Permaculture Children's House

Dynamic Agroforestry 3 days course in Chiang Mai Thailand

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COURSE IS POSTPONED END OF NOVEMBER 2020

Regenerative Agroforestry or Dynamic Agroforestry (DAF) is one way forward into the future that can support small scale and larger scale farmers on the path of regeneration of production landscapes and at the same time create socially flourishing and economic abundant bioregional communities. Already practiced in many countries worldwide by 1000s of small scale farmers in tropical climates and in recent years in Temperate Climates. Also some mechanized , larger scale farm trails have been implemented all around the world.(ex. Montpellier France Trails, Fazenda de Toca in Brazil , Freddys Plantation in Ivory Coast)

This Regenerative Agroforestry course aims to trigger behavioral changes in the way we practice food production and wants to stimulate and facilitated a transformation of our degraded agriculture systems back onto a path of creating gardens of Eden and abundance for all. One of the fundamental educational principles of this transformational process is to apply regenerative agricultural practices developed from the understanding of the processes that govern nature!

We Humans are co-creators and our role as co-creators is no more important than that of all other co-creators of for example the animal, plant or mineral world. Humans have responsibilities to their co-creators, and vice versa. Unless one understands his/her place in the whole, there is always a tendency to move beyond, to glorify, to be driven by greed, exploitation and self-importance.
We will have to regain a sense of humility and realize that we are just one part of an intelligent system and are not the intelligent once! Through working and collaborating again with nature and her planetary principles we will be able to address deep root causes of the environmental crisis we find ourselves in and together will be able to find long term solutions instead of fighting symptoms. At the core is the awareness of inter- dependence and the respect for plants, animals, and the ecosystems we live in, and for those behaviors that have assisted long term human survival and evolution within the natural world.

Topics covered in the course:

• Dynamic, Successional Agroforestry and Analog Forestry Practices
• Permaculture Ethics, Principles, Design and Practices
• Soil Food Web, Soil Microbiology, its importance and Soil Building processes
• Understand the Benefits of Application of large quantities of biomass
• Beyond Organic Market Gardening and Small Scale, Low Fossil Fuel Input, High Yielding No Dig Gardening Systems
• Animal integration – Holistic Management and Grazing Tools for Silvopastures
• Reforestation and Land Regeneration

Come and join us to support and be part of the Agroforestry (R)EVOLUTION !!!

FACILITATORS:

ROMAN EISENKOELBL
A semi-nomadic Tree Planter, Soil Builder and Seed Disperser has been studying and living in Permaculture Projects, Ecovillages and Alternative Communities for the over 10 years which brought him to a diverse range of Projects, Countries, Climates, Cultures and People all over the planet. �​ �He has lived, worked and learned in places like East Africa, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Australia, the Caribbean Islands, South and Central America, Germany, Portugal and Spain.

He has been part of 20 PDC Courses (organization & co-facilitation) and several short courses. He has learned from some of the Pioneers and Experts of Permaculture including David Holmgren, Darren Doherty, Rosemary Morrow, Robyn Francis, Jude Hobbs, Sepp Holzer Jairo Restrepo, Martin Crowford, Larry Korn, Alex Kruger, Bernard Declercq (Pebble Garden, Auroville), Rico Zook and Govinda Sharma. The last few years his focus has been on developing Regenerative Agroecosystems in different climates and has learned directly from Syntropic Agroforestry Pioneer and Founder Ernst Goetsch and his long term students like Namaste Messerschmidt, Felipe Amato and Gabriel Menezes.

He is the founder of the Soil-Sun-Soul Project and Blog. Currently he is based half of the year in Spain to start a regenerative Enterprise at Can Lliure a 100 ha Living and Learning Centre for Regenerative Land Management Practices and half of the year he spends in Asia supporting different projects and facilitating courses. �

ASANGA NAMAL JAYASINGE
Asanga is a dreamer, permaculture farmer, designer and facilitator. He had volunteered in organic and permaculture farms in Auroville, India, which motivated him to educate and empower people. He graduated in Bsc. Agricultural sciences and management and has done Introduction to Analog Forestry Course in Sri Lanka. Permaculture Design Certificate course (PDC) with Govinda Sharma in Nepal, Eco Village Design Education course ( EDE) (Auroville) in India. He also did his Permaculture Teacher Training (PTT) with Rico Zook and Jude Hobbs certified by Permaculture Institute Of North America (PINA) and was a teaching assistant during the pre-IPC PDC at 13th International Permaculture Convergence, Hyderabad, India.

He is currently coordinating Power Plant Organic Farm design education project and also a coordinator of Permaculture Network Sri Lanka. He has been organizing and co-facilitating Permaculture Design Certificate course and introduction workshops to contribute his energy, experience, knowledge for building national and international collaborations to spread the seeds of Permaculture.

Price: 6000 Thai Bhat reduced price for local farmers
Normal Price : 7500 Thai Bhat
Price includes camping and 3 meals a day.

Apply here today xavier@permaculture.in.th

The host site:
Permaculture Children’s House, a Thai Foundation, is located in San Kamphaeng 20 minutes South East of Chiang Mai city, Thailand.The size of the farm is 10 acre and we are working with combined system of growing rice with ducks.Also we started our first steps in establishing a Syntropic Agroforestry System.

