Permaculture Design Certificate and reVILLAGEing Family Camp

July 6th – 20th, 2025

At OUR Ecovillage, we believe that we are all teachers and we are all learners.
In 2025, we invite you to co-create a truly unique, transformational experience: a two-week journey of living, learning, healing, and designing — together.

Shifting patterns, exploring worldviews, and practicing tools and capacity building creates new possibilities when stepping into deep-dive ‘probiotic’ ecological knowledge building. Rooted in relational pedagogy and an Indigenous / kinship worldview, this gathering blends the depth of a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course with the magic of a reVILLAGEing Family Camp, Child Honouring & Peacemaking — a model of living and learning that is both ancient and urgently needed for our times.

 

WEEKLY FARM FRESH PRODUCE AND MORE!

Healthy Lifestyle
CSA Boxes

The 2025 edition of OUR ECOVILLAGE CSA is open for new members. Expect an abundance of fresh, in-season produce, eggs, meat and meat-alternatives, baking, and other goodies along with an expanded commitment to education and, of course, community.

Natural Building and Ecological Design Colloquium

Recordings now available!

The 2022 Natural Building Colloquium is an online gathering for natural building enthusiasts: builders, teachers, professionals, and those passionate about natural building. It is a place to exchange the latest developments in natural building and share ideas with other people in the field

Introduction to Permaculture

July 6th – 8th, 2025

This 2.5 day course will introduce you to the basics of design, ethics, and principles of Permaculture. Jump in to join the first few days of OUR Ecovillage/ Earth Activist Training full 72-hr Permaculture Design Certificate course and meet many others who are on the journey of changing their way of thinking in the world!

And now… Protecting OUR Ecovillage forever

Latest News

A Note from Freya – CSA Treats! – CSA Week #7

In this week's lifestyle box, we have a very special treat -- Freya’s Carrot Ginger Loaf! Freya is an amazing chef and if you are interested in purchasing extra desserts and breads you can purchase them directly from her! The ones below will be available for next...

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OUR Educational CSA – Week #7

A Note From OUR Team:Dare we say it... we think it’s finally summertime! What an interesting interplay we are having between the sun and the rain this year. The garden of course needs both to thrive, and while the abundance of water means we can dial down our...

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Healing Herbs: Lavender – CSA Week #7

This week’s healing herb is Lavender (Lavandula), one of my favourite and most often used herbs. Some words that come to mind when I experience lavender are divine, luxurious, mysterious, calming, and sensual. Lavender’s Latin name stems from lavare which means “to...

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O.U.R. ECOVILLAGE

1565 Baldy Mountain Rd
Shawnigan Lake, BC
V8H 2A9
Canada

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Land acknowledgment

OUR ECOVILLAGE is situated on unceded Indigenous lands. The Coast Salish Peoples are the guardians of these lands and waters where we live, work, pray, and play. Quw’utsun (Cowichan) is a historical place of gathering and Na’tsa’ maht Shqwaluwun/”one-heart one-mind” for many Indigenous peoples.

OUR ECOVILLAGE is committed to regenerate land and all ecosystems while acknowledging and respecting Indigenous knowledge that ensures thriving for all beings; we call this Permaculture.

OUR ECOVILLAGE is dedicated to continuously educating ourselves and our communities about the history and peoples of OUR bio-region, to assist in decolonization and re-villaging as a path towards peacemaking, from local to global.

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