Showing posts with label Permaculture in Thailand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Permaculture in Thailand. Show all posts

Monday, August 18, 2014

Permaculture in Thailand

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 221-365

Thailand

WWOOF Thailand located in Nong Weang, Buri Ram and WWOOF Thailand Permaculture and organic projects located thru out Thailand, are sustainable living training, demonstrating and teaching centers of permaculture principals, courses, hosting and workshops in both English and Thai. In 2013, WWOOF Thailand has hosted over 1000 organic and permaculture students, interns and volunteers in permaculture certificate design courses and WWOOF Thailand organic and permaculture projects.













 WWOOF Thailand is a Permaculture Research Institute of Australia certified member,and offers many high quality Permaculture certificate design courses, consulting, design and teaching projects and courses every year. WWOOF Thailand uses permaculture to demonstrate how to regenerate degraded land, improve farm yields, transform mono crop land into ecologically sound "bio-diverse food systems and forests and create organically sound permaculture farms and education demonstration farms and centers across Thailand.

 WWOOF Thailand also has many projects teaching "natural building" using Earth bag, Adobe brick, wattle, cob and bamboo construction techniques. They also host interns, volunteers and courses each year they deliver, low cost courses in Permaculture Certificate Design, Urban Permaculture, broad acre design, sheet mulching, aquaculture, food forests, vermiculture, hugelkulture, solar energy and other self sustainable skills. We aim for low cost, high value for students, groups and professionals visiting and/or living in Thailand.

Mindfulness Project,The Mindfulness Project is an ecological forest preserving charity in Khon Kaen, Thailand. The 34 acres is a monastery land built in order to preserve and extend the forest as well as making an example of sustainable living and natural building. The special feature is, that every house is covered with artistic mosaic. The Mindfulness Project now hosts volunteers, student groups and courses.

Rak Tamachat Permaculture Education Center is located in North East Thailand near Korat. Begun in January 2012 using a master plan created by Christian Shearer the founder of The Panya Project. Beau and Lin Wickboldt founded Rak Tamachat as a permaculture education center to achieve their goals of creating a sustainable future for their family and others. The center is built on a 50 acre corn and rice farm that is using conventional agriculture techniques. A wide variety of elements are used to meet these goals, including natural building, sheet mulching, aquaculture, food forests. Rak Tamachat hosts visitors, volunteers, interns and courses.


The Panya Project, located in Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai, Thailand, is a sustainable living project implementing permaculture principals and hosting workshops in English and Thai. In fall 2006, the project hosted a permaculture design course taught by Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, and subsequently installed over 500 meters of swales and a 2 million liter pond. The Panya Project used permaculture to help regenerate what used to be a mono-crop mango plantation, transforming it into what is called a "biodiverse food forest, organic farm and education center". The Panya Project also incorporates what they call "natural building" into their design, e.g., wattle, cob and adobe brick. The Panya Project now hosts volunteers, student groups and courses.

Daruma Eco-Farm is a sustainable permaculture project located in Bang Phra, Thailand, approximately 1.5 hours drive from Bangkok. Daruma offers courses permaculture design and natural building courses, has an artist-in-residency program, internship, and volunteer program. The farm utilizes integrated aquaculture and is working on a project to generate methane from buffalo dung. Rice paddies are planted according to the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Resident animals include cats, chickens, ducks, fish, pigs, sheep, and a dog.