◹ The Maslow Initiative

◹ The Maslow Initiative

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Human needs: Integrated in landscape

Human needs: Integrated in landscape

Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a guide, we, the ParadiseMakers™, are integrating structures and natural systems into landscapes that solve directly for human needs in abundance.

Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a guide, we, the ParadiseMakers™, are integrating structures and natural systems into landscapes that solve directly for human needs in abundance.

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t is within the physical realm of possibility to create stable and natural ecosystems as well as optimal, life-serving human-needs-integrated habitats, at the same time.

t is within the physical realm of possibility to create stable and natural ecosystems as well as optimal, life-serving human-needs-integrated habitats, at the same time.

and physiologically prioritised

and physiologically prioritised

Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a guide, we, the ParadiseMakers™, are integrating structures and natural systems into landscapes that solve directly for human needs in abundance.

Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a guide, we, the ParadiseMakers™, are integrating structures and natural systems into landscapes that solve directly for human needs in abundance.

Using ◹ Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a guide, we, the ParadiseMakers™, design, build & integrate "🫂human-🌳needs-into-🏞️landscape", i.e. we create essentially "zero-cost-of-living" human living habitats, where landscape design builds in the essential needs

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

-Bill Mollison

Permaculture is an ethical design science, that mimics nature to supply all our human needs whilst benefiting the environment.

-Geoff Lawton

Integrating "human-needs-in-landscape" to create:

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zero-cost-of-living

profit-of-living human needs habitats

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self-sufficient

community-abundant developments & projects

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meta-crisis averting

life-serving global paradise making

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self-actualized

community-actualized resilient human beings

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eternal growth

de-growth movement vision & mission

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cynical & fear

optimistic & gifting based collaborative cultures

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market & growth

local & abundant food forests & gardens

#Why (are we making paradise?)

Humans are the keystone designer species; we can shape the world around us.

We all already know the answer, the paradise we seek in our hearts is obvious: Living in a community with family & friends where all your needs are met 🤷‍♂️

By designing and integrating "human-needs-into-landscape", we create essentially "zero-cost-of-living" habitats where the essentials of life are freely provided. In these environments, people can genuinely save their resources and time, freeing them to pursue their true passions—whether it’s starting a bakery, taking time off, writing a book, or contributing to community improvement projects. This system opens the door to living with purpose, where energy once spent on monetary based survival is redirected toward creativity, connection, and growth.

🌍 We need to establish scalable, sustainable & regenerative ways of living, where 🫂 humans & 🌳 nature co-create environments.

So, let us pause for a moment and ask: what do we truly need?

Once you can really answer that question, we invite you to join the ParadiseMakers™, to help design and build life affirming, physical, real-world human habitats that naturally create paradise, for all generations to come.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

🚫WhyNot

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-Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

🚫WhyNot

Tweet: #🚫WhyNot if you believe we should not just get wacky and all really get into paradise making…

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-Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

🚫WhyNot

Tweet: #🚫WhyNot if you believe we should not just get wacky and all really get into paradise making…

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-Marcus Tullius Cicero

#What (is our mission & focus right now:)

We're focussed on the Physiological Needs:

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shelter

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food

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energy

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sanitation

Phase 1 Oct 2023 ~ 2033

Imagine an abundance of basic physiological human needs as a feature of the landscapes around you.

Our mission is to transform land into life-supporting human habitats, where the notion of 💵 paying for an 🍎 apple becomes a relic of the past.

With our "human-needs-in-landscape" design ethos, we focus on weaving the essentials of abundant living directly into the fabric of our developments, e.g. 🏡 modular tiny houses, 🌳 planting food forests, 🚿 integrating swales & water infrastructure, ⚡️ exploring smart energy solutions (And asking: How much do we really need?), 🧻 developing luxury compost toilets & shower systems, 🍃 exploring new ways of doing large scale composting & ♻️ waste management... ensuring that everything needed for a thriving life is available right where we live.

There is no technical reason why this cannot be the case.

This is how "human-needs-in-landscape" addresses nearly all of The 17 Global Goals!

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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

-Masanobu Fukuoka

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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

-Masanobu Fukuoka

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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

-Masanobu Fukuoka

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#What (about the other needs?)

What about the other needs? Safety, Social, Intellectual & Actualisation

Phase 2 Oct 2023 ~ 2123

"The higher needs follow quickly upon the heels of the lower."

