Finca Tierra Permaculture

An incredible experience, don´t doubt to obtain your permaculture design course there, your expectations will be exceeded. The place is beautiful, hidden on an incredible mountain setting in the South Caribbean of Costa Rica. The food is really outstanding with all ingredients grown there. The course is designed in a very clear step by step to obtain full understanding of all the details you need to know to become a great permaculturist. Ana and Ian are amazing teachers and humans, you´ll learn a lot from them. And you´ll probably make incredible friends. There is much more to say but it´s better for you to find out, DO IT!

I would highly recommend the PDC at Finca Tierra to anyone reading this, as there is something that has sparked your interest if you are here. For me it was an opportunity to learn more about how to live from the land, disconnect from my daily life, and reconnect to nature, and it proved to be this and much more. Fresh food, great conversations, lots of learning, and I am looking forward to implementing what I have learnt in the coming months. I even met a long lost cousin who was also doing the course!

The 2-week program at Finca Tierra is an excellent starting point for anyone who has ever wondered about how to practically live and eat healthy off the land while also looking to pursue a regenerative way of living. Ian and Ana are seasoned practitioners of permaculture, great hosts, and live and lead by example! I have understood more about the building blocks of permaculture from them than from any of the permaculture books that I have read along the way.

We had a great a time learning about permaculture. Ian has a wealth of information. The food was great and the conversations were even better. Ana was a great host. I would recommend this program to anyone.

Fabulous classroom instruction and hands on opportunities. The knowledge that Ian shares is from a large variety of personal experiences, both successes and failures. He has not only gained his knowledge from work done himself but reads and gathers knowledge from others, including generational natives, books and the internet. It has been a year since we took the course and we still quote Ian, look up references and design our gardens according to what we learned. Last week, we again visited Finca Tierra and spent 4 hours there getting a mini refresher course on how to plant and care for the several plants and seeds they so generously gave to us. We are excited to continual apply the knowledge we gained from their course. Thanks Ian and Ana.