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9 Aug 2026
This week we finish the stained glass doors and install them! Building these doors has been such a hard project and we’re so proud! Anastasia goes to the blue river, and harvests custard apples in the morning mist.

Art prints: https://www.motherthemountain.com/store
Our Book: http://geni.us/MothertheMountain
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We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land.
In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined.

Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country.

We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial.

Chapters:
0:00 Making stained glass doors!
3:44 Winter at the blue river
5:21 Harvesting custard apples in the misty mountains
9:56 Sheep, goats, ducks and chickens
11:22 Finishing the leadlight!

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