Modern family estates. Family Homesteads or Ecovillages? How to make dreams come true

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Remarkable prospects are now opening up before people tired of the city. And you need to do a little: rent or buy a piece of land in a clean region. But how to get land for a family estate in 2017 and what is a “family estate”?

An ecovillage or a family estate, call it what you like, is a piece of land for permanent residence. And the more a group of persons or families has a common land for this, the more convenient and easier it is.

Ways to get land

There are several options for purchasing land. Consider everything - from extreme to the most expensive:

1. Ten years ago, the most desperate and purposeful simply left for the fields, meadows, where they were left to their own devices, without a salary, light and visible prospects. Some succeeded, because everywhere there is an administration, and in some regions it is adequate. People can be assisted in obtaining land leases for 49 years. That's not difficult.
2. You can enter the official auction of land shares in the region. For this, millions are needed, and it is unlikely that an ordinary citizen can pull this. Auctions are arranged for "their own" in order to further develop small-scale land trading with minimal communications.
3. Redeem collective farm shares. Yes, you can go on reconnaissance in remote areas of areas where rural life is still glimmering and try to buy out a small part. In this case, there will definitely be problems with registration, but if you have good friends in the district administration, everything will work out in a year or two and you won’t need much money.

How to get cheaper and faster

We go to remote villages, where a few houses are left, there are no industrial dumps, and there is nature that has rested from the all-Union five-year plans.

Then you just need to buy up some of the plots and in words (less often on paper) explain to the authorities that you want to develop a small rural enterprise for growing something. We register a plot for settlement as a private household plot or do not touch the official part at all. They will show interest in you only if there is a surplus of funds, and then the papers will be needed.

Combined approach

Settlement lands or family estates have been a promising path for people who do not welcome animal breeding for eight or even more years. Because such a contingent does not eat meat.

If this is to your liking, then you can buy plots in already registered places by joining communities. However, each of them has its own rules, its own administration. It will not be possible to claim huge lands.

What does the law say

Since 2017, the lands of the settlements have been allowed to be used as a farm or personal subsidiary plot. Each region has developed individual programs and in some this approach has gotten off to a good start.

Lands can indeed be obtained for free. It is a fact. The authorities are trying to distribute as efficiently as possible the once developed areas for young working families. But there is no need to flatter yourself, because only 1 ha per family is given out for long-term lease. And this is not enough for successful development.

How to translate land correctly

If you managed to gain a few hectares near the city or villages, then you immediately need to work with lawyers. Talented assistants will always find loopholes in the law or features of the local area.

And already collective-farm, abandoned or some other plots can be issued according to the peasant farm. And this is an official peasant-farming economy, where there are, for the time being, tolerable taxes on the same land.

The state supports such undertakings and allocates up to 60,000 rubles to both peasant farms and private household plots as lifting funds.

What is the peculiarity of KFH? This is the same as a personal subsidiary plot, but with periodic reporting. Every five years it will be necessary to report to the authorities on the work done.

Fortunately, according to the law, such plots cannot be sold, but can only be inherited. This is the main, undisguised interest. People are tired of constant tricks with real estate, and having such land for the family is much calmer in terms of a real raider takeover. There are no gift or other speculative options on the land.

Attention! scammers

The law has come out, the lands are gradually distributed. And against this background, they are trying to inflate the price in some areas of our country. Since there is an auction principle, it is easy to block some plots at auction, and then pass it off as settlement lands or family estates. Of course, none of this will be formalized on paper, and naive, honest people will get pieces of common, state land.

There is an expression about free cheese. The proposal may partially work, but a completely free 1 hectare will most likely be issued in a place unsuitable even for building a toilet. This is also one way to create demand for a free minimum.

On the video about receiving land from the state

Summing up

You can get land for a family estate in the city administration. But it is much easier to find old villages that are convenient for living and developing your family. Believe me, this is the same as innovation.

Of course, the village is now in decline, there are many things that are unpleasant for a person brought up by the city. But there you can really start living right away, and not wait for a go-ahead from the state.

Where we live? What are "settlements from family homesteads" ("kind settlements") and "eco-settlements"? Are these just place names? Or behind these words lies a deep difference in meanings, ideologies of ways of life?

In the clouds - bearded ancestors,
Bells ring in the cold.
Anatoly Alexandrov.

