Ray Lovegrove

A Shaker interior with distinctive furniture.

The latest Radical Simple Living Podcast is out. It's all about two groups, the Quakers, and the Shakers. You can listen in any regular podcast place, or right here-
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This is a wonderful podcast! Did you know that the word wealth is derived from a word originally meaning wellbeing or happiness?

A front view of a Hobbit hole. Nice day possibly May.

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New Radical Simple Living Podcast is out S3E4 - all about #Distributism and why it relates to #Hobbit holes. S3E4 wherever you normally listen to podcasts.

A nineteenth century poster for an Arts and Crafts Exhibition. A painter is shaking hands with a carpenter.

A new edition of the Radical Simple Living Podcast has just been published in all the regular places of podcast Or here
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It's all about how we can take ideas that developed in the Arts and Crafts Movement and apply them to simple living in the twenty first century.

An outstandingly good looking young man and his beautiful husky dog!

Home, husky and hearth. A great combination! #SimpleLiving

A painting of cherries falling from a picture frame.

A new episode of the Radical Simple Living Podcast is up and running. S3E2 "Cherry Picking, or Gold Mining?" You can listen in your regular podcast places, or follow this link www.podomatic.com/.../2025-09-...

A colourful selection of pumpkins and squash.

Frost is on the way next week here in southern #Sweden so time to harvest what's left on the pumpkin patch. It's been hard to get any crop this year due to a summer long drought! #Homesteading #GrowFood

Keep on Keeping on! I've been away for some time - why?

After a long break (all is explained in podcast) I'm back! Listen here, or find on Apple, Audible, Spotify and all other podcast places.
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#SimpleLiving

Likewise!

A small homestead with a very productive vegetable plot!

"You've got to do things you've never done to get things you've never had." - Jill Winger

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #Homesteading

A painting of a farmer broadcasting seeds with birds flying behind him.

“ You can't instantly reap what you sow today, it does not work like instant grits, no matter what you sow in life it takes time to grow and be ready for harvest” ~James D. Wilson

#SimpleLiving

Artwork by N. de Moor - Farmer sowing Seeds, 20th century oil on board .

Defining Yourself - can simple living help? We all develop a "self image" of ourselves which evolves throughout our lives. Defining ourselves gets complicated because we spend so much time trying or being what others expect of us. The years pas...

After a long break, the brand new episode of The Radical Simple Living Podcast is up and running! You can listen in any of the normal podcast places, or here;
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Defining Yourself - can simple living help?

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #SelfImage

The number ten is painted in white on an old red door.

In case you missed it, this Radical Simple Living Podcast (series1 episode 20) is available in all the normal places or right here!

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Making your life more simple may involve you in making small steps in the right direction.

#SimpleLiving #Podcast

Carl Larsson - Wikipedia

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A young girl stands outside the homestead with a small black and white cat.

“This is the core of voluntary simplicity. We are trying to find a way to live that helps us become fully alive. We are trying to discover and remove the things that are deadening, that cause us to escape … all the things that numb us and put us to sleep.”

~ Cecile Andrews

#SimpleLiving

An old magazine cover shows a blindfolded woman with a crystal ball.

The latest Radical Simple Living Podcast is up and about (S2E21). You can hear it in any of the normal places or listen here -
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Planning is important, but vision is more important still. Simple living will involve you in using vision to help secure your future.

A triangle showing Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

A new episode of the Radical Simple Living Podcast is up and running! In all podcast places or here-

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Simple living involves solving some of life's problems, in fact any kind of living involves solving problems. Abraham Maslow might just help us out on this one!

A photograph of an Edwardian working gardener using a wheelbarrow as a chair.

The latest Radical Simple Living Podcast has just been published. Available in all podcast places or here-

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"This Land is Your Land" or is it?

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #Land #Agrarian #UseOfTheLand #Planning #Homesteading #Podcast

Feeding Ourselves 2024 - The Irish Gathering for Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Rural Resilience From March 21st - 24th, Feeding Ourselves is an opportunity for people and organisations working to strengthen local food economies and build a movement for agroecology, food sovereignty and rural res...

Feeding Ourselves Gathering 2024

Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, 21 to 24 March

Food Policy and Politics – Thursday 21 March 2024
Advocacy – Food Hubs & Local Food Economies – Friday 22 March 2024
Networking Movement Building – Saturday 23 March 2024
Farm Social – Sunday 24 March 2024

A man takes a well earned rest from his work in an urban garden.

Getting closer to the land is a simple way to improve your life. If you don't have the means to grow your own crops you can still make your local environment better by communicating with those who do!  Protect wildlife, care for your surroundings, and enjoy those wild places!

#SimpleLiving

The beautiful red and green tartan of the Clan Maxwell.

The brand new Radical Simple Living Podcast is up and running in all the normal places, or right here-

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Agrarian - are you?

In this episode I use a tartan to explain all about agrarianism! You will need to listen to find out more.

#SimpleLiving #Agrarian

A garden behind a homestead has gardening taking place and laundry being hung on a line. A tabby cat is in the foreground.

Simple living isn't a destination that we intend to reach, it's a journey that we plan to take. We all start from different points and the routes we take may be diverse, but we are always fellow travellers.

Artwork from Lisa Graa Jensen

A man in a straw hat is digging a trench in his garden.

"Preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency, be industrious and free, be frugal and free."

~Benjamin Franklin

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #Frugality #Freedom #Nonconformity

A set of allotment gardens showing a diversity of fruit and vegetable crops.

“We have become a nation dangerously dependent on politically motivated and money-motivated processes for our food, clothing, and shelter. In the world we must live in from now on, to produce our own food is the beginning of independence.”

- Gene Logsdon

Self checkout sign.

AI represented as some pointless graphic.

Sign for chatbot.

Young children using tick-tock.

Some things are imposed upon us. Words like "improvement" or "progress" are used to try and convince us of their value, but in reality it's not the case. Think very carefully before you rush to embrace these things and remember that saying "no" can sometimes be a very powerful tool!

#SimpleLiving

A family out on a country walk.

Taking steps towards a simpler lifestyle may not bring you happiness, but it will help you achieve the much greater prize of contentment. Happiness is an occasional visitor in our lives, but contentment can be our daily companion.

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #Contentment

A young woman busy at her carpentry.

Being more self - sufficient in any way you can,  makes you more able to withstand pressures on you and your family. Growing food, cooking meals from scratch, needlework, woodwork, home repairs etc. aren't just pass times, they are important life skills!

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #Homesteading

A string puppet looking a little uncomfortable with the influence of her string puller.

The brand new Radical Simple Living Podcast is up and running! In all normal podcast places or here-

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S2E17.
 We are all influenced, from cradle to grave, but between those two landmarks we need to take control ourselves and keep influencers at arm's length.

An old fashioned WC as developed by Thomas Crapper.

Many think that the movement towards simplicity is just a move against technology. In reality, simple living involves you in making careful choices about the sustainability, reliability, and reparability of the technology you use. If you don't have a genuine need for a device then don't get it!

A small, but productive vegetable garden complete with scarecrow!

All of you reading this in the Northern Hemisphere - if you want to grow food in your garden this summer, or if you want to grow more food, start planning now! Plan well, buy seeds, read about it, and have dreams!

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #GrowingFood #Homesteading #Gardening