We are pleased to announce the first course of 2024 at Ermitaj: a 2-day permaculture gardening workshop, taking place on May 11th and 12th! Permaculture is not just about gardening, but the garden often serves as the first step for newcomers toward resilience. Bill Mollison stated that if 20% of the population were gardeners, the … Read more
Ermitaj responded to the call of GEN – Global Ecovillage Network – to help people fleeing the war in Ukraine. Cantemir, current resident at Ermitaj, is the main contact in Romania for refugees from Ukraine that are also members of GEN Given the alarming situation and the constant influx of refugees in Romania, we have … Read more
From August 26 to 29, a course will be held on the creation of a food forest, in Romanian, with Radu Craciun and Cristina Colis from the Romanian permaculture association. For more information, see the article in Romanian!
From July 12 to 31, Ermitaj invites you to participate in its first “camptier”! The idea of the “camptier” comes to us from Pascal Depienne, professor of permaculture, and his French association “Terre-Paille & co”: “The ‘camptier’ is a self-managed participatory worksite, we facilitate the transmission of know-how in natural construction and we share a … Read more
Unfortunately, we have to cancel the PDC 2021. The travel conditions from England being too uncertain, due to the Covid situation … But this is only a postponement! See you in 2022 for the next PDC, which may be organized in Romanian, which would be unprecedented!Instead, we decided to organize a 4 day forest … Read more
From May 22 to 23, 2021, we are organizing a weekend of introduction to permaculture with Radu Craciun, from the Romanian permaculture association. The course will be given in Romanian, and will be followed by a course in permaculture design methods from May 29 to June 1. Between the two events, participants have the opportunity … Read more
From 29th of May to 1rst of June, we are organizing a course on “Permaculture Design Methods” with Radu Craciun from the romanian association of Permaculture. The course will be held in romanian language. If if you want more information, please check out the romanian article!
What’s going on at Ermitaj?? Like most of the world, our plans for 2020 have been somehow… turned upside down! At the start of the year, we announced our season agenda with enthusiasm, and it was a busy one! In early March, the health crisis took hold in Europe, and the first confinement-related … Read more
The 2020 season is already on the horizon … and a year has passed since the last newsletter! We apologize for this long silence, which doesn’t mean that we had nothing to say, but quite simply that we preferred to spend time on the land rather than behind our screens. But we will catch up … Read more
