
Mari Palgi, Estonia
At NPA:
- Apprentice
Education and Skills
- PDC 2023 Estonia
- started NPA diploma path 2024 February.
- Molecular biologist by profession,
- have been using some permaculture principles in my whole life before I learned it is permaculture 😉
- My side hobby is breeding dogs – rough collies.
Languages:
- Estonian, English, Finnish, Russian
My email: mpalgi (ät) me.com
About MariÂ
The PDC course with Cat of two weeks in Estonia was one of the greatest time in my life.
I have a garden around my house at the seaside nearby Tallinn, where I grow some veges and herbs for my family. I also have a future project waiting in the countryside at Southern Estonia – a little farm to start by permaculture principles, so there is a lot of planning still ahead. There are some huge outbuildings in bad condition to think a new use for these. I would like to integrate animals to that farm and basically restore the place to its original purpose of growing this and that and be as selfsustainable as possible with small numbers of different animals. Like in the Babe movie 😉 Hoping to make it a LAND place in future, it means after couple of years. Also dreaming of establishing a small community there of people who think alike.

The NPA Meeting in Finland Karjalohja 21.-23.3.2025
Text and Photos: Mari Palgi This was my very first NPA meeting after joining NPA in 2024. There were three of us coming from Estonia. The accommodation was in an old water mill building rebuildt for a big family house with a mill museum. The owners gladly told us the...