For the past year, I’ve lived in community either with the gang at Valhalla or at the various Ecovillages I’ve visited on my travels. Living in community can mean sharing a house, a neighborhood or an entire village. No matter what kind of community you live in, you’re guaranteed to have a crazy experience and …
Hey everybody! Valhalla is blessed to have all the support from the many volunteers who have come to our land over the last couple of weeks to help build our Farm of the Future. The final chapter is getting near and we’re in need of a final push to close the structure and have it …
If you haven’t heard yet, Valhalla is currently building the Farm of the Future. Make sure to check out our videos. Last week, we had a Cob Party at Valhalla and things went great! We ended up finishing the work in no time! Thanks so much to all the volunteers who came to help out …
Project Nuevo Mundo is a new platform that will be connecting People and Impact Centres. Their plan is to promote resource sharing online and on the ground to promote community and sustainability! They currently have a campaign on indiegogo to raise funds for a Bus Tour this winter, where they teach workshops and set-up their on-the-ground …
It’s become normal for me to wake up and find out that something amazing and new is happening in Valhalla. The project has a life of its own now and the help we’re getting is incredible. Seriously guys, it’s really appreciated. Most recently we went to an Earthship conference organized by Quebec Superhero Francis Gendron. …
I recently came across this story and felt that warm creamy feeling of happiness inside. It’s a really good example of what Public Relations is and inspired me to write about why I love it so much! PR, at its root, is all about making people love your organisation. It doesn’t matter how much money you …
This past month, I’ve been working on a few events that I’ve been wanting to organize for Valhalla. I really want to get some interesting people to come to Montreal and share some of their knowledge with us. It’s also pretty exciting to know that you’re under the same roof as someone who’s inspired you, …
I had a few changes at work recently and it made me realize that I’ve finally learned everything I needed to learn. So I announced that I’m quitting to focus more on Valhalla! I’ve been getting much more time for meditation, yoga and working on a few little projects I had in mind, it’s alllll …
Happiness has also been on my mind for the past few weeks, and I wanted to add my thoughts to Rabbit’s If there is one universal truth about every single human being that ever existed, it’s that we want to be happy. It’s pretty clear right? No one in his right mind wants to be …
The Universe has a plan, that’s so clear to me. See, about 30 years ago my mother and father lived in Iraq. For 30 generations, my ancestors (for both sides of the family) lived in the city of Kerbala. My father was an entrepreneur, and he wanted a better future for his family. So he …
It’s Friday and I am SO pumped for today! I’m going on a 6 hour awesome ride to Toronto with 2 of my best friends to watch a DJ (Arnej) I’ve been waiting to see for a long time!!! On my way to work, I was reading an old favorite book of mine, here’s my …
C-c-c-cooombooo breaker. No poems here today! Sometimes I worry so much about getting things done that I completely forget to enjoy doing it. I finish what I’m doing and look at my work, and find myself disappointed in the results. A few stories have told me that the reason I’m disappointed is because I kept …
I’ve been thinking a lot about entitlement this week, both physical and mental. I used to crave it like crazy when I was a teenager, even today I do, but I’m getting much better at ignoring it. When you really break it down, you can see how self-centered and illogical the concept is and it’s …
What’s up! I was trying to prep myself for this blog but things are moving extremely fast at Valhalla. I could mention 6-7 things that happened just this week and it’s incredible (yet not so surprising) how many things happen at once. In case you didn’t know, my name’s Marthad, but people call me Marty. I’m supposed …