What is an ecovillage has long been widely known. The motive for their creation was a protest against the meaningless city life with all the ensuing consequences. In fact, it is an escape from the urban lifestyle. Ecovillages exist all over the world.
In the late 1990s, the idea of ​​"family estates" was born in Russia. A family estate is a 1-hectare plot of land where a family lives, creating their own paradise on earth. At present, the idea of ​​family homesteads is rapidly developing in Russia, causing great interest in Europe, America, and in many countries of the world.
What is the difference between these two forms of leaving the urban environment? And is there a fundamental difference? After all, it is good to move to the earth in any case.
Having lived for 14 years in our family estate in the village of Kovcheg, Kaluga Region, Maloyaroslavetsky District, we came to the conclusion that these are completely different paths, different goals and different futures.
In ecovillages, everything is common, the family has nothing of its own, and often there are no families themselves. The whole life and activity of the ecovillage is based on the powerful authority of the creator, leader, ideologist.
The family homestead is a self-sufficient unit, in which there is self-sufficiency, etc. Of course, it is better when there is a community of family homesteads in the form of a settlement, but even one homestead for one family is self-sufficient. This is a kind of indivisible unit in which the whole world, the whole Universe is concentrated, everything is there.
The best ecovillages are known for large public projects for the creative transformation of nature. Settlements from family estates also have such projects. There are no differences here.
Many talented people live in ecovillages, there are great achievements in the field of alternative energy, permaculture, and ecological construction. Here, the residents of family homesteads have a lot to learn. This is a topic of possible cooperation.
The most important key issue is the issue of family composition. Traditional families live in ancestral settlements, children are born at home and mostly brought up at home. In ecovillages, same-sex marriages, polyamory families (when several men and women live in the same house and give birth to children in arbitrary combinations), and in general anything you like on this issue, are common. Children from the age of two are sent to kindergarten. To the question "why?" - usually they answer "so that they do not see the dirty life of adults."
In 2015, the world ideologist of the ecovillage movement, Diana Christian, came to us. It is very good that she came, and we learned everything first hand. When she was asked the question "Do you have homosexuals?" - she replied: "Of course, there is." This answer caused a murmur and indignation in the hall. There was a heavy pause in the hall. For half an hour, the residents of the family homesteads tried to explain to Dayana that homosexuals in the settlement from the family homesteads are unacceptable, since this phenomenon does not in any way contribute to the birth of healthy offspring. She, in turn, asked in bewilderment: "What do you actually dislike - this is allowed by law." Mutual understanding did not occur. This is how we learned firsthand what the ideology and philosophy of eco-settlements is on this most important issue.
The next point: the so-called question of planned population rotation. Imagine that a peasant family lives, well, suppose our ancestors. They built a house, planted a garden, planted a garden, settled down and live happily for themselves. And then, after 5 years, they come to them and say: “Well, get out of here - we have a planned population rotation!” Guys will take the pitchfork, right? And that is exactly what happens in ecovillages. The very stay of life and work in the ecovillage is considered as a certain stage, but you should not linger.
Of course, historically, our ancestors did not always live in one place. They went to seasonal work, explored new territories. However, the concept of "Motherland" has always been present in the soul of a Russian person as the most fundamental concept. If a person has arms, legs, a head, then there is also a Motherland. It was implied, it was self-evident. Even if a person was not in his homeland for 10, 20 or more years, and then returned, for everyone it was a completely normal, ordinary and necessary action. More precisely, the right to have a homeland is an inalienable human right, just like the right to life.
Having lived for several years in a family settlement (a settlement from family homesteads), many come to understand the Family, feel a vivid sense of the need to collect their Family. To do this, they invite living relatives, celebrate sunny holidays, plant trees on their site in honor of departed relatives.
In ecovillages, this is out of the question. It turns out that in ecovillages, by default, there is a ban on the consideration and rethinking of the main ideological issues, such as Motherland, family, Genus.
If you walk through the settlement on a warm summer evening, you will feel that a gigantic vitality emanates from the estates where people live permanently. And the nature of this force is similar to the character of the owner. Trees, plantings, location of buildings - everything speaks about the owner of the estate. It can be said that each person draws his self-portrait with living colors on the living earth. In the near future, the village will look like this: from a bird's eye view, it will be a gallery of beautiful self-portraits of the creators of family homesteads. But the areas where people rarely visit stand as if sad, they do not radiate such an optimistic vitality.
In our opinion, one of the aspects of the genius of the project of family homesteads is that it contains the exact balance of public and private.
Ask a question - what is the best site in our settlement? - Of course, mine. And I will prove it in 10 pages of printed text in small print. And the best plot for my neighbor is his plot. And the most amazing thing is that there is no contradiction in this. Go to any estate and politely ask the owners to show their site. You can be sure that you will not leave soon. Until they show you everything to the last bush, they will not let you go. And then, of course, there will be teas, conversations, conversations, and so on ... Now imagine a commonwealth, when the entire village consists of family estates.
Let's keep it simple. Where is it better to live in an eco-settlement or a settlement from family homesteads? Of course, in a settlement from family estates. “The fish is looking for where it is deeper, and the man is looking for where it is better.”
If the best achievements of the eco-settlers described above (permaculture, ecological construction, alternative energy, that is, those positions for improving the environment that are acceptable and desirable) can easily be perceived by the residents of family homesteads, then in order to perceive the idea of ​​family homesteads , eco-settlers will have to abandon homosexuality and polyamory families, that is, reconsider the very foundations of their lives. In the eco-settlement, the main environmental issue has not been resolved - the issue of the ecology of the person himself.
For us, there is no doubt that living in a settlement from family homesteads is better, but at the same time, it is more difficult. And it is, of course, not about material difficulties. According to our observations, for every inhabitant of the tribal settlement, who has begun to take at least small steps towards the knowledge of the Divine program of life, flows of information literally begin to pour out, as if from a huge bowl. Apparently, the hope of our righteous ancestors for each inhabitant of the settlement is so great that each inhabitant of family homesteads is now precious for the Universe, great hopes are placed on everyone.
Diane Christian's arrival coincided with the "Habitat Improvement" workshop. Nobody planned this on purpose. The workshop was handled by one group, and Diana's arrival by another. In addition, Diana Christian is an elderly person in poor health, so it was not clear until the last moment if she could even get to the Ark. However, by an amazing coincidence, these two events occurred in our country at the same time. Two American women of Russian origin came to the seminar "Improving the Habitat". It became completely bad and boring in America, and they came to Russia to look for land for arranging a family estate. When they saw Diana Christian, they were very surprised, and one of the women who had lived in the USA for 25 years literally said the following: “What is Diana Christian doing here? What can she teach you? You have come a long way."

