what is Pun Pun

Pun Pun is a small organic farm, seed saving center, and sustainable living and learning center. We strive to find more ways to live a more self reliant lifestyle by growing organic food, building our own natural homes, and experimenting with low tech appropriate technologies. We seek to bring back the tradition of seed saving amongst farmers and growers by …

Seed Saving

We came to the land to grow out seeds, save them, and share them with others. We feel like bringing seed saving back into the hands of farmers and growers can empower people as well as increase the quality of seed and varieties we have to consume.

As a seed center we collect rare and indigenous seeds from Thailand and …

Natural Building

what is natural building?

To us natural/sustainable building means using readily available, local, natural materials with little embodied energy and salvaged materials to make your own home. This can mean using adobe (sundried mud bricks), straw, strawbale, clay, cob, bamboo (an easily regenerated wood source), stone and secondhand/salvaged materials you have access to. Natural building techniques are ancient and time …

Community Building

We are currently around 10 to 15 Thais and international peoples (mostly Thai), speaking both English and Thai, and spanning in age from three-years old to 45. We moved onto the Pun Pun land in July 2003. We live, eat, work, and teach together in community. We tease that we are an “unintentional community” as it has been that way …

Workshop/Events

We host courses, workshops, and internship in Thai and English on self reliant living, organic gardening, community living, natural building, and natural health. For upcoming courses follow the links below:

Women’s Natural Building Workshop

May 14-22nd, 2013

This will be an opportunity for women to come together to build a natural structure, building on the experience of other woman builders.…

Group Hosting

It is now possible for other groups to organize and host their own workshops or seminars at Pun Pun!

We recently finished our new earthen rounded community center capable of receiving many sizes of groups from 5 to 50 people. Our kitchen can provide delicious, fresh, homemade vegetarian food and the Pun Pun Cafe serves fresh coffee, fruit shakes and …

Organic Gardening

At Pun Pun we practice mostly traditional Thai organic farming methods with newer sustainable agriculture methods as well. We incorporate local wisdom of the area, soil,  and planting techniques with appropriate technology and new techniques.  We came with little and on very depleted land so we are mostly interested in simple ways to use what you have.  We plan and …

How-tos

Coming Soon!…

Media

Jo was recently on TED Talks Doi Suthep! His talk was, “Life is Easy. Why do we make it so hard?”
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Check out this presentation on Pun Pun done by a former intern:
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A New York Times Review of Pun Pun Restaurant. They told P’Dtai they were from the New York Times and he didn’t …