Description
The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain is an Earth Sanctuary and Learning Community dedicated to Healing the Human-Earth Relationship, founded in 2005. Our non-profit educational farm and learning center reside on 28 acres in the Piedmont Valley of North Carolina, eight miles west of Chapel Hill, on what is—to the best of our knowledge—ancestral lands of the Occaneechi-Saponi, Eno, Tutelo, Tuscarora, Sissipihaw, Shakori, Saura, and Catawba.
We offer what we practice: skills for community resilience, spiritual ecology, and permaculture. Our foundations have been guided by E.F. Schumacher, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Louv, adrienne marie brown, Charles Eisenstein, Joanna Macy, and Thomas Berry. Our offerings have proven over 15 years to reach children, young adults, Elders, teachers, policy-makers, clergy, and community organizers around the world.
The Eco-Institute is part of a global awakening. We recognize the detrimental effects of the industrial growth economy, and we are causing a shift toward a life-sustaining society. In the words of our friend and teacher Thomas Berry, we dream of a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship.