Permaculture Thailand, Permaculture Asia – Graduate with more than a certificate, have an invaluable adventure, that will develop your career and life…..Certified permaculture design course on mature 10 yr old organic farm stay.

NEW courses – “Urban Permaculture”,”Drought Proofing”, “Recycling Master Class”, Active Soil Building For Home and Farm,  “Disaster Aid Permaculture”, building homestead Resilience and Sustainability.  We try to keep a complete list of courses and PDC’s  from all Permaculture and sustainability organizations in Thailand.  It is updated quarterly,   We supply International PRI Australia and PRI Asia certified instructors for all course(s).  Our Certificates are recognized world wide and receive course credits at some universities thru PRI Australia and PRI Asia.  For a list of Instructors .   For more information Contact: PermiesThai@gmail.com

International PDC at Permaculture Institute Thailand  (PIT)

BioDynamic Farming Course and PDC, Nong Weang, Thailand

2024 – Permaculture  Institute  Thailand – 2024 courses 

-Internationally accredited PDC Instructors –   

January 7th, 2023 –         Internships Begin – for our 1, or 2 month internships – we begin at our permaculture demonstration site and education center farm in Buri Ram, Thailand. In this course we will visit other Permaculture sites in NE Thailand, Eastern Thailand and sometimes Cambodia or Laos.   You will do hands on development of a permaculture site, visit other aid/Permaculture projects, NGO projects, WWOOF farms.  Meet key founders and developers of sustainable projects and organizations in Asia. Experience and observe NGO’s,  as they deliver permaculture Aid, also interact with many people in the NGO, Organic food, Permaculture, Sustainable community in SE Asia.  You’ll be part of something big.  Internship course is 950 euro/mo.  Accommodation and food is 20 Euro/day (600/month) euro/mo. total is 1550 Euro for one month.   You can hold a seat with a deposit (300 Euro). Be aware seats are limited each year (3-7)  application in November and December selection confirmation. Seats confirmed by December 15th. Internships begin January 7th each year.  You must have completed a Permaculture Design Course (PDC). If you have not we can possibly arrange for one during the internship, (extra cost + 900 euro).  Internships skills and topics covered, can be found on this website under internships .  To Apply click   here.   More information click HERE.  To apply send CV and application to email:   PermiesThai@gmail.com

February, 3-12, 2024 Permaculture Design Course (PDC) Intensive  PDC Certificate COURSE at  PRI Asia – Permaculture Institute Thailand, Buri Ram, Thailand.  Location here on Google Maps.    Email:  PermiesAsia@gmail.com  To deposit to hold a seat.

What you get included –  Permaculture Design Course, International certificate – accommodation – three meals per day –  Wifi –  Access to Permaculture Reference Library  – hands on learning in a real NGO site – experience the life changing values  this project delivers.  Course size is limited to 20 persons and is regularly full (past three years) so book in mid December.  Course Fee due  in advance 1200 Euros.  Early bird discount 900 Euros paid before January 5th, 2023.   This is one of our best courses with our best instructors in a great location.  Accommodation packages below. More information will be sent to you on how to get here, location, what to bring, what to expect,  once you have made a deposit to hold a seat. Please email us at permiesthai@gmail.com to confirm your deposit and to notify us of your intent. We will reply to your email and answer questions. Cost of visits to other projects, farms and organizations is included in the tuition.  Single and double room accommodation (first come first served basis), hostel style room bunk beds, private Glamping tents available (bring own linens and bags), and daily meal food plan available.  Deposit to hold seat contact PermiesAsia@gmail.com  with PDC Course Feb 3 in Subject line.’

 EARTH DAY  – Course April 21 and Earth Day Gathering April 22, 2024

Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries.

April 21-22,  2024 – Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems – Permaculture and  Urban Sustainability.  Course 900 Baht.  (Reserve a seat now here – leave email name and address) – Topics –  Living  cool with clean air in the city, Urban  Permaculture  an Introduction intensive April 21-22, 2023.

Earth Day Event on April 22, 2024. In Bangkok, Thailand. Location to be announced  shortly.   Reserve seats here.

Urban Sustainable Living– gardens, recycling, food, urban permaculture, yard gardens, food forest, rooftop gardens, balcony, container gardening. Kitchen recycling, city composting.

Sustainable school garden Professional Development – Outcomes- list all stages of a  (SSG) Sustainable School Garden and Food Recycling implementation. Can identify areas of support – school mgmt., parents, staff and how to engage and bring them onside to reduce your work and stress. Know outside free sources of community support- companies, online support – earth day tool kits, online resources, lesson plans, other schools, videos. Confidence in getting great results with minimum effort and time.

