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2008/9 Events Overview
"Build with Us" Natural Building Workshop
Jefferson, Colorado, USA
Come learn to build your own truly natural, sustainable, affordable, beautiful home at this 4-day workshop.
August 1-4, 2008
Acclaimed Thai organic farmer/earthen builder Jon Jandai and Coloradoan Peggy Reents will teach various natural building techniques using local, readily available materials. They have been leaders in the natural building movement in Thailand for years and are now starting a sustainable living learning center and home in Jefferson, Colorado.
Learn through building yourself from basic sustainable design principles, selecting clay, making adobe bricks, building walls from various earthen techniques, earthen plasters for earthen and strawbale walls, to natural homemade paints and finishes.
Click here for more information on the workshop and how to register
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Pun Pun farm, Chaing Mai, Thailand
An in-depth experience in hands-on earthen building, organic gardening, seed saving, and community living.
November 1, 2008 - January 10, 2009
Pun Pun organic farm, sustainable living learning center and seed center, Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand
This year Pun Pun will be offering a 10-week internship program to individuals interested in getting an in-depth, hands-on experience in particular organic gardening including seed saving, earthen building, and community living. It is an opportunity to learn through doing where interns will learn the techniques we use while actively applying them to projects at the farm. It is also a chance to live with other like-minded Thai and international folks as well as meet various interesting visitors to the farm.
Click here for more information on the internship and how to register
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You Sabai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Come learn to build your own natural, sustainable, affordable, beautiful home at this 7-day workshop.
November 21 -29th, 2008 & December 19 - 27th, 2008
Topics covered in both workshops inlcude:
brick making, implementing sustainable design principles including orientation, environmental factors, usage of building, and aesthetics as well as a
discussion of the design for the building we will build together foundation principles adobe wall construction including putting in windows and doors
creating and applying earthen plasters creating and applying earthen starch paints and options for finishing sealants earthen benches finishing work – relief work, sculptural work, etc addition of simple electric lines, plumbing lines arches domed roofs (2nd workshop only)
For further information please see below
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Northeastern to Northern Thailand
A personal study trip exchanging and staying with leaders in the sustainability movement in Thailand including a grassroots look at organic farming, earthen building, fair trade, traditional medicine, community empowerment, and self-reliance.
January 23 - February 3, 2009
Through our work in earthen building, organic farming, and community living we have established strong relationships with various groups at the forefront of this movement in Thailand. Each group is diverse in its target and implementation, yet all hold a common vision of empowering people to become self-reliant and sustainable. We invite you to come to learn from each of them by joining us on this study tour.
In this unique event you will get a chance to exchange personally with leaders in the sustainability movement at a grassroots level that would be otherwise hard to access. Peggy Reents and Jo Jandai have both worked with these groups in supporting their development and can open access to interested folks by providing relationships and full translation. Come and learn together with us from their wisdom, experience and help support their work while also just having a really great time and experiencing Thailand!
Click here for more information on the trip and how to register
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This training is for Asian participants only. We are seeking support however so please read on.
March 10-April 6, 2008
Pun Pun organic farm, sustainable living learning center and seed center, Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand
This year will be the 2nd annual SLT hosted at Pun Pun. We invite leaders and representatives of commuity groups, farmers groups, and organization in SE Asia interested in learning tools in sustainability and training techniques to be able to bring the knowledge back to their communities/groups. The goal is to stem local initiatives in tern creating a larger movement of sustainability.
Pun Pun is presently seeking donations to cover the cost of the one-month training as the participants coming are from grassroots organizations/groups in less developed countries and do not have the ability to cover their costs. Any amount given is greatly appreciated and can go a long way material-wise as well as in the amount of people who are affected by such a traiing because of the networks behind the participants who attend. Your contribution not only helps these individuals but goes toward supporting sustainable alternatives in SE Asia as a whole.
Click here for more information on the training and how to support it
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Panya...
An in-depth experience in hands-on earthen building, organic gardening, seed saving, and community living.
November 1, 2008 - January 10, 2009
Pun Pun Organic Farm, Seed Center, and Sustainable Living Learning Center
Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand
This year Pun Pun will be offering a 10-week internship program to individuals interested in getting an in-depth, hands-on experience in particular organic gardening including seed saving, earthen building, and community living.
