Nordic Permaculture Festival

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Join the Nordic Permaculture Festival in Norway 3rd – 6th August 2023!

The Nordic permaculture festival is an annual event that has toured the Nordic countries since 2011. This year it will be held at Bøensætre; a beautiful permaculture farm in Norway, situated in peaceful landscape in the municipality of Aremark, near the Swedish border. 

https://www.boensetre.no/en/home/

The Nordic permaculture festival is a gathering for sharing permaculture practice and inspiration. We aim to grow networks, spread information, knowledge and experiences about diverse and effective solutions for systemic change and regeneration of resources. Workshops at the festival will include hands on work and talks with themes ranging from what is growing from beneath our feet to what is unfolding in our hearts. Through this co-creative festival, we will contribute to a resilient and abundant future for people and the earth. In other words; we share permaculture! 

For more information about permaculture visit: https://www.permakultur.no/ 

The festival is a non-profit event where participants are invited and included to join as co-creators. All participants contribute with 2 hours of voluntary work. This is both a joyful thing to engage the cooperative spirit, and also to support the flow of the festival manifestation. When you arrive at the festival you will be given options to choose from according to the needs of the festival  (like food serving, cleaning duties, festival welcome team/parking, etc.).

 

Ticket pricing 
Our aim for the festival is to make it as economically accessible as possible, also for families and low waged. Please choose the ticket option that suits you, and if you come with children the 'family ticket' is for anyone who travels together with the children (Children aged 0-6 yr go free, and in the ticket payment system, adults count as 18 years upwards. In other words; children in the family price option are kids from 7- 17)

The festival ticket includes a menu of plant-based meals, with breakfast, lunch and dinner (from dinner Thursday evening, till Sunday lunch). See other food choices in the booking form.

The festival ticket does not include accommodation so please add your preferred option. 

The organizing team of volunteers dedicate their time and co-creative energy to make this festival as economically accessible as possible. In the event of an economic surplus after the festival, we will consider applications for a partial reimbursement of the festival ticket cost, according to 'fair shares'. If you want to be considered for such a reimbursement you can let us know in the booking form, and we will in that case be in touch after the festival to arrange this. Any economic surplus will go to a good cause; by having more funds to recompense workshopholders and the festival team for their fantastic willingness to contribute to manifest this great festival! 

If you have difficulty attending for economic reasons, we want to find ways to support you in this, so please get in touch at festival@permakultur.no.

 

Travel
The festival is situated far outside public transport. The festival site has limited parking, and we encourage you to use the shuttlebus we have arranged from Töcksfors or Halden, or; if you come by car, to arrange car sharing.

The shuttlebus is arranged to correspond (as much as possible) with train from Gothenburg (Festival bus pick up from Halden) and Flix bus from Stockholm or Oslo (Festival bus pick up from Töcksfors). Please choose the pick-up times in the booking form so we know how many to collect. 

For car parking we add a fee of NOK 220,- for the weekend, which also includes a local toll road, so you don't have to worry about that down the road. 

 

Accommodation
We have about 35 sleeping places in indoor accommodation, varying from very simple standard (storehouses with lofts and without windows) to a dormitory with alcoves to ordinary old-fashioned rooms. 

• Husmannstua (cottage) with 4 bed rooms, livingroom (used as bedroom) with a long table and chairs, kitchen and a entrance hall: total of 10-11 sleeping places:
  * 1. floor: Bedroom-1: 2 single beds. Bedroom-2 (livingroom): 1 single bed
  * 2. floor (steep staircase up): Bedroom-3: 2 double beds, one of the bed can hold 3 persons. Bedroom-4: 1 single bed. Bedroom-5: 1 double bed (for access you have to go through Bedroom-4).
   
• Stabbur (storehouse), north: 1 room without windows and with studio kitchen, kitchen stuff, refrigerator, table with benches, 2 single old beds on a single row and loft with 3-4 mattresses: total 4-6 sleeping places
   
• Stabbur (storehouse), south: 1 room without windows and with studio kitchen, kitchen stuff, refrigerator, table with bench and chairs, 2 single beds and loft with 3-4 mattresses: total 4-6 sleeping places
   
• Skolestua (school house): In the attic (steep external staircase up) with sleeping alcoves: 6 single alcoves with 1 mattress, 1 alcoves with double mattresses, 2 double alcoves with 2 mattresses: total 11-12 sleeping places

Please state your preference in the booking form. Please also note that these sleeping places are in shared rooms and will be allocated by the festival team, unless you contact us with any special needs. We will also like to draw your attention to that those who stays indoors must clean their room and shared rooms before departure.

 

General facilities 
There is a beautiful lake for swimming. So even if we have no showers, you will be able to enjoy refreshing bathing! The site has outdoor compost loos, even with a wooden urinal!

 

Please note that unfortunately it is not allowed to bring your pets or those of others.

Once you have booked, we will send you more details on what to bring and other details.

 

If you have any questions, or you are joining as a workshopholder, or volunteer, contact us at: 

E-mail: festival@permakultur.no

You will find more info on our Facebook site, where you also find the event. Please share the event and help spread the news for more people to hear about this wonderful gathering!:

https://www.facebook.com/TheNordicPermacultureFestival

We will also update information on our website: 

https://www.nordicpermaculturefestivalnorway.org/

 

Welcome to this fantastic opportunity to gather in a unique place for an inspiring connecting time!

 

With greetings from the festival team! :-)