12P Permaculture Design is thrilled to invite you to a two-week Earth Activist Training, offering the internationally-recognised 72-hour permaculture curriculum with an additional focus on social permaculture, organizing tools, and spirit. Come and share a life-changing experience with an intercultural mix of participants!

EAT is an intensive course combining theory with practical hands-on learning. Completion of the course earns participants a Permaculture Design Certificate – the foundation for further permaculture work and study and a prerequisite for the Diploma in Permaculture Design. Participants will learn Permaculture design principles & techniques. The course includes lectures, discussions, hands-on learning, slideshows, and design projects. We will examine the underlying assumptions of the current culture of consumerism and economic globalisation, and encourage exploration of ways to contribute to the emergence of a culture of sustainability, compassion and equity. The PDC core curriculum covers a broad range of subjects to provide a holistic overview of Permaculture systems and sustainable living.

The Keela Yoga Farm Permaculture Design course combines the standard PDC curriculum with hands-on experience of life at a working permaculture farm. You can take it alone, or in combination with the courses on food forests and natural buildings in the weeks immediately following for a month-long intensive training in practical sustainability.

As well as learning about permaculture philosophy, its ecological foundations, design methodologies, and real-world applications, you’ll get your hands dirty in the vegetable gardens, composting systems, food forests, silvopastures, appropriate technology systems, and managed woodlands on an established 18-hectare site.

This Permaculture Design course will suit you if you are thinking of applying permaculture in your own life, by setting up or joining your own land-based project. It also works well for people seeking ideas, skills and inspiration to embark on a more fulfilling path in life and make positive contributions to the state of the world. Certified by the Permaculture Association (Britain), it offers a foundation to further your permaculture journey via the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design or other advanced training.

Teachers
Tom Henfrey, Certified Permaculture Diploma and PDC teacher and author of Permaculture books will teach the Permaculture Theory Classes

Laurence Manchee experienced Permaculture designer, Permaculture Design course teacher and manager of Keela Permaculture Farm will lead Practical classes on the working Permaculture farm including garden design, food forest design, composting, animal husbandry, integrating systems, earth works and Natural Building.

Kimberly Manchee will teach homesteading and yoga classes. Including Fermenting food, meditation and yoga workouts.

KOSTERS TRÄDGÅRDAR & 12P Permaculture Design are happy to invite you to a two-week intensive Permaculture Design Course (PDC), offering the internationally-recognized 72-hour permaculture curriculum with an additional focus on social permaculture, organizing tools, and spirit. Come and share a life-changing experience with an intercultural mix of participants!

Earth Activist Training (EAT) is an intensive course combining theory with practical hands-on learning. Completion of the course earns participants a Permaculture Design Certificate – the foundation for further permaculture work and study and a prerequisite for the Diploma in Permaculture Design. Participants will learn Permaculture design principles & techniques. The course includes lectures, discussions, hands-on learning, slideshows, and design projects. We will examine the underlying assumptions of the current culture of consumerism and economic globalisation, and encourage exploration of ways to contribute to the emergence of a culture of sustainability, compassion and equity.

Permaculture Design Course - 8th to 22nd of September 2022
Nourish your mind, body and soul by reconnecting with nature and yourself in this unique offering weaving together Yoga and Permaculture Design.

Join us in the stunning setting of Yogiville Croatia for an all-inclusive experience combining permaculture classes, practical sessions on the land, daily yoga with an offering of delicious organic and locally sourced foods and being part of an inclusive community.

Yoga is a self-care practice that aims to create connection and balance from within. Permaculture explores our human relationships, to each other and the world. By bringing these two practices together we can learn to navigate through the complex landscapes of our inner and outer worlds in a regenerative and healthy way.

This course is not only an opportunity to take time out and rejuvenate in unspoilt forests, lakes, streams and mountains but by the time you leave you will be an accredited permaculture designer with a solid foundation in permaculture design. You will have more of an understanding of a regenerative lifestyle with a deeper appreciation for natural systems which you can confidently apply at home or in your work.

September is a beautiful time to visit Croatia as the heat of the summer has softened while still having plenty of sunshine to take long walks and/or a dip in the natural local lake. During your stay, you will get the chance to immerse yourself in the holistic lifestyle at Yogiville while also putting the permaculture theories into practice by co-designing this relatively new centre spreading over 80 acres.

This course is open to all levels of yoga and permaculture experience, all ages, families, couples, friends and solo travellers.

See more information and registration here: https://www.sociallandscapes.co.uk/events/yogiville-permaculture-design-...

A two-week comprehensive Permaculture Design Course. We will cover all the topics in the core curriculum for the 72 hours course including the permaculture principles, design practices and their application, soil, water, built environment, plants and trees, growing food, with a particular focus on permaculture in community.

Findhorn is a fantastic place to study permacutlure as it is a full-featured permaculture settlement - you can see all aspects of the curriculum living and breathing here on site, so fantastic for kinaesthetic and visual learners!
We will see and learn about many types of eco-buildings, food forests, every style of composting (from biochar to wormeries to hot compost), tree planting, ecosystem restoration, growing food on a personal and a community scale, social and personal permaculture and much more!

