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.
- 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”
- 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.