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Forming Formed: 1990 Established: 1990
O.U.R ECOVILLAGE
Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia,
Canada
Harvest time
 OUR ECOVILLAGE is a sustainable land-stewardship community that endeavors to foster the interconnectedness between all things. Support of individual, family, intentional community, and wider community. Appropriate/green/natural building, permaculture design training and gardens, deep-ecology, social-justice, and community building. All this on a beautiful, private, organic farm-based setting complete with farm animals, a lake, and eagles! OUR ECOVILLAGE now has an onsite ecological education school...TOPIA: The Sustainable Learning Community Institue (check the website for ongoing summer residential programs and short workshops) We are -intercultural, interfaith, and intergenerational.
 
Website: http://www.ourecovillage.org/
Contact:
O.U.R. ECOVILLAGE
Box 530
Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia V0R 2W0 Canada
Phone: 250-743-3067
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Former/Other Names: O.U.R. HOUSE
Last Updated:5/8/2007
 
Visitors Accepted
 (please request a visit or tour prior two weeks prior to visiting)
Visitor Process: Please email or phone in advance to arrange visit/tour times. We have an Eco B & B, a dorm yurt, and camping plus onsite outdoor food services (only in the summer). Please propose dates and type of stay you are requesting and someone will email to confirm your visit.
Population
Adult Members:
4
((up to 40 for half the year))
Child Members:
4
Non-member Residents:
30
(currently expanding new residential housing space)
Open to new adults:
Yes
Open to new children:
Yes
Gender Balance:
33% M 67% F
Government
Decision Making:
By a group of elders or other leaders
(decisions and planning is also participatory.)
Identified Leader:
Yes
(Also have a board of directors for OUR Non-Profit)
Leadership Core Group:
Yes
(Development Team and Board of Directors)
Labor and Money
Financial Style:
Other
Labor Contribution:
Expected
Join Fee:
Yes
(Can purchase own house starting 2006)
Regular Fees:
Yes
Land and Buildings
Rural
Area:
25 acres (10.1 hectares)
Land Owned By:
Other
(working on development of new legal structure -national research project)
Number of Residences:
3
Cohousing:
No
Food, etc.
Percentage of Food Grown:
21-50%
Share Community Meals:
Nearly all meals
Dietary Choice or Restrictions:
Diet is up to each individual
Dietary Practice:
Primarily vegetarian
Alcohol Use:
Used occasionally
Tobacco Use:
Seldom used
Social Factors
Open to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and/or Transgender members:
Yes
Shared Spiritual Path:
Yes
(interfaith)
Which Spiritual Path(s):
Native American
(The village honours the protocols of local First Nations people who's traditional territory the village is one.)
Educational Style(s):
Home schooling
:: Private school at the community
:: Private school off the property
Cohousing Details
Cohousing Status:
Forming
 
 
Harvest time
Creating beauty
Fabulous Food
OUR Children's Garden - Playhouse wth edible roof
Working it out together
Regultory Authority and engineer approved!!!
Convervation Award for OUR ECOVILLAGE
Sometimes ya gotta play
Cowichan People's elder leading ceremony for opening of TOPIA: The Sustainable Learning Community Institute
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