We are the old-timers of the Ark, and we remember very well that when creating the Ark, a group of pioneers was inspired by the ideas of Anastasia, set out in the books of V.N. Megre of the Ringing Cedars of Russia series. These people managed to create a very bright creative image of the future wonderful life in family homesteads. And the image works in an incomprehensible way, despite all the temptations to deviate from it that arise in the minds of some of our inhabitants.
Our mother planet Earth is rushing at great speed in outer space, every second of time ending up in a different place. Thus, every day the whole Universe, every person, literally every cell in him is already different. In order to keep the image of the Divine dream in oneself, one must confirm this image in oneself every day in the most direct concrete sense. Not everyone and not always succeeds. The original beautiful image of some people begins to blur. They have the illusion "that I have already built the estate, and now (I'm smart) I will move on." The range of opinions on how to live the whole village is huge.
Some say: “I want everything to be cool here, like in a cottage village,” and they try to convince the others that we don’t need any family estates, but we need to build a cottage village.
Others say: “The idea of ​​family homesteads is morally obsolete, has outlived its usefulness, we need to join the global community of ecovillages, because this is the only way we will be recognized and Western grants will be given to us.” At the same time, people who continue to think in line with Anastasiev's ideas come to directly opposite conclusions. They come to the realization that the family estate is a powerful living device for the materialization of any creative dream of a person. The functions and limitless possibilities of this living device, we have just begun to feel, understand, some have already begun to use it consciously.
Still others say: “We live in a village, we don’t need any self-government, we need to give all powers to the municipality - the municipality will do better.”
The fourth sing: "Only Krishna will save us."
Fifths declare: "I will build a hotel complex here and serve foreigners at a high price."
At first, you are amazed that these are the same people who, when entering the general meeting, publicly announced their intention to build the family estate and nothing else. How much they were blown away from their own dream, their own idea! And how to explain that the grace accumulated in space is a spiritual product of the life of all of us living here according to the laws of a new civilization, and this grace is for everyone, but it cannot be a subject of trade? How to be with all this?
Those who staunchly adhere to Anastasiev's ideas sometimes find themselves in the minority in the settlement. How can one not quarrel, not quarrel, not say - “well, dear neighbor, you said one thing at a general meeting when you were received, and now you say something else, you sing completely different songs”? And what about all this? At the same time, all these people are your neighbors, who have helped you out more than once, and you have helped them out more than once, and with whom you have to live for many, many years. Who has a ready-made recipe - tell me!
In fact, we now see that the image of the Anastasievsk settlement is still stronger: people hold on to their plots, make plantings, no matter what momentary ideas and hobbies they are captured at the moment. For the sake of completeness and fairness, it should be noted that some of our residents, who for some time strongly hit the idea of ​​eco-settlement, are currently reconsidering their views, returning to the original image of the Anastasievsk settlement, and openly and honestly talk about it. And even people who initially came as consumers, not creators, are eventually forced to admit that the Ark is, after all, an Anastasian settlement.
In 2016, we also observe in conversations with officials at the local and federal levels that they, the officials, experienced a decisive change in the perception of the very words “family homestead”, “kind homestead settlement” (“family settlement”). If earlier officials were more likely to tense up, twitching on the topic “Is it really sectarians who came to me”, now this is not at all.
Now, in the vast majority of cases, there is benevolent interest and support from officials. Something elusive, imperceptible, but very much changed. The promotion of the idea of ​​family homesteads has reached a new stage, we can say the state stage.
The efforts of the Government and the President to promote the idea of ​​family homesteads are already clearly visible. The number of family settlements consisting of family homesteads is growing. More and more people are finding their homeland, learning the Divine meaning of life.

