My Summer at Lost Valley Educational Center Lost Valley is a nonprofit educational center dedicated to sustainability education. Their two-month certificate program teaches students about permaculture design, sustainable living techniques, and ecovillage development. Students learned practical skills like natural building, gardening, and renewable energy systems. They also studied concepts like earth care, people care, and community building. The program culminated in group projects designing improvements to further establish Lost Valley as a model ecovillage.

1. My Summer at Lost Valley

14. The Outdoor Kitchen

15. The Creek Where we swam, played and did stream restoration to increase habitat and water quality

19. Stream Restoration We are moving a log into the stream to slow the flow of water and provide more edge and habitat for aquatic life to flourish We were also moving the log by consensus…

20. Yeah Garlic!

23. A short medicinal herb quiz

36. Mixing the papercrete “slurry”

37. A papercrete dolphin just for fun!

40. Preparing the cob slurry

41. Making straw “dookies”

43. Weaving the straw

44. Getting higher…

45. Two walls done!

48. Rocket stoves

52. Working together

53. Making music together

55. Eating Together

56. Traveling in style with Biodiesel

57. Relaxing together

59. Playing Together

67. Presentation of design projects!

69. The End