SEA Curacao organises "lessons outside", by taking the material out of the book, the students out of theclassroom and the teachers out of the traditional school system! During those lessons students are offered the curriculum in an alternative way and location, close to their interests and experiences. The goal is to motivatethe students to make a success of their schoolcareer! Last week Beroots permaculture was volunteering again For SEA Curaçao. This time we were in Punda (

This evening it was all about design! The first steps of creating a good design. Also the first steps of where everybody is starting to connect all the little things and big things together. Where are you going to place what? And with what kind of purpose? Trying to connect everything together for more functional and more sustainable way. Minimum input and the maximum out put is what the students are putting in their minds when they are going to design. We started with a min

So great that we have our second enthousiastic group! The first week was about what permaculture is and all the amazing Principles and off course the ethics, The week before about geology of Curaçao, it is so good to know how where when curacao started to exist. Last week we had a 4 hour mooring session about soils and composting. The people were very keen on learning about this. I am so proud of them that they went on all the way till 12.15. They were working hard in the su

March 2015 In march I received an enthousiastic email from Daryl from Aruba! At the end of his nice stiry there was a question about when I was gonna give an other permaculture course. A week later I received via my facebook fan page (https://www.facebook.com/BerootsPermaculture) an other message from Aruba of Roos. At that moment it was clear that I needed to go to Aruba for some teaching. One month later I was welcomed in a warm house by cats and dogs and Roos & Dan. In my

A year ago ( Oktober 2014) , my old school mate and I were sitting together to see how we can combine our knowledge en we created a fun ecological course on Curacao. It was 6 times and each time about 3 up to 4 hours. Before we knew it we were fully booked! Michelle was teaching about the ecology and about local plants you can eat. Leon was teaching the geology of Curaçao and I was teaching Permaculture design. What a great time we had. Also we created a closed group on Faceb