LET’s CREATE A REGENERATIVE FUTURE TOGETHER
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE WEEK
This is an opportunity for those who are curious about living in an intentional community and want to learn more about the tools, skills, values, and attributes that are useful when engaging in any sort of community with others.
May 3 - 9 ⏐ July 19 - 25 ⏐ Oct 18 - 24
PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE COURSE
The Lost Valley PDC will introduce you to a wide range of subjects, including water management, farming, forestry, composting, animal husbandry, governance techniques like sociocracy, and community organizing. Design your current or future property, or pursue an ethical livelihood in environmental or land-based jobs.
Saturdays, June 27 - August 16, 2026
Uywanakuy
Yaku Mama
This is a participatory, transformative gathering for re-weaving and remembering ourselves as people of place, in relation to our local watersheds. With the accompaniment of Andean-Amazonian lineage keepers and guides, we will approach the art of relationship, diplomacy, and recovery of ancestral memory through song, dance, story, symbol, pilgrimage, and more.
June 10 - 13, 2026
COB Camp
Join us for a hands-on immersive workshop in natural building, for people with little to no prior experience! You’ll learn how to create functional, beautiful structures using just three simple materials: clay, sand, and straw.
May 22 - 25 ⏐ June 5 - 8
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Learn Permaculture & Sustainable Living Skills
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!
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Live In Intentional Community
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. Every day is an educational experience at Lost Valley!
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Work with us in an educational internship
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.
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Learn with leading voices
PAST Instructors
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Orland Bishop
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Dan Wahpepah
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David Holmgren
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Monica Ibacache
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Andrew Millison
IN-PERSON PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSES
Summer 2026
Our in-person, onsite permaculture design course follows the established international standard of 72 hours of contact time with experienced instructors. The course takes place on Saturdays on our 87 acre Permaculture Demonstration project, June 27th to August 16th, 2026. Additional hands-on land and garden immersion and ancestral skills projects are offered as part of our Sunday Honors program.
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