Life is easy as it is
Pugu strives to live as simple as possible, through sustaining eco-friendly life, to enjoin more people with the awareness of food security, green energy and natural building. Aim to let the coming 7 generations to own better/cleaner land than us, to respect our nature and living in harmony with.
About us
Parama Liang Ellejana (Ellen)
Graduated from National Taiwan University, majored in Business Administration, being the COO of ELIV International which promote volunteering around east-southern Asia. From 2013, he has exchanged many life skills at farms around Taiwan, for improving the knowledge of permaculture. Also to know more about the difficulties in the farming villages, fight for the justice of land using by the course of food security. Due to his partner Ellejana’s pregnancy, they moved to Yilan from Taipei, to live by farming/promoting natural life.
Certifications and Experience
2012 – PDC: Permaculture Design Certificate Course, Taiwan / Teacher-Tammy Turner
2012 – South East Asia Permaculture Convergence – Hong-Kong
2012/ 10-11 – Yunlin Agri-Expo Nature Building Team Member
2013/ 08, 2014/ 08 – Helper of PDC – Taiwan / Teacher- Tammy Turner
2014/ 01, 2014/ 12 – Interpreter of Green Warrior Permaculture Workshop, Taiwan / Teacher- Steve Cran
2015/ 04 – Interpreter of Green Warrior PDC, the Philippines / Teacher- Steve Cran
2015/ 09 – London International Permaculture Conference & Convergence
2016/ 03-04 Interpreter of Green Warrior Permaculture Workshop, Taiwan / Teacher- Steve Cran
2017/06 – Ecovillage and Transition Community Design / Teacher – Robyn Francis
2018 1-2月 – Interpreter of PDC in Kid’s Bookhouse, Taitung / Teacher- Steve Cran
2018/06 – Permaculture Teacher Training Course in BMPI / Teacher – Rowe Morrow, Lis Bastian
2023/02 – Service Learning Leader Training Course in YESSLA
2023/04 – Teacher for Permaculture Teacher Training Course with BMPI / Teacher – Sarah Boulle & Greta Carroll
Projects & Programs
2013 – Leader of the Pizza Oven Workshop at Nanhua University
2014 – Farming leader, at the city and farming club at Tamkang University.
2014 / 10 – 2015 / 03 – Project leader of My Rural Life Platform, to know more about the difficulties in the farming villages, which ended in 2016.
2015 / 01 – Leader of Pizza Oven Building.
2015 / 02-06 – Farming leading at 內城 elementary school at Yilan.
2015 / 05 – Promote the elements of water and fire in Permaculture at TungHai University in Taichung.
2015/ 08 – Building Pizza Oven at the hostel of 合群 at Yilan.
2015/ 09-11 – Participant at Permaculture Conference and Convergency, visited Transition Town Totnes, and other eco-communities in the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal and France.
2015 / 12 – From Dec 2015 to Dec 2017, Pugu Family established at their Permaculture base, moving in this living system in end of Aug 2016. Including using compost toilet, banana pit to filter used water, Lorena stove and hot water system, rain and underground water harvesting system, a hand made clay room.
2016/ 02-06 – Leader of Food and Agriculture Course at junior high school teacher training at Yilan
2016/ 04 – Leader of making Lorena Clay Stove at Pugu Base.
2016/ 6 – Cod House Workshop with Emma.
2016/ 03, 05 – Speaker of a course “Permaculture and Food Education” at Providence University in Taichung.
2016/ 12 – Visit and live with permaculture field school at Palawan, Philippines.
2017/ 01 – To design a 4 seasons perma-garden with Tammy.
2017/ 02 – Assistant of Compost Toilet Workshop at Pugu Base.
2017/ 04 – Assistant leader of Green Warrior Workshop 2017 at Pugu Base in Yilan.
2016 H2-2018 – Leader of the course- Hands-On Permaculture at Taipei Hakka community university.
2017/ 12 – Began a new chapter in Luye, Taitung — settling into the little Pugu Cottage, allowing space and time to unfold, and slowly getting to know the neighbors and the land around us.
