Selva Negra Permaculture Design Course February 2025

Sunday February 9 to Saturday February 16th.  

That allows for Saturday Feb. 8 and Sunday Feb. 17th to be travel days.  The cost is $1,500 if you pay in full prior to Nov. 30th.  $1,700 thereafter.  Fee includes three organic meals per day and lodging.  Airfare is extra. 

A trip to the Pacific resort town of San Juan Del Sur is also available Feb. 18 – 21.   Let us know if you’re interested.   Price available upon request.

​​​I’d like to invite you to a wonderful adventure.  Imagine a permaculture design course taught by two of the premier teachers in the US.  Move that course to one of the most outstanding examples of permaculture in the Western Hemisphere, which just happens to be a 1,000 acre farm in Nicaragua.  Its name is Selva Negra.  Teach it in February when it’s cold and rainy in the US but warm and sunny in Nicaragua.


What’s “permaculture” about Selva Negra?  It’s survived 130 years in the isolated mountainous north of Nicaragua.   To do that, the farmers have created a self-contained village which provides everything they need to thrive and generates virtually zero waste.  In short – permaculture!

7 Day Course at Selva Negra

Permaculture Tropical Agroforestry 

Creating Eco-Resorts & Training Centers

Day 1 

  • Orientation to the site and the course

  • Hike the Forest preserve

Day 2

  • Water Systems

  • Spring development

  • Gravity fed systems

  • Cisterns, Ponds and distribution

Day 3 

  • Biodigestors

  • How they work

  • Wastes Into resources

  • Cooking with Biogas

  • Feedstocks

  • Management

  • Solar Thermal Hot Water Systems

Day 4 

  • Organic Vegetables

  • Biodynamics

  • The CSA 

  • Growing for the Eco-resort

  • Compost 

  • Vermiculture

Day 5

  • Agroforestry

  • Coffee plantings and over story trees

  • Organic treatments for the coffee

  • Interplanting Coffee with Citrus, Avocado, Macadamia and Cacao

  • Field exercise

  • Laying out plantings on Contour

Day 6

  • Animals

  • Chickens, Pigs, Dairy and Beef cattle

  • Rotational Grazing

  • Heritage Breeds

  • Microhydro Systems

Day 7

  • Coffee, drying packaging, roasting

  • Cacao and chocolate making

Date

Feb 09 - 16 2025

Time

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Cost

$1,700.00

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Speaker

Permaculture Institute of North America:

Address

2091 Route 130
Harrison City, PA 15636

Phone Number

(412) 600-5783

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