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The Panya Project
The summer has arrived, and with it the rains. This yearly cycle brings big changes on our land, both for the land itself as well as for the community. When the rains arrive, it means it is time to plant. Our nursery is overflowing with legume trees, fruit trees, and other interesting plants.
We have seen two amazing permaculture courses come through, and now its a time to focus on planting!
This summer we are excited to be having a team of permaculture enthusiasts to help us plant, and we are offering a sustainable living internship including natural building. By the time the rains cease, this place should be totally transformed. Set up to shade out the grass and prepare the soil for the fruit trees to come! We are excited to get our site covered with even more legume, fruit and forest trees. We have been encouraged by the increased numbers of lizards, birds and even rabbits that have been seen on our land.
And the schedule for the winter has now been posted, so check out our offerings for natural building, community living and permaculture design.
Lets regenerate ourselves and our land! Make the world a better place with my own two hands!
Ping is the amazing little girl that lives on our property. She has been with us since the very beginning along with her mother Kae. Living at Panya has given Ping the opportunity to grow up speaking English and Thai (she is amazing in both), and amazing opportunities to learn from a wide variety of people many skills and ways of beings. One thing Ping and Kae do not get by living at Panya is much of an opportunity to save money for the future.
This is why one of our wonderful volunteers decided to set up this way of giving toward Ping’s education. Please read on.
The Panya Project and our neighbors Pun Pun Educational Center and You Sabai Home are hosting a number of exciting events this year, including Permacuture Design Courses, Internships, natural building courses and a sustainability tour around Thailand. We are actively building our ecovillage, and would love to have you join in the experiential learning that is going on here.
Check out what is available!
This is a quick historic documentary of the project, catching you up with how the project came to be.
A secret document. . . meetings in unspecified locations . . . transfers of unknown amounts of money over international borders. . . the convergence of a very interesting group of characters, indeed. . .
and the rest was history!
The Panya Project hosts schools from around the world for anything from one days to two weeks on site. Students get the opportunity to explore some of the issues around sustainability and temporarily join in a community that strives to live in a way that greatly reduces the ecological footprint on the planet. Students can participate in any number of activities currently taking place on site, including organic gardening, natural building, group building activities, swimming at a nearby lake and contributing to the ongoing discussions about global warming, consumption, pollution, globalization and living an inspired life. Most importantly students get to interact with a number of people that live on the farm and gain inspiration and understanding of an alternative way of living life.
Panya works to accomodate schools, both in terms of curriculum and cost, so that all of our objectives can be met at a cost that is reasonable to each school.
The Panya Project is happy to have visitors and volunteers during most of the year.
If you are living in Thailand, or just traveling though, if you are living in a more sustainable way, or just interested in helping out at an environmental education center, you are welcome to come in.
Please read the article below about the best times to come, and how you can help out with our project.
Thanks for all you do!
Directions to The Panya Project by public transport from Chiang Mai, driving yourself, and coming from Pai.
Its quite a journey to get here, and that is just the beginning!
If you have any questions, concerns, advice, or would like to register for one of our courses, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
Also, we are always very receptive to care packages including home-made fudge, rare seeds, and inspired artwork.
____E-Mail ____
This is the best way to get in contact with the people at the project. Please allow a few days for a responce.
For course registration, questions about visiting schools programs and general inquiry:
panyaproject@gmail.com
For Thai language inquiries contact:
Kae Sodthamna: pa-kae@hotmail.com
____Phone____
087-181-8821 (in Thailand)
+66-87-181-8821 (international)
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Please send ecstatic poetry, high-quality chocolate, your favorite seeds, or any other correspondence to:
The Panya Project
PO Box 5
Mae Taeng
Chiang Mai, 50150
Thailand
by christian
Dates: January 6 - 20, 2010
This two week program is designed to give participants:
1) An integrated experience living at an intentional community
2) Experience in natural building
3) An introduction to Permaculture Design
Workshop participants will take part in all the activities of daily life, from cooking to composting, as well as work on specific projects such as the construction of adobe bungalows. We hope that participants go away from this course understanding not only the basics of adobe building and permaculture design, but also understanding some of (…)
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by christian
Registration for all 9th International Permaculture Conference and Convergence (IPC9) events
is now live on the conference website www.ipc9.org. The IPC9 events are:
1. The 9th International Permaculture Design Course (IPDC9a). Harare, Zimbabwe;18 to 29 October 2009
2. The 9th International Permaculture Convergence (IPC9b). Lilongwe, Malawi; 2 to 5 November 2009
3. The 9th International Permaculture Conference (IPC9c). Lilongwe, Malawi; 6 November 2009
4. The 9th International Permaculture Site Tour (IPC9d). Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa; 7 to 30 November 2009. (You can (…)
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by christian
Dates: November 7 – December 16, 2009
This five week program is designed to give interns:
1) An integrated experience living at an intentional community
2) Experience in natural building
3) A certificate in permaculture design
Interns will take part in all the activities of daily life, from cooking to composting, as well as work on specific projects such as the construction of an adobe sauna. The five weeks will be broken into two distinct parts, natural building in the first three weeks and a (…)
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by christian
For Alternative Learning Center
“Wandering Seed”
www.wanderingseed.org
(This project is run by wonderful friends of Panya Project, but has no official connection to Panya. Please contact them directly.)
The Alternative Learning center for Middle school Youth along the Thai Burmese Border; The Wandering Seed Project, is the growing pilot project from Whispering Seed Foundation, 501 © (3) USA. And with cooperation from Global Village School, International Home School USA, Children Village School, Thailand , Children and Youth for Development (…)
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by christian
With Christian Shearer, Richard Perkins and the people of the Panya Project, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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 (…)
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