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You Sabai Cooking School
The best cooking course in the Chaing Mai area. Natural living, vegetarian food and wonderful people.
pun pun - thousand varieties
Pun Pun is an organic farm, seed-saving operation, and sustainable living and learning center…
Monday 26 April 2010
Permaculture and Natural Building Courses with Inspiration!

The Panya Project

Permaculture Design Courses and Natural Building Courses with Inspiration!

Permaculture Design is sweeping the world. With currently over one million graduates of the PDC around the world, the ripples of activity are completely covering the planet. It is estimated that there are over 5000 project in over 150 countries that claim to be using the principles and ethics of permaculture in their design.

Natural Building is an important part of the appropriate design that we champion during the Permaculture courses. This August and September we are hosting a couple building workshops aimed at constructing a beautiful and functional structure for meditation and educational purposes. Come join us for that course!

We are proud at Panya to offer world class courses at one of the lowest costs. Students regularly come out of our courses fired up to make change in their world, implement sustainable systems at home and to spread the word about what is possible.

Join us for our next Permaculture Design Course that we are putting on at the Tanjung Sutera Resort in Johor, Malaysia in December 2010!

 
Contribute to Ping’s Education

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.

 
Courses and Internships

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!

 
Natural Building
The techniques that we practice at the Panya Project are either traditionnally Thai (bamboo, wood, and thatch) or imported from other areas (wattle and daube, cob, adobe, and a fusion that we call wattle and cob). We try as much as possible to build with materials available around us, and to make choices that edge us toward ever lower impact and sustainability.
 
Permaculture
Permaculture is both a lifestyle ethic as well as a design system which utilizes a systems thinking approach to create sustainable human habitats by analyzing and duplicating nature’s patterns (ecology). It is an alternative to the actual agricultural system which impoverish the soil and is far from being sustainable…
 
The Dark History of Panya

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!

 
Visiting Schools Program

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.

 
Volunteer / Visit

The Panya Project is open and excited to have volunteers at most times during the year. The main exception being when we have courses on.

We are primarily looking for people who are interested in devoting at least two weeks to working with our project. We believe that this gives both the project and the volunteer a better experience.

So if you are interested, read the article below and find out when would be good.

We do also have a weekly tour on Tuesdays, so if you only want to visit for the day or just stay a night or two, that could work out.

Looking forward to seeing you!

 
Links
Here is a wide variety of links that in some way or another are pertinent to the people, activities, motivations, intentions, interests and just plain joys of the Panya Project. Please let us know if you have a reference that we should list
 
Directions

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!

 
Contact Us

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)


_____ Address _____

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

 
The most recent articles
Sunday 18 July 2010
by christian
Natural Building Courses Aug / Sept
Natural Building Course – Meditation and Education Space
Aug 29 - Sept 11 Sept 19 - Oct 2
Panya is happy to announce our next set of building courses that have been inspired by our latest Panya member, Chris Fisher, who is a professor of philosophy and Buddhist studies at Chiang Mai university and Wat Suandok. Chris has much to share about his Zen philosophies and his time as a Buddhist monk, which will integrate nicely into life here at panya and the proposed building courses.
The aim of the building courses is to build an adaptable space to host educational seminars, meditation (…)

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Thursday 1 July 2010
by christian
Vault Building in California
HOW TO BUILD AN ADOBE NUBIAN VAULT*
August 28 & 29
Location: El Sobrante, Ca
Cost: $150
* The prerequisite for this class is to have some experience with earthen building, or to take our Introduction to Building with Adobe, or the Cob Building Intensive.
To learn more, visit this website: http://www.verticalclay.com/workshops-events.html
The Nubian vault is a technique of building roofs that utilizes no wood for its structure or the building process. The tradition comes from the deserts of southern Egypt where the technique has been in practice for over 3000 years. The primary (…)

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Tuesday 29 June 2010
by christian
Pun Pun Educational Center, ongoing programs
We have learned a lot and been very inspired by our neighbors at Pun Pun Educational Center. Their internships and trainings always win high accolade from their participants. Wonderful people, doing great things for the sustainability movement in Thailand and elsewhere.
Check out their list of programs here: [ www.punpunthailand.org
>http://www.punpunthailand.org]

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Tuesday 29 June 2010
by christian
Permaculture Design Course at Tanjung Sutera Resort, Johor Malaysia, December 2010
Permaculture Design Course
December 3 – 18, 2010
Tanjung Sutera Resort
Kota Kinggi, Johor Malaysia
with Darren Doherty and Christian Shearer
This full 72-hour certified Permaculture Design 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 at hand. Participants will help to co-create the design of edible forests gardens, natural buildings, water catchment and irrigation systems, as well as actively implement on the hosting land.
An easy drive from Singapore, in Kota Tinggi, Johor, Malaysia, the (…)

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Tuesday 29 June 2010
by christian
PDC at Embun Pagi, Malaysia, November 2010
Permaculture Design Certificate Course (12 day)
November 23 - December 5, 2010
Teacher: Greg Knibbs & the people of Embun Pagi
Visit their website to learn more:
http://embunpagi2009.wordpress.com/courses-events/pdc-23-nov-5-dec-2010/
Greg Knibbs teaches the accredited 72-hour hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course. The course curriculum covers sustainable permaculture systems to suit a wide variety of landscapes and climate. The course, which bring positive outcomes from those seeking culturally appropriate sustainable change, can be undertaken by anyone – regardless of background (…)

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