Come and join with others committed to restoring the earth through cultural transformation as we explore creative solutions to the challenges of our time. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things. Each component in a system performs multiple functions, and each function is supported by many elements. In patterns lies much of the ground skill and the future of design.
Patterns are forms most people understand and remember.
Located on 1750 wooded acres in south central Tennessee, it is home to approximately 200 persons today. This tradition of entrepreneurship and progressive social change is embodied in the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm. The Center provides comfortable accomodations for participatory training in all aspects of village design and social organization for planetary transformation. The surrounding Farm community offers examples of solar building design, micro-enterprise, mushroom cultivation, large scale composting and food production, and regenerative hardwood forest management. At the Ecovillage Training Center, we focus on building the support systems, networks, and alliances we all need in our work of remaking our culture.