The first half will focus on organic gardening techniques where interns will learn through their own experiential garden beds and will also prepare for building. The next half will be focused on building where we will construct a community hall/meeting space/yoga, meditation space. This will be a two story structure including adobe and earth bag construction with an earthen floor, niches, details, and a second floor wooden floor. While building we will also continuing tending our gardens. Also included will be detailed finish work on the building and wrapping up on the garden season with a focus on seed saving.
It is an opportunity to learn through doing where interns will learn the techniques we use while actively applying them to projects at the farm. It is also a chance to live with other like-minded Thai and international folks as well as meet various interesting visitors to the farm.
Topics & techniques
What interns will experience during their time at Pun Pun:
Garden skills:
Pun Pun philosophy of living
introduction and demonstration of tools used at the farm
making nursery seedlings and a discussion of what plants need to start as seedlings
garden bed making techniques including sheet mulching and bed with compost adapted for different seasons
composting including “Bokashi” composting technique and different uses of human and other animal manure
cultivating micro-organisms for making liquid fertilizers
companion planting
garden care including plant observation and problem solving techniques to understand what plants need
making natural pesticides
harvesting for consumption
seed saving
Building:
brick making
design including orientation, environmental factors, usage of building, and aesthetics as well as a discussion of the design for the building we will build together
foundation principles
adobe wall construction including putting in windows and doors
earthen plasters
earthen starch paints and options for finishing sealants
earthen benches
finishing work – relief work, sculptural work, etc
adding of simple electric lines, plumbing lines
Community living :
Evening activities and exchanges will also be included. A large aspect of the internship also includes the experience of community living in the Thai context as interns will become community members for the duration of their internship. We focus on this relationship in learning how to be mindful, conscious individuals living in community together. We will meet in weekly group check-ins to work on these relationships.
Additional Topics:
There will be weekly globalization/localization discussion sessions where topics will be selected, readings selected and distributed for reading and curriculum set up. This is an attempt to put what we are doing here at Pun Pun in the larger context of what is happening globally and to fully understand and explore those topics together.
There will also be weekly ‘Self-reliance in Water and Sanitation Technologies’ sessions to go further into the cycle of using water on our land, collecting rain water, gravity feed systems, and sanitation systems.
(Opportunities for Thai massage, Tai Chi, meditation, rice wine making, forest walks, soymilk and tofu production and Thai cooking are available depending on participants’ interest.)
The Project
The first half will focus on organic gardening techniques where interns will learn through their own experiential garden beds and will also prepare for building. The next half will be focused on building where we will construct a home for Jo and Peggy. This will be a two story adobe structure including stairs, niches, details, and a second floor. While building we will also continuing tending our gardens. We will end with detailed finish work on the building and wrapping up on the garden season with a focus on seed saving and time for conclusions on the internship process.
General Schedule
Morning and afternoon sessions will be held with an extended break after lunch in the hot part of the day. Evening and early afternoon discussions sessions will be held periodically depending on interns’ interest.
Two short breaks will be allotted during the internship. Interns will also have every Friday and Saturday free to rest or do any other errands they may need to do. If you are planning to do other traveling in Thailand we ask you keep that to before, after the program, or during program breaks.
Teaching team
Jon Jandai, Peggy Reents, Josh Kearns, Nathan Reents, and Michel Spaan.
Living situation
Simple room in one of Pun Pun’s earthen or bamboo guesthouses. A thin futon mat, blanket, sheet, pillow, and mosquito net will be provided.
Meals will be shared and eaten in the communal kitchen, vegetarian and fish options will be available and we will try to use the most organic vegetables as possible from the farm.
Bathing options include an indoor cool bucket shower or a dip in the pond.
Fee
$1,400 US/person for folks from industrialized countries. We offer scholarships for those from developing countries. All proceeds go towards supporting Pun Pun community to grow and continue with our seed center and work as these efforts are not funded elsewhere.
Registration
1) Email your participant survey to Peggy Reents at pareents@yahoo.com.
