At Lost Valley, we educate youth and adults in the practical application of sustainable living skills. Through a holistic approach to sustainability education, we engage students in ecological, social, and spiritual growth.

Our Immersive Permaculture Design Certificate Course, Ecovillage Design Education, Intentional Community Immersion, Social Forestry Camps, Community Experience Weeks, and youth learning adventures offer participants a unique hands-on learning experience within our 36-year-old Ecovillage.

Lost Valley has been a learning center since the mid 90s, supporting people to develop a systems framework in order to integrate specialty expertise into other fields, so that we can build holistic models for stewarding our social and ecological systems.

Now Enrolling for Summer PDC and Community Experience Week!

Lost Valley is home to Meadowsong Ecovillage, an intentional community that provides affordable housing and access to land for cooperative ecological living and rural community resilience. Through non hierarchical governance inspired by Sociocracy, nonviolent communication, resource sharing, and mutual aid, the community builds a culture of inclusion, equity, and solidarity.

Being part of a community is integral to any sustainable way of living. Community can teach us to care for and respect one another, communicate compassionately, make decisions together, and to see our individual needs in the context of the whole, while also reducing resource use through sharing (labor, skills, food, rent, materials, etc.).

At Lost Valley, our staff and students live in community in apartments, cabins, and tiny homes, offering their skills and connecting through land stewardship, sociocratic decision making, shared meals, and collaborative learning activities. Everyday is an educational experience at Lost Valley!

Lost Valley’s Internship is a 3-month immersive learning opportunity designed to provide participants with skills and experience in the practices of permaculture, equitable community governance, and cooperative living.

This is a great option for you if you are looking to:

- Learn about ecological stewardship, wildfire mitigation, food sovereignty, and regenerative agriculture

- Gain marketable skills for career development

- Develop social skills to engage in conflict resolution, nonviolent communication, meeting facilitation, inclusive group decision making, and non-heirarchical governance

- Practice mutual aid and cooperative living while learning from a 36-year-old ecovillage

Food and lodging are included.
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