Marja Nuora, Finland

At NPA:

  • diploma holder (3/2025)
  • working member, onboarding

Education and Skills

  • PDC 2013 at Koli Finland
  • Landscape designer 2019
  • Cultural Emergence courses (ACE, CEED, PEACE) 2021 online
  • Sociocracy course 2021online (Holma folkhögskola)
  • Mother Nature circle leader online 2023
  • Embodied Permaculture training 2023-24
  • Children in Permaculture intro course online 2024
  • Permaculture Teachers Training 2024 at Holma folkhögskola
  • Diploma in Applied Permaculture 2025

My Projects:

Languages:

  • Finnish (native)
  • English (working proficiency)
  • Swedish (working proficiency)
  • Latin (elementary proficiency)

My email: marja (ät) iso-orvokkiniitty.fi

About Marja 

I have degrees in agrology, theoretical philosophy and landscape design. I can combine all these in my permaculture pathway which takes me to a new regenerative and sustainable life. In my diploma pathway I have learned a new profession as a permaculture landscape designer and found my way as permaculturist at our site Iso-orvokkiniitty in southern Finland. This is a life long learning pathway and something I really enjoy and want to do. 

Our site Iso-orvokkiniitty

Iso-orvokkiniitty is a 12 ha permaculture homesteading project me and Marja Nuora started in 2014. 

Nordic Permaculture Academy diploma retreat in Estonia, 13. – 15. June 2025

Nordic Permaculture Academy diploma retreat in Estonia, 13. – 15. June 2025

We meet in Turi, a smaller town in the middle of Estonia, at the community house called Konn, which means frog. And for sure there are many frogs here. That’s probably because of the lowlands and the river. We have even seen two storks´ nest with chicks. The town of...

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