Events: Congress, Course in Brienz

One-day course on growing edible mushrooms. Learn basics, inoculate logs with mycelium, and create a small mushroom garden. One inoculated log included.

Weekend course at Schweibenalp exploring wild spring herbs. Learn to safely identify edible plants, forage them, and prepare delicious wild herb dishes together.

Workshop at Schweibenalp on sensory plant perception. Explore plants with all your senses, feel their vitality, and deepen your connection to nature.

You get to know local edible wild herbs, their uses for cooking and health, collect and taste them during a herbal snack, and deepen your connection with nature.

The tour is offered on six different dates: 17 May, 27 June, 25 July, 29 August, 26 September and 17 October.

Boat rides with nostalgic steam boats on the beautiful Lake Brienz.

Retreat with Linda Tucker (in English with German translation)

Seminar at Schweibenalp on European gaiamancy. Learn to read the landscape as a living being, recognize places of power, and experience the wisdom of the Earth

You immerse yourself in the living world of plants, explore their qualities with all your senses, and experience their messages as a mirror of your own perception and inner connection.

Immerse yourself in plant energy at the summer solstice. Experience their essence through practices, meditation, and ritual, and celebrate nature’s abundance in community.

You explore the connection between inner and outer landscapes, gather herbs and fruits, experience permaculture in a hands-on way, and discover how natural processes enrich your gardens and your life.

You learn how rituals bring stability, immerse in silence through forest bathing, and connect with a tree to receive and honor its messages.

Learn the traditional art of scything and peening: how to adjust, sharpen and care for a scythe, and apply the mowing technique with joy and a healthy rhythm

Herb Week at Schweibenalp: Learn to identify, grow, and process medicinal plants, create your own herbal products, and deepen your knowledge through nature experiences.

Advanced distillation course: You transform hydrolats into cosmetic and medicinal applications, learn advanced distillation, create attars, and develop effective healing recipes.

Hands-on permaculture week at Schweibenalp. Learn plant propagation, scything, forest garden care, seed saving and more through shared practical work.

You rediscover the world of plants, explore their vibrations, language, and soul, connect modern biology with ancient wisdom, and experience nature with all your senses and curiosity.

You explore the summer herb terraces, discover medicinal plants, their healing properties, harvest times and uses for home remedies and the kitchen, and experience them with all your senses.

Learn gardening basics at 1100 m: raise seedlings, plant and care for crops, improve soil, build humus, and apply permaculture in practice.

Learn how forest gardens work, are maintained and used. Gather and process food, understand ecological relationships, and experience two days of permaculture outdoors.

Plan your garden with permaculture. Learn ethics, principles and tools, and apply them in a hands-on design exercise on your own project or an exampl