As these properties evolve to satisfy our physiological needs in abundance, the natural progression leads to the seeking of fulfillment for higher needs—Safety, Social connection, Intellectual growth, and Self-Actualization.

These needs and their fullfillment organically become part of any one localized community’s shared journey. These needs are wholly and totally dependant our physiological needs being met.

Some communities and locations will have a need for a shared kitchen, laundry and community centres, others may prioritise camping spots and compost toilte & shower setups. Many locations will set about creating saunas, pools and ponds, land art installations, libraries and community centres and amphithethres, and great art halls, and geometric gardens, etc.

#How (are we practically actualising our mission:)

So how do you actualise "paradise", anyway?

Permaculture-based landscapes, scaled across vast regions, offer a powerful solution: they create stable, life-supporting habitats for humans that work in harmony with nature. These systems yield an abundance of organic resources, providing for all human needs while regenerating the environment.

Initial Focus: basic physiological human needs in landscape

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Shelter

Tiny houses

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Food

Gardens & Food forests

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Water

Swales, roads, ponds and tanks

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Energy

Solar & hydro power, use less

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Sanitation

Compost, toilet & shower systems

Working backwards from the ideal future, we see landscapes with tiny houses and clusters of human settlements, heavily integrated with natural systems, food forests, transportation soluitions in landscape, water ways, a lifestyle of abundance. Any lifestyle of abundance is predicated on fully and abundantly satisfying the physiological human needs of the organisms occupying a given space.

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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

-Masanobu Fukuoka

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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

-Masanobu Fukuoka

Are you ready to get started?

#Locations

📍Locations: Front lines

Mystic River - Maslow Compost Site

Olive Glen

Modderkloof

Paradise has to start somewhere, we've started here.

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Developments Available:

  • Swales,

  • Tiny Houses

  • Tools

We have been design and building 🏡 modular tiny houses, 🌳 planting food forests, 🚿 integrating water infrastructure, ⚡️ exploring smart energy solutions, 🧻 developed a luxury compost toilet, 🍃 invented a new way to do large scale composting, ♻️ waste management

Next projects

🧺 laundry service, 🥘 lunch & dinner hall, 🏘️ community centre

#Assets

🧰 The Assets of Paradise

Buy these assets to support this specific project.

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Journeyman Modular tiny houses

First and foremost, we are having fun! We get to take horse manure, sawdust, food and garden waste, and turn it into the most nutritious living compost on earth. We are creating a compost cathederal and tiny house factory on a 1.8ha field in Paarl.

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⚒️ Tools of Paradise

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🏘️ Structures of Paradise

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🌳 Landscapes of Paradise

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◹ #WhoAreTheParadiseMakers?

🌅 The Paradise Makers

📝 Operations of Paradise - VIA PATREON $x/Month

We are the Paradise Makers™, the actualisers, and this is our creed:

In the stillness of dawn, I rise with purpose.

I am a Paradise Maker.
I walk the path of peace, yet I wield the tools of change.
I sow seeds of harmony in the soil of discord, and in every act, I choose creation over destruction.

May my hands be steady, my heart be strong, and my mind be clear.
I move with intention, knowing that every choice echoes through eternity.
I bring light to the shadows, and in the face of doubt, I stand firm in my vision.

I am a steward of the Earth,
A guardian of life, a cultivator of joy.
I weave together the fabric of community, nurturing the bonds that tie us to one another and to the land.

Let my work be a prayer, my labor an offering.
With each breath, I renew my vow to serve the greater good, to heal what is broken, to plant hope where there is despair.

I am a warrior of peace,
Armed with compassion, shielded by love.
In every garden I tend, every tree I plant, I leave a legacy of abundance, a testament to the power of small acts to shape a better world.

Today, I dedicate myself to the task at hand:
To make paradise here, where I stand, with what I have, with all that I am.
And as the sun sets, may I look upon the day’s work with pride, knowing that I have done my part in the great unfolding of paradise.

I am a Paradise Maker,
And this is my creed.
May my actions speak louder than my words, and may the paradise I build within be reflected in the paradise I build without.

And so it is, and so it is, and so it is.

Jaydon Meidlinger

👁️ Our collective vision is simple:

To establish a sustainable and regenerative way of living, where humans and nature co-create environments that sustain life for generations to come.

Making life more wonderful, for everyone.

Permaculture is an ethical design science, that mimics nature to supply all our human needs whilst benefiting the environment.

Permaculture is an ethical design science, that mimics nature to supply all our human needs whilst benefiting the environment.

