Big Stone Ecovillage Russia
Localization in Russia - Vologda region
network citizens 2005 – 13 2007 – 23 2009 – 24 2011 – 18 2006 – 24 2008 – 24 2010 – 17 2012 - 19 Total 50 for 7 years
Circle for support about 100
Activities and main directions • Develop simple technologies of everyday life to be more sustainable • Learning wild plants, herbs • Build new bath-house-guest-house • Learning and implementing tradition in sustainable way of life • Education, cooperation, dissemination of experience
Small founding for local sustainability Garden with hens They live in apple garden, protect it from vermin, fertilize soil, loosen soil – preparing it to planting, eggs, peacock – singing, create traditional village spirit
For washing we use local herbs and make soap with ash, collecting snow and rain water
We cooking bread and other in traditional Russian stove
Make living fence from sod soil and plant berries bushes and tries
Learning together wild herbs • Intensive learning • Make seminars about wild herbs in our ecovillages Grishino and Kovcheg • Protecting rare species, • Use herbs in meal, health protection, household
In gardening we use 3 years circle: cut hey and plant potatoes -1 st year, 2 nd year plant rue for winter after digging potatoes, 3 rd year plant vegetables. Use hey for mulct and composting. Plant some plots of potatoes and rue without digging under hey.
Learning and implementing tradition for sustainable way of life. Build guest-house and new bath-house. Use traditional instruments building.
Make festivals Celebrated traditional holidays Solstices and Equinox and others symbolized changes in nature. Awaking deep memory and use experience of our ancestry
Winter
Spring
Summer
Autum
Education, cooperation, dissemination results • Participate in Cooperation program with St. Petersburg State University: lections, seminars, publication of educational materials about ecovillages as model for sustainability and about ethnoecology. • Research and practical projects and presenting on scientific conferences and publications about ecovillages, traditional communities as sustainable model • Make practical seminars and conferences about watershed and forest protection.
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