Yes! Now this IS exciting!!!! Gosh. Dare I say hurry up and buy it so we can come help out next year? I do think one needs DIVERSITY to achieve PURPOSE as every one brings different skills to the table to achieve same goal. The power of human beings eh, to CREATE something so purposeful, and your purpose is sssooo worthy and good and.. just wow. Even if its a few years off, we would LOVE to help contribute to your amaaaaaazing vision, even if is only for a few weeks one year!!! How cool would that be!!!
I've been in meetings all Sunday afternoon about our new solar dehydrator (prototype #2 needs mods) and funding (sorting the priorities so we can go public). The whole idea has grown from necessity - indigenous refugee interns, by definition, have nowhere to live. Sharing the herbal lineage, teaching them language and living skills etc is more than one person can manage, and also realistically beyond the skill set of one person. When you add in the logistic of running the business, making products, having a teaching space for public workshops etc - you ALREADY have a community. Thai families always live in extended family compounds - a loose eco-village really. The diversity for it's own sake fragments over time, but when it has the cohesion of purpose and value-based mission behind it, diversity becomes an incredible plus. Not sure my post explained that part well enough.
OF COURSE you can come and help. And contribute. x