This course is for you if you are ready to:

• Embark on new environmental design practices

• Find ways of dramatically reducing energy consumption and changing your lifestyle

• Begin land-based ventures & small businesses

• Realize goals towards self-sufficiency, homesteading, and a next level of DYI

• Learn Climate Change Adaptation Strategies and carbon accounting

• Find your way into ‘Resilient Community/Lifestyle Design’

• Understand that we each have an important role to play in co-creating the future

In this workshop OUR Ecovillage will focus on organizing, activating, and educating through on the ground permaculture projects. Learn how we design human systems that mimic natural systems using a minimum of energy and resources and how to create real abundance and social/environmental justice. Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to make our visions real, as well as the daily practice, magic, and processes that sustain our spirits.

This course is unique from almost all others in North America as you are stepping into O.U.R. Ecovillage – a 25 acre Sustainable Living Demonstration, Research and Education Centre.

Through partnering with all levels of government, corporate sponsors, academia, and the grassroots of the wider community projects & organizations, O.U.R. Ecovillage has managed to bring together a range of professionals, permaculture teachers, regulatory folks, and technical stakeholders ready to train others in the next stages of how permaculture projects can become fully legal.

Topics covered in this course:

• Evidence for change & the ethics of sustainability

• Principles of Permaculture

• Observation & landscape analysis

• Ecological planning & design methods

• Organic food production and food security

• Climatic factors in design

• Soils: natural soil improvement

• Integrated animal systems

• Water: harvesting, conservation, and management

• Agroforestry & forest gardening

• Appropriate technologies & renewable energy systems

• Mapping & design exercises

• Techniques and design strategies for both urban & rural applications

• Ecovillages & sustainable human settlements

 Investment

Course Cost: $2,230 CAD

Fees include the full program, basic accommodations*, meals, and snacks.
*Basic Accommodations include either bunk-bed in our gender-inclusive dorm room or a camping site. Specifics of your choice & space assignment will be coordinated after registration and before arrival.

Get in touch if you are interested in semi-private or private accommodations options. events@ourecovillage.org