Welcome to Lak'ech EcoLodge & Ranch

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Lak’ech means oneness of all living things, seeing life from “me” to “we” and seeking authenticity in action, speech, and emotion.

Imagine a land where llamas give kisses, strawberries run wild and time does not exist. Where water, energy and smiles are free. Where you have freedom to find your big dream.

Lak’ech EcoLodge and Ranch is sustainable living skills and nature education centre as well as a working permaculture farm located on 76 acres of pristine boreal forest five minutes west of Pigeon Lake and 1 hour southwest of Edmonton, Canada.

Lak’ech EcoLodge and Ranch lives a small carbon footprint, combining sustainable living practices in harmony with nature in our kitchen and forest gardens and orchards, holistic animal husbandry and reduction and reuse of resources. We utilize passive solar buildings, grey water collection, composting toilets, resource recycling (glass, metal, plastics , manure, wool fibers) and resource re-use (windows, lumber, sawdust).

"We can keep putting Band-Aids on the thing. Or we can fix it." (Tony Geraci)

We base our construction and gardening practices on the principles of permaculture, biodynamics and organics and offer volunteer and short-term apprenticeship opportunities in natural building, wellness, gardening and holistic animal management. We provide a safe, creative, nurturing environment for children and their families to experience nature at its authentic best! Lak’ech EcoLodge is owned and operated by the Guilbeault family.

“One question: one answer: Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic?

Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question- Is it right?

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right.”

(Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)