Self sufficient , me!
July 2022
This project took place at the COB eco-project, focusing on sustainability, natural building, and regenerative farming practices. Participants engaged in hands-on workshops covering topics such as permaculture design, eco-construction, renewable energy, and zero-waste living. The project provided practical learning experiences in areas like natural cosmetics, low-impact cooking, and food preservation techniques. It aimed to empower young people through experiential education and promote sustainable lifestyles within an international community.
The COB eco-project is a permaculture farm and an intentional community that is specialized in natural building, regenerative farming and alternative technologies.
The COB eco-project is a social cooperative of sustainable development which primarily started as an educational project to spread the know-how, the philosophy, theory and practice of natural building and bioclimatic architecture guided by the safe and sustainable management of resources and energy. Our organization has been active in the field of youth and adult education for more than seventeen years. It has developed its own training methods, workshops, and courses and has organized multiple educational activities on sustainability and ecology.
Workshops for young people run here frequently and every year more and more long-term volunteers are following their intuitive learning path through the practical exploration and implementation of techniques and practices like cob eco building, permaculture design, natural farming, agroforestry, healthy nutrition, zero waste lifestyle, renewable energy solutions, nonviolent communication and group decision making techniques like sociocracy. Moreover, our farm acts as a hub that connects young people with other projects in Greece and abroad, to support them in following their intuitive learning path and deepen their knowledge in their topic of interest and to strengthen the community of eco-projects throughout Greece and all Europe.
Activities
Natural Building: Participants will be learning different natural and bioclimatic designing and building methods and techniques and we will build a small community wooden oven using mud and straw!
Regenerative farming: Participants will learn the principles and practices of ecological farming methods that produce abundance of food and regenerate the landscape. We will be learning in theory and through hands-on experience how to create edible urban and rural forests and sustainable gardens.
Natural cosmetics: Participants will create a wide range of cosmetics that are eco-logical but also healthy for our body, like natural soaps, toothpastes, wax creams, ointments, and many more!
Low footprint cooking devices: Participants will be introduced to and learn how to design as well as all the practicalities of solar ovens, wood ovens, Dutch ovens, rocket stoves and more!
Food processing and preservation structures: Participants will be having an on-spot experience of the infrastructure and use of solar food dryers, smokehouses, and cellars.