2) Once you have sent your participant survey and have been confirmed, a $500 US non-refundable deposit is due to secure your spot. The deposit check should be addressed to Margaret Reents and sent to:
Peggy Reents
Re: Pun Pun Internship
3405 El Caminito
Loveland, CO 80537 USA
3) The remainder of your contribution will be expected on the first day of the internship at Pun Pun community in either Thai baht or US dollars.
For more information
Contact pareents@yahoo.com
Pun Pun Internship Participant Survey:
Please respond to the following questions to Peggy Reents at pareents@yahoo.com.
1. What brings you to want to participate in the internship program?
2. What is your direction after the internship at Pun Pun? What do you hope to do with the knowledge gained in the internship?
3. Name one strong and one week point of your “self”.
4. Do you follow a special diet?
5. Is there anything about your physical health you feel we should know about?
6. What are you most excited about?
7. space… for anything else… you would like to share with us… anything…
Natural Building Workshops
USA
Come learn to build your own truly natural, sustainable, affordable, beautiful home at this 4-day workshop.
Acclaimed Thai organic farmer/earthen builder Jon Jandai and Coloradoan Peggy Reents will teach various natural building techniques using local, readily available materials. They have been leaders in the natural building movement in Thailand for years and are now starting a sustainable living learning center and home in Jefferson, Colorado.
Learn through building yourself from basic sustainable design principles, selecting clay, making adobe bricks, building walls from various earthen techniques, earthen plasters for earthen and strawbale walls, to natural homemade paints and finishes.
Come stay on their pristine land at over 9,000 ft elevation in the Rockies and learn building along with introduction to Thai massage, Thai cooking, and organic seed saving.
Workshop runs : August1-4, 2008
Topics & techniques
The workshop will include:
• Introduction to our "compound", our vision and tour of the other strawbale house on site as well as our present project, an earthship under construction
• Basic design principles for environmental citing, climatic considerations, and aesthetics
• Adobe brick making
• Adobe wall construction
• Intros and smaller projects using other earthen building techniques including wattle-and-daub, cob, and earth bag
• Earthen plasters for earthen walls and strawbale walls
• Natural clay/starch paints, linseed oil, beeswax and other options for finishing sealants, etc
• And more
Evening/afternoon activities and exchanges will also be included. These include; an introduction to earthen building, introduction to Thai cooking, Thai massage, seed saving and our work in Thailand at Pun Pun organic farm, sustainable living learning center and seed center.
The Project
This building workshop will be held on our family land in the high elevation of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. In the summer of 2005 our extended family bought a piece of land with the intention of creating a so-called “family compound” where we would all come together to live for parts or most of the year together. We wanted it also to be a place which could experiment and demonstrate various sustainable building and living techniques for others to come and learn from. We have started last summer by building a strawbale home for our parents and earthen solar panel shed and in the summer of 2007 will be beginning a home for Peggy’s sister’s family which will be an earthship. We are located just outside Jefferson, Colorado which is on Highway 285 between Bailey and Fairplay.
General Schedule
Morning and afternoon sessions of building will be held with an afternoon discussion session after lunch if afternoon showers persist. Evening and early afternoon discussions sessions will be held after meals.
Teaching team
Jon Jandai, Peggy Reents
Living situation
You should prepare and bring with you your own camping gear (tent, mat, sleeping bag) with the knowledge that it can get quite cold at night. If the weather should be very cold we can all bunk in the living room of the strawbale house as well. You will be able to use the strawbale house toilet and shower facilities.
Meals will be shared and eaten in the strawbale kitchen, vegetarian and non-vegetarian options will be available and we will try to use the most organic vegetables as possible. Please specify if you have any dietary needs.
Fee
$275 US for folks from industrialized countries
Arrangements can be made for participants from less developed countries. Your contributions go toward allowing us to continue to do the work we do in Thailand with Pun Pun with peasant and farmer groups.
Registration
1) Contact Peggy Reents at pareents@yahoo.com.
2) Send in your deposit to hold your spot. A $125 US non-refundable deposit is due to us as soon as possible. The remaining fee will be due on the first day of the workshop in check or cash.
