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

Healing Herb: Holy Basil

  Holy basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum), commonly known in the Hindi language as tulsi, is quite possibly the most revered medicinal herb on the planet. Holy basil is a plant that has violet flowers and blossoms; the stems are green, but sometimes have a purple...

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OUR Educational CSA Week #20

  Last Week of OUR CSA Educational Food Box for 2020!! *A reminder to please return your bins and canning jars* A message from OUR Team: FIRST:  a huge thank you to each of you who risked the farm season with us in the true meaning of ‘Community Supported...

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Preparing for Winter

  In these unprecedented times—at least unprecedented in the lifetimes of most of us—we have an extra push to take care of some of those important but not yet urgent tasks of preparing for the cold. Fortunately we haven’t experienced too many supply chain...

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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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O.U.R. ECOVILLAGE

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

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