Off Grid Festival comes to Devon

After seven successful years Off Grid Festival has found a new home in Devon.

Off Grid festival is a green family event that has grown out of the British grassroots festival movement. Over the last seven years the event has educated and informed thousands of people about the skills and knowledge required to live a low-impact ‘off-grid’ lifestyle.

The festival brings together some of the UK’s most progressive thinkers and practical activists . It’s mission is to share the tools and technologies needed to move humans towards sustainable living. Participants of all ages will engage in an immersive educational experience curated over four packed days of workshops, talks, forums and practical activities. There is also plenty of time to celebrate the counties vibrant music scene with the likes of Jabbrock, Cave Mouth, Hazarr! and Alex Kumar providing entertainment in the evening.

Local organisations involved in the project include the Exeter Pound – which will provide the onsite currency for the event; Transition Exeter; Exeter Community Energy; The REconomy Centre from Totnes, as well as national groups such as The Permaculture Association and Transition Network, many of whom are very active in and around Devon.

At the core o©f this unique event is the Off Grid College, a 12 module course in practical sustainability, applied permaculture and appropriate technology, featuring some of the UK’s most respected teachers and practitioners in subjects as diverse as eco retro-fitting your home, wild and natural healthcare, forest gardening and DIY energy systems.

Off Grid Festival is a special exploration of community living, creativity and consciousness; creating an intimate environment in which to learn, share skills, trade knowledge, impart wisdom and make a difference. It is a 100% participatory event, self-organised by those that attend.

The four-day festival offers organic, local food and drink, a family friendly vibe including the West- country’s finest storytellers, an Off Grid Kids space, along with plenty of entertainment and live music. There is also a large crafts and technology area showcasing local and traditional crafts from stone-carving to woodturning, weaving and blacksmithing alongside modern sustainable and renewable technologies.

Off Grid organisers are delighted to have found a new home for the event at The Biophilia Project, Exeter set in 96 acres of regenerated meadow and woodland. Biophilia aims to be as ‘off-grid’ and independent as possible, and supports the growth of biodiversity and nurture of the local Biosphere. An enterprise that seeks to define and develops models & steps towards a future in which humanity could live in enriching harmony with nature.

Following on from the successful crowd-funding campaign the second tier of 250 tickets will be going on sale in the first week of May 2016.

Off Grid festival offers the participant a chance to learn how we could best live in harmony with the world around us, presenting a chance to discover, and re-discover, a way of life that fully embraces our human ecology and our place in a sustainable, low-impact, future. A model where we can thrive rather than simply survive.

Between August 11th – 14th August 2016 this emerging community will open the doors of perception and glimpse Another World.