Cultivating Change - Permaculture Design Course

This fully certified permaculture design course is designed to support you to integrate permaculture thinking and practice fully into your everyday life. Over 4 long weekends we will enter deep into the world of permaculture and explore all of the different topics and processes that can help you on your way to changing your life based on the intelligence, patterns and principles found in the natural world.

Is this course for me?

You might be...

• Passionate about being the change you want to see in the world
• Looking for a way to add deeper resilience to your life, home, family, and future
• A complete beginner or seasoned permaculturist, gardener or land worker
• Looking for a new direction in life or have a renewed focus, and want an immersive and inspirational start to the path ahead
• Interested in developing a more connected relationship with the living world around you, and to begin to read the language of the landscape, plants and trees
• Keen to gain or deepen your skills in food systems, land care or soil health
• Passionate about community based projects and initiatives and social transformation
• Interested in finding intelligent, coherent, responsible and responsive, nature conscious and connected ways to move forwards with whatever your next steps in life are
• Looking to increase your skill set to support your move into a regenerative, fulfilling and resilient life

The course is structured around 4 face to face long weekends here at Cynefin farm - our permaculture renovation project here in Pembrokeshire, where we will go through all of the content and curriculum of the accredited Permaculture Design certification, including the living landscape, soil health and the soil food web, food growing and plant propagation, plant identification and uses, trees and perennial food systems, natural building and retrofitting, food preservation and fermentation, social and community based permaculture and much more- all based on the curriculum set by the UK Permaculture Association. 

Each weekend we will also be guiding you through the different stages of a permaculture design process that will give you a solid grounding in using the permaculture ethics, principles and design tools, and between sessions you will have mini tasks to complete at home which will bring it to life for you in your own context as you work on your own individual design project.

“I loved the course so much - I knew I would but I wasn’t prepared for the huge shift I felt. I’m now ready to incorporate permaculture thinking into future projects and it has made it all feel so much more possible and exciting. Thank you! ” — 2023 course participant

For more info please see https://www.cynefinfarm.org/cultivating-change