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Ecology Action teaches people worldwide to better feed themselves while building and preserving the soil and conserving resources. What do we do?

Since 1971 we and our colleagues have been researching and developing GROW BIOINTENSIVE®, a high-yielding, sustainable agricultural system that emphasizes local food production and is based historically on intensive gardening systems. How do we spread the system? Education and training are the keys. Publications based on our research are disseminated globally. We give trainings in the GROW BIOINTENSIVE method all the way from the basic level up to the training of trainers. Our publications and training's have inspired demonstration and teaching projects in Mexico, Kenya, Argentina, Ecuador, Russia and Uzbekistan, with other trainers in place in the U.S. and around the world. As a result, millions of people have learned new techniques and have been taught to grow a nourishing diet for themselves while protecting the Earth’s fragile resources. How do we influence the world as a small organization? We equip individuals and organizations with the information, skills and inspiration that enable them to take the next step. We remain the core of this expanding global network, finding ways to make crops grow well in non-optimal soil and climatic conditions at our Research Mini-Farm/Garden, providing technical expertise, acting as an information bank, maintaining quality assurance of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE system, and catalyzing new projects as opportunities arise.

10/28/2026

Good Nutrition for Everyone is based in Hombay-Kisumu, in western Kenya, and has a staff of three. Each trainer holds one, five-day GROW BIOINTENSIVE workshop per week, for a total of 12 workshops per month.

Workshops are provided upon request to a variety of community groups throughout western Kenya: churches, schools, prisons, orphanages, youth groups and women’s groups.

In recent years there have been a lot of requests from groups of people living with disabilities, particular the deaf community in Kenya. The five day workshop has been adapted into a six-day workshop to accommodate sign language translation.

Good Nutrition for Everyone is one of our most prolific programs, training an average of 10,000 people per year.

10/27/2026

Heart Beet Mini-Farm is a GROW BIOINTENSIVE demonstration farm on the Northern California coastline near Mendocino, almost the end of the road for the legendary California Highway 1.

10/26/2026

Most of the world’s farmers are women.

This young man has found that a jembe hoe makes just as good a seat as a digging tool.

GROW BIOINTENSIVE Malawi.
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10/21/2026

Here’s another image from Janet Nina’s GROW BIOINTENSIVE demonstration garden at almost 10,000 feet elevation in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Peru.

Very unique cultivation conditions, with the winter months (June through August) seeing hard frosts in the mornings, followed by extremely warm daytime temperatures and some of the highest solar radiation on the planet.

Janet was a 2025 onsite intern at Ecology Action in Willits.

10/20/2026

Janet Nina was our other onsite intern in 2025. Janet and her family founded Ecohuella in the Sacllo Peasant Community in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Since returning from her internship in the US, Janet has been installing a GROW BIOINTENSIVE demonstration garden on-site at Ecohuella.

The area has deep roots in traditional Andean agriculture and textile making.

Janet tells us, “The Sacllo community sits at an altitude of 2,981 meters above sea level, and its main crop is the giant white corn variety of Cusco. This is one of the most important grains for export, but prices have fluctuated considerably in recent years due to pesticide residues found in the kernels.”

10/19/2026

John Jeavons, the founder of Ecology Action as well as the author of the iconic book How to Grow More Vegetables (than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine) (now in its ninth edition) will be leading an intensive, four-day workshop held over Zoom each Saturday for one month, starting in November.

Check out the link in our bio to learn more and to register.

We hope to see your smiling face!

10/15/2026

Here’s another picture of Huautli, Eva Asher’s project on Lake Chapala in Jalisco, MX. The project uses a mix of weekly apprentices and volunteers as well as students attending their monthly class to maintain the demonstration garden.

Eva was one of Ecology Action’s 2025 onsite Interns, and we are proud of the work she is doing in MX.

10/14/2026

Huautli is a GROW BIOINTENSIVE educational and demonstration garden located along the shores of Lake Chapala, the largest lake in MX, in Jalisco.

There is an entire community of subsistence farmers who grow crops in the receding shoreline of the lake in the dry season of each year. This style of agriculture is known as drawdown agriculture.

2025 Ecology Action intern Eva Asher leads the project.

10/07/2026

Garden Tour this Saturday on the coast.

Learn more on our website. Link in bio.

08/31/2026

GROW BIOINTENSIVE Malawi is another of Ecology Action’s international partner projects. Based out of Mzuzu, Ephraim Chirwa and his team train thousands of farmers each year in GROW BIOINTENSIVE agriculture. 🇲🇼

Address

5798 Ridgewood Road
Willits, CA
95490

Telephone

+17074590150

Website

http://www.growbiointensive.org/, https://linktr.ee/grow_biointensive

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