Product Description
Noosa Forest Retreat is a holistic community that runs permaculture and community farming courses to share holistic living principles with those that visit. The community ethos centres around holistic living, with utmost importance place on treating the land and all life on it as sacred. With organic, permaculture farming, involvement in local permaculture, biosphere and online education, they aim not only to grow nutritious food but also to build a healthy community, living to the motto “the ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and evolution of human beings. Along with sustainable organic & permaculture farming, Noosa Forest Retreat offer opportunities to practice yoga, Ayurveda, and a vegetarian or holistic lifestyle following a “simple living, higher thinking” philosophy.
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The goal of their Holistic permaculture community on the Sunshine Coast is to set up sacred space and support structure on the coast for individuals that are ready to commit to explore themselves and their place as part of the environment; whether it be permaculture, music, literature, art, syntropic gardening, or whatever your interest may be.
Good For
Those looking to create a healthy and sustainable habitat on their own property
Programmes & Offerings
Residential Permaculture Course – 12-day residential Permaculture Design Certificate Course in the Noosa Hinterland (Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia). Learn from a community of Permaculture specialists, and earn your internationally recognised PDC.
Syntropic Farming Course – A 2 days and 2 night course focusing on Syntropic farming, a system invented and explored by Swiss farmer Ernst Gotsch. Byron Bay farmer Thiago Barbosa has worked with Mr Gotsch on successive syntropic farming projects in Brazil and is a forerunner of the technique in Australia. Thiago is coming up to the Sunshine Coast to present this 2-day intensive course together with personal development keynote speaker & permaculture teacher Ian Trew.
Facilities
Noosa Forest Retreat is a registered land for wildlife forest reserve and also listed by United Nations as a biosphere. There is no better location to connect with nature, explore the bushwalking tracks within the National Park or go foraging in the food forest. Get involved in growing food in the organic permaculture garden and develop a more intimate relationship and understanding with the whole life cycle of nature.
In the evening, let your new found knowledge sink in, as you relax on the terrace or by the fire-pit. And for those not wanting to be too far away from the outside world, the retreat offers complimentary WIFI to let you stay in touch.
Food & Drink
All food is vegetarian and vegan, freshly grown in the animal friendly organic food gardens
Accommodation
Accommodation at Noosa Forest Retreat offers simple eco housing in a green paradise of National Park, old growth forest and fresh water streams. The property is a registered land for wildlife forest reserve and also listed by United Nations as a biosphere.
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