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ECHO North America: TAD II: Food Forests, Garden Design and Planning
Mon, 7 April 2025 » Fri, 11 April 2025
ECHO North America, United States
This is a five day, hands-on course that will focus on food forests and garden design. By taking this course you will learn how to design and start a food forest in your own backyard. Participants will walk through the design process with professional designers, starting from setting goals, surveying the piece of land, building a base map, considering earthworks, and creatively designing around constraints. Attendees will be able to see and apply these principles to a small garden or a lar...
ECHO Asia: Intro to Natural Earth Building Techniques Workshop
Mon, 12 May 2025 » Fri, 16 May 2025
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Course Description: Dive into the art and science of sustainable construction! This hands-on, introductory experience will guide you through the fundamentals of natural building techniques, including adobe, wattle and daub, earthen plastering, and more. Through a mix of engaging classroom sessions and practical activities, you'll learn how to use locally sourced, eco-friendly materials to create durable and beautiful structures. Whether you're a beginner or have already begun you...
ECHO Asia: Tropical Agriculture & Development (TAD) Course
Mon, 2 June 2025 » Sat, 7 June 2025
ECHO Asia Small Farm Resource Center Chiang Mai, Thailand, Thailand
This 1-week course is designed for development workers, missionaries, and volunteers looking to engage their communities with low-cost, high-impact agricultural innovations and techniques. Participants will be introduced to various agricultural practices and technologies through classroom time and hands-on activities on the farm, learning to 'use what you have to make what you need.' This course is considered an 'introductory survey course' and will present a broad overview of many op...
ECHO North America: July 2025 Bundle & Save TAD I & TAD II
Mon, 7 July 2025 » Fri, 18 July 2025
ECHO North America, United States
July 2025, ECHO North America will be hosting back-to-back trainings for TAD I and TAD II! Introduction to Tropical Agriculture Development (TAD I) will be July 7-11! For more details that relate specifically to this training please use this link for more information. TAD II: Syntropic Agroforestry will be July 15-18! For more details that relate specifically to this training please use this link for more information. You can Register for BOTH events for a reduced cost per train...
ECHO North America: Introduction to Tropical Agriculture Development - July 2025
Mon, 7 July 2025 » Fri, 11 July 2025
ECHO North America, United States
Those interested in preparing for short to long-term involvement in international agriculture development are encouraged to participate in this five-day course. Topics and discussions will focus on improved food security and agricultural livelihoods for small-scale farmers in developing countries. Participants will be introduced to the complexities related to poverty and community development. They will also be introduced to principles and practices that contribute toward maintaining h...
In-Field Grafted Avocado
Avocados produce valuable fruit and have huge potential for mountain farmers in Haiti. We struggled for several years, trying to plant grafted avocado trees that we bought from nurseries. My technicians have learned the meth...
Fertility Ditches with Elephant Grass and/or Bananas
Network members Mike Martin and Brian Moser share farmer systems of using ditches to generate compost in the field to either retain for in-field soil health management or take and use elsewhere on-farm.
Cultivating Pigeon Peas: A Comprehensive Guide for Smallholder Farmers
"Cultivating Pigeon Peas: A Comprehensive Guide for Smallholder Farmers" is an essential resource designed to empower farmers with actionable knowledge for successful pigeon pea cultivation. Designed for smallholder farmers,...
IFOAM Seeds Platform
The IFOAM Seeds Platform is a global network of individuals and organizations advancing seed and plant breeding for organic systems.
We need greater diversity and larger supply of high-quality, regionally adapted p...
Producing & Marketing Value-added Farm Products - Supplemental Information, Turmeric
Example of Value-added farm products- Turmeric operation at Aloha House, Palawan, Philippines
Herbs in Africa: Small Scale, Sustainable Cultivation and Processing Techniques for Rural Communities
This book discusses conservation and cooperation, dehydration, extraction of herbal material, dehydration apparatus, the home based herbal business, skin care lotions and medicinal balms, and extraction apparatus of herbs in...
Exercises in Herb Science
This book has been written as a work-study guide for students and others interested in learning about medicinal and aromatic species, plants commonly known as herbs. This book of laboratory exercises familiarizes the reader...
Taxonomy of Flowering Plants
A college text that introduces the methods for classifying plants, and identifies the families and characteristics of individual fauna.
Herbs: American Nature Guides
This accurately illustrated guide gives detailed descriptions of over 200 plants to enable easy identificaiton, and provides information on the distribution and natural habitat of each species.
Herbs: How to Select, Grow, and Enjoy
This book shows you how to enjoy the full benefit of herb gardening. Herbs: How to Select, Grow, and Enjoy provides a modern herbal color photos and desriptions of more than 200 varieties help you choose the right herb. This...