Sunday, May 26th
9:30 to 5:30 pm

Join us for a day of learning, sharing, and community at The Living Centre Open House. Enjoy the serene grounds, participate in workshops, take a walk on the trails, and smell the flowers. Bring a blanket and lunch (vegan, please), enjoy the magnificence of nature, and get away from it all.

The Living Centre boasts one of Canada's oldest Forest Gardens and Medicine Wheel Herb Gardens, established in 1983.

PLANTS: We are excited to share from our garden to your garden a broad selection of edible, medicinal, and native plants and trees we have nurtured over the years.  Select your favourites on our webpage. 

BOOKS: We are downsizing! Browse through hundreds of new & used herbal, nutritional, holistic, inspirational and eco-spiritual new and used books for sale or donations. (And a bunch of other goodies)

Don't miss this unique opportunity to enrich your garden,  bookshelf and life!

Plant sales must be pre-ordered and paid for by May 18th. Please indicate which plants you are ordering. Thank you

Please RSVP (it’s free!) via the link at the bottom of the page.

SCHEDULE of inspirational and informative workshops offered throughout the day.

9:30 - Welcome (Lorenna & Shantree)

10 am - 10:45

Session 1 - Tour of The Living Centre - Natural Buildings, Forest Gardens etc -  (Adam Flint)
Session 2 - Healiing & Vitality from a Plant-based Diet (Therese Van Es)
Session 3 - The Power of Story Telling (Trae Robinson) 

11 am  - 11:45

Session 1 - Elemental  Meditation: Reconnecting with Your True Nature  (Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera)
Session 2 - Ethical Foraging: Responsible & Sustainable Harvesting (Tara Rowan)
Session 3 -  Solar Power Presentation (Chris Sheridan)

12 pm - 1:00 - BYO blanket, Vegan Lunch, and enjoy the beauty of the land

1 pm - 1:45

Session 1 -  Energetic Herbalism:  Integrating Vitalism & Deep Ecology (Shantree Kacera)
Session 2 - Gemmotherapy: Learn how to prepare extracts prepared from buds & young shoots of trees & shrubs (Christine Slonetsky) 
Session 3 - Pearadise Food Forest Tour: Allium & Allurement (Sasha Achtemichuk)

2 pm - 2:45 

Session 1 - Rewild & Reconnect Permaculture (Shantree Kacera) 
Session 2 - Wild Edible Foiraging: Gathering Food from Our Natural Environment (Tara Rowan)
Session 3) -  Soul Dreaming (Chris Sheridan)

3 on - 3:45

Session 1 - Living Your ‘Yes’ - Embracing the Wild Wisdom of  Body Knowing (Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera)
Session 2 - The Art of Beekeeping   (Jolanta Dabrowski)
Session 3 - Making native bee hives (Stefan Dabrowski)

4 pm - 4:45

Session 1 -  The Power of Story Telling (Trae Robinson) 
Session 2 - Pearadise Food Forest Tour: Allium & Allurement (Sasha Achtemichuk)
Session 3 - Ecological Pathways to a Regenerative Future (Shantree Kacera) 

5 pm - 5:30

Closing Ceremony