Immerse yourself into a how-to for tropical homesteading. From tool sharpening and cracking a coconut, to watershed management design, experience an intercultural exchange of knowledge and experience that offers perspective and insight into solutions through Permaculture and Biodynamics. Enjoy a rural setting, community interaction, and the unique value of engaging in responsible land stewardship.
• Class Description: Join renowned permaculture instructors Scott Gallant, Chris Shanks, Rachel Jackson, Mitch Haddad, and Laura Killingbeck for this annual life-changing 2-week experience. The course covers the core Permaculture Design curriculum and emphasizes creating diverse multi-functional human landscapes based on ecological patterns. Utilizing Rancho Mastatal as a living classroom,…
Discover and develop your passion to grow and harvest food that is in balance with the natural environment, then cultivate it into a global career.
Learn and practice permaculture at the sanctuary’s bio-intensive gardens and 20-hectares protected rainforest, enjoy the abundance of this location with its young tropical orchard fruit garden, native edible and medicinal plant nursery, water management systems, soil building projects, community activism and much more.
Discover and develop your passion to grow and harvest food that is in balance with the natural environment, then cultivate it into a global career.
The Permaculture Seminar will provide you with the core tools needed to develop a regenerative project, whether it’s a garden, a house or a community. We will learn the ethical foundation of Permaculture, the guiding principles and the tools of the trade