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Workshops 2025

In this space, we'll report on workshops, conferences, and other activities for all Biointensivists.

8-MONTH INTERNSHIP IN ECOLOGY ACTION

Our adventure to learn the “Grow Biointensive” Method started in April of the year 2025. I am Janet Nina Cusiyupanqui and I am Peruvian and I am Eva Asher and I am Mexican. We are currently doing an 8-month internship in Ecology Action at the Victory Garden for Peace in Mendocino, California. We are learning and strengthening the knowledge related to the 8 principles of the Method day by day. We have the opportunity of doing field practices under the instruction of Matthew Drewno and of taking on-line classes with John Jeavons.

he 9th Spanish edition of the Biointensive Method’s flagship book, “How to Grow More Vegetables (and Fruit, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops)” by John Jeavons, is now available. Purchase it through the channels listed in the footer at a special price for Biointensivists.

Orchard Report

In Mexico, we are fortunate to have two Masters in the Biointensive Method, Marisol Tenorio and Agustín Medina. They will periodically share their valuable experiences with crops, yields, pests, and other details of their orchard. We hope this section will be of guidance and help to the Biointensivists who read this “Orchard Report.” We hope you will share your reports with us, and we will gladly publish them here.

Declaration on Biointensive Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change

Declaration on Biointensive Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change
The participants in the Latin American meeting “Biointensive Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change,” which included representatives from 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries, the United States, Russia, and Kenya, gathered in Xochitla, State of Mexico, from May 3 to 9, 2010. They issued the following declaration, which remains fully valid 15 years later, today, World Environment Day.

To support the work of certified teachers and make it easier for all those interested in training who cannot attend our in-person workshops, the “Online Biointensive School” is now available. To access the workshops, we invite you to click on the link below. There you will find everything from the basic workshop to garden planning and diet design, as well as other educational resources.

Organic agriculture is a state of consciousness.

It is not enough to know how to grow food without agrochemicals, it is equally important or more important to have a clear conscience of how, why and what for we are doing it. The consequences of not having all of this clear are obvious because humankind had never been so sick and acculturated as it is nowadays.

Because we are aware of the ever-increasing challenges the world is facing and the basic need of people to eat, we have developed a small-scale farming system—the GROW BIOINTENSIVEMR Method—that feeds the soil, produces high yields, preserves the resources and can be used successfully by almost all people. Our goal is to help so that this method is recognized and used locally – all around the world.

Ecology Action, ECOPOL and El Mezquite have catalyzed projects all around the world through training workshops, counseling, internships, online teaching and publications. This consortium of NGOs is present in 152 countries in the world and has an estimate of 10 million Biointensivists that produce abundant food without agrochemicals, in small spaces, with resources that exist in any rural community, and with less water, energy and fertilizers and at the same time restore and increase the fertility of their soils.

The principles, techniques and practical solutions the Method uses come from cultures that preceded us.