What Is the Ringing Cedars?

The Ringing Cedars is a worldwide movement inspired by a book series that offers a practical model for restoring harmony between people, nature, family, and community.

What Is the Ringing Cedars Movement?

The Ringing Cedars Movement began with a series of books written by Vladimir Megre, inspired by his encounters with Anastasia, a woman living in the Siberian taiga whose worldview challenged many modern assumptions about life, family, nature, and human potential.

What started as one man’s personal transformation gradually became something much larger.

Through the Ringing Cedars of Russia series, readers were introduced to a coherent and surprisingly practical model of life—one rooted not in belief systems or ideology, but in lived experience, responsibility, and direct relationship with the land.

At the heart of this vision is a simple but profound idea:
a family living on its own piece of land, consciously designed as a “Space of Love.”

What is the Ringing Cedars Movement About?

From Books to Living Reality

As readers across Russia began to apply these ideas in real life, the movement naturally took physical form. Families started creating Kin Domain Settlements—land-based communities where each family stewards approximately 1 hectare (2.5 acres), restoring ecosystems, growing living food forests, and raising children in direct contact with nature.

Today, over 400 Kin Domain Settlements exist in Russia, with many more forming across Europe and other parts of the world.

Although the books originated in Russia, the movement itself is not Russian in essence.
Anastasia describes herself as Vedrussian—a term pointing not to nationality, but to a much older cultural code based on direct knowing, harmony with nature, and conscious creation of life. This worldview predates modern states, religions, and political systems.

Because of that, the ideas have resonated globally—with readers in post-Soviet countries, Europe, and increasingly in the United States.

Learn more about Ringing Cedars Series and the Movement in our RC WIKI

Why This Matters in the United States: Homestead 2.0

The U.S. already carries a deep historical parallel through the Homestead Act and a long tradition of homesteading, self-reliance, and land stewardship.

What the Ringing Cedars vision offers today is not a return to the past—but an evolution.

We call this Homestead 2.0.

Homestead 2.0 is a modern, voluntary response to many of the challenges we face today:

environmental degradation
fragile food systems
social disconnection
economic over-centralization
loss of meaning and belonging

Rather than fighting these systems directly, Homestead 2.0 builds something parallel and life-affirming:

De-urbanization without isolation
Decentralization without chaos
Local food without scarcity
Community without coercion

It is about restoring direct relationships—with land, food, family, and one another—while still engaging with modern society where appropriate.

The Role of Eat Like Breathe

Eat Like Breathe (ELB) is a practical bridge between today’s urban reality and tomorrow’s land-based communities.

Our food co-op connects:

small, ethical farmers
clean, living food
urban families seeking a healthier and more conscious way of life

Food is the most accessible starting point. It shapes our bodies, our thinking, and our relationship with nature — daily.

An Invitation, Not an Escape

The Ringing Cedars Movement does not call people to abandon society, reject technology, or retreat from responsibility.

It invites people to:

take responsibility for their own lives
consciously design their living space
raise children in health, love, and awareness
heal land instead of exploiting it

What began as words in books has become living landscapes, restored ecosystems, and new generations growing up with a different relationship to life itself.

We believe the next chapter of this story is meant to unfold here.

Image of Kin Domain Settlement in Cali