The deposit check should be addressed to Margaret Reents and can be sent to:
Peggy Reents
Re: Build with Us Workshop
3405 El Caminito
Loveland, CO 80537 USA
You Sabai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Come learn to build your own natural, sustainable, affordable, beautiful home at this 7-day workshop.
November 21 -29th, 2008 & December 19 - 27th, 2008
Topics covered in both workshops inlcude:
brick making, implementing sustainable design principles including orientation, environmental factors, usage of building, and aesthetics as well as a
discussion of the design for the building we will build together foundation principles adobe wall construction including putting in windows and doors
creating and applying earthen plasters creating and applying earthen starch paints and options for finishing sealants earthen benches finishing work – relief work, sculptural work, etc addition of simple electric lines, plumbing lines arches domed roofs (2nd workshop only)
DATES
1
Nov 22nd to 28th
Pick-up participants from Pun Pun restaurant Chiang Mai at 1pm on Nov 21st
and return to Chiang Mai on afternoon of Nov 29th.
2
Dec 20th to 26th
Pick-up participants from Pun Pun restaurant Chiang Mai at 1pm on Dec 19th
and return to Chiang Mai on afternoon of Dec 27th.
FEE
Foreigners - $400
Payment required in full by Friday 24th Oct for the 1st workshop
Payment required in full by Friday 21st Nov for the 2nd workshop
A $400 US non-refundable deposit is due to secure your spot. The deposit
check should be addressed to Margaret Reents and sent to:
Peggy Reents
Re: You Sabai Building Workshop
3405 El Caminito
Loveland, CO 80537 USA
Price includes:
Travel to and from You Sabai from Chiang Mai
All instruction included in the workshop
All food
Simple accomodation
Daily instructed yoga sessions every morning
Thai nationals - by donation only
We will take a maximum of 10 foreigners and 5 Thais for each course. Thai people wanting to take part must call before hand to register for the course.
Thai people must also bring a tent. All participants must bring sleeping bags.
Accomodation for foreigners will be in simple eathern rooms with some shared accomodation.
Apart from the beautiful setting of You Sabai there is a reservour within walking distance for swimming.
For further information please contact: Justin Sahibdeen at justin.sahibdeen@gmail.com or in Thailand contact: Yao 0860 966 439
THAILAND
Sustainability Study Tour
A personal study trip exchanging and staying with leaders in the sustainability movement in Thailand including a grassroots look at organic farming, earthen building, fair trade, traditional medicine, community empowerment, and self-reliance.
January 23 - February 3, 2009
Northeastern to Northern Thailand
Through our work in earthen building, organic farming, and community living we have established strong relationships with various groups at the forefront of this movement in Thailand. Each group is diverse in its target and implementation, yet all hold a common vision of empowering people to become self-reliant and sustainable. We invite you to come to learn from each of them by joining us on this study tour.
In a period of 12 days we will visit several communities starting in the agricultural northeastern region to the mountainous northern region of Thailand. Visit with members of a fair trade organic farmers’ cooperative, community-based herbal medicine facility, intentional communities from small to large scale, leaders in the fast growing earthen building movement, Buddhist self-reliant community based on “meritism”, founders of the earthen village, family permaculture farm hosting natural medicine trainings, and Pun Pun organic farm, sustainable living learning center and seed center.
In this unique event you will get a chance to exchange personally with leaders in the sustainability movement at a grassroots level that would be otherwise hard to access. Peggy Reents and Jo Jandai have both worked with these groups in supporting their development and can open access to interested folks by providing relationships and full translation. Come and learn together with us from their wisdom, experience and help support their work while also just having a really great time and experiencing Thailand!
We will:
Stay at Jo Jandai’s organic family farm and stay in an earthen house in the rice fields, where their village organic farmer’s group was started.
Visit the local organic farmer’s fair trade Jasmine rice cooperative of Kutchum, of which Jo’s family are members, and discuss with farmers what impact fair and free trade has had on Thai farmers. Also visit their community herbal medicine facility.
Visit an emerging intentional sustainable community called “Garden of Dhamma” who hosts natural health trainings, and organic farming trainings helping farmers to make the transition to organic.
Exchange with members probably the most self-reliant community in Thailand, the “Santi Asok”. The Asok is a network of Buddhist, organic farmers who believe in work as meditation and the ideology of “meritism” instead of capitalism or socialism. Experience a large-scale community of many hundred people as we visit the Ubon Ratchathani Asok and see how they produce all the organic produce and food they eat as well as products to sell, home school their children, and escape materialism and consume culture.
Travel with us to “Mun Yeun” (or sustainable community in English) which consists of villagers who have lost their land and suffered the adverse effects of large-scale dam projects, who now seek to show a more ecological form of development. They decided they wanted to show the public what villager-based development could look. In 2002 they created Mun Yeun community with homes built of earth and other local materials, and food production from organic techniques along with local forest foraging.
Travel to northern Thailand, Chiang Mai, and stay at a family farm and example of a truly villager-based permaculture model. Listen to this family’s story of converting their land into a flourishing, bio-diverse, canal and coconut based ecosystem.
Finish the trip by coming up to Mae Taeng district, an hour north of Chiang Mai and stay at Peggy and Jo’s project, “Pun Pun” (Thousand Varieties) organic farm, sustainable living learning center, and seed center. Pun Pun is a small community of Thais and a couple international people, where we try to be a model for experimentation in sustainable living techniques and run a seed center for the conservation of rare and indigenous varieties. We practice organic farming techniques and are earthen builders as well. Next door to Pun Pun is “Panya Project”, an experimental permaculture center and “You Sabaii” hosting Thai cooking courses, a small earthen guesthouse and writers of a new magazine on sustainability.
Hosts
Jon Jandai, and Peggy Reents.
Living situation
Simple accommodation will be provided along with way at every place, primarily earthen or bamboo guesthouses, possibly camping in tents once or twice. Bedding will be provided but if you need anything special or more bedding than a thin futon mat, you should bring it yourself.
Meals will be shared and eaten with villagers or in communities. Vegetarian and fish options will be available and in organic farms we will eat as much local organic produce as possible.
Bathing will be provided mostly with a cool bucket shower or at times a dip in the pond.
Fee
$450 US/person. Fee includes all food, accommodation, and all transportation from Yasothorn town at the beginning of the trip to Chiang Mai at the end. You will be responsible for providing your own transportation to Yasothorn town and from Chiang Mai city. Proceeds go towards supporting villagers projects we will visit and towards support Pun Pun community to grow and continue with our work.
Registration
1) Email Peggy Reents at pareents@yahoo.com.
2) Once you have been in contact with us, a $150 US non-refundable deposit is due to secure your spot. You can send this deposit by check addressed to:
Peggy Reents
Re: Sustainability Study Trip
3405 El Caminito
Loveland, CO 80537 USA
3) The remainder of your contribution will be expected on the first day of the study trip in Yasothorn in US dollars or Thai baht.
For more information contact pareents@yahoo.com.
Southeast Asian Sustainability Leadership Training (SLT)
Training for Trainers
This training is for SE Asian participants only. We are seeking support however so please read on.
Date to be announced
Pun Pun Organic Farm, Seed Center, and Sustainable Living Learning Center
Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand
This year will be the 2nd annual SLT hosted at Pun Pun. We invite leaders and representatives of commuity gruops, farmers groups, and organization in SE Asia interested in learning tools in sustainability and training techniques to be able to bring the knowledge back to their communities/groups. The goal is to stem local initiatives in tern creating a larger movement of sustainabillity. Last year's participants included representatives from "Flower Aceh", a women's organizatino from Aceh, Indonesia (an area most severly hit by Tsunami), "Youth for Peace" organization in Cambodia, and the "Karen Youth Organization" from the Thai/Burmese border. All these groups are now working with their respective groups on projects stemmed from the training.
Pun Pun is presently seeking donations to cover the cost of the one-month training as the participants coming are from grassroots organizations/groups in less developed countries and do not have the ability to cover their costs. Any amount given is greatly appreciated and can go a long way material-wise as well as in the amount of people who are affected by such a traiing because of the networks behind the participants who attend. Your contribution not only helps these individuals but goes toward supporting sustainable alternatives in SE Asia as a whole.
We will focus on having the knowledge to supply ourselves our four basic needs in a sustainable way by covering:
organic gardening techniques and process of gardening
natural building skills by building an adobe addition on a house at Pun Pun
natural medicine including oils, foods, and massage
natural dyes for cloth
We also will spend the last section of the training focusing on training techniques and ways of transferring the knkowledge and insights participants have learned during the training.
We will seek to invite 10 representatives from throughout the SE Asian region, focusing to stay regional and include two persons from each group so they will bve more supported when returning home and starting their projects.
Sponsorship/Donations
You can choose to send whatever amount you are able or you can choose to sponsor a participant by donation $250 US per participant which would cover their participation, food, and transportation costs. You can send your donations by check addressed to:
Peggy Reents
RE: Sustainability Leadership Training
3405 El Caminito
Loveland, CO 80537 USA
If you have any questions about the training or donations you can contact Peggy Reents at pareents@yahoo.com. Also if you need your donation to be tax-deductable please contact Peggy before sending your donation. For inquiries in Thai language contact Dtai Rachabordin at rachabordin@yahoo.com.
Permaculture Design Course at the Panya Project
January 11 - 25, 2009
With Christian Shearer, Ethan Roland and the people of the Panya Project, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Please note that this is not a Pun Pun workshop, but is hosted by their neighbors, The Panya Project. Please visit them at:
www.panyaproject.org
This full 72-hour certified Permaculture Design Course will be held at the site of the Panya Project, about 60 km north of Chiang Mai. The course will consist of a broad range of topics applicable to life anywhere on this planet, yet will be tailored to the needs of the students present as well as the location at hand. Participants will help to co-create the design of tropical food forests, permaculture-style gardens, natural buildings, water catchment and irrigation systems, work with swales and dams, as well as actively implement tropical food forest on the hosting land.
This course starts the day after the Pun Pun Internship ends, so it would be possible to participate in both courses.
The course will be conducted in the internationally accepted manner. The 72 hours of course work required to receive a Permaculture Design Certificate, will be covered over a two week period, mixing hands-on with plenty of in classroom studies. All students are required to be present for the full two weeks if they wish to receive the certificate.
Permaculture courses are fairly standardized as far as content. We will cover every major topic in Bill Mollisons: Permaculture: a Designers Manual. So quickly what that includes is the following:
1. Philosophies and Ethics underlying permaculture.
2. Basic permaculture principals and help shape things in general
3. Patterns in Nature, and how to use that in design
4. Methods of design. How to go from a damaged piece of land to having and idea for how to move forward with it.
5. Climactic factors. We will cover all the major climates and how to work with them.
6. Trees, forests, and why we want to mimic their systems.
7. Water: catchment, usage, importance, and conservation
8. Soil, minerals, microorganisms, building new soil, and preventing erosion
9. Earthworks: How to shape the land to help it acheive the goals we are aiming for.
10. Aquaculture
11. Natural Building
12. Alternative systems: community living, and other ways of choosing to live differently that works well for people and the planet.
Each of these categories has subcategories and each teacher also has their own additions and certain topics that are stressed over others.
The Panya Project was set up to provide an active example of sustainable living in northern Thailand. The project is still in its infancy, but in November, 2006, it hosted a PDC workshop taught by Geoff Lawton which culminated in the construction of a 2 million litre dam and three swales. This course will be held just at the transition between the hot season and the rainy season, so the community will be focused on planting hundreds of fruit and legume trees into the burgeoning fruit forest.
The course will be taught by two young and enthusiastic permaculture enthusiasts. Christian Shearer, one of the founders of the Panya Project, and Ethan Roland of Appleseed Permaculture in the northeastern part of the US will team up to teach. Their combined knowledge gives a great scope, with each having strengths in tropical and temperate permaculture, respectively.
We would like to continue our policy of offering this course at a lower price than other places in the world, in hopes that this course may be attended by folks who ordinarily wouldn't be able to afford to come. We are also going to to coninute to offer an extremely low fee for people working with NGO's. We appreciate what you do, and this is just one way me might thank you. We are looking forward to expanding our own knowledge and depth of permaculture, creating an amazing example of it ourselves, and sharing the bounty with the global sustainability community and beyond!