A. Gornaev, academician of the Academy of family homesteads, E. Katkova.
Settlement consisting of family homesteads, Ark, March 2016

Is there an alternative to city life? Why is the quality of life in ecovillages considered better than in cities? How can a family estate look like, what are its main features? What is the difference between an ecovillage and a family estate? Read about it in our article.

More and more people are coming to the conclusion that city life worsens the physical and emotional health of a person. Life in harmony with the surrounding world is the answer to many simple but serious questions that a person begins to ask himself at different periods of life. These answers were found for those who decided to leave the city and live in nature.

What is an ecovillage

Ecovillage is a conditional general designation of a habitable area with people constantly staying there. They are also called communities. As a rule, these are families who live there without a break, with the exception of trips out of necessity - to medical and government institutions, shops. They lead a collective way of life, cultivating the land and using the harvest. Animal husbandry, beekeeping, etc. are a source of food and a resource for the exchange of the settlement.

Distinctive features of the organization of the ecovillage:

1. Non-commercial use of land. Harvest and other products are sold in order to purchase the most necessary - fuel, batteries, communications, or directly exchanged for them. Surpluses are often distributed to those in need at open fairs.
2. Respect for nature. Ecovillages do not use pesticides, chemicals and factory fertilizers under any pretext. The same applies to animals - growth catalysts and other drugs that affect metabolism are not added to the feed.
3. Lack of desire for hoarding and enrichment. Settlers do not create surplus production. The volume of the planned harvest is limited by the needs of the community.
4. Lack of a rigid control system. The settlements are not numerous - from 30 to 250 people, so the "governing bodies" are conditional - they are trusted people, elders, whom the community can change at any time. In another version, this is the Community Council, which includes heads of families and elders. They do not cooperate with representatives of the state or any other authority, but represent the interests of the settlers when necessary.
5. Autonomy. Each community seeks to provide for itself with everything necessary, helping others as much as possible.
6. Freedom of conscience. The principle of the internal structure, the distribution of roles in the economy and the way of life - everything is determined by the members of the community. Many settlements have a religious basis - often pagan - and use the customs of ancestors from the pre-Christian period.

What is the difference between a community and an ordinary village

In ecovillages, there is no concept of division into “own” and “alien”. Fences, or rather, hedges, protect gardens and yards from forest animals, but not from neighbors. Due to the lack of desire for enrichment and superiority over others, the following phenomena do not exist:

1. Theft. It makes no sense - all things are created by collective labor and there are no "extra" things that are not used.
2. hired labor. There is no commodity-money circulation within the community. Ecovillage spends money only with external contacts. Spending is strictly discussed and carefully planned.
3. property as such. The community develops its own rules, but in the vast majority of cases, the land and property of an ecovillage cannot belong to individual persons. Land is acquired or leased from the state by several families of like-minded people at their own expense. The heads of families make up the Community Council.
4. Drunkenness, smoking, lust, foul language. In all ecovillages, these character defects are prohibited. The difference from the traditional approach of society to these problems of the individual is that the team helps a person get rid of them, and does not isolate himself from him.

