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Rainbow Grocery, Whole Foods Berkeley, Seventh Generation Fund, Honor the Earth, Rudolf Steiner Foundation, Rose Foundation, Three Nations Indian Circle, Traditional Native American Farmers Association, Nunkui Shuar Preservation, the Ecology Center in Berkeley for their help and support of Meso-American and South American Indigenous peoples, and all the individual donors

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About Our Organization

The Indigenous Permaculture Program is a grassroots organization that supports community food security to revitalize ecological health.

  • Help re-establish wellness to Mother Earth and her people.
  • Improve community health using locally-available resources and how conscious choices ca n help care for and preserve Mother Earth
  • Support revitalization of Native and local low-income communities by sharing information on indigenous methods of land stewardship

We share traditional farming practices and applying environmentally and culturally-appropriate technology, with the ultimate goal of community food security, and do this work in an affordable way that builds capacity within the community. We see that people lack holistic support to design and implement community food security projects, inspired by indigenous peoples' understanding of how to live in place.



Indigenous Permaculture, or Cosmovision, is a way of thinking and living by following the original instructions we were given to live in balance with the world. These teachings assist people in achieving a symbiotic sustainable life within their environment by utilizing indigenous agricultural practices.

Permaculture reconnects human beings and the natural world in an effort to restore balance and natural law that will heal the earth and its people. Indigenous Permaculture is not new, it is wisdom from the past that tells us how to follow our original instructions from the Creator. By doing this we ensure our existence and a future for generations.

The Maquilihuatl Nahuat of Sonsonate, El Salvador
A Oglala Lakota community near Pine Ridge, SD
Indigenous Permaculture Training Certificate Holders of the San Francisco Bay Area
Guillermo Vasquez, Director (Maya, Nahuat);
Anank Nunink Nunkai, Docent (Shuar Tribal Elder);
Pascual Yaxon, Docent (Maya);
Santos Vecino, El Salvador Project leader (Nahuat);
Wilmer Mesteth, Pine Ridge Project leader (Lakota);
Ben Jordan, Project Support;
Herman Yee, Project Support;
David Jaber, Development Support
Norma Navarro, Communications
Mario Lopez, Support
Lupita
Sergio Martinez
Malin Ramirez
Michelle Smelser