Visitor Programs, Workshops, and Tours
Sustainable Living Visitor Program
For over 20 years, Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage has been a thriving sustainability demonstration project in Northeast Missouri. You can experience everything from organic permaculture garden and design to natural buildings, alternative energy, inner sustainability and self governance when you come and visit for our 2 week visitor program. Every year we host visitor programs along with other ways to come see the village. Click below to get more information on how you can come experience an eco-conscious community firsthand.
Visitor Program Sessions
- April 20 – May 4, 2025
- July 6 – 20, 2025
- September 21 – October 5, 2025
Work Exchange
Experience what daily life is like here at the village, while also gaining skills and tools that will help you for the rest of your life! We have a variety of opportunities for folks looking to work exchange, including but not limited to:
- Milkweed Mercantile Innkeep
- Natural Building Construction
- Dairy Co-op
- Organic Farming
Apply today and see if being a “Wexer” may be the next step on your journey!
Work Exchange Dates
Get in contact to find out what dates would work for you!
Using our twenty-year-old ecovillage as a living laboratory, our Permaculture Design Course interweaves the wisdom and knowledge of the permaculture movement with the firsthand learning experiences of an intentional community. This project-based-learning course can help you dive into the interconnected world of permaculture. Come learn ecological design principles that encompass the whole system working with nature to provide a regenerative form of growing food and living life.
Permaculture Design Course
- June 14 – 21, 2025
Women's Retreat
Embrace growth, self-love, and transformation during our four-day Women’s Retreat. The path to amplifying passion in your life, creativity and sacred gifts starts here!
Women’s Retreat
- October 9-12, 2025
Join us for our Annual Open House in 2024:
- Tours begin every half hour from 10am – 3pm
- Natural Building Demonstration
- Petting Farm
- Craft Fair
- Food and Drinks for sale
- and more!
Open House
- May 11th, 2024
Natural Building & Cob Oven Workshops
Have you ever wanted to build your own oven, using natural materials? Join us for a weekend of fun experiential learning! You’ll go home with the knowledge and skills to get cooking in your backyard. We’ll be getting messy, creating structural cob with our hands and feet, all while making new friends!
Natural Building Workshop
May 30 – June 2, 2025
Cob Oven Workshop
August 15 – 17, 2025
Singing Rabbit
Join us on Labor Day weekend for time and space to experience the beauty of song! Come and explore singing together within a thriving ecovillage. Join a community with a strong song culture and a rich background in using song in song circles, important life events, and everyday life.
Singing Rabbit Dates
- August 30 – September 2, 2024
We offer a tour of our village on the 2nd Saturday of the month, May through October. The tour begins at 1:00 pm and generally lasts one and a half to two hours. We have a limit to our tour group size, so YOU NEED TO MAKE A RESERVATION for our regularly scheduled tours. Please email us, and we will sign you up and send you directions.
Tour Schedule
- 2nd Saturday of the Month
- May through October