Ecovillage Weekend

Want to see what life is like at a rural ecovillage but don’t have time to dedicate a week or more to the visit?

We’ve designed the Ecovillage Weekend for those who can’t leave their lives behind for more than a few days but are curious to gain first-hand experience in what it’s like to live in an ecologically focused intentional community.

Your visit will be full of educational experiences, hands-on activities, DIY fun—and it just might set your life on a different course. 

When you attend the Ecovillage Weekend at Dancing Rabbit you will:

  • Listen to howling coyotes, croaking frogs, and hooting owls while you gaze at the stars of the Milky Way.
  • Experience connection, purpose, and enjoyment when you work alongside others to help with our building or gardening projects.
  • Learn more about the inner-workings of cooperative decision making—and the truly radical work of talking to your neighbor—when you observe a village council meeting and participate in a practical workshop.
  • Have plenty of choice to work hard in the garden, take it easy swimming in the pond, or simply spend time swinging in a hammock and reflecting on your experiences.
  • Get to know yourself on a deeper level, and take home tools for working with your own community, when you engage in a workshop on communication and conflict.
  • Have deep, engaging conversations over shared meals prepared at our straw bale eco inn with like-minded people that stretch through dinner and beyond.
  • Make your own fun with eco villagers and other visitors when you participate in a song circle, game night, bonfire, or music jam.
  • Spend the weekend getting a taste for a different way of living together that just might change your life path.



Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage is an intentional community and demonstration project, experimenting our way toward a vision of ecologically sustainable living while supporting one another and celebrating the everyday joys of a rural life on the prairie.  

Come visit and see what we’re about!

Located in Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage

Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, nestled in the rolling hills of Northeast Missouri, is one of the most well-known and successful ecovillages in the country, and one of the few in the Midwest. Founded in 1997, DR is home to many excellent examples of sustainable and eco-living. Plus the stars at night are amazing. You can check out the rest of our website to learn more about our ecovillage.

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