I cannot possibly sum up everything I learned during my 3 weeks at the Ecovillage. The best I can do is a brief list of the lessons, hoping to cover at least a small part of what was shared with us.

Violet, the Ecovillage’s beautiful cow.

• Mason jars are incredibly versatile, and are accepted at most coffee shops
• “Pet a cow a day, keep the stress away”
• You can do almost anything with cob
• “What goes together grows together”
• 3 S’s of watering – slow, spread, sink
• The ideal decline to slow water down is 10 degrees
• Sometimes sheep act like cows, and cows act like dogs
• “Action always happens on the edges”
• Plantains (the leaves, not the miniature bananas) are wonderful plants – you can chew it to make a good poultice.
• “Right plant, right place, right time”
• Kambocha is a living, pro-biotic tea, and the SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) is also called the “mother”
  

  A plantain leaf – all the veins go to the point of the leaf. The most common version is coloured all green.

• Diversity is the key to sustainability
• “The problem is the solution”
• A swail is a dale on a south facing slope
• It’s always better to over communicate than to under communicate

I know that there are countless things that have not made it to this list yet, many of which I will remember after I post it. I intend to update the list as I recall more, and to always aim to not only remember, but incorporate and utilize all that I’ve learned.