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Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute

REACHING OUT IN FOUR DIRECTIONS TO BUILD BRIDGES BETWEEN COMMUNITIES

Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute was established to address the needs of indigenous communities around the globe. In essence our “four bridges” reach out in all directions to establish a network of people to address global issues in all of our communities. We are accomplishing this by first addressing the poverty, and lack of healthy sustainable living practices in these communities.

Become a Member of the Four Bridges Community!

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We are currently hosting a Membership Drive. Your Membership Fee ensures that our programs and community support continues. Membership has its priveleges. You will receive quarterly newsletters, 10% discounts on workshops and conferences, and 10% discounts on our farm products available at our Santa Cruz, NM location (available on line soon.)

Membership Fee Schedule

Individual Rate....................................... $25

Senior/Student Rate...............................$15

Family Rate.............................................$50

Corporate/Organization Rate................$100

Our Projects and

Our Executive Director, Emigdio Ballon, is an accomplished plant geneticist, from Cochabamba, Bolivia. He has dedicated his life to teaching communities throughout the world through practical, hands on applications, arming individual families, and communities with the knowledge to grow and sustain the work we accomplish, long after we have moved on to the next project.

Through funding from appropriate foundations, Four Bridges purchases the required materials,plants, or livestock and equipment, provides training materials, and professional training to the individual families and communities in need.

Sustainable Living

We are helping communities to become more sustainable through organic farming practices, seed saving, education in traditional foods and medicines, and developing markets for their surplus crops, and value added products. We accomplish this through methods that respect local traditions, helping participants to maintain or return to their traditional cultural lifestyles.

Our Believes

The Southwest Bridge Project focuses mainly in the urban areas of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Espanola, involving the surrounding pueblos whenever possible. We are currently developing programs to connect low income families with local, organic food producers to provide nutritional resources, and sustainable living practices.

The South American Bridge Project formalized work already being shared in Cusco, Peru, and Cochabamba, Bolivia, assisting the Quechua and Aymara communities to survive and thrive in their remote Andes’ locations. Existing organizations we work with include Ayllus Ecologicos, and the Women’s Coordinadora of the High Valley of Cochabamba.

The Central American Bridge Project includes work in Belize, Guatemala, and Chihuahua, Mexico. Working with existing organizations including Qachuu Aloom, and CONTEC, Four Bridges will help strengthen conservation and agricultural restoration efforts in these countries.

The Northeast Bridge Project currently supports traditional agricultural revival work in the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Communities of Upstate New York. Our work is in partnership with Kanenhi:io Ionkwaienthonhakie, (We Are Planting Good Seeds), on the Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation.

Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute
518-332-3156
P.O. Box 787
Santa Cruz, NM 87567

fourbridges@live.com

Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute

Reviving agricultural traditions, and uniting indigenous people around the globe.