MAY 24 - 25, 2025
Kootenay EcoFest
A festival focused on building community while reconnecting to nature through local waste reduction solutions, live demonstrations, inspiring learning opportunities, and local arts and cultural experiences.
The WORkshops & Tours
Seasonal Eating & Rituals
Seasonal Eating & Rituals
Seasonal Eating & Rituals
Explore how seasonal eating nourishes both our health and the planet. With Emily Enright, learn simple rituals, practices, and nutrition tips that align with nature’s rhythmic changes.
Cannabis for Wellness
Seasonal Eating & Rituals
Seasonal Eating & Rituals
Terese Bowors will explore how to cultivate a sustainable, intentional relationship with cannabis for healing, growing, and making your own medicine.
Wildcrafting Walking Tour
Seasonal Eating & Rituals
Wildcrafting Walking Tour
Join Keith Davis on a walking tour of the local forest and learn how to identify plants and wildcraft correctly.
Intro to Herbal Infusions
Seasonal Eating & Rituals
Wildcrafting Walking Tour
Tracey Green will guide you through the basics of making herbal infusions for aromatherapy, massage oil and other body products.
Sustainable Fashion
Fungi Networks in our Forest
Fungi Networks in our Forest
Join Chloe Roberts, artist-in-residence at KSA, and learn to transform or mend discarded textiles into stunning creations.
Fungi Networks in our Forest
Fungi Networks in our Forest
Fungi Networks in our Forest
Identify fungal networks in our ecosystem and learn an understanding of forest ecology with Heather Scott.
Bear Spring Farm Tour
Fungi Networks in our Forest
Sinixt History and Culture
Join Marvin Work on a farm tour of Bear Spring Eco Retreat introducing you to pesticide free gardening and more.
Sinixt History and Culture
Fungi Networks in our Forest
Sinixt History and Culture
Learn about the Sinixt peoples and how Rich Desautel defied Canadian law to prove Sinixt people were never extinct.
Fungi Networks in the Forest
Introduction to Spoon Carving
Fungi Networks in the Forest
Identify fungal networks in our ecosystem and learn an understanding of forest ecology with Erik Hrabovsky.
Intro Tincture Making
Introduction to Spoon Carving
Fungi Networks in the Forest
With Patrick Kooyman, a practicing herbalist, learn to make tinctures using wildcrafted medicinal plants and fungi.
Fruit and Nut Trees
Introduction to Spoon Carving
Introduction to Spoon Carving
Cultivating fruit and nut trees with Lucas Rivard.
Introduction to Spoon Carving
Introduction to Spoon Carving
Introduction to Spoon Carving
Join Jack Radford, carpenter and green woodworker, to learn the basics of carving spoons using hand tools.
Wayfinding Nature Wander
Bicyle Repair in the Repair Café
Wayfinding Nature Wander
Join Andrea Fox on an "Elemental Journeys" and an exploration of the four directions. Learn compass and navigation skills, interwoven with land based teachings, reflections, and games!
Botanical Printing
Bicyle Repair in the Repair Café
Wayfinding Nature Wander
Learn to imprint with locally grown plant materials with local fibre artist, Tracy Fillion, and take home an eco printed bandana. Learn about dye gardens and ethical foraging too.
Bicyle Repair in the Repair Café
Bicyle Repair in the Repair Café
Bicyle Repair in the Repair Café
Bring your bicycle for tire/tube changes, gear & brake adjustments, wheel tuning, hydraulic brake bleeds, general bicycle maintenance with Levi Koroscil of Kootenay Cycle Works.
Moonflower Music Jam
Bicyle Repair in the Repair Café
Bicyle Repair in the Repair Café
Alex Leffelaar, a founder of Moonflower Collective - a thriving hub for artists, is hosting the stage at this year’s EcoFest and welcomes anyone who would like to join in or share any music.
Festival schedule
RECYCLE MARKET lineup (Includes handmade and foraged)
Saturday Vendors
Feral Flora Botanicals
A unique, handcrafted hair and skin care products made with purposely harvested botanicals with the changing seasons and Sinixt protocols.
Wildcrafted Mountain Herbals
Bringing you the best quality in herbal products and use all natural and organic ingredients.
Halcyon Wild Foods
Purveyors of the finest in foraged products. Forever nomads, we are of the forests, mountaintops and seasides.
A special shout out to our sponsors!