Permaculture Children’s House is an academy and education center for children and adult based on:
Permaculture
Self directed Education (PCH is member of ASDE)
Sociocracy or dynamic governance as a form of governance
Collaboration instead of competition
Agile learning principles (PCH is member of Agile Learning Centers and AERO)
Dynamic and creative way to teach / learn
PCH own 7 R principles: Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle, and Rot.
Montessori inspired education
Arts
Cooking and Languages
Zero Waste

ACCOMMODATION and FOOD:

The course fee includes camping or dormitory. We will serve three delicious, vegetarian meals per day, organic, grown in the veggie garden or locally sourced, and prepared by the team at Permaculture Childrens Scholl with lots of love!
And of course we shall enjoy plenty of tea breaks with fruit and light snacks.

Masanobu Fukuoka’s Natural Farming 5-day Workshop Chiang mai Thailand

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The Theory and Practice of Masanobu Fukuoka’s Natural Farming
A 5-day Workshop with Larry Korn
23-28th February 2019, Thailand , near Chiang Mai

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In this 5-day workshop with Natural farming teacher Larry Korn we will explore the philosophy and practical techniques of Masanobu Fukuoka, pioneer and world leader of the natural farming movement. Larry lived at Mr. Fukuoka’s farm for two years in the 1970s and translated his best-selling book, The One-Straw Revolution. He also traveled with Mr. Fukuoka on two 6-week visits to the United States. This is a rare opportunity to get an inside look at what natural farming actually is, and who Mr. Fukuoka was as a person.


Posted by Permaculture Children's House on Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Some of the subjects that will be covered:

– The philosophy, ethics, and principles of Natural Farming
– Mr. Fukuoka’s life story and why it is instructive
– Natural farming methodology: how Mr. Fukuoka knew what to do, and what not to do
– The design and layout of Mr. Fukuoka’s farm
– Daily and seasonal chores
– Growing vegetables like wild plants
– Orchard trees, mushroom cultivation, fertilising, insect control, animals, and more
– Growing rice and barley in the same field each year without plowing or flooding the rice fields
– Making and using seed balls
– Natural diet
– Differences and similarities between natural farming and
– Indigenous ways, traditional Japanese agriculture, organic farming, and permaculture
– Natural farming throughout the world
– Future evolution of natural farming
– How to incorporate the spirit of natural farming into your own life

The workshop will be filled with stories and anecdotes from Larry’s time hitch hiking in Japan from one back-to-the land commune to another, living in Mr. Fukuoka’s orchard with the other student workers, and what it was like to travel with him in the United States. He will also discuss how his own understanding of natural farming evolved over the past 35 years.

There will also be a number of hands-on projects around the farm such as making seed balls, establishing a natural garden and more.

Natural farming Masanobu Fukuoka

Larry Korn:

Larry Korn is an American who lived and worked on the farm of Masanobu Fukuoka for more than two years in the early 1970s. He is translator and editor of the English language edition of Mr. Fukuoka’s The One-Straw Revolution (1978) and editor of his later book, Sowing Seeds in the Desert (2012). Larry accompanied Mr. Fukuoka on his visits to the United States in 1979 and 1986 acting as his guide and translator. He is author of the recently published One-Straw Revolutionary (2015), the first book to look deeply at natural farming and intimately discuss the philosophy and work of Mr. Fukuoka.

Larry studied Asian history, soil science, and plant nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley, and has worked in wholesale and retail plant nurseries, as a soil scientist for the California Department of Forestry, and as a residential landscape contractor in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 20 years. He has taught many courses and workshops about natural farming, permaculture, and local food production throughout the United States. He currently lives in Ashland, a small town in southern Oregon.

Larry also studied permaculture, taking two Permaculture Design Courses in the 1980s from Bill Mollison, one of the founders of permaculture. He was one of three editors for the Tilth publication, The Future Is Abundant: A Guide to Sustainable Agriculture (1982). This book is a practical guide for applying permaculture and natural farming techniques to the Pacific Northwest.

For more information about Masanobu Fukuoka and Larry Korn, please visit www.onestrawrevolution.net.

The host site :
Permaculture Children’s House, a Thai Foundation, is located in San Kamphaeng 20 minutes South East of Chiang Mai city, Thailand.The size of the farm is 10 acre and we are working with combined system of growing rice with ducks. Also we started our first steps in establishing a Syntropic Agroforestry System.

Permaculture Children’s House is an academy and education center for children and adult based on:
– Permaculture
– Self directed Education (PCH is member of ASDE)
– Sociocracy or dynamic governance as a form of governance
– Collaboration instead of competition
– Agile learning principles (PCH is member of Agile Learning Centers and AERO)
– Dynamic and creative way to teach / learn
– PCH own 7 R principles: Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle, and Rot.
– Montessori inspired education
– Arts
– Cooking and Languages
– Zero Waste

ACCOMMODATION and FOOD:

The course fee includes camping or dormitory. We will serve three delicious, vegetarian meals per day, organic, grown in the veggie garden or locally sourced, and prepared by the team at Permaculture Childrens Scholl with lots of love!
And of course we shall enjoy plenty of tea breaks with fruit and light snacks.

Course Price: early bird until 23. October: 250 Dollar shared
dorm or camping in own tent for local farmers

early bird until 23. October: 350 Dollar shared dorm
or camping in own tent for international participants

afterwards: 300 Dollar shared dorm or camping in
own tent for local farmers (9,300 Thb)

400 Dollar shared dorm or camping in
own tent for international participants (12,500 Thb)

Limited to 20 participants!!!

Dates 23-28th February 2019

Contact information and registration: permaculturainfo@gmail.com