We host courses, workshops, and internship in Thai and English on self reliant living, organic gardening, community living, natural building, and natural health.
English Course Schedule
April 2015- March 2016
For more information on the courses in English or for how to register, please contact Peggy at peggy.reents@gmail.com. We will also post more detailed information soon for each course.
Taste of Sri Lanka
May 15-17
Our dear friend and community member, Ramphai, has spent the last year in Sri Lanka on an educational exchange, learning and sharing new techniques in cooking, making products out of surplus from the farm, and cultural exchange. Ramphai has offered to host a course at Pun Pun to share her experience with folks back home. This course will be bilingual (Thai and English) Learn More
Get Grounded
June 12-16th
This 5-day course will be a short introduction to the techniques we use on the far, covering topics from organic gardening, making your own compost and liquid fertilizers, to an introduction to natural building, natural health and making products. It’s an opportunity to get your hands into many different topics and ideas around sustainable living in a short period of time. Cost: 5,000 baht/person. Learn More
Non-Violent Communication Workshop
July 25-26th
This weekend course is hosted by our friend Jeyanthy from Sri Lanka who has done extensive work in conflict areas and elsewhere, and will be focused a communication technique for reconciliation and understanding. More details on the website soon.
“Gep Gin” (Eating Forage) Bilingual
Sept 25 evening-27th
This weekend course will focus on understanding what we can eat locally from foraging from the forest as well as perennial plants and trees. We will take the group out to collect bamboo and mushrooms and other shoots from the forest and prepare them into local delicacies, based on seasonal eating. This course will be taught bilingually (Thai and English). Cost: 2,500 baht/person.
Introduction to Organic Gardening
October 1st evening-4th
This weekend course will focus on the basics of starting an organic garden from different styles of composting including vermiculture, different kinds of compost piles, and liquid fertilizers to making garden beds, seedlings, and watering. We will cover the different kinds of garden beds we use at the farm for different locations. This can be adapted to use for a small kitchen garden or starting a farm. Cost: 2,500 baht/person.
Eat Well Live Well Course
November 6-15th
Come food and farm lovers and join us for this 10-day course on sustainable living techniques. This will be a similar course to the shorter Get Grounded course but have more depth on different topics and include hands-on experience in the gardens and kitchen, focusing on ways to grow, plant, preserve, prepare, and understand our food. The course will also include an introduction to natural building with a bit of work on a building and an introduction to the techniques necessary in making adobe bricks, laying bricks, making plaster, and earthen finishes as well as appropriate technology and product making. Cost: 10,000 baht/person.
Pun Pun Thai Cooking Course
December 18th evening-20th
This weekend cooking course introduces Thai cooking Pun Pun style. The setting is at our organic farm so you can get the chance to see how things are grown, harvest vegetables, and learn the basics of incredible Thai cooking from the ones that make the magic happen in the Pun Pun kitchen, P’Dang and Krit. Come join us for a weekend of plenty of doing and tasting! Cost: 2,500 baht/person.
Introduction to Natural Building
January 16-17th
This weekend workshop will provide an introduction to earthen building in Thailand. We will start with a short tour to visit some finished earthen homes and then continue with hand-on instruction in the basics of making earthen bricks, laying adobe bricks, earthen plasters and paints. This is a great opportunity for those who don’t have the time to attend a longer course and know they want to get into the basics of this simple, cheap, and beautiful construction method. Cost: 2,500 baht/person.
Natural Finishes Workshop
February 24-29th
This 5-day course will focus on a deeper understanding of how to finish an earthen home. The workshop will follow a Thai course in which they will construct an earthen home and we will continue work on the home in the finishes and decoration stage. The workshop will cover earthen plasters, how to avoid cracking and dusting in your finishes, how to make homemade clay paints, and how to work with lime plasters for water resistance. No building experience is necessary but you should know we won’t be going over the whole construction process but focus on the specifics of finishes. This course is bilingual (Thai and English). Cost: 6,000 baht/person.
Women’s Natural Building Workshop
Date: TBA
For the past three years Pun Pun along with IWP (International Women’s Partnership for Peace and Justice) have hosted women’s building workshops and due to their wonderful success we have decided to continue on the movement with another workshop this winter. This workshop will be an opportunity for women to come together to build a natural structure, building on the experience of other woman builders. No previous experience necessary, just a desire to get your hands in the mud and build something together! We will post more details soon as we decide on dates and location. This course will be bilingual (Thai and English).
Thai Course Schedule April 2015- March 2016
To get more information on the courses in Thai or on how to register for courses in Thai, contact punpun.farm@gmail.com. We will also post more detailed information on our website in Thai soon at www.thai.punpunthailand.org
Self-reliance Courses
April 17-20
June 26-29
July 30-Aug 2
Aug 14-17
We will be hosting these long weekend self-reliance courses for those who want to get an introduction to the techniques and philosophies practiced on the farm. The focus is on how to fulfill our 4 basic needs of food, shelter, clothing and medicine through introducing techniques in organic gardening and seed saving, earthen building, making products, and natural health.
Taste of Sri Lanka
May 15-17
Our dear friend and community member, Ramphai, has spent the last year in Sri Lanka on an educational exchange, learning and sharing new techniques in cooking, making products out of surplus from the farm, and cultural exchange. Ramphai has offered to host a course at Pun Pun to share her experience with folks back home. Learn More
Pun Pun Design Course
May 22-28
This course is focus for people who have land they want to develop in a sustainable way, people wanting to start their own farm or homestead or project and want help to look at how they could design the land to fulfill their needs. Will include designing of water and water catchment and ponds and gardens, homes, orchards, etc. It will be a mix of planning and designing and hands-on techniques in sustainable farming. This course is full already.
Seasonal Cooking Courses
July 17th evening-19th
Learn to cook using seasonal vegetables from the garden and forest as well as perennials sprouting in the rainy season. Learn from our kitchen experts the delicacies of the rainy season.
Sept 25th evening-27th
This course called “Gep Gin” means to eat what you forage and will include foraging for and cooking with the delicacies of the rainy season forest including mushrooms and bamboo and local shoots. This course is bilingual (Thai and English)
“Gin D U D”
Dec 3-9
Gin D U D means “Eat well, Live well” in Thai. This course is a Thai version of our English Food Matters course covering topics on organic gardening, cultivating and collecting from the farm, cooking with local produce and processing, fermenting, and eating together.
“Ao Ching”
Jan 25-Feb 12
Ao Ching means to “really want it” in Thai. This course is a more in-depth version of the shorter self-reliance courses as it will cover earthen building by building a structure together as well as cover organic gardening and other sustainable living techniques by living them on the farm.
Natural Finishes Workshop
Feb 24-29
This 5-day course will focus on a deeper understanding of how to finish an earthen home. The workshop will follow a Thai course in which they will construct an earthen home and we will continue work on the home in the finishes and decoration stage. The workshop will cover earthen plasters, how to avoid cracking and dusting in your finishes, how to make homemade clay paints, and how to work with lime plasters for water resistance. No building experience is necessary but you should know we won’t be going over the whole construction process but focus on the specifics of finishes. This course is bilingual (Thai and English).
Women’s Natural Building Workshop
Date: TBA
For the past three years Pun Pun along with IWP (International Women’s Partnership for Peace and Justice) have hosted women’s building workshops and due to their wonderful success we have decided to continue on the movement with another workshop this winter. This workshop will be an opportunity for women to come together to build a natural structure, building on the experience of other woman builders. No previous experience necessary, just a desire to get your hands in the mud and build something together! We will post more details soon as we decide on dates and location. This course will be bilingual (Thai and English).
