“We weave ideas, scribe forward, align with life and create connection.”
— Dr Demeter | Emily Samuels-Ballantyne
Covering topics on Foundational Economics, Convivial Governance, Anthroposophic Philosophy & Everyday Regeneration in Tasmania
Overview
The Island Almanac is a living compendium of stories, tools and place-based examples that weave together foundational economics, anthroposophic wisdom and the rhythms of everyday life. Rooted in the soils of Tasmania and flowering from Magical Farm Tasmania. Across its pages you’ll find:
Practical essays on redirecting public and private wealth into community resilience
Anthroposophical reflections on seasonal rhythms, ritual and soul-led innovation
Tasmanian case studies from coastal hamlets to mountain valleys
Project spotlights on island-wide initiatives, from seed libraries to solar co-ops.
Living Architecture: A dynamic framework of interconnected practices, food, housing, energy, governance, culture, activism and economics that grows, adapts and breathes like an ecosystem, rather than standing as static policy or infrastructure. These seven pillars form the Living Architecture of Regen Era Design Studio & The Island Almanac: integrating heart, head & hands to power a truly regenerative future.
Food, Plants and Planets
Housing and Natural Building
Energy
Community Life, Learning & Culture
Sacred Activism
Convivial Governance
Regenerative Economic Design.
Cultural Emergence at Magical Farm Tasmania Sunday January 18th 2026
Cultural Emergence at Magical Farm on Sunday 18th Jan 2026 is an invitation into a different kind of change-making, one that treats culture as a living system shaped by what we practice repeatedly, not just what we believe or argue about. Blending social permaculture, breathwork, forest therapy, and practical life-design tools, the workshop offers a grounded day of re-patterning attention toward what grows trust, resilience, and real belonging. It’s for anyone feeling the strain of our times and craving a space that can hold complexity without hardening, where ecological intelligence becomes embodied, relational, and replicable, and where hope is practiced into existence together.
Healing the Shadow of Stolen Land: Jung, Steiner, Yunkaporta & Macy on Restoring Peace
In a time when the phrase “No peace on stolen land” echoes across the world, this essay explores how four visionary thinkers Carl Jung, Rudolf Steiner, Tyson Yunkaporta, and Joanna Macy illuminate a pathway toward true reconciliation.
Drawing on depth psychology, spiritual ecology, Indigenous pattern thinking, and collective activism, Emily Samuels-Ballantyne (Dr Demeter) reveals that peace cannot be legislated or imposed; it must be grown from within, through the healing of psyche, spirit, culture, and community.
From Jung’s call to integrate the shadow, to Steiner’s vision of sacred balance, to Yunkaporta’s custodial worldview and Macy’s Work That Reconnects, the essay weaves a tapestry of wisdom that transforms the pain of history into a praxis of renewal.
Rooted in the living work of Magical Farm Tasmania and the embodied practice of YoFence, Emily offers a model of regenerative reconciliation, where healing is not an idea but a way of life: a daily tending of relationship between people, place, and planet.
“Peace is not achieved by avoiding the wound, but by tending it.” Dr Demeter