Permaculture Summer School
May 9th-10th • June 6th-7th • July 4th-5th • August 29th-30th • September 5th - 6th, 2026 • Briesen, Germany
Your reconnection with nature
Learning to grow your own food organically is not just a skill: it’s the concrete foundation of a long and healthy life!
No guilt. No excuses.
Here, you learn how to cultivate the land, even in pots on the balcony! And, most importantly, you learn how to cultivate yourself. You become self-sufficient, you reconnect with natural rhythms and you find a community that shares your values.
Choose Your Weekends
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Setting Up a Thriving Garden
May 9th - 10th, 2026
You’ll start from the beginning, selecting plants that will grow in our microclimate. We will prepare the soil, understand why intercropping is crucial for a thriving garden, and go through the planning of a Permaculture Market Garden
Included: workshop about bee keeping
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Safe from Weeds in the Garden Explosion
June 6th - 7th, 2026
You learn to manage abundance and to act defense without chemicals! Beneficial insects, juicy fertilizers and weeding tools are part of the teaching; alongside designing the greenhouse setup whilst managing its growth
Included: workshop about drink fermentation
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The Calm Before the Great Harvest
July 4th - 5th, 2026
Time to be proactive and think about plant health and nutrition with safety pruning, rescue remedies and boosting fertilizers. Herbs, beans and (some) flowers need to be dried now, and we will go through all the ways of storing and preserving our harvest.
Included: workshop about natural skin care
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Harvest, Plant, Repeat
August 29th - 30th, 2026
Time to start all over again with planting the winter season and harvesting the seeds that are ready on the plants. We will maximize the growth of our pumpkins, before storage.
Included: workshop about natural saponification
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Prolong Your Season
September 5th - 6th, 2026
There are tricks to extend the life of your plants, and we will use them all here, including some pruning techniques for trees. This Module contains the experience of holding an actual Market: planning, display, selling, counting savings, investments. Learn all about being a farmer!
Included: workshop about fruit tree pruning
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Your Teachers
Benny & MaVie
They met in 2019, on this land, and started growing together, developing a place for people to feel deeply nourished, and at peace, where everybody can learn how being more centered and connected can be simple and fun.
What a typical day looks like
Saturday
Sunday
Welcome tour of facilities and tea with intro
Module theory explained
Learn by doing
Garden lunch served
Tent set up and pause
Workshop lab
Class and games
Preparing dinner all together
Sauna time
Dinner at the bonfire
Yin yoga and sound bath
10.00
10.45
11.30
13.30
14.30
15.30
17.30
19.00
19.30
20.00
21.00
Yoga flow and meditation
Breakfast of champions
Free time in nature
Theory and practice on land
Garden lunch
Quiz, questions and sharing
Greetings, shopping and exchanging
07.30
08.30
09.30
10.30
13.30
14.30
16.00
Location
The exact address is not public, but the town where the farm is is called Briesen (15757), near Tropical Island in the south of Berlin.
From the station of Oderin, on foot:
Exit the train and reach platform 2. Start walking the path behind it, keeping the railway to your right side. Once the pavement ends, keep walking through the field, always keeping near to the railway on your right side.
You will then cross a small forest, and will then finish on a white path. Walk until you see the majestic white greenhouses and enter from the first field.
By bicycle:
From platform 1 go on the main road and cycle towards the left (the side where you don’t have to cross any railway). Follow until you pass the yellow sign of BRIESEN before entering the town, there is a curve towards the right. Instead of passing the curve, enter it, pass the railway, make a right, see the greenhouses
Investment
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225€
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699€
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950€
Book your spot with non refundable 50% deposit
Participants get access to the Telegram group
Frequently Asked Questions
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In Nature, the plants communicate to each other: they can move and migrate, create families, kill enemies … this is Permaculture: the conception that plants are alive, and that we can enhance their life (and get very tasty fruits) by respecting their needs of protection, nutrition and space.
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On a farm, even your primordial functions are connected to nature: we have a compost toilet, and you get to brush your teeth with rain water, under a sky full of stars. You can charge your phone, drink hot water, eat warm meals - discovering how this is done, it’s part of the game of living wildly for the weekend.
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In the Module fee we include welcome gift, regenerative meals and snacks, booklet, toilet, water, tea, electricity, yoga mats (only for yoga lessons in the yoga space), use of facilities and of the sleeping area. A Diploma is handed out to you at the end of each Module.
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You will practically learn about the cycle of the plants from seed to seed, witnessing the garden in its seasonal passages. This will inspire you to inquire, experiment and lead a more conscious lifestyle - yes, that might be the unexpected outcome of this experience…
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Our neighbors are the cows who graze from field to field. The train railway is not too far from us, but there are fewer trains on the weekends, and some of their sound is integrated into Nature. A huge forest embodies and contours the field.
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The rental of a tent, in case you don’t have one; products of the farm.
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Benny
He is the most motivated farmer that ever lived, and dedicated his whole life to vegetables. Personally, he is also very essential, and wants to respect the natural processes of the plants.
MaVie
She is an amateur with experience, who likes to observe and understand those processes. She dedicates more to people, though, and she tames the monster of bureaucracy and celebrates this by cooking for all. -
We resent admitting that the paths are difficult to cross on a wheelchair, and that the compost toilet is actually a tower.
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On the farm we have a scared dog and a queen cat. Feel free to make your choice, but we discourage you from bringing your cat. Dogs tend to get along faster.
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You will get the suggestion to join groups of friends of the field, to come and visit us during the year.
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Your 50% deposit will be kept
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We tend to teach in German and English, but we speak French, Italian and Spanish - if you need to clarify something in your language.
We ask the participants which language is their favorite, and keep translating simultaneously when needed.
Ready to book?
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