Phillipa Klaiber

The Land is Ours

“The reasons I do what I do are a sense of injustice, an inability to compromise on how I spend my time and a drive to maintain hope in the possibility of change for the better.... I concluded some time ago that I was happiest working outside, doing physical things, working with nature and growing food... Living at YCCF has been a massive life changing experience, I have had the opportunity to lead the life I can imagine, the chance to create the social interactions I desire, build a home, a life and a livelihood that I like. I have learnt about myself, about how to live in nature and how to live in community with other people.

The culture we have created in YCCF is a vibrant and creative place, the potential to allow everyone the freedom to be themselves or whoever they want to be. I think freedom is the main driving factor, as the feeling I have found to be the most definitive of my experience is a tangible and real sense of ultimate freedom.

One thing I have learnt and something that everyone comes to terms with over the time they spend at Yorkley is the freedom we enjoy is worth defending and that freedom comes with responsibility towards the other people we live with and the environment we live in.”

- Frank White co-founder of the community.