3-day Integrated Pest Management training

Learn about pest management approaches that work with the environment, that avoid the use of damaging chemicals and that provide a healthier outcome for nature and ourselves.

Traditionally, indigenous knowledge was used for agriculture, planting was done based on natural cycles, using local species. But today farmers are dependent on industrialized agricultural industries and their unchecked price fluctuations.

Most seeds are hybrid or genetically modified, and as chemicals pesticides destroy beneficial soil microorganisms, their use increases dependency on chemical fertilizers. All of this is dramatically increasing the cost of food production. While farmer dependency increases, pest resistance and soil quality are increasingly undermined.

A key aim of IPM is to reduce reliance on insecticides as the sole and primary means of pest control. IPM can improve farmer’ profitability while reducing environmental damage and limiting the risk of on-farm pesticide exposure.

To control the pests, one needs to make a proper identification of the pests and most importantly know the pest’s biology so as a proper management strategy can be planned.

Permaculture Design Courses (PDC) certification

A 14-day training with an exciting opportunity to learn about the history and principles of permaculture design. This hands-on course includes practical activities and real-life experience, allowing you to deepen your understanding of permaculture and gain valuable skills to implement in your own environment.

Master Composting Certification

This is a 3-day course where you get to learn about Composting. A proper blend for nature’s elements including air, water, fire, and earth. When these elements are kept in balance, millions of microorganisms including bacterial, insects and other soil biota can break down plants and animal waste into nutrient rich material in weeks.

COB Building Workshops

The design and construction of a building could improve the ecological health of the ecosystem where it is sited via permaculture. Permaculture helps you design and build structures that are both strikingly beautiful and sustainable. The course is appropriate for both first-time builders and for professionals in the building trade who are interested in natural materials.

Earthworks & Resiliency

The course takes places in the Northern Laikipia region, a remote and very challenging area with huge problems of soil erosion. You will have the chance to follow the renowned international facilitator Warren Brush in one of the worst degraded areas he has come across and to demonstrate together the incredible potential permaculture has in transforming lives!