Hands-on in the Solar Test Field & Garden

Join us for 12 days of annual maintenance in the solar test field, learn about community-building and experience an autumn full of abundance in the garden.

Overview

Help us prepare the community garden for the winter season, help close the Solar Kitchen for this season and prepare the indoor space for the coming winter.

In the mornings, we’ll be doing practical work, including tasks such as:

• planting vegetables and preparing beds in our community garden
• harvesting vegetables and fruits
• renovation work in and around our community space for the winter time
• depending on weather and harvest, drying fruits in the solar drier
• 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 Test Field 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 important social technology for creating trust and intimacy in a group, and learn about our philosophy, the Healing Biotopes Plan and our work towards energy autonomy.

Together, we’ll explore questions such as:

• How can people live together in truth and trust?
• What is peace work?
• How can regenerative communities make a difference to 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 Test Field, 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

“I really enjoyed learning-by-doing in many different aspects of the solar village and the greater community process.Thank you so much!”
– Julia

“Working in the Solar Test Field and learning new skills was a true gift. Though no larger than acquiring valuable wisdom from the elders and scientists of Tamera.This Course has done much to open my eyes to my true purpose, and for that I am grateful.”
– Marco

“It was a great overview and insight into Tamera. Even in such a short time I made great satisfying connections. The land is beautiful. Being outside in the natural world is soul fulfilling and hearing into a consciousness to honor nature with all beings is healing to the heart.”
– Georgie Hunt