Close to the land

"This land, we have not inherited from our fathers, but we have it on a lease from our children ... so we try to live and farm the land in a sustainable way," he said, sitting in their cozy kitchen where a chunk of pork sizzles in the oven.

Kemencei estimated there are about 1,000 families trying to embrace some form of sustainability, either alone or as part of informal barter arrangements, or as part of more structured eco-villages.