Hands-on in the Solar Test Field & Garden

Join us for 12 days of annual maintenance in the solar kitchen and garden, and learn about community building.

Overview

Help us prepare the community garden and our Solar Test Field for the coming season.

In the mornings, we’ll be doing practical work. Tasks could include:

• refurbishing the secondary mirror of the big Scheffler reflector (metal and painting)
• painting the little walls with lime
• planting and preparing beds in our community garden
• and many other details that make a place functional, beautiful and homely.

In doing so, you’ll also get to know our solar cooking possibilities and the Testfield in more detail.

In the afternoons, we’ll have group time, guided by one of our community’s most experienced group leaders and elders. You’ll experience Forum, an invaluable social technology for creating trust andintimacy in a group, and learn about our philosophy, the Healing Biotopes Plan and our work towardsenergy autonomy.

Together, we’ll explore questions like:

• How can people live together in truth and trust?
• What is peace work?
• How can regenerative communities make a difference in a world in crisis?

Who is the service for?

• People who want to and are physically able to clean, repair, and maintain things or do garden work
• People interested in community-building
• People interested in regenerative autonomy and complicity-free living

What you’ll learn

• The vision of the Solar Testfield, its evolution and its present stage of manifestation
• Introduction to our bioenergetic gardening work
• How restoring inner autonomy and choice through community-building practices, particularly Forum, helps us create sustainable autonomous systems
• Why we work with love and sexuality as political issues

This is an emerging Healing Biotope where we work to reconnect and restore the wholeness of life. Courses are focused on specific topics, but all of our research exists within an interconnected web, so your learning will likely expand into other areas.

As a learner, you can join our morning offerings, which may include activities like Yoga and Qi Gong. You’ll also be able to participate in whole community events, such as our Sunday matinee, the Ring of Power, and Political Cafes.

What we will do

• Practical work in the garden and Solar Test Field
• Introduction to Tamera’s foundational thoughts with a particular focus on the area of autonomy
• Forum work

Testimonials

“It was actually quite fun, having working time in the mornings and grouptime in the afternoons,with Forum where we could directly address issues which have come up while working together.”
– Alex

“I am surprised and deeply grateful for all the topics that were discussed and explored around community-building.”
– A participant in 2024

“The content has resonated to the core of my essence and what has awakened in my mind and energy system as a result can only be captured in the word magic”.
– Another participant in 2024