Paradise Maker™

We are developing practical, localised solutions to the world biggest problems.

Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a guide, we are developing structures and habitats that solve for human needs directly.

(Not profit seeking structures that seek to make money in order to purchased the goods of living, but to produce the goods of living directly instead.)

Our mission is to solve for the foundational physiological needs of humans and build a re-imagined city.

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Imagine a place where every human need is met through the local environment's design, not via the grocery store.



to ♾️ self-actualization.

Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a guide, we are fully integrating human needs in the landscape, creating:

💸 zero-cost-of-living habitats

🌳 life-serving ecosystems

🫂 community-abundant habitats,


Physiological needs:

🏠

shelter

🍊

food

🚿

water

⚡️

energy

🧻

sanitation

🌍

meta-crisis averting

life-serving paradise ecosystems

⚡️

eternal growth

de-growth company vision & mission

🤝

cynical and fear

optimistic & gifting based collaborative cultures

🕉️

self-actualized

community-actualized resilient human beings

🌳

market dependant

local & circular food forests & gardens

Widely implementing human needs into landscape solves 14 of the 17

👁️ Our collective vision is simple:

"where humans and nature co-create environments"

🌳 To establish a sustainable and regenerative way of living, where humans and nature co-create environments that sustain life for generations to come.

👁️ Our collective vision is simple:

To establish a sustainable and regenerative way of living, where humans and nature co-create environments that sustain life for generations to come.

👁️ Our collective vision is simple:

🫂 For: Profit-of-living communities

🌍 Why: Alternative human habitats, in service of life

🥑 How: Food forests, tiny houses, composting, etc

👤 Self-sufficient

🫂 Community-abundant

Key Goals:

  • Creating 💸 zero-cost-of-living human habitats, where every human need is met.

  • From 🏠 shelter to ♾️ self & community-actualisation.

  • Not self-sufficient, but 🫂 community-abundant

👤self-sufficient

We are creating 🫂 community-abundant human habitats that nurture both people and the planet.

🫂 For: Profit-of-living communities

🌍 Why: Alternative human habitats, in service of life

🥑 How: Food forests, tiny houses, composting, etc

We are helping people

survive

thrive in our changing world. As we reach planetary bounds, we aim to provide people with that third attractor.

dsfg thrive in our changing world. As we reach planetary bounds, we aim to provide people with that third attractor.

🚀 Our (current) mission:

We build integrated landscapes that provide shelter, food, water, energy and sanitation. Through innovative land development and a (soon to be) global network of paradise-makers, we transform underutilized spaces into thriving ecosystems.”

🏘️ Who are we?

Jaydon Meidlinger

Using the Tools of Paradise, we take our place as steward of the earth.

Our developments

Olive Glen

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Shelter

  • 1 x R700,000 Tiny House Available (The Genesis House)


Water

  • 5 x R2490 - 1000 year swale integrations

  • 3/7 x R1000 Permanent water infrastructure


Access & Tools

  • 13/23 x R1000 Permanent site equipment and tools of production

  • 2/6 x R5000 - Roads - Access & Contour (1000-year-rain-safe) roads.


Food Gardens and Forests

  • 24/100 x R690 - Fruit and nut trees

  • 4 x R430 - Banana circles

  • 2 x R2200 - Chicken Coop

  • 2 x R4000 - Hot House Grow Tents


Pieter & Heleen

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  • 3 x Camping Spot Developments Available ~ R14,000 each


Mystic River

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Alchemy Soil

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Paradise Lodge Permablitz Events

Journey Man Homes Tiny Houses

Yoga Teachers Training Course

Area (Show Map)


Shelter

  • 1 x R700,000 Tiny House Available (The Genesis House)


Water

  • 5 x R2490 - 1000 year swale integrations

  • 3/7 x R1000 Permanent water infrastructure


Access & Tools

  • 13/23 x R1000 Permanent site equipment and tools of production

  • 2/6 x R5000 - Roads - Access & Contour (1000-year-rain-safe) roads.


Food Gardens and Forests

  • 24/100 x R690 - Fruit and nut trees

  • 4 x R430 - Banana circles

  • 2 x R2200 - Chicken Coop

  • 2 x R4000 - Hot House Grow Tents


Using the Tools of Paradise, we take our place as steward of the earth.

Tools of Paradise

🌳 From basic needs to boundless creativity, we’re building landscapes that nourish every aspect of life.

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