Tribal communities have absorbed the best traditions of villages and villages. One of them is the transfer of knowledge and experience from old masters to young ones. Achieving perfection in his work - be it blacksmithing or carpentry, agriculture - a person teaches this to his children, this is how labor (professional) dynasties are born. Combining people of different professions makes a remote settlement viable - it has its own agronomists, biologists, teachers, doctors, technicians and specialists in many other professions.

What is a family estate

A family estate is a community consisting of members of one family, which is replenished by establishing family ties with representatives of other families, clans and communities. Several kin domains can unite into a kin community. This is usually done at the “project development” stage, when like-minded people meet in ordinary life and discuss common plans for the future. If two, three or more families come to the conclusion that living together in nature will benefit them, they acquire plots of land located nearby.

As a rule, the territory of the community is chosen in such a way that there is a river or a large lake nearby (or along the border) and, of course, a forest. Community members are actively planting new trees, while at the same time carrying out preventive maintenance of the existing forest - they take old and fallen trunks for firewood. Deeply studying the ecosystem of the region, they enrich natural resources by breeding fish and feeding forest animals.

How is the family estate arranged?

There are no specific schemes for such settlements - everything is determined by the terrain and landscape. However, there are elements by which a family homestead (RP) can be distinguished from an ordinary village:

1. Arbitrary layout of buildings. According to the location of its parts, the RP resembles a remote farm. There are no streets in them, and houses with outbuildings are not located where there is space, but where it is convenient for the owners. Remoteness from civilization gives a certain scope, which allows you to dispose of the land in this way.
2. Hedge . Refusal of any type of fence, or rather, replacing it with rows of living plants and shrubs. The explanation is simple - the service life of a wooden fence and a growing tree are not comparable (in favor of a tree).
3. Reservoir, sometimes irrigation system. If there is no reservoir nearby, the settlers arrange it themselves. Sometimes you can see man-made canals and water towers.
4. Forest area. If there is no forest, it is planted from the north and northwest sides. This is done to create a barrier to cold winds.
5. Garden and garden. Without this, autonomous existence is unthinkable. The size of these plots is made up of the number of family members. The garden occupies 10-15 acres, and the garden 15-20 acres of land. If there is a need to grow and prepare animal feed in large quantities (on collective farms), common fields are allocated for this.
6. Windmills or mini-hydro. Eco-settlements also need energy, like cities, but it is unrealistic, and not necessary, to pull a cable for 200 km. Using the forces of nature, residents provide themselves with electricity.
7. Orientation of the house to the sun. The house in the Republic of Poland is located not for the best view from the window, but for reasons of insolation - it should be optimal.

A few words about the house itself. One of the ideas of settlements is to maintain the flow of life with its changes and transformations. In other words, they acknowledge that things are changing. Therefore, capital large houses are found there infrequently. This is done for two reasons. Firstly, the walls of the house (albeit made of natural material) separate a person from nature. The house itself is considered by the settlers more as a night and winter refuge. Secondly, children who grew up on the estate will still want to arrange the house in their own way, and it will be easier for them to renovate.

How to painlessly break away from civilization

Outlying settlements are not as wild as they might seem. Modern technologies allow you to have any kind of communication even in the remote taiga. 30-40% of the settlers continue to work via the Internet, are engaged in freelancing, analytics or journalism, which is gaining popularity. Since life in the bosom of nature does not require constant expenses and the availability of money, the money earned goes to the development of the community (acquisition of the necessary devices and materials) and charity.

Ecovillages are happy to welcome guests - those who want to learn more about their lives or join later. Foreign ecotourists have the opportunity to look with their own eyes at that part of Russian culture that cannot be conveyed from the pages of a book or theatrical stage. Such settlements are rarely located closer than 200 km to big cities, but this does not stop (wealthy) citizens in an effort to purchase natural products - honey, propolis, oil and much more. Also, production with elements of folk art is developed there - the reconstruction of old looms, forges, architecture. This is not demonstrative, but contributes to the creative realization of the individual.

How to make dreams come true

The Family Homesteads of Russia project is gaining momentum. Thousands of residents of cities and towns every year consciously choose a harmonious life in nature and leave cramped apartments. Interestingly, in their place come the "new townspeople" who came from the periphery, the villages in an attempt to improve the standard of living. Thus, mutual interest is observed and there is a "rotation" of the population in the cities that receive fresh forces. This is an absolute plus for unloading megacities and deconcentration of the population in a country with such a vast territory.

