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 29 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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![Zev-leading-Fire-Circle-PDC-5x3 Permaculture expert Zev Friedman leading a fire circle at a Permaculture Design Certificate course](https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/wp-content/uploads/Zev-leading-Fire-Circle-PDC-5x3-1.jpg)
Upcoming Programs
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.
![leela-dining-room Dining room in Leela at Earthaven Ecovillage](https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/wp-content/uploads/leela-dining-room.png)
See inside naturally built homes and talk with their residents and builders! Earthaven is known for its wide range of natural buildings. The natural building tour will provide rare access to the interiors of homes. Residents and builders will share their experiences in building and living in these buildings.
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![fermented-vegetables Fermented vegetables](https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/wp-content/uploads/fermented-vegetables-1.png)
Embark on a flavorful journey of vegetable preservation and probiotics! Join us for a hands-on experience where you’ll learn the art and science of transforming fresh vegetables into delicious, gut-friendly delights. Explore the ancient craft of fermentation essential techniques, fermentation vessels, and cultivating beneficial microbes.
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Explore working models of community living and sustainability on an eight-day adventure through Western North Carolina and the Piedmont Region. Enjoy community within our traveling group, experience working ecovillages and communtiies, learn from community living experts, enjoy the beauty of Appalachia, and get inspiration and connectinos to fuel your own work.
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![autumn-leaf-mandala mandala of autumn leaves](https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/wp-content/uploads/autumn-leaf-mandala.jpg)
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.
Free live Q&A session: September 4, 7-8 pm. Click here to register.
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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 are looking 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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An afternoon of griddling fresh tortillas while discussing milpa culture. “Milpa” describes an ancient and elegant community-scale indigenous farming way that integrates annual crops, tree crops, fungi and animals, through the long-term management of forest succession, creating a nutrient-dense cuisine as well as fiber, medicine, firewood for cooking, building materials, and cultural continuity.
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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 29 years.
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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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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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![ginseng-golden-apples-rainbow-fish Of Ginseng, Golden Apples, and Rainbow Fish](https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/wp-content/uploads/ginseng-golden-apples-rainbow-fish.jpg)
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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Take steps towards reclaiming your ancestral inheritance by learning how and why we humans learn through stories, and by shaping and telling stories to guide children.
Storytelling presenters Lia Grippo and Erin Dews will take participants on a storytelling journey to develop capacities for using stories as effective teaching tools for nature connection and beyond.
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