Ecological Living at Rustling Roots: intentional community visit pt 4!!!

OVERVIEW

Feeling bogged down by modern capitalist society? Is the pressure to conform, get an internship, compete with others, emit CO2, etc. making you feel oh so very sad? Do you wonder if there’s a better way of living for both you AND the planet?? Come join Emi, Ella and Cat as we leave Charlottesville and travel 37 miles east to the mystical Louisa County– which holds several intentional communities. We will be returning to Cambia, a small income sharing community that hosts an ecological living and learning center known as Rustling Roots. Here we will learn how members of the Cambia community nurture themselves and the earth!
On this trip Cambia will give us a workshop on Sunday!! Some prior workshops have included treehouse building, tree debarking, and cob oven building 🙂 They’ll also take us through a guided group activity called a Heart Circle– a super cool listening/sharing exercise which they use to build and maintain connection.

Highlights & Important Trip Details:
– This is an OVERNIGHT trip, which means we’ll be leaving Cville at 4:15 pm on Saturday, spending the night at Rustling Roots’ campground, and getting back ~3 pm on Sunday!
– We’ll get to have a general tour of the sustainability museum and other creations (see list below or website for more details!) as well as our workshop, communal lunch, and heartcircle.
– For meals, we’ll cook dinner together, BYOBreakfast, and we’ll get the chance to cook with the good folks of Cambia for lunch on Sunday after our workshop (get hype for this amazing mostly-homegrown vegan food!)

Feel free to contact Emi (703)-946-3329, Ella (804)-647-0461, or Cat (757)-681-5673 with any questions or concerns about the trip!

ITINERARY
Saturday
– 4:15 pm: we skedaddle out of Charlottesville
– 5:00 pm: arrive at Cambia
– 5:15 pm: Cambia tour
– 6pm: set up camp, make a fire, club makes our own dinner together
– 8pm: chill fun night time activities (heart circle!!) and sleeping
Sunday
– 7am: Breakfast – you bring your own!
– 8 am: workshop!!
– 11:30 lunch commences
– 2 pm finished with lunch
– 3 pm we arrive back in Cville
Bring:
– Breakfast & any personal snacks you may desire
– bowl/plate and utensil for eating
– Leaves and vegetables etc. for communal lunch will be coordinated the week beforehand
– Ingredients for communal dinner (we’ll send out a spreadsheet to coordinate this)
– Sleeping bag & pad, layers for nighttime
– Waterbottle
– Toiletries
We will bring:
– Tents
– Camp stoves and pots

Things to Get Excited About!:
– Electric antique car conversion
– Solar cooking & hot water
– A self cleaning pond
– Geothermal AC
– Composting toilet
– Developing food forests & gardens
– Food dehydration and canning
– Suspended Yurt
– Shipwrecked Boat House
– BioSand Filter
– Wigwam
– Natural Building Projects
– Rocket Mass Heater
– Temple/Meditation Space
– Little Land depiction of average US consumption
– Atmospheric CO2 model
– Barbie’s Ecovillage
– Carbon Balance Model

Learn more about the community! — https://rustlingroots.org/54-2/

*DRIVERS NEEDED!! driver’s will get priority off the waitlist
*members of the service-sustainability committee will get priority off the waitlist for this trip