The long-awaited Law "On Family Homesteads" has already been adopted in the Belgorod and Vladimir regions, and a federal bill is currently being considered. According to the idea of ​​the project, every citizen of Russia will have the right to a land plot of 1-1.5 hectares for living and cultivating the land in order to obtain a crop. The land is the basis of the family estate, this term has already been introduced into the workflow. In addition, the bill provides for the organization of settlements on the united plots of estates (tribal settlements) with fully responsible self-organization. This means that the right of settlements to choose their leaders is confirmed by the Law.

The largest and most successful ecovillages in Russia

The very concept of “successful” here lies only in the fact that people do not leave the place they once occupied, but on the contrary, they increasingly arrive and settle there. Therefore, “successful” means “growing and developing”.

Ancestral ecovillages are always growing in width - the arrival of new settlers does not lead to compaction of buildings or living space. Each family immediately builds its own courtyard and house. All ancestral settlements and individual estates always have a sonorous name that speaks of the mood of the founders, who are usually called the creators of the estate.

Settlement of family homesteads Paradise

Founded in 2006. Location - Tyumen region, pos. Metelevo (2 km). The area is 260 hectares.

Nature - mixed forest, hills, ponds and rivers Tura and Olkhovka, suitable for bathing people. More than 100 types of medicinal herbs.

The population is 180 families (780 people), of which 70 families (180 people) are wintering.

The image of the settlement. Residents of Raisky are members of the Ringing Cedars of Tyumen voluntary non-profit partnership (DNP). This form of organization allows:

• legally own land and use it for the purpose of obtaining crops;
• put buildings into operation and assign them addresses for registration;
• choose the current collegial governing body with a seal and the right to sign;
• regulate the rights of patrimonial inheritance of estates according to the laws of the country;
• build roads, bring communications.

This is a completely modern settlement that has all the advantages of civilization - gas, running water, constant voltage, cellular communications, wired internet. The main continent of settlers is urban entrepreneurs, like-minded people. Rayskoye rather resembles an elite suburban village, but in reality it is a generic eco-village with a high level of communication.

The cost of 1 hectare is 7.5 million rubles.

Settlement Rodovoye

Founded in 2008. Location - Tula region, Leninsky and Dubensky district, Aleshinsky rural district, with. Borshchevka and Baboshino. 1st, 3-7 fields are located in the Leninsky district, the 2nd field - in the Dubensky district.The total area is about 600 hectares.

Nature - in the areas of forest 5-7 years, coniferous, deciduous and mixed forests in the district. Reservoirs suitable for swimming.

The population is 150 families (380 people), of which 49 families (140 people) winter.

Infrastructure:

• private kindergarten;
• school and shop in the village (6 km);
• there is a cellular connection;
• some have electricity;
• There is no gas and no plans.

The image of the settlement. There are no bylaws or internal rules. The settlement is actively developing, plots have been allocated for the construction of their own school and general needs. New fields are being explored.

The cost of 1 ha is from 100 to 160 thousand rubles.

Commonwealth of family homesteads Denyovo

Founded in 2004. Location - Pskov region, Loknyansky district.The area is 220 hectares, another 40 hectares are being developed.

Nature - many different areas with forest, copse, clear fields, coniferous, deciduous and mixed forest. The Lovat and Loknya rivers are suitable for swimming.

The population is 120 families (470 people), of which 47 families (130 people) winter.

Infrastructure: there is a cellular connection, public springs, shops and a school - in the nearest settlements. The settlement is developing, a school is being built.

The image of the settlement. Internal way - oral laws, which are based on universal morality, tolerance and mutual respect. For an applicant for a place for his own family estate in Denyovo, a lot depends on communication with the families already living there. The main idea (besides the harmonization of life) is the development of relations between like-minded people from other countries.

Eco- and agro-tourism is developed in the settlement. The Denevo families are trying to decentralize and minimize the element of managing their own society - each family decides for itself what and how to do on its site. The cost of 1 hectare is from 8,500 to 15,000 rubles.

