Erkki Pöytäniemi, Finland
At NPA:
- Diploma holder
- working member, communications, General Circle
Education and Skills
- Agronomist, M.Sc.
- career in organic farming and food business
- PDC, Ferme du Bec Hellouine, France, 2014
- Permaculture Teacher Training 2023
- Diploma Apprentice, NPA since 2021
- Diploma holder (3/2025)
- Certified SoFA Sociocracy Facilitator 2024
My Projects:
- Our site: Iso-orvokkiniity
- My Diploma Portfolio
- I am the Leader in the Finnish Permaculture Association 2023-2025
Languages:
- Finnish (native)
- English (bilingual proficiency)
- Swedish (working proficiency)
- French (elementary proficiency)
My email: erkki (ät) iso-orvokkiniitty.fi
About Erkki
I have a M.Sc in Agronomy and have been active in organics my whole career. I got seriously interested in Permaculture in 2014 and did my PDC in France that year. The same year we bought a property in Karjalohja, Finland – Iso-orvokkiniitty, which we have designed and built according to permaculture principles. We have built a strawbale-clay house and started with gardening, forest garden, beekeeping and mushroom cultivation among others striving for more self-sufficiency in energy and food. We are off-grid with solar panels and a wind mill.
While learning ourselves we have held courses and workshops on the above subject areas. In the autumn 2022 we held our first 2-day ”Introduction to Permaculture” at Iso-orvokkiniitty (in Finnish). In the end of 2023 I did the Permaculture Teacher Training course. I started working on my Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design in NPA in 2021 and became a Diploma holder in March 2025. .
I have followed the activities of the Finnish Permaculture Association from the start and was board member in 2022 and chosen as chairman of the association for 2023 and continuing into 2024.
NPA Diploma Gathering in Holma in November 2024
On 22 November, the Nordic Permaculture Academy (NPA) permaculture diploma apprentices and holders met at Holma Folkhögskola in southern Sweden. The NPA usually organises two diploma gatherings a year, one in March and one in November. This time around 25 Academy...