Planting day at Poco Mas Sol: friends working the soil in the food forest

Workshops & classes

Learn with your hands in the soil

Short, practical workshops on syntropic agroforestry, living soil, fertiliser you can make at home, food forests, natural building and food as medicine.

On request

What we teach

Book any of these for your group, retreat or school visit. Minimum 4 people unless noted.

Juanilama medicinal herb growing on the farm

$45

Half day

Herbal apothecary: deepening with plants

Identify, harvest and process the mountain’s medicinal plants into tinctures, salves and teas with Sacred Earth Herbal Apothecary.

Natural bamboo building under construction

$150

2 days

Natural building with bamboo & earth

Two days of hands-on natural building for the tropics: harvesting and treating bamboo, joinery, foundations that survive 13 feet of rain, and earth plasters.

This week’s harvest: tropical fruit, roots, greens, cacao and jars of raw milk

$55

Half day

Food as medicine: the conscious kitchen

Cook a whole-food, plant-based feast from the harvest with Kenny’s Conscious Kitchen — no soy, gluten or cane sugar — and learn to re-create any dish out of plants.

Volunteers and family planting a new bed together at Poco Mas Sol

$45

Half day

Handmade fertiliser: bokashi, compost tea & mountain microorganisms

Make the fertilisers that feed our no-spray farm — bokashi, activated mountain microorganisms and compost tea — and take starter cultures home.

Young pineapples and mixed beds in the syntropic food forest

$85

1 day

Syntropic agroforestry: design your first rows

A hands-on day in a 20-year-old food forest: succession, stratification, spacing, pruning and mulching — then you plant a syntropic row yourself.

Want a workshop that isn’t listed?

Cheese, fermentation, bamboo building, cacao processing — tell us and we will design it with our network of local makers.

Ask us