2025 Permaculture Design Certificate & ReVILLAGing Family Camp!

2025 ~ Permaculture Design Certificate & ReVILLAGing Family Camp!  ….

Designing for Regenerative Living & Re-Villaging

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.

 July 6 – 20, 2025 

Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada

OUR team is led by Hiinahcit, Brandy Gallagher, and James Richardson and continues to be partnering with Starhawk/ Earth Activist Training (E.A.T.), and now the Raffi Foundation, and Charlene Vasvuez/Deep Medicine Circle crafting a permaculture program for people of all ages and lived experiences to come together in a living village.
Through experiential learning, we embark on a journey where land-based learning and climate science meet cultural ways of knowing and wisdom traditions knowledge transfer.

How might we learn to hold each other, as we heal into the beauty of a certainly uncertain future… and listen to what calls us forward?

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 ReVillaging Family Camp, Child Honouring & Peacemaking — a model of living and learning that is both ancient and urgently needed for our times.

This is more than a course. It is a way of being.

Together, we will:

• Shift patterns of thinking, living, and designing centered in Peacemaking / Restorative Justice

• Explore worldviews that center connection, responsibility, and reverence for life.

• Build tools and capacity for ecological stewardship and regenerative community building.

• Practice hands-on, land-based skills that feed the soil, the spirit, and our collective future.

Whether you come as an individual seeking PDC certification, a parent with your children, a young adult seeking leadership skills, or an elder wishing to share and learn —
this village is for you.

Participants will learn through participation in:

• The ethics and principles of permaculture design.
• Indigenous Knowledge sharing
• Child Honouring principles
• The core values of Peacemaking / Restorative Justice
• Constructive, regenerative solutions to climate change and environmental degradation,
• How to analyze a site and plan for future management.
• How to harvest, conserve, store, filter and clean water.
• How to set up graywater systems and composting toilets.
• How to build soil, make compost, sheet mulch, compost teas and ferments, and foster healthy soil biology.
• How to start seeds, make cuttings and propagate plants.
• How to make biochar.
• How to tend a forest to reduce wildfire danger.
• How to plant, plant and tend a food forest and incorporate agroforesty.
• The role and ethics of incorporating animals into a system.
• The spectrum of alternative energy solutions available to reduce our carbon footprint.
• Legal and financial structures to help promote change (Lawful Permaculture!)
• Communication skills and conflict trainsformation tools to help groups run smoothly.
• Strategies for transforming oppression and discrimination and building bridges across our differences,
• Planning and strategy for social justice campaigns.
• Grounding, centering, and establishing a personal practice for spiritual and self-renewal.
• Creating ceremony, community rituals and celebrations.

And we’ll do all this in an exciting, new context: