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Learning Calendar: Costa Rica

Awaken: Permaculture and Yoga Retreat

Rancho Delicioso [email protected], Montezuma, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

Spend a week with us in the jungle and learn to design a bountiful permaculture garden that supports all life.

With the era of consumerism, the world faces many challenges from loss of habitat, to environmental degradation and social disconnection. We believe it’s time to cultivate opportunities for positive change and learning.

Permaculture Design Course – Finca Tierra

Finca Tierra Play Colces, Puerto Viejo, Limon, Costa Rica

Finca Tierra offers the international standard curriculum of 72-hour permaculture certificate course. The course covers the fundamentals of ecological design with a particular emphasis on perennial woody polyculture food systems or food forests. This course goes beyond the theoretical and focuses of real-world situations in this food forest and has a strong emphasis on hands-on application and practical skills. It offers the experience of learning in an immersive setting from mature systems with which students have daily interactions. The methods and techniques will transfer directly to any climate.

Mushroom Immersion

Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Design & Botanical Studies , Costa Rica

A weeklong deep dive into Mycology, Mushroom Cultivation, Medicinal Mushrooms and more.

Agro-Forestry Skills Inspired by the Forest

Rancho Mastatal , Costa Rica

An intensive three day workshop looking at the development, maintenance and products of a successful orchard in the tropics. We will adapt what works in the forest to our agro-forestry projects.

Permaculture Design Course – Finca Tierra

Finca Tierra Play Colces, Puerto Viejo, Limon, Costa Rica

Finca Tierra offers the international standard curriculum of 72-hour permaculture certificate course. The course covers the fundamentals of ecological design with a particular emphasis on perennial woody polyculture food systems or food forests. This course goes beyond the theoretical and focuses of real-world situations in this food forest and has a strong emphasis on hands-on application and practical skills. It offers the experience of learning in an immersive setting from mature systems with which students have daily interactions. The methods and techniques will transfer directly to any climate.

Syntropic Farming Course

Rancho Mastatal , Costa Rica

Syntropic Farming is a farming revolution grown out of Brazil and made famous by Ernst Gotsch and the Life in Syntropy short documentary. Syntropic Farming seeks to cultivate resilient ecosystems that are abundant, financially viable and heal abused land. It asks us, as stewards of the land to live in harmony with nature.

Permaculture Design Course – VerdEnergia

VerdEnergia Pacifica Puriscal, Costa Rica

oin us this season for an immersive educational experience in the Costa Rican rainforest! Our 21-Day Permaculture Design Course (PDC) goes above and beyond. We offer more instruction hours, experiential learning, and subjects covered than a typical 14-day PDC, all within our beautiful and rustic ecovillage setting. Our instructors draw on an extensive 178 acres of agroforestry projects in various stages of regeneration and production for lessons in applying permaculture to large scale projects.

Permaculture Design Course – Finca Tierra

Finca Tierra Play Colces, Puerto Viejo, Limon, Costa Rica

Finca Tierra offers the international standard curriculum of 72-hour permaculture certificate course. The course covers the fundamentals of ecological design with a particular emphasis on perennial woody polyculture food systems or food forests. This course goes beyond the theoretical and focuses of real-world situations in this food forest and has a strong emphasis on hands-on application and practical skills. It offers the experience of learning in an immersive setting from mature systems with which students have daily interactions. The methods and techniques will transfer directly to any climate.


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