Jenny has expanded the standard international permaculture design curriculum to emphasize skill-building, offering hands-on projects every day. Her courses are at least 50% outside the classroom! She is a dynamic and engaging teacher, and always assembles a stellar team of local collaborators who round out the program, drawing from their vast experience.

 

She specializes in profitable diversified organic farming, edible landscape design, tropical agroforestry, and facilitation for project governance and management. Jenny is now studying Climate Science Adaptation Strategies, focused on how to build resilience using permaculture.

Listen to a recent podcast of Jenny discussing the transition from monoculture sugarcane on Maui to regenerative agriculture.

He is the founder, director, and designer of Pono Grown Farm Center, a non-profit organization focused on agricultural education with a mission to increase the connection people have to the land, and empower them to better care for it. This diverse 15-acre commercial farm in upcountry Maui is home to a vibrant internship program, extensive vegetable gardens, hundreds of fruit trees, chickens and bees. The farm is solar powered, relies on rainwater harvesting and runs its tractor on locally produced biodiesel.

 

Evan is the author of Hawai‘i Home Gardens: Growing Vegetables in the Subtropics Using Holistic Methods, a permaculture based guide to vegetable growing. As an avid seed saver, he is also a co-founder of the Hawai‘i Seed Growers Network, spearheading the seed saving movement throughout Hawai‘i with workshops, seed and plant exchanges and most recently starting an online marketplace for local seed growers.

He is the owner and founder of multiple businesses including Local Abundance CSA and the Center Of Conscious Oneness. C.O.C.O’s is a developing permaculture farm-based community and cultural learning center in Hawai`i dedicated to social entrepreneurship and environmental stewardship.

 

Spencer specializes in whole systems design and engineering, creating solutions through dynamic, innovative approaches. His emphasis is in water management, utilizing traditional permaculture methods as well as modern tools and technologies. He is passionate about creating opportunities for people to have profound experiences that result in a greater understanding, awareness and reverence for nature while inspiring and empowering others to act and live in more humble and sustainable ways.

During the last 9 years, she has been trained in Permaculture & Agriculture Design ( PDC ) by the Southern Cross Permaculture Institute of Victoria. She has studied with Holistic Management International for the last 2 years to become one of their certified educators in Holistic Farm Management.

 

Over the last few years, she has volunteered at an organic farm & sustainable training center in Bali, Indonesia as a project manager, facilitator & workshop coordinator. Worked as a coordinator & translator in Regenerative Agriculture Workshops & Courses in Spain and as an Organic Farming consultant & workshop facilitator in an educational nonprofit called Grub Education, Chico CA, USA.

Rosa also is involved in facilitating many social activism events such as Earth Day and Sustainability Days and active as a volunteer in many community gardens and urban farming projects, offering hands-on workshops and lectures throughout California, Bali, and Spain.

 

He helped found the Vashon Wilderness Program and Outdoor Connections, and has served as a naturalist for King County Parks and Seattle Parks and Rec.

 

Nate holds a Master’s degree from NIAOM (Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine), and B.A.s in both anthropology and Asian studies from the University of Illinois. He has served as faculty for the Desert Institute of Healing Arts, the Asian Institute of Medical Studies, and as adjunct faculty for Prescott College. Nate likes to fish, practice internal martial arts, go on adventures with his family, and gather wild foods and medicine.

In addition, she has trained in the Hoh rainforest for over a decade with Mick “the Barefoot Sensei” Dodge and offers unique qigong and Earthgym programs at schools, festivals, conferences, universities and retreat centers, including Omega Institute in New York. Karen leads Qigong & Wilderness trips in Western China, and enjoys facilitating enchantment and getting people outside playing in Nature in the U.S. and abroad. See www.karenjoyfletcher.com for more info, and for writings on China, qigong, earthgy and enchantment.