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- Occidental Arts & Ecology Center Menu Shop Follow Donate Menu Our Work OAEC supports diverse communities to design their own regenerative systems at the regional and local scale. Vision & Strategy Mother Garden Biodiversity Permaculture Design WATER Institute Wildlands Restoration Movement Building Fiscally Sponsored Projects About OAEC Visual Tour Experience the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center through beautiful slideshows of our Guest Houses, Meeting Hall, Kitchen, Garden, Wildlands and more. About OAEC Staff & Board Jobs Internships Intentional Community Contact & Directions OAEC News Cookbook Group Retreats OAEC serves as a retreat center for networks, public agencies, foundations and other groups working towards social and environmental change. Group Retreats Home The Land Meeting Facilities Housing Food More Info Booking Details Visitor Information Plant Nursery Our 100% Certified Organic plant nursery specializes in open-pollinated perennials including edible landscaping plants, rare and endangered food crops, drought tolerant ornamentals and habitat plants - all tested in our onsite gardens and appropriate for our bioregion. OAEC Nursery Information Courses & Events Permaculture Design Certification OAEC offers the longest consistently running two-week Permaculture Design Certification course in the West. Immerse yourself in information, ideas and inspiration on how to design sustainable, regenerative systems in balance with your home ecosystem. Courses Plant Sales Tours Events & Performances Garden Volunteer Days Visitor Information Contact & Directions To protect biological and cultural diversity, we need rapid and dramatic change. Nursery Opens April 6th CA Beaver Bill Introduced 2023 Update – Strategies for Change Restoration depends on reawakening to our interdependence with the natural world. Help lead your community in the movement towards a just and sustainable transition. OAEC’s Vision & Strategy OAEC supports change makers and communities to design for a resilient future. We live in a time of profound challenges that require immediate, courageous and strategic responses. We are confronted by global ecological and climate crises, by widespread social injustice, and by economic and governance systems unwilling and unable to correct the course. OAEC’s work focuses on cultivating ecological literacy and building the capacity of civic and social movement leaders and organizations to guide their communities toward an ecologically regenerative, economically viable, and socially just future. We see that the most innovative and effective change is happening at the regional and local levels — all around the world. We work with communities in our own home region of Northern California, and we learn from and support similar efforts in many other parts of the U.S. and world. Join us! Vision & Strategy We humans are evolved to tend deep, regenerative and reciprocal relationships with the rest of the natural world. With the mission of protecting and restoring biological and cultural diversity, OAEC works to support diverse communities – schools, watershed groups, public agencies, social change organizations, and more – to design their own regenerative systems at the regional and local scale. Projects & Partnerships OAEC has a diverse, interrelated set of projects and partnerships, each sharing four strategies: 1) researching and modeling resiliency, 2) training and supporting change makers, 3) empowering organizations to design their own resilient communities, and 4) working in coalitions to change the rules of governance and economy. About OAEC OAEC is an 80-acre research, demonstration, education, advocacy and community-organizing center in Sonoma County, California. We host dozens of courses, retreats, tours and events each year; sell hundreds of varieties of organic plants at our Biodiversity Nursery; offer internships; and organize and advocate for social change. The Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) is an 80-acre research, demonstration, advocacy and organizing center in Sonoma County, California that develops strategies for regional-scale community resilience. Donate Plant Nursery Open April - October Nursery Phone: (707) 874-9591 Contact *protected email* (707) 874 1557 15290 Coleman Valley Rd. Occidental, CA 95465 Follow Newsletter Facebook Instagram Search Site design and development by 1stWave Interactive . © 2019 by the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center. All Rights Reserved. Site photography by Jim Coleman , Tali Aiona , Doug Gosling , Brock Dolman and Sashwa Burrous...