Beyond Buckthorns - Permaculture Design Hub in rural Finland
A life beyond sea buckthorns. Permaculture courses, regenerative gardening, agroecology, permaculture design, biogas and food in rural Finland, Pälkäne.
Come visit!
All visits must either be part of the course or help us with some tasks.
Please contact us in advance - at least one week before.
Study permaculture!
Are you interested in a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design? Then Nick could be your tutor!
Be a Wwoofer!
Wwoof = World wide opportunity in organic farming.
You want to help us in our garden or with projects?
Support our efforts
In 2022, we founded Vihreä Pourusmäki RY - an association for rural development.
Curriculum was super intensive yet balanced and filled with lectures, theory, lots of practice, lots of groups discussion, which helped us really get along with each other.
Sustainability Courses
The first Sunday of May is International Permaculture Day. This year, 2026, it is the Sunday, 3rd of May and we invite you to our talkoot for a nice day of working and spending time together!
Come and design with us! On the 6th of June Lumia and Dominik host a Foodforest designCamp at Beyond Buckthorns, our homestead in Pirkanmaa, Finland. Together with our participants we will design a food forest area at Beyond Buckthorns.
On the 25th of June we invite you to a summer Talkoot at Beyond Buckthorns. We have several tasks for the whole day that we'd like to get done while having a nice time with you all.
Depending on the weather we have the following planned:
DIY Biogas movie
In 2023 Nick released his documentary "Holy Shit - a journey into DIY biogas". Follow him visiting several key figures in the DIY Biogas movement in the United States. Learn about DIY biogas. Get inspired!
Latest news
Lumia's permaculture teacher interview
In the spring of 2025 I was asked to do an interview with Finland's permaculture association in their teacher series, as I had received my (modern-style, not honorary) Diploma as the first Finn ever in February. That was nice!
The age of Digital Permaculture
Digital Permaculture extends the current understanding of permaculture into the digital space. Follow Nick on his journey where he explorers how personal digital sustainability can be achieved using permaculture design. On ~352 pages he will guide you through one big permaculture design. Learn about IT and permaculture design at the same time!
About us and our permaculture design hub
Beyond Buckthorns is a permaculture design hub and education centre. In the past years, we have worked on the old log house and its three-hectare plot in accordance with sustainability, esp. the principles of permaculture.