Lost Valley Education and Sustainable Permaculture Community

May 5-week PDC in Community May 21 – June 22 How the Lost Valley ‘PDC in Community’ course is different Most Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) courses are two weeks in length, or a series of weekends that equates to the same length. These courses cover all of the areas of permaculture that Bill Mollison says are required in a certificate course, but typically in an academic setting and without extensive exploration beyond the standard elements. Lost...

August 2-week PDC in Community August 6-19 The Lost Valley Difference Most Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) courses are two weeks in length, or a series of weekends that equates to the same length. These courses cover all of the areas of permaculture that Bill Mollison says are required in a certificate course, but typically in an academic setting and without extensive exploration beyond the standard elements. Lost Valley’s PDC in Community course is rare in that it is a...

Permaculture Passport Program Southern Willamette Valley August 6 – 26, 2012 The Permaculture Passport Program is a new course offering that goes beyond a PDC at a single institution, as is the norm. It is a collaborative regional permaculture sample program lasting 3 weeks, during which a student experiences many different sites and people implementing permaculture principles in different ways within 40 minutes of Eugene. It will consist of one week at Lost Valley Educational...

A Look at Lost Valley on UofO’s ‘Envis...

A recent article entitled “Cultivating Insight” was posted on the University of Oregon’s newly launched Envision website earlier this week. The Envision site article, written by Anna Smith, spotlights permaculture at Lost Valley Educational Center and Meadowsong Ecovillage. The complete article can be found at the following link: http://envision.uoregon.edu/archives/156 Posted March 19,...

LV Program Director visits partner site in Nicarag...

By Colin Doyle, Lost Valley Program Director I had the privilege of spending the first two weeks of March in El Lagartillo, Nicaragua, Lost Valley’s sister community. The two communities began our partnership last fall (please see other Article on this topic), and I went there in person to strengthen this relationship. The association Hijos del Maiz, located in Lagartillo, hosts Spanish language students from the...

Lost Valley partners with Nicaraguan community Hij...

Lost Valley recently entered into a partnership with a homegrown Sandinista community in rural Nicaragua. The village of El Lagartillo has been together since the 1980s. In addition to rural livelihood activities, for the last seven years its dozen-member association Hijos del Maiz (Children of Corn) has executed projects for area communities and run the Campesino Spanish School, giving individual language instruction to...

Sociocracy: A Permaculture Approach to Community E...

By Melanie Rios (Published in the Winter 2011 issue of Communities magazine – Issue #153.) In 2008 Lost Valley took decision-making power away from its consensus-based intentional community and transformed into a hierarchical business. The organization (a 501(c)3 nonprofit operating an 87-acre permaculture education and conference center outside Dexter, Oregon) hoped to become more economically solvent through this...

Video : Sociocracy at Lost Valley

A transformational year, and a new name

December 22, 2011 From Melanie Rios, Director: A renaissance is happening here at Lost Valley, and to celebrate, we’re calling our residential community by a new name: Meadowsong Ecovillage. Our educational programs and conference center are still called Lost Valley. We are exploring ways to sell the property of Lost Valley to Meadowsong so that our land and buildings are cared for by stable and invested long-term...

Donate to the Forest Garden Nursery

The mission of our Forest Garden Nursery is to provide a complete selection of the most useful native and non-native plants for Northwest forest gardeners – students, teachers, and food-fanatics alike. We envision filling our backyards, our neighborhoods, and our country-sides with a lush abundance of useful, edible, and beautiful plants that we can rely on for our future. Working with our neighbors and friends, we can...

Support & Donations

Support Lost Valley Educational Center and Support the Earth The planet is changing. Fast. Now, more than ever, people around the world are faced with an important question: How can I reduce my impact on the environment? Lost Valley is here to answer that question. Our permaculture and sustainable living skills courses empower students to live in harmony with the earth. As a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, we rely on your...

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