see it in my 26 yr. old son. Whereas I use the net almost everyday for practical info, and spend little time on the social aspect of it. Bunch of Millenial weirdos, haha!!! And the goat thing got to me also. The hunter got angry that no one TOLD him to feed the goat grain, and yet he didn't just google what to feed a goat. And the 80 or whatever people in the camp completely ignored the goat limping yet cried when it was slaughtered. Average North Americans would rather kill through neglect I guess. And I also hated seeing the goat slaughtered with a kitchen knife. I was hoping the locals that were standing there were going to take over. And the one local said to cut ear to ear, but the stupid kid still kept the knife at the esophagus. Now if I were to have my throat slit (not to be gory), I would want deep cuts at the sides of the neck where the arteries are, and not so much cutting into the esophagus which would leave me choking on my blood. This whole jungle plan is not thought out and the kids are not independent, self starters; they are all looking for some other lost kid to direct them. The only person who seems to be a self starter is the guy making the laundry machine out of barrels.

I had hope with the Montana lady - she seemed to look disgusted until she realised that she could have "interns" pay her $2000 for the experience of learning how to build compost toilets and then she seems quite excited.

So I think I have this whole thing figured out .... Jimmy is the architect who has designed a building - made of ash and chicken feathers, no doors and half a window .... now he expects the contractor to supply the materials, figure out how to build it and pay JImmy for the pleasure of building it. Ta da!

I do love the washing machine - at least he worked out a solution - I do not understand why it took so long for someone to figure out that they needed to do that. They had a still first!

Do you know how many rotations there have been?

'...a building g made of ash and chicken feathers.' ROFL ROFL!!! You're funny Mrs. Y! Ya, I agree with you on the premise of this whole project - get idealistic kids to pay the owner (Jimmy?) and the interns dearly for a 'rough it in the jungle' experience. I don't think there's a bigger plan. And if it DOES become a viable town, it will have been by accident.

Thanks! I try, LOL. I agree with you - if it does work out it will definitely be an accident.

I just checked out the website ....

Learn how to manage an agroecological system by working with a diversity of plant and animal species. See the entire process of sustainable tropical agriculture from seeding to harvesting all the way to the plates of the people eating the food.

Now, if only they included that you must come with the knowledge.