Full residential with room and board, materials and field trips included.
see video made a few years ago - https://youtu.be/tsFKP77BYfo
Lead by Lusi Alderslowe and supported by Findhorn ecovillage community members including Mari Hollander, Craig Gibsone and others.

A Quinta and Surplus Permaculture Design are excited to invite you to join us for a two week Permaculture Design Course (PDC) at A Quinta da Lage a beautiful 130-hectare regenerative farm in Southwest Portugal from the 25th of August to the 9th of September 2022

A PDC (Permaculture Design Course) is mainly the theory. The foundation. And although our course programme features daily practical sessions, it doesn’t pretend to equip people with the range of practical skills they’ll need to implement permaculture designs.

While all this knowledge and enthusiasm is fresh, this is a chance to put some of it into practice with support and supervision.

The Post-PDC Practical courses follow on immediately after Quinta do Vale’s residential 2-week PDCs and last for 1 week. They are open to all graduates of the PDCs and anyone else who’s already taken a PDC and is interested in acquiring more practical experience.

The final design exercises for the PDC will be based on parts of the quinta. At the end of the course, we take a vote on what we think is the design or part-design we’d all like to implement (materials availability permitting).

That very specific criterion ensures we run with a project which everyone is enthusiastic about and which is an achievable target for a week’s work.

Courses are taught in English.

The accommodation is camping on-site. 3 vegetarian meals a day are served and we share the cooking - a treasured part of this course. Special diets can be catered for. There are hot showers and free wifi on-site. There’s also a nearby river beach and cafés, all within 300m of the quinta.

The particular challenges of this mountainside location mean the course is unsuitable for people with mobility issues.

The surrounding valleys have attracted eco-immigrants from all over the world during the last 10-15 years. We often manage to squeeze events going on in the wider community into our courses so participants can get a taste for the exciting things happening here. So be warned – this place and the landscape and community it’s embedded in can capture your heart and your imagination!

Our Permaculture Design Courses comprise the 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) syllabus and are structured as 2-week on-site residentials. A PDC is an introduction to rethinking far more than just the way humans work with land. As a framework and set of principles, it represents a paradigm shift, profoundly transforming perspectives on life itself, and our relationship with it and with each other.

We've been running PDCs at Quinta do Vale (see our project page), since 2019. The teaching team have a range of relevant academic backgrounds allied with years of practical experience. The site itself, which is fully off-grid and features many examples of sustainable living strategies and techniques, is very much part of the team and has a way of working a quiet magic on participants.

Courses are taught in English through theoretical classroom lectures and practical sessions. We utilise the collective intelligence of the group and students work in teams to develop projects and designs.

The particular challenges of this mountainside location mean the course is unsuitable for people with mobility issues.

The accommodation is camping on-site. 3 vegetarian meals a day are served. Special diets can be catered for. There are hot showers and free wifi on-site. There’s also a nearby river beach and cafés, all within 300m of the quinta.

The surrounding valleys have attracted eco-immigrants from all over the world during the last 10-15 years. We often manage to squeeze events going on in the wider community into the PDC so participants can get a taste for the exciting things happening here.

We place special emphasis on small class sizes. This means more individual attention for each student, a more intimate group dynamic and a more comfortable, relaxed classroom experience. This is the kind of place where students become family. So be warned – this place and the landscape and community it’s embedded in can capture your heart and your imagination!

Do you seek to live compassionately without the unnecessary exploitation of people, animals and the environment? Are you concerned about climate change, peak oil and future generations? Are you interested in changing how we interact with other species, ecosystems and our human communities? Then this full online permaculture design course led by Graham Burnett, author of The Vegan Book of Permaculture is for you!
This course will be held over fourteen days during Spring and Summer 2022, and is suitable for all. The content will be covering universal permaculture ethics, principles and design methods, however please note that the focus will be on non-animal based and stock-free systems. Themes will include: The Permaculture Way; The Living Landscape; The Permaculture Home and Garden; The Ecology of the Self; The Built Environment; The Power of Community; Designing for Life (full content details to be updated shortly).
This is a full Permaculture Design Course accredited by the Permaculture Association GB and supported by the Vegan Organic Network.

Permaculture Kernow’s 11 module
Certificated Permaculture Design Course.
This course promises to be quite an adventure, as we delve deeply into the life-changing world of permaculture.
Participants will have the opportunity to discover all facets of permaculture in live online sessions and also have hands-on experience in their own offline self-study practical sessions, as they design and implement in our own home gardens.

This course will guide you through the process of designing your own permaculture landscape and lifestyle.
On top of all of this, upon completing this course, you will get the internationally recognised Permaculture Design Certificate.

Running over 6 weeks, 22 evenings of live zoom lesson sessions.
You will only receive the permaculture design certificate once you have attended all 11 modular sessions but you can take as long as you wish to obtain the accreditation.

Each module is a stand-alone course in its own right and can be received in any order you choose providing the introductory module 1 is completed first.
The 10th and 11th modules are only attended once all other modules are covered.
The live online sessions will be running every Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday evenings 6pm till 9.30pm from the 12th of March till the 24th of April.
Don’t worry if you can’t make it to all the modules this time round, we will be running the same course throughout the year, so you can catch up with any of the days you missed, we also have an on-demand course that you will have full access to so you can catch up and review any module any time you like.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us.
For a full list of course dates and content, visit our website.