Join us on Earth Day and make everyday your Earth Day April, 22, 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand gathering. Reserve seat here (leave name email and number of people)

Urban Permaculture – Living in the City

Sustainable clean – AIR, WATER, FOOD, Community

Sustainable hope

Contact us:  PermiesThai@gmail.com

Support us to help make a sustainable, cool, clean, healthy world.

OTHER COURSES

FREE  SUSTAINABILITY  COURSES from the United Nations  – Sign up here

1. Sustainable Development  SDGs  – Sustainable Development  Goals: a brief introduction to the profound changes our world is going through as we rapidly scale up the use of technology in every sphere of our lives. This module introduces digital transformation with a walk-through of relevant terminology and emerging trends. It explores challenges and entry points for effective action, presenting real examples from around the world.
2. Climate Change –  Climate Action
3. Nature Protection–
4. Pollution Prevention –
5. Healthy Organic Food and Food as medicine

Natural Building Course

INTERNSHIPS:  January and February  (Apply in November, Confirmation in December and INTAKE January 7th)    More information click here INTERNSHIPS      For registration contact: PermiesAsia@gmail.com

DIPLOMAS : 6 and 12 mos diplomas are available for University credits toward Diploma in Permaculture. More information (INTAKE DECEMBER EACH YEAR): More information click here  DIPLOMAS   Contact with “Diploma” in Subject heading  : PermiesAsia@gmail.com    
PDC Instructor Training, Coaching and Certification (Intake January 7th each year)
Permaculture Land Manager 12 mos. (Jobs awaiting upon graduation)

DROUGHT PROOFING and FLOOD Planning COURSE – 3 DAYS:        Water as a resource in the landscape – Learn how to see water as a valuable asset to small and large landscapes by observing the design and implementation of water harvesting and storage systems at (PIT) Issan Permaculture Farm including ponds, swales, terraces, paddy aquaculture, rainwater harvested systems (including potable use) and rotational grazing systems. Water productivity and efficiency measurement – how much food for how much water. Practice mapping and marking contour and develop an eye for how the parts fit together in a complete picture. Observe excavations, a swale system and a riparian buffer zone on site. Flood proofing – channeling, contour, ponds, pond level stratification, emergency planing.  This course introduces the ecological design approach known as permaculture and shows how it can be used to create water-wise landscapes in various climates. Permaculture combines concepts and principles derived from nature with research from ecology and sustainability fields to help design healthy landscapes, homes, and communities that reduce resource use, are low-maintenance, and are self-renewing. You will learn about specific techniques that work in a wet/dry climate like Asia, and gain a general understanding of permaculture design and application. We take technical, scientific information and making it easy to understand to everyone, regardless of science background. We will see seven strategies for achieving drought proofing. We see the many benefits, besides water conservation, that come with implementing each water-wise strategy. By the end of the course, you will have the knowledge necessary to begin implementing water conservation techniques in your farm or garden. More on Drought Proofing

URBAN PERMACULTURE COURSE  –  2 DAYS  next course  March, 11&12, 2023  (Saturday, Sunday)  “Cities are the future, but we must get the next 30 years right” – H. Story

This 2 day course focuses on Urban living, growing gardens, food, herbs and methods of Urban greening of cities. Methods to support rapid and equatable urban transformation that is socially inclusive, environmentally sustainable and builds resilience to climate change thru food security and community resilience building.    More on facebook page  –  GREEN BANGKOK

READING THE LANDSCAPE COURSE – 3 DAYS – Two days of instruction and activities of permaculture assessment and slope design skills. The course is for those who have limited time and are looking for an affordable way to the learn basic Permaculture skills. Expert and accessible instruction to permaculture ideas and skills are offered at an active permaculture site. Participants will create a base map of their own project or property, identify and record observations of the landscape, analyze key landscape features, and create a schematic design map to take home. Course offered in Thai and English.

Fresh Farmers Market

ACTIVE SOIL BUILDING FOR HOME AND FARM – 2 DAYS Learn a whole systems permaculture approach to seeing and working with soils on mid to large sized land, with emphasis on techniques done with simple tools and techniques. See integrated and functional systems in practice on a working farm and homestead including compost, humanure, cover cropping, sheet mulching, animal grazing, and more. Build a vermicompost system to take home, along with knowledge ready to be put into action on a medium to large scale. Sliding Scale $50 – 75usd includes a bucket vermicompost and handouts.