As can be seen from a cursory review, eco-settlements can be different - from high-tech and expensive to living as close as possible to natural living conditions. But the main factor in the success of the settlement will always be unanimity. To date, only in Russia there are about 120 ecovillages, 90 of which winter. The number of those under construction is about 100 more. And, finally, about 50 settlements are in the planning stage, that is, a team of like-minded people is being selected or is already looking for a suitable site. Ukraine, Belarus and other countries with fertile lands are also actively developing in this direction.

Autonomy and minimization of resources for life are becoming a decisive factor in the face of complex relations between participants in the global economy. Ecovillages and family homesteads can become a way out and even salvation for hundreds of thousands of people.

Many people think about moving closer to nature and starting their own farming business. Moreover, such a decision is encouraged by the state: today you can get a free site in sixteen regions of the Russian Federation. In this article, we will consider what a family estate is, what laws regulate its activities, and also how to get a plot.

What it is?

Family estate - a piece of land the size of one hectare. On its territory, a family can build a dwelling for permanent residence, arrange a garden and a vegetable garden, and also dig a pond. One of the priority goals of family homesteads is to improve the environmental conditions in the region.

Therefore, most often around the perimeter of the family homestead is surrounded by a fence of plant origin. Coniferous or cedar trees, larches, various shrubs can be used as it.

Most often, several Kin's Homesteads form a Kin's Settlement. It consists of several family estates located nearby. The purpose of this association is partnership in economic activity. Also, the owners of the estates are jointly engaged in the arrangement of the settlement, the establishment of its infrastructure, as well as the construction of socially significant institutions.

A feature of family homesteads is their autonomy. The owners themselves are engaged in obtaining, for example, electricity. This is done in the most environmentally friendly way: wind turbines, solar panels, hydro generators.

By the way, it is worth noting that Family Homesteads are not taxed. Their activities should not be aimed at obtaining commercial benefits, but at self-feeding.

For the first time, the issue of family homesteads was raised by Dmitry Medvedev back in 2007. He believes that the construction of estates in general will have a positive impact on the quality of life in the country, and will also attract people to agriculture.

In 2018, on behalf of the Government, it is planned to amend the legislation on this issue. Items on the possibility of obtaining a free plot of land without the right to sell, but with the possibility of inheriting it, will be revised.

Law of the Russian Federation on lands

So far, no law has been adopted that would regulate the issue related to the family homesteads. However, the creation of such estates is possible on the basis of the Land Code of the Russian Federation.

This legal relationship is regulated on the basis of Article 78. According to its content, every citizen can become the owner of agricultural land, as well as land of rural settlements.

A land plot can be obtained from the state free of charge, without the right to sell it later.

In addition, the creation of family homesteads is regulated by Articles 13 (Content of land protection) and 42 (Obligations of land owners and persons who are not owners of land plots regarding the use of land plots) of the Land Code of the Russian Federation.

Thus, land owners must carry out activities to:

How can I get land for a homestead?

The issue of obtaining a land plot for the construction of the estate is of interest to many citizens of the Russian Federation. Below we will consider in detail the procedure for obtaining a site from the state.

How to receive

• First of all, you need to choose the site on which your family estate will be located. Their list is compiled by cadastral centers, and information is provided, including on the website of this administrative body.
• Prepare the necessary documents. Their list includes, firstly, an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate to make sure that the site you want does not really have an owner. Secondly, you need to make a written application to the municipality administration. Thirdly, provide a plan for the land surveying and its subsequent development.
• If all the documents you have collected comply with the law, the Cadastral Chamber will issue a written decision on the transfer of land for your use.

Estate size

The size of the family homestead is about one hectare. It was not chosen by chance. On a smaller area, it is impossible to place all the buildings that a person may need in his housing and economic activities.

Larger plots are not provided due to the fact that it is difficult to fully use them in accordance with the intended purpose. In addition, it interferes with communication with other family estates and nearby settlements.

Requirements for using the vest

First of all, the Family Estate should be used in accordance with its purpose. That is, the site is used for family living on it.

For his own food, the owner can conduct agricultural activities on it. Outsiders, that is, hired workers, should not be involved in it.

The owner of the allotment must take care of its preservation. In this regard, measures should be taken to preserve and improve the ecological state. Trees and shrubs should be planted to prevent soil damage.

The owner of the Family Homestead must observe the principles of good neighborliness and in no case violate the rights of the owners of adjacent plots.

Conclusion

The organization of the Family Homestead is a bold step that not everyone will dare to take. However, if you have such an idea, then its implementation is quite real. A little effort and you will become the owner of your own estate, which you can equip as you wish.