Author: gregclayton@gmail.com

A short week could never be enough, though it had to be.  An opportunity appeared and as a 2/4: Hermit/Opportunist in Human Design…! I’m so glad I did. To have got to be a visitor to a place… to a healing biome… where regenerative culture has been… and is in …process, involving so many people, coming and […]

Arriving at Aloha wasn’t part of the original plan. I only came to Salt Spring Island for a short visit and missed the ferry back to Swartz Bay. It was a cold and rainy night sometime after New Years and anxiety about where I might stay set in. My phone call to Aloha was not […]

    I first discovered Aloha in the summer of 2016. During a one day event my visitor’s eyes contemplated a living painting of verity, inclusivity and creativity. It was short but enough to plant a vigorous seed in me that would, a few years later, germinate and lead me to intertwine my own reality […]

I first arrived on Aloha Farm in the spring of 2016. Which until very recently made me one of the longest staying residents.  During my time on the farm, I’ve witnessed vast changes in the way the community functions. With each season, each new face and with each goodbye, the space transforms to something new.  […]

I arrived at Aloha Aina in May 2017, and it was the feeling of coming home. I had planned to stay a month, however my life completely changed as the community engulfed me with its beauty and new culture work. The lifestyle and the practices of ‘truth, trust and transparency” demonstrated in its most radical […]

I was surrounded by acceptance and open mindedness and knew right on the first day that I could totally be myself here. I ended up coming back to Aloha after a few months of travelling, and I’m now part of the community

In my short stay of nearly a month, I feel I have learnt a lot from my experience here at Aloha, and I am confident there will be many more lessons and growth on my evidential return to this special place. Yet I feel called to share only one small, but to me very powerful, […]

Aloha Aina is not just our home, it’s a community farm and a place of healing and a place of learning. Sure, we may still be missing some of the minor comforts of life that many have come to consider necessity, like using an outdoor compost toilet and walking to use running water, a shower […]