Upcoming In-Person Classes

SOIL’s In-Person Classes offer experiential learning in the unique living laboratory of Earthaven Ecovillage. Classes at Earthaven are informed by over 28 years of experience with village life in an intentional community dedicated to sustainability, education and activism.

You’ll have the chance to learn, live, work and laugh alongside our pioneering residents in a biologically diverse forested mountain setting.

Join us for Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Week and really get to know the village and residents with a service learning component as we continue to build infrastructure and realize the Earthaven permaculture vision. A shorter Experience Weekend is also available.

We also offer in-person and virtual tours of Earthaven Ecovillage.

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Permaculture expert Zev Friedman leading a fire circle at a Permaculture Design Certificate course

Upcoming Programs

Tour group in front of Earthaven Ecovillage Council Hall

Earthaven Ecovillage Day Tours

Most Saturdays

Tours are a great entry point into learning the history, purpose, and development of Earthaven Ecovillage. These tours are designed to provide a deeper understanding about living in community as well as the strategies and solutions possible for doing things another way.

Three women after participating in The Re-membering Retreat

The Re-membering Retreat

October 19-22, 2023

Free, live, online information session: Sunday, October 1, 11 am. Click for more information and to register.

Explore what it means to Belong. An intimate journey reconnecting to the deepest parts of ourselves, to ignite more authenticity, meaning, and pleasure in all our connections. Set aside the hustle and drop into a ritual space where we can re-collect what is most meaningful and tend to our grief, our longings and our relationships in ways that are nourishing, grounded, and life-giving.

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Chuck Marsh's wake

Home Funerals, Home Burials

November 11, 2023

A half-day introduction to death care at Earthaven. After experiencing eight deaths in eight years, along with extensive study with our mentors, we are sharing our experiences with others who want to feel empowered to care for and honor their dead from their homes with their family and friends. Learn your rights and options.

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Visit natural building Leela at Earthaven Ecovillage

Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Weekend

May 23-26, 2024

Do you want to learn skills, gain insights and get to know the Earthaven community? Get an inside look at the radical social and ecological experimentation that has taken place in this land-based community for over 28 years.

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Moving firewood at Earthaven Ecovillage

Ecovillage Action Week

May 27-31, 2024

Be an active participant in the everyday rhythm of life and work at Earthaven Ecovillage. In this hands-on, service-based program, you’ll work side-by-side with residents, making meaningful contributions while exploring Earthaven’s neighborhoods, and expanding your ideas of alternative living.

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Doug Elliott and ground hog

Doug Elliott Storytelling Concert

TBD 2024

Enjoy dinner and an evening of stories, songs, and lore celebrating our human connection to some amazing wild critters. The program is flavored with lively tunes, fantastic folklore, natural history fact stranger than fiction, and more than a few belly laughs.

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Making vegetable trellises

Gardening in Harmony with Nature

Spring 2024

Growing garden vegetables can be easy and fun. How can that be? Soil microbes and farm animals are employed to generate fertility for our growing plants. Wisdom from the peasant farmers of the world shows us appropriate technology at a human scale. Following the cycles of the earth and the sun brings rhythm to our actions.

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Experiencing day lilies at Earthaven Experience Week

Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Week

July 21-27, 2024

Join the homesteads, farms, and businesses of Earthaven Ecovillage for a hands-on, skill-building program in sustainable and climate-resilient community life. A residential immersion into the interconnected physical and social systems of our unique off-grid intentional community.

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Compassion Camp at Earthaven Ecovillage

Compassion Camp

August 15-18, 2024

Our annual event focused on Nonviolent Communication, featuring classes and experiential learning. An experience designed to foster compassion and connection in our hearts, communities and world, and to spread the seeds of justice and love.

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Playing chase at the Reaching Nature Connection Conference

Reaching Nature Connection Annual Conference

TBD 2024

Check back for next year’s conference theme.

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Presenting a permaculture design project

Permaculture Design Certification Course

TBD 2024

Earn your Permaculture Design Certificate while nurturing connection in this 14-day course grounded in the integrated life of Earthaven Ecovillage. In addition to the core PDC curricula, this special course will include a unique layer of how to approach bringing permaculture alive in your community.

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