2018 / 04-05 –
Leader of the course – Hands-On Permaculture at Taitung community university.
Leader of the workshops – Design a Edible Garden, and Design a water conservation Slope at Yong’an Elementary School, Taitung.
2018 / 06 – Permaculture Teacher Training Course in BMPI / Teacher – Rowe Morrow, Lis Bastian
2018 – Farming Curriculum Instructor — Grade 3, Junyi School for Innovative Learning, Taitung
2019 – Leader of pizza oven workshop at Chang Jung Christian University in Tainan
2019 – Leader of PDC in Jinlun, Taitung
2019 – Leader of the course – Hands-On Permaculture at Kao Hsiung 1st community university
2018-2019 – Permaculture columnist “Simple good life” at Earth Citizen 365 magazine
2020 – Leader of PDC in Yilan
2021 – Leader of PDC (Homeland and love space) in Taichung
2021~2022 – Leader of PDC (Homeland and love space) in Taitung
2022~2023 – Leader of PDC (Homeland and love space) in Yilan
2022-2023 – Leader of PDC (Homeland and love space) in Taitung
2022/ 12 – Began building the living systems at Ruiyuan Base, Taitung — composting toilet, outdoor shower, full outdoor kitchen, and a natural building cottage.
2023 – Translator and Assistant Teacher of Permaculture Teacher Training in Taitung
Ellejana (Ellen) Parama Liang
Ellejana is the co-founder of Pugu — a permaculture lifestyle educator and teacher trainer, a spiritual birth companion and holistic healer, and a mother.
Growing up in Taipei, she began her journey at 19 through the Philosophy Department and mountaineering club at Tunghai University. Since 2000, she has explored the relationship between human activity, leisure, and the natural world. She later pursued a Master’s degree in Leisure, Tourism and Environment at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, deepening her understanding of sustainability and intentional living.
In 2012, she worked with the mobile eco-village Green & Away in the UK. In 2015, she visited and engaged with transition communities across the Netherlands, France, Germany, Portugal, and Totnes, England. She has also led volunteer groups to Nepal and Thailand, experiencing sustainable living and local cultures firsthand.
In 2018, she completed her permaculture teacher training with Rosemary Morrow and Lis Bastian in the Blue Mountains, Australia — going on to weave permaculture education together with spirituality and heartful communication.
Since 2017, she has been an Alphagem consultant within the Agni Tradition — a non-religious spiritual lineage founded by German spiritual master Agni Eickermann. In 2019, she became a Path of Light spiritual teacher, working with energetic feng shui and the Nine Seals to shift the frequency of Pugu Base, and walking alongside her family and students in the unfolding of their life missions. She has also offered spiritual accompaniment through pregnancy and birth — guiding many women back to their own power and love, and welcoming babies into the light.
She has visited Pun Pun Organic Farm in Chiang Mai, Thailand multiple times, deepening her understanding of community and eco-village living. As both translator and student, she has learned hands-on PDC and holistic permaculture design alongside permaculture specialist Steve Cran.
Together with her partner Parama, she established the first Pugu Base in Yilan between 2016 and 2018. Since relocating to Luye, Taitung in 2020, she has been tending Pugu Base as a living expression of community and sustainable life. In 2025, the base also became the Sacred Heart Light Center — a space where holistic healing, Alphagem feng shui, and permaculture education meet.
In April 2023, she and Parama invited Sarah Boulle and Greta Carroll to bring Rosemary Morrow’s permaculture teacher training system to Taiwan for the very first time, with Ellejana serving as translator and co-organizer. In 2025, she completed a permaculture teacher training facilitation in Hong Kong alongside Rosemary Morrow, Rhiannon Phillips, and Parama — becoming a trainer within this system for the Chinese-speaking world.
She currently lives and works at Pugu Base in Luye, Taitung, together with her family and fellow companions, building a sustainable home and a living community.
💗 For more about Ellejana, visit: Saints Heart Light Center— https://ellejana.wordpress.com