OUR STORY
OUR MISSION
In short, we’re here to build a better world:
But not in the way most people think.
Our philosophy starts with this: building a better world means building your own better world first.
It means reclaiming your mind, pulling your focus from the chaos you can’t control, and directing it toward what you can — right here, right now, with what’s in front of you.
That doesn’t mean we don’t care about what’s happening “out there.” It means we’ve accepted the hard truth:
That centralized power structures control the narrative, the options, and the outcomes — and they use the illusion of choice to keep real change off the table.
You can’t uproot a tree by rearranging the leaves.
And you won’t elect a savior that can fix it all.
Governments will keep lying, stealing, cheating, and killing.
People will suffer. Life will be unfair.
That sounds bleak — but it’s the truth.
You can’t fix a dying system using that same system’s archaic, busted tools.
Let’s put it this way…
Imagine you’re on a boat with a hole in the hull. The hole was caused by cheap materials and bad design, and the only tool the crew gives you to fix it… is more of the same cheap, rotting wood and a rusted hammer.
You can try to patch it — but it’s going to keep leaking. You’re still at sea. The boat’s still sinking.
The only real solution is to stop relying on the boat entirely — build a raft from driftwood, find land, or teach yourself to swim. Use a different system, a different logic.
That’s why we’re not trying to fix the world from inside the system. We’re building something outside of it. Something rooted in personal responsibility, resilience, and truth.
The sooner you accept the hard facts, the sooner you can ask the one question that actually changes things:
“What can I do?”
When you start asking yourself that question, you begin discovering real answers. Not the ones sold to you by predatory institutions that benefit from you following their playbook, but the ones buried deep in your instincts, your land, your family, your life’s purpose.
That’s where the mission begins.
This is what we’re here to help you do — to take the methods we’re learning in our own journey and hand them off so you can begin building your own version of a resilient, liberated life.
But wait — isn’t that kind of selfish?
What about the people who don’t have access to these tools, or the opportunity to apply them?
I’m glad you asked. That question tells me you have a heart.
Put On Your Mask First (No, Not a Covid Mask)
Think about what they tell you on an airplane:
“Secure your own oxygen mask before assisting others.”
It sounds counterintuitive, especially to parents. But it’s practical truth. If you pass out trying to help someone else, now you’re both screwed.
Resilience works the same way. If you try to save the world while you’re still drowning, you become another casualty — not a lifeline for others.
But when you build a strong foundation…
When you develop skills, grow food, earn income ethically, and live with intention — and you don’t need 10 acres of land and a million bucks to get started —
Then you’ve got something real to offer.
You can teach others.
You can share surplus voluntarily.
You can invest in people, not systems.
That’s a hell of a lot more powerful — and more honest — than trying to vote the right people in to redistribute what someone else built.
You trust the State to do that?
I sure as hell don’t.
This isn’t about utopias. It’s about taking personal responsibility and creating a ripple effect.
Each one teach one. Or better yet — each one teach a hundred.
No centralized system can twist that into something ugly. No bureaucracy can hijack it.
Because it doesn’t come from the top.
It comes from within. And it spreads.
Like roots. Like mycelium.
That’s how we build a better world.
One Life, one Family, one seed at a time.
OUR JOURNEY
My name is Calvin Hutton.
I’m a father of three, loyal partner to my beautiful Lady, a self-employed tradesman, and an unapologetic anarchist.
We live in Humboldt County, Northern California, where my family and I are actively building a life grounded in the principles you just read.
We homestead to create greater resilience, strengthen our local community, and raise wild, free children rooted in independence, personal sovereignty, and the value of working voluntarily with others to build systems that actually serve.
We teach them to grow food, raise animals, hunt, fish, and forage.
To be wise with money.
To lend a hand when they can.
And to always think for themselves.
I was born in Rochester, New York, into a working-class family who understood just how massive and tangled the world’s problems really are. We weren’t dirt poor, but we weren’t wealthy either.
As a teen, I started to feel the weight of uncertainty about the future. I realized early on that things weren’t right — that beneath the surface of society were deep, festering wounds most people tried to ignore.
And I didn’t have much hope.
I imagined a future where everything eventually collapsed under the weight of its own defects. Apocalypse felt inevitable.
In my early twenties, I moved to Los Angeles, looking for a fresh start and a way to be part of real change. I turned to activism — I protested, wrote letters to congressmen, and even drove cross-country to join the resistance at Standing Rock.
But after pouring so much time, energy, and heart into the system’s political machinery, and seeing nothing change, I hit a wall. I was burned out, disillusioned, and angry.
That’s when I started to ask myself that vital question:
“What can I do?”
If tens of thousands of people gathering together couldn’t move the needle… how could one person possibly make a difference?
That’s when the roots of Sustainable Sedition began to sprout.
I discovered Permaculture — and something clicked.
This is it. This is the answer.
Through its emphasis on long-term thinking, regenerative design, and parallel systems, I found a worldview that made sense. A decentralized, practical way of living that acts as the ultimate form of protest by building something better to replace what is.
That’s when I realized I’ve been an anarchist at heart all along.
I came to understand that trying to reshape the state into something that aligns with my values would violate the non-aggression principle — the core tenet of anarchism:
Don’t harm others. Don’t steal their stuff. Don’t infringe on their liberty.
And what does the state rely on to enforce its vision?
Coercion. Force. The threat of violence.
That didn’t sit right with me.
Using institutional violence to create freedom? That’s not just a contradiction — it’s a betrayal of everything I believe.
Hence,
Sustainable Sedition — with its anarcho-philosophical roots — opened up its first leaves and took form.
FROM PHILOSOPHY TO PRACTICE
The proof in action
Talk is cheap.
Life is hard.
Philosophies are only valid if they’re effective when practiced — if they hold together when put to the test in the real world.
So what does Sustainable Sedition actually mean?
Let’s break it down:
If something is truly sustainable — long-term — it has to do more than simply keep itself alive…
It needs a regenerative element that makes it thrive.
A regenerative system is a system that produces more energy than it consumes and creates a surplus that allows it to self-replicate.
So in our ethos, a sustainable system is a self-replicating, regenerative system that produces enough surplus to help others do the same.
Now let’s talk about sedition.
Sedition is a word that historically — and even today in some parts of the world — could get you a death sentence.
It means a direct undermining of centralized authority, especially that of government.
And the greatest way to undermine that authority?
Stop requiring its services.
Meet your own needs — and the needs of your community — independent of that system.
That sends a clear message:
You are obsolete. We no longer need you. Your services are no longer required. We have something better now.
Below, you’ll find the field notes —
A running log of our acts of Sustainable Sedition,
Our story in motion.
It’s where philosophy meets practice —
Where we track what works, what doesn’t, and what we’re learning along the way.
So you can learn from our successes and our failures.
And see that anyone…
Anywhere…
Can take that first step —
And begin to Build What Thrives in Changing Times.
The world doesnt get better because someone fixes it.
The world gets better because you get better- and because people like you build things that work even when the system doesn’t.
That is Sustainable Sedition.
Welcome to the Field Notes
Follow along as we put the Philosophy of Sustainable Sedition into Practice – Right here, in real time.