SILVOCULTURE & AGROFORESTRY COURSE – 3 DAYS -Learn forest ecology and management techniques for Farming the floodlands.
five-day course. Visit local growth and food forests and farms and practice tree ID, stand assessment, marking, and felling techniques. Learn about forest medicinal’s, and visit farms practicing silv0pasture and mushroom cultivation.
This course is designed for land owners, farmers, extension professionals, permaculture practitioners and homesteaders who seek a better understanding of the intricacies of management in northeastern Thailand. Come build your skills in food forest establishment, species assessment, pollarding, coppicing techniques, succession in the tropics, Nitrogen fixing species selection, tree selection, build fungal soils for forests, lumber creation and sawing, retirement forest species selection, Pannage and forage species selection, variety of leguminous trees and their selection. Food Forest Design & Care for Cities and Suburbs
Food-Forest-Design also covers the basics of designing, planting, and maintaining a many-layered woodland garden of fruit and nut trees, perennial and annual vegetables, and flowers. Food forests, or edible forest gardens, are life-filled places that not only provide food for people, but habitat for wildlife, carbon sequestering, biodiversity, natural soil building, beauty and tranquility, and a host of other benefits. In this class we give you both the theory behind food forests and a wealth of practical information, including which plants to use, where to start, and what to expect as your food forest grows.
Permaculture may be one of the most misunderstood terms out there. From this class you will gain a thorough understanding of what permaculture is, how it came to be, what it does, and most importantly what you can do with permaculture.
$450 includes lunch each day, camping or local accommodation available.

NGO – Permaculture Disaster Aid and Relief Course- 4 DAYS
Human tragedy happens every day and can happen on large scale at anytime. Acts like Earthquake, Tsunami, Hurricanes, flooding and drought as well as heat waves and climate change. These major life threatening situations most always involve drinking water and sanitation. Water and sewage systems break down in crisis resulting in water borne diseases causing chaos. Risks become high when these resources are low or non-existent. NGO rescue organizations are often overwhelmed and not able to reach some areas for weeks. Permaculture Disaster Aid and Relief has solutions, using local resources to solve problems, that others don’t or didn’t have knowledge of to handle these situations especially in the areas of human waste and unfiltered water.
Steps: Usually in crisis everything like airports are closed only military and rescue planes have access and roads are often unpredictable. So how to establish a base camp to operate from (though conditions are often primitive and harsh, at first) you must start here. To get access to other disaster organizations, military personnel, and government officials, and to be more effective, this is a first step, in connecting with major hospitals, UNICEF, Army, ACTED and other major organizations. All of these need the specialized skills of Permaculture designers.
Often the first goal was to save lives by getting low tech, sustainable solutions going rapidly, while establishing relationships with locals and NGOs that could be developed in the future for longer term design projects.
How to filter water via low tech methods, using locally available materials such as sand and plastic bottles. Sanitation – compost toilets for large numbers of people. Educating people on tropical plants and filtering their own water quickly. Water filtration has traditionally been the main potential to save lives. So in crisis, the death rate from dysentery, and water borne diseases, especially for children is high. So building compost toilets, sourcing and obtaining organic material, growing fast growing plants like vetiver grass and bamboo, building safe latrines for camps, building easy showers, these skill sets are invaluable.

• Project evaluation and assessment
• Permaculture integrating local production and food systems
• Community inclusiveness and ownership, building local ownership and leadership
• Appropriate technology
• Shelter, clean water, food, hygiene, community black water management

I addition to changing climate are changing food and social conditions, these factors are causing instability in areas around the world previously stable.  Local staple foods, dependent on stable reliable climate can result in destabilized communities. We will learn methods to build resiliency, diversity and stabilize for food security  and resilient infrastructure, supply basic needs of shelter, clean water, food.  Good permaculture with social, economic and appropriate technology with Permaculture relationship to local resource,  good stewardship we create resilient and stable community food, water and shelter systems.

Real case studies, group dynamics, ethnology-cultural role play, disaster planing, critical leadership, special needs of children, disaster preparedness.

INQUIRIES: PermiesThai@gmail.com

STUDENTS COMMENTS:  PDC Courses

This is awesome! Last year I had the opportunity to learn from both Howard and the other instructors they are truly inspiring teachers, their depth of knowledge and willingness to explain and instruct made complex ideas understandable for me..participate in the design and establishment of water catchment on your property… see all of the considerations put into a permaculture plan of your property..and be able to watch as the merits of different ideas are discussed and contrasted, and then get outside, get dirty, and do it! – J. Huorn – permies.com

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