Salamander Springs Farm/Permaculture Organics

Permaculture in Practice workshops at Salamander Springs Farm are not posted on social media, etc.  Salamander Springs is an entirely off-grid and remote farm without internet; we appreciate your patience with email replies!  If you would like to get on the workshop notification email list, press "email us" our our Local Harvest home page. Give us your name with your email contact, your city/state and any specific interests.  Susana also teaches for other organizations and conferences in many states and other on-farm events which are sent to the email contact list when possible. Monthly 2-3 hour farm tours are a great introduction to the farm and the principles in practice.  For information on the monthly "2nd Saturday" farm tours, go back to our Local Harvest home page.

Permaculture in Practice workshops at Salamander Springs Farm:

Learnto rely on local resources & energy, to create fertile, living soil with permanent beds, hugelcultur, contour swales, ponds, rainwater catchment, greywater & spring water systems, perennial food polycultures, 3 Sisters cornfields, no-till staple crops (patterned on Masanobu Fukuoka’s work), poultry forage, cover crops… 

Experience a passive solar shower, humanure toilet, solar food dehydrator, earthen floors, building with clay, straw, salvage & local lumber, passive solar tiny house.  

Enjoy wild forage, forest medicinals, veggies, fruits, nuts, grains, dry beans & herbs grown, processed, preserved & fermented on the farm.

Learn about Salamander Springs and Susana Lein in the permaculture documentary film, INHABIT (translated into 7 languages), thepermaculturepodcast.com, articles in Mother Earth News, Orion and Permaculture Design magazines, Cornell University’s Small Farm Quarterly, and in features by organizations for which Lein has taught, including the Stone Barns Center (NY), Southern Sustainable Agriculture and North American Biodynamic Association conferences .  Return to our Local Harvest home page for links to these sites and publications.

Lein received her PDC at Crystal Waters Permaculture Village in Australia, worked 8 years with small farmers in Latin America and has practiced permaculture for 26 years. She has taught more than 80 permaculture & natural building workshops, on-farm and for organizations in 9 states and 4 countries. Entirely off-grid, Salamander Springs Farmgrows for local markets, stores and restaurants, CSA shares and Local Harvest online store.

For detailed information with photos and ppt teaching slides of Salamander Springs Farm, see www.flickr.com/photos/salamanderspringsfarm/sets.