Historical Projects
Over the past nine years we have:
- Conducted nine Indigenous Permaculture Certificate trainings in the San Francisco Bay Area for nearly 220 participants. These trainings empower Bay Area residents with tools to organize their communities around sustainable agriculture and food security.
- Established three acres of garden on a community food security project at Pine Ridge, including construction of a greenhouse; providing natural fertilizers, plants, soil amendments and pest controls; and providing associated agricultural fieldwork and information.
Prior to working with Indigenous Permaculture in 2003, the Pine Ridge project did not have a garden. Now, at the 2008 Wazi Paha agriculture fair at Oglala Lakota College, produce from the garden took the top awards, and dozens of community members have been inspired to be involved with the garden at some point over the course of the year.
- Meso-America: Restored six acres of blighted land in the Nahuat Peoples of Sonsonate, El Salvador. Work has included planting five hundred trees, installing a composting toilet, a rainwater catchment system, six high-efficiency ovens, and information sharing on ecological living, traditional farming and biodiversity,Comunal houses
