Tinkers Bubble Somerset Eco Village Community, September 2019 BBC Inside Out West

The family living off-grid in the woods in Somerset
Residents of a small off-grid community say they wanted to "slow life down" and escape consumerism.
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Tinkers Bubble is a 40-acre site in the south of Somerset and home to more than a dozen people.
They heat water using firewood, do not use fossil fuels and have solar panels for electricity.
You can see more about this story on Inside Out on BBC One West on Monday at 19:30 BST.

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Couple who ran two businesses quit the 'rat race' and move their five children to rural Somerset to live off-grid in a self-sufficient commune where they grow their own food and use a 1930s steam engine to chop wood
Kirsty and Nick Tizard moved from Devon to Tinkers Bubble last December
The self-sufficient community of 14 residents grow their own food on site
Mr Tizard described things the family have given up - such as indoor toilets and washing machines - as needless luxuries
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PUBLISHED: 16:57, 29 September 2019 | UPDATED: 09:27, 30 September 2019

Kirsty and Nick Tizard, who owned a cafe, moved from North Tawton in Devon to Tinkers Bubble, a near self-sufficient community in south Somerset, in December.

The 14 residents there till the land using horses and a Victorian plough, saw timber using a 1930s steam engine and sell homemade apple juice to local shops.

They grow most of their own food with the occasional help from volunteers who come to Tinkers Bubble to experience communal living.

Washing requires lighting a wood-burning stove to produce hot water in a few hours.

Tinkers Bubble, which has been established for 25 years, features in a BBC Inside Out West documentary that will air on Monday.

Mrs Tizard told the programme: 'We both ran our own businesses for quite a few years, we had five children and a very hectic life.

'I had what you might call a midlife crisis - I had a feeling of 'is this all there is to living?'.