Hästekasen permaculture farm, learning and adventure center

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About the Communities

  • Forming
  • English
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2018

What we do

A small scale farm close to the sea on the Swedish west coast. At the end of a road, with a big forest in the back.
Aiming for self-sufficiency by permaculture farming. Hens, bees, sheep, ducks, dog, cat. It’s not aiming for a village (yet), more of a main house and small one-room satellite houses around it. Small off the grid, low impact, low standard houses, tiny houses. 12 hectares. 1 hectare for animals, 1 hectare for farming, the rest for recreation and firewood and building material.
We focus on water, food, shelter, warmth, building (with natural material), sewage (dry toilets).
We are attached to Erasmusplus, ESC, WWOOF and Couchsurfing. In the summertime there is a lot of visitors doing adventure activities and some yoga. Some 30+ people here.
We are looking for volunteers that would like to do an Erasmusplus/ESC volunteering (6-9 months)
A strict no-drug policy. Not even smokers of nicotine are welcome. We try to eat less sugar, avoid carrying and staring into mobiles.
We are not so “hippie-peace-love and understanding”, more like green entrepreneurs.
Hästekasen is preparing for potential collapses in economy, ecology, “energy”. Hard work is needed, more producing, less consuming.
We eat some meat, but only if it is home slaughtered. We are mostly atheists. We like nature, our own music, sport/yoga, handicraft.
We are currently saving money to be able to buy neighboring land and expand, but it is an expensive area due to proximity to the sea.
We have got a few huts for rent.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • English
  • Swedish
  • Community type
  • Intentional Neighborhoods
  • Land-Based Communities
  • Activities
  • Permaculture
  • Education
  • Experiences

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2018
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2025
  • Started living together

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  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
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How to join

Read the homepage.
Google the name.
Look at all pictures.
Present yourself thoroughly.
Start with a short “couchsurfing”.
Maybe a “workaway”.
Share the vision and lifestyle ambitions.
Land for lease available
Who are you?
What do you eat?
What is your relationship to money?
Is there a god?
How do you define honor?
Are there things you would never do?
How is your agreeableness?
How do you celebrate?
What do you produce?
What is your thoughts on toilets?
Could you produce more than you consume?
At what level do you recycle?
What are your skills in non violent communication?
Are you spiritual? How does that affect your choices?
How do you use music?
Your thoughts on hygiene?
What addictions do you have?
Can you kill?
Are you open minded?
How much energy do you consume?
What are you afraid of?
Have you met your inner child?
Work ethics. What does that mean to you?
Ever thought about your greed?
Do you know the difference between your needs and wants?
Can you build your own house?
What is your relationship to your mobile phone?
Bag with wheels or backpack?
What is in your make-up?
What irritates you?
… or whatever defines you…

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Hästekasen permaculture farm, learning and adventure center

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10 years ago

Permaculture Design Course

Der Permakultur-Designkurs vermittelt den TeilnehmerInnen die planerischen und fachlichen Grundlagen, um Gärten, Betriebe, Projekte und Unternehmen nach den Prinzipien der Permakultur zu gestalten. Auch in der Bau- und Stadtplanung können die Prinzipien Anwendung finden, um eine zukunftsfähige Lebensweise zu fördern. Dabei steht das Verständnis der natürlichen Kreisläufe und Prozesse im Vordergrund, welches die Grundlage des Permakultur-Designs ist. Der Lernweg einer tiefen Naturverbindung wird während des Kurses beschritten, um den Menschen im ökologischen Netzwerk der Erde wieder einzubinden. Dabei ist auch die Gemeinschaftsbildung ein wichtiger Bestandteil dieses ökologischen Geflechts, die während des Kurses eine bereichernde Erfahrung für die TeilnehmerInnen sein wird. Der Intensivkurs umfasst alle Module des Permakultur-Designkurses nach dem internationalen Curriculum und schafft somit die Voraussetzungen für die Ausbildung zum/zur Permakultur Designer/in. Inhalte: – Einführung in die Permakultur – Permakulturplanungsinstrumente und Designprozesse – Selbstversorgung mit Permakultur – Bauen, Wohnen und Leben in der Permakultur – Permakultur in Dörfern, Städten und Gemeinschaften – Natur- und Sinneswahrnehmungsübungen – Pflanzenkunde, Kompostieren, essbare Waldgärten und vieles mehr weitere Infos auf www.alpine-permakultur.ch Preis: Seminarpreis: CHF 1600.- Frühbuchpreis bis 1. Mai 2016 CHF 1400.- Kost & Logis inkl. Vollpension: – Mehrbettzimmer CHF 95.- – Zelt CHF 70.-/Nacht Für wenig Verdienende: – Sommer: Zelt CHF 60.- – Frühling, Herbst, Winter: Mehrbettzimmer CHF 85.- Mitnehmen: – Schreibutensilien – wetterfeste Kleidung – gutes Schuhwerk Buchung: Per e-mail an in**@**********lp.ch oder online über die Webseite bis 3 Wochen vor Kursbeginn Ort: Verein Zentrum der Einheit Schweibenalp CH-3855 Brienz Telefon: +41 (0) 33 952 2000 E-Mail: in**@**********lp.ch Telefonzeiten: Mo. – Fr. 10.00 – 12.00 Uhr und 1
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Ecological Design Thinking

This postgraduate programme in Ecological Design Thinking will help to create a global network of design educators and practitioners able to respond to pressing economic, social and ecological challenges. It will enable students to play an active and transformative role in communities as we meet the challenge of transitioning to low carbon, high well-being and resilient places and systems. Never has there been a more important time for a new approach to design. students on an ecological design courseThe programme is rooted in an exploration of ecosystem dynamics, trends and behaviour, and socio-cultural systems and dynamics. It will focus on the design of the built environment and the connected ecological and social systems and services, but students will also be encouraged to apply lessons from nature to the design of all of our systems – political, economic, educational and sociocultural. Together, we will explore how transdiscplinary, collaborative teams can solve complex problems, and how using approaches from nature to shape all of our relationships might help us to create healthy, durable, resilient, just, and prosperous communities. Students will experiment with new ways of working first in studio where they will apply the principles of Ecological Design, and then through a series of short placements with partner organisations. They will be introduced to facilitation and participation techniques, and will be involved in the co-production of both the design, and the full lifecycle of projects. There will be a particular focus in the studio sessions on the design of settlements and the connected ecological and social systems and services. Taught elements will include input from leaders in the fields of ecological design, ecology, climate change, new economics and social change from around the world. This programme is the fourth postgraduate programme to be developed at Schumacher College and will contribute to and enhance the ongoing collaborative i

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