LEARNING FROM DIVERSITY EcoCamp 2020
Last summer, July 2020, Borgo Basino hosted a camp for visually impaired children. The two intense weeks of residential “Ecocamp,” in collaboration with the Francesco
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10 Things We’ve Learned Since Leaving Olympia
We just made it to the Fattorie Faggioli yesterday after 10+ days on the road. We packed up and moved out of cohousing on October
Solstice 2022
The first hard frost made the bed for a dusting of snow on our little hill this week. These long, cold winter nights feel familiar,
Guest Post: Kate Rudd, Regenerative Economics researcher
Kate Rudd is a Masters in Regenerative Economics student at Schumacher College. She visited us for a week as part of her dissertation research and
Permaculture Project Planning at Borgo Basino
Permaculture is a design system for areas inhabited by people that seeks to harmoniously integrate various aspects of the natural world, resulting in a sustainable,
Experiential Tourism
Discovering authentic local opportunities For over twenty years, Fattorie Faggioli and now Borgo Basino have collaborated with Professor Hiroko Kudo in welcoming Japanese delegations of
The Ecovillage Project
Discovering new answers to life's daily needs What is an ecovillage? You may have wondered what an ecovillage is. Perhaps you have some disconnected, even
The Borgo Basino Educational Farm
In Italy, a fattoria didattica, or educational farm, is a farm which goes beyond food production to include educational and training activities for schools, families
World Soil Day
A few weeks ago our youngest son came home from kindergarten with a hand decorated manifesto entitled "The 10 Natural Rights of Children." We learned
The Leaves the Summer Lent
Autumn repays the earth the leaves which summer lent it. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg I geared up the other day to check in on the bees. As I've
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Solstice 2022
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Rolling along!
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