Living with the Seasons: Spring is Here

Preorder our book from your favourite bookseller here! ❤️ The painting in this video and so many more are documented in our book, alongside drawings, stories and practices of our life. Spring is such a magical time in the rainforest and we’ve been painting, baking and exploring the jungle waterholes. Julia’s art is always mesmerising and we’ve been reflecting a lot about nature, sustainability and our place on this earth. Anastasia’s Instagram: Julia’s Instagram: We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land. In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined. Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country. We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial. Music by Leah Senior “You’re Summer Rain“, “Pony“, “Springtime Studio“, and “All My Friends“ Chapters: 0:00 Living with the seasons in the Australian rainforest 1:12 Painting in our art studio 2:48 The biggest achievement 3:55 Harvesting lemons with the sheep 5:37 Baking a lemon tart 7:24 Painting the background 8:36 Springtime in the waterhole 11:02 Healing through painting 13:13 Bouncy goats 13:43 Finishing a huge project