Costs: The two week certified PDC course:
Sign-up before October 1:__________20,000Baht (US$600 or AU$640)
October 1 – start of course: __________23,000Baht (US$700 or AU$750)
NGO special price*:_________10,000Baht (US$300 or AU$350)
Please note that our fees are in Thai Baht. We have included the appoximate cost in $US and $AU for your convienience, but those may change.
*If you work for an NGO and believe that permaculture could help your organization achieve its goals, please contact us about the NGO discounted rate.
These prices include all meals and a place to stay for the duration of the course.
We ask all registrants to make a deposit of US$200 (US$100 for NGO's) to secure your spot. Contact us and we will give you bank details.
Connect to a vibrant LOCAL and GLOBAL NETWORK of permaculture practitioners – students, homesteaders, educators, professionals, activists, farmers…
REGENERATIVE DESIGN STARTS WITH YOU.
Visit us at:
www.panyaproject.org
CONTACT US NOW to register:
Christian Shearer
panyaproject@gmail.com
+66 87-181-8821 International
087-181-8821 From inside Thailand
Originally from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Christian Shearer helped found the Panya Project. He has over five years of permaculture experience, working and living at Lost Valley Education Center outside of Eugene, Oregon, and now residing at the Panya Project for almost three years (by the time of the course). He is a natural builder, a food forest enthusiast, a musician, a certified educator and has extensive knowledge of tropical permaculture systems. He has participated in five PDC courses, learning and co-teaching, and is excited to continue sharing with and learning from all involved!
Ethan Roland practices and teaches regenerative design in all corners of the world, from northeastern North America to the Caucus mountains of Azerbaijan. Combining integrative eco-social design with a wealth of biological agriculture knowledge, he designs farms and developments through the Regenerative Design Group and AppleSeed Permaculture (www.appleseedpermaculture.com). Ethan is on the board of directors of Permaculture Across Borders (www.permaculture acrossborders.org) and the Apios Institute of Regenerative Perennial Agriculture, and works closely with the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia and Gaia University to co-create positive systemic change around the globe.
Adobe and Ferro Cement Sauna Building Workshop at the Panya Project
December 7 - 21, 2008
Come and join us for the building of our sauna! We are very excited to add this healing and revitalizing element to our community, and would love to have an enthusiastic team there to help us build.
Please note that this workshop is not hosted by Pun Pun, but by one of our neighbors, the Panya Project. Visit them at:
www.panyaproject.org
We were inspired by the sauna above. Some friends of ours opened Wild Rose Studio and Sauna in Chiang Mai, and we just cannot get enough. They have taught us a lot about what it takes to make a sauna the best it can be, and we are excited to take their advice. If you get a chance, visit their website, and more enjoyably, visit their sauna!
The workshop will be an adobe workshop. We have lots of experience building with adobe, and will be able to share with you the in's and out's of this amazing technique, including:
Making bricks
Laying bricks and using earthen mortar
Plastering (possibly elephant dung plaster)
Natural paints
In addition to the skills gained in adobe building, we are also going to explore the arena of ferro cement. This remarkable style of working with cement allows a person to literally sculpt the shape of the structure into whatever they like. Unlike conventional cement, very little is used in the contruction of ferro cement. It is very useful for water tanks and other applications. We have chosen to use it as the interior walls for our sauna for a number of reasons. The most important reason is that eathen materials would not hold up to the extreme moisture of a steam-room sauna. The ferro cement will allow us to create a beautifully curved interior including benches and windows, while also being able to withstand the high humidity and temperatures. The ferro cement is also very easy to clean with a smooth finish, which is essential for sauna's.
Whether you are excited about building a suana for yourself or you would like to learn to build with adobe for your own home, this workshop will give you the skills you need. Please come and join us.
Course fees: Two week course:
December 7 - 21: 13,500 baht (about US$400)
We ask all participants to pay a $200 deposit to secure your place. Contact us to register.
Visit us at:
www.panyaproject.org
CONTACT US NOW to register:
Christian Shearer
panyaproject@gmail.com
+66 87-181-8821 International
087-181-8821 From inside Thailand
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