22 years of Healing the Human-Earth Relationship
The Eco-Institute at Sanctuary Farm is an Earth Sanctuary and Learning Community dedicated to Healing the Human-Earth Relationship, founded in 2003. Our non-profit educational center resides on Sanctuary Farm, in the Piedmont of North Carolina, eight miles west of Chapel Hill, on what is—to the best of our knowledge—ancestral lands of the Occaneechi-Saponi, Eno, Tutelo, Tuscarora, Sissipihaw, Shakori, Saura, and Catawba.
We offer what we strive to practice: skills for community resilience, spiritual ecology, and regenerative permaculture. Our foundational understandings have been guided by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Louv, adrienne marie brown, Charles Eisenstein, Joanna Macy, and Thomas Berry. Our offerings have reached children, young adults, Elders, teachers, policy-makers, clergy, and community organizers around the world.
The Eco-Institute recognizes the detrimental effects of the industrial growth economy, and we see ourselves as part of a shift toward a life-sustaining society. In the words of our friend and teacher Thomas Berry, we dream of a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship.
We are a community-supported initiative: click here for more info about how you can help.