Beyond Buckthorns - Permaculture Design Hub in rural Finland
A life beyond sea buckthorns. Permaculture courses, regenerative gardening, agroecology, permaculture design, biogas and food in rural Finland, Pälkäne.
Come visit!
All visits must either be part of the course or help us with some tasks.
Please contact us in advance - at least one week before.
Study permaculture!
Are you interested in a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design? Then Nick could be your tutor!
Be a Wwoofer!
Wwoof = World wide opportunity in organic farming.
You want to help us in our garden or with projects?
Support our efforts
In 2022, we founded Vihreä Pourusmäki RY - an association for rural development.
Curriculum was super intensive yet balanced and filled with lectures, theory, lots of practice, lots of groups discussion, which helped us really get along with each other.
Sustainability Courses
This course in Finnish only!
Please read the details in the Finnish course description!
Come hang out with us at Beyond Buckthorns on Friday the 24th of July! We're going to have a nice day together with enjoying the summer's day, and working together a little: harvesting, garden work, projects...
This course is in Finnish, please read the Finnish description by changing the language of the site!
DIY Biogas movie
In 2023 Nick released his documentary "Holy Shit - a journey into DIY biogas". Follow him visiting several key figures in the DIY Biogas movement in the United States. Learn about DIY biogas. Get inspired!
Latest news
Open Gardens on a rainy day
The Open Gardens day was a decent success even though it was quite rainy at times. We had 47 names in the guest book at the end of the day, and the café was popular too. Many people signed up for the newsletter also - welcome to the community!
Hanging out while clearing out a storage container
Thanks so much everyone who came to our talkoo & hangout community day last Thursday! We had participants ranging from 22-82 years old from various villages in Pälkäne, over Valkeakoski and Tampere, all the way to Massachusetts and Pennsylvania!
The age of Digital Permaculture
Digital Permaculture extends the current understanding of permaculture into the digital space. Follow Nick on his journey where he explorers how personal digital sustainability can be achieved using permaculture design. On ~352 pages he will guide you through one big permaculture design. Learn about IT and permaculture design at the same time!
About us and our permaculture design hub
Beyond Buckthorns is a permaculture design hub and education centre. In the past years, we have worked on the old log house and its three-hectare plot in accordance with sustainability, esp. the principles of permaculture.