FOUNDER, FACILITATOR, PRINCIPAL PARTICIPANT

As an enthusiastic Engineer, Scientist and School Teacher, Ahmed has a varied background. His passion for natural building was sparked over the last decade by his love of nature and LEAN, intelligent design. This has seen him participating in numerous workshops in Earthships, Strawbale, COB and Mudbrick methods in Victoria, Tasmania, New Zealand, India and Nepal. He is also passionate about reconnecting with Nature and empowering others to see that there is a viable alternative to the current systemic model of fossil fueled society. With an affinity for seeing creative design solutions, Ahmed enjoys rising up to a challenge and seeing many possible solutions in a timely and efficient manner.

Ahmed created the Forage Foundation in 2014 in response to a need to share the Natural Building and Holistic Living insights with people all over the world. As an Educator/Facilitator, Ahmed enjoys sharing this knowledge in a practical and creative way.

PROJECT DIRECTOR, FACILITATOR, NEPAL

A local Nepali who works and resides in the Kathmandu valley in Nepal. His journey towards the empowerment and sustainability movement began when he got involved with Permaculture half a decade ago and began taking people through tours of his family farm in Tatopani. His connection to nature and spirituality was sparked by working with others who had learned new ways of intelligent design and land management.

After the 2015 Permacultourism tour, Bhupin met Ahmed Mulla and was inspired and motivated to begin learning about natural building. The 2015 Earthquake was also very difficult for his family and Bhupin put out the intention to spread this cost-effective and Earthquake resilient design to others in the local community. This was when the first Forage Tours workshop took place and the 'Clubhouse Cobhouse' education centre was built in 2016.

ARCHITECT, FACILITATOR, GERMANY

Joe is an architect and Pizza-ovenist from Germany. He is on his way to specialise in a more sustainable and senseful way of architecture. He is also interested in the traditional ways of craftsmanship and the efficient way of using resources the planet is offering us humans since millions of years… “my aim is to create connections with likeminded individuals, inspire the confused few and be able to cross think my own healthy path in times of medial waves of destruction”… Joe has been traveling heaps and he is now reconnecting to his European roots which will strengthen his own sustainable way of life there as well as the network of my international crew.

Joe joined forage foundation after experiencing Ahmed’s story about his first impression of the 2015 earthquake in person, where Ahmed met Bhupin and saw a chance to support him, his family and friends throughout a social network thats been created with the Tatopani-farm as well as an international organisation of non-profit thinking and cultural exchange…