Location: Buda, Chyhyryn district, Cherkasy region, Ukraine

Current members: 12 families

Languages spoken in the settlement: Ukrainian, Russian, English

Settlement description:

Buda family settlement appeared on the basis of an existing farmstead of 40 houses, 20 of which are now inhabited. Every week, the settlers get together for a meeting to decide on common issues and organize something together. They are currently working on the image of a settlement, a set of expectations about those who want to live there. Some houses are on sale (by the price of $4K to $15K). Some are abandoned and can be reconstructed together with the settlers/owners. The land nearby is also available for rent.

The settlers have experience keeping goats, horses, and bees. Their other activities include willow and straw weaving, beadwork, knitting, and sewing clothes. Several families grow decorative and pine trees; they have have already gathered substantial seed reserves. They held eco fairs and other events twice a year.

Land comes in sizes from 0.4 to 2 hectares. There are many children (from 1st to 9th grade) who do external studies in a village school in 15 km from Buda. They go there twice a week to have 4-hour classes.

The settlement of Buda is surrounded by wild migled wood, primarily with leaf trees. It ranges from 2 to 10 km.

One of the explanations of the Buda name is that before, people used to burn wood here for coal. They piled the trunks, surrounded them by vertical poles (making something like a vigvam), covered everything with earth and set on fire. As a result of this oxygen-free burning they got wooden coal, or potash. The constructions themselves were called budkas, so Buddha does not have to do with this :).

The farmstead is located in a beautiful gulley historically named Kholodny Yar. There are many streams in the wood, including the ones with silver-rich tasty water. A local landmark is a thousand-year old oak named after a Cossack leader Maksym Zaliznyak. The oak is 8-9 m wide and 1100-1300 years old. It is said that a famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko used to write a poem about the Haidamaky rebels under this oak. There are many younger oaks in the area, aged 500-700 years.

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