Peach Community

Living Pan-European and American Cultural and Heritage Community

The PEACH Project
The PEACH Project focuses on Pan-European and American Culture and Heritage. In building these small manageable communities the residents and members above all else engage the hearts, the minds and the will from a Traditional Western Philosophical Perspective.

The PEACH Vision
“We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle

The PEACH Mission
In celebration of a living Pan-European Culture in North America, we hold, practice and preserve our heritage while creating a just and morally sound economy.

This community is richly steeped in traditional European and American festivals, celebrations, work, history, and philosophy.

Within the community, we are growing, creating, and serving traditional Western foods, dress, and folk crafts. We study western philosophy and history while practicing the practical, skilled and fine arts. We employ modern and traditional methods of work, family and incorporate moral methods of trade, markets, and enterprise.

We engage knowledgeable people who speak to our community regarding the interests and development of Western Civilization through our history, philosophy and esoteric perspectives.

We welcome guest speakers who practice and engage in the historic and cultural traditions of Western art, music, drama, movement and dance, along with taking part in the celebrations of our Traditional American and pan-European heritage and festivals. We seek to preserve and work in both the practical, liberal and mechanical arts.

Our goals include the production of food and textiles through the use of bio-dynamic and organic gardening methods, small animal husbandry, beekeeping, butterfly-keeping, tree-tapping, and working to create areas for bio-restoration and natural flora diversity.

We encourage creative studio time for artistic expression through skills such as wood-working, iron-casting, glassblowing, printmaking, and ceramics. Maintenance skills are taught to all residents and members in order to keep our community and facilities working and self-sufficient.

We are developing businesses that will allow a family to survive on one income while providing work that is purposeful, ethical and allows each person to expand and grow within their talents and gifts. We encourage a guilt-free family-first attitude as we work diligently to bring back trust in the world, and we do this, in part, by embracing gratitude and appreciation for all the residents and members of our community. We are striving to develop an atmosphere where people do not merely work to live, but live to work.

~this is the platform in which we live our lives, value labor, preservation of our heritage and our future. We strive every day to live culturally. –August von Gothe

The PEACH Goals
To build and maintain an economic self-sustainable community that becomes an open-source role model for other like-minded people to copy, build upon, adjust to their community needs, and share.

The community is transparent in its financials. Its values embrace clean, safe shelter, clean water and food, the creation of work with purpose guided by just and sound ethics. Along with the development of classical common-sense education, good health, and the promise of free and open communication.

We continue to invite and reach out to open-minded and traditional visionaries to guide us financially forward. We do this in order to secure fertile land, facilities for housing, events and help us develop a sound economy through grants, legacy funds, UBI, and micro-economic sustainable structures.

Lastly, we welcome innovative speakers, practitioners who embrace both old world common sense ideas while developing healthy innovative technologies that allow us to remain true to our self-sustaining goals, while keeping them in balance with our community and cultural values.

We strive to bring forward an enlightened consciousness incorporating and working with environmentally sound models and common sense thought. We work diligently to end the practice of un-personhood that is growing exponentially around us so that we can once again live authentic lives.

This community is not in want of ideas, all the concepts are rooted in the foundations of Pan-European Western Civilization, but ideas are in need of funding in order to engage the will and create action.

The hardest step is going from zero to one.

PEACH Responsibility
Human Flourishing
Much of modern life has adopted the logic of industrial production: standardized, linear, and designed for conformity. Educator, Sir Ken Robinson observed that we have built systems that treat human beings like products on an assembly line, batching people by age, measuring them against uniform standards, and depleting their passion to learn and create in the process. We flourish not through mechanical processes, but through organic ones rooted in nature. Humans in general are very talented and, like nature, tremendously diverse. Further, when we are engaged in what we love, we feel connected, and we enjoy and feel as if we are working with purpose; time then seems to disappear—an hour feels like five minutes. However, when we are doing something that does not resonate or feel true, five minutes can feel like an hour. If the heart is never in the work, we either disengage or grow ill in body or soul.

Like the PEACH, Robinson proposed a different metaphor: agriculture. A farmer does not manufacture plants. A farmer prepares rich soil, tends to the water, understands what is required, knows if the plant is in need of full or shaded sunlight, follows seasonal rhythms, and trusts the living world to respond in its own organic and fundamental way. No endless force or artificial environments. This is the heart of the PEACH Community.

We organize our year around the natural agricultural cycle, taking out cues from the turning of the seasons, being in the present, but always looking ahead—planting ideas in spring, tending them through summer’s abundance, harvesting wisdom in autumn, and preserving and contemplating through winter. Nature as a teacher

The arts and sciences decorate our cultural festivals, celebrations, and events, and we offer so much that everyone has the opportunity to find their passion and creativity as well as share it and teach others, to draw an account and create their own legacy as folks participate in preserving their culture. In a world that often feels like fast food for the soul, the PEACH Community returns to building and creating by nurturing nature so that nature can nurture us.

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” –Mahatma Gandhi
Let’s Practice.

Scroll to the top for the drop down menus: Arts, Club, Festivals, lil Peach, Merchantry & Contact Info
Click on any topic and see what is going on that month, or in that club, or in the arts. Take your time and enjoy your culture, both past, present and future. There’s work yet to be done on the site. Suggestions are welcomed, help is always appreciated. This is for you, your children, your folk. This is the history and creativity you were denied growing up. Don’t let any other generation be denied their people, culture and heritage. This project is built and meant to preserve the past for the future. Get curious, involved and have a seat. Let’s talk about who we are as a people, and where we are going.

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – R Buckminster Fuller
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Our Culture ~ Our Heritage ~ Our Future