O.U.R. Ecovillage

Info🏛️ Public · Activity / Experience📍 Shawnigan LakeFree

Water bottle refillWashroomsCafé or food on site

O.U.R. Ecovillage is a 25-acre permaculture demonstration site and educational research centre established in 1999 on Vancouver Island near Shawnigan Lake, operating as a non-profit community services cooperative. It hosts guided public tours that walk visitors through natural building examples, food gardens, and ecological systems, reflecting decades of hands-on sustainable design. A touring cyclist would find it a genuinely unusual cultural stop — an intercultural, intergenerational living community with working farm, cob structures, and immersive courses ranging from permaculture design to natural building.

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What's here for you

Gathered from publicly available data and OpenStreetMap. Not confirmed by the owner yet.

✓Water bottle refill

✓Washrooms

✓Café or food on site

Website's public tours page states: 'We offer a mostly vegetarian, yummy, mostly organic, and mostly from OUR Garden' — lunch is available on tour days for those staying after the tour

Not confirmed yet

Bike parkingShowers (drop-in or fee)Water without admissionLuggage / bag storageVending machinesBike rack visible from insideCovered bike parkingPublic rack nearbyBike allowed inside/on patioDevice chargingWi-FiE-bike chargingPumpDiscount for arriving by bike

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Good to know

Kid-friendly

Time to allow: Half a day

Planning: Check ahead before you go

Best season: Summer

Indigenous

This place is in the traditional territory of the Á,LEṈENEȻ ȽTE (W̱SÁNEĆ), Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat), Quw’utsun, Te’mexw Treaty Association, and Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla.

Territory data from Native Land Digital, for educational purposes only.

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