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Dates and times
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More info
All sessions take place on Zoom. They run on one Saturday a month and one midweek session (Wednesday or Thursday) The Saturday sessions run from 9.30am until 12.30pm. The midweek session run from 6.30pm – 8.30pm.

September Wednesday 10th & Saturday 27th
October Saturday 4th & Thursday 23rd
November Saturday 8th & Wednesday 19th
December Saturday 6th &Thursday 18th
January Saturday 10th & Wednesday 21st
February Saturday 7th & Thursday 26th
March Saturday 14th & Wednesday 26th
April Saturday 11th & Wednesday 29th
May Saturday 9th & Thursday 28th
June Saturday 13th & Wednesday 24th
July Saturday 4th & Thursday 23rd
August Saturday 1st & Saturday 8th

All sessions are recorded and can be watched back online by attendees for six months after the course has finished. All notes and slides from the sessions will also be shared.

To receive the certificate, there is a requirement to join 75% of the sessions and complete extra coursework to test understanding and assess learning. At the end of the course you will create a design for a project of your choice, putting your learning into practice. You will also need to complete a small related practical projects of your choice during the course and report on them.
Cost
The current course is priced at

£900 (Organisation / Pay it forward)
£700 (Full)
£400 (Reduced)

There are also be free places available.

We are able to offer payment by installment – please complete the booking form and select this option to find out more. Or get in contact via the form below.

We choose to use sliding scale to encourage people to pay according to their available resources. It encourages those with greater financial privilege to contribute more, allowing those with less access, to pay according to their means. This allows us to run our courses while making accessibility as broad as possible. We invite you to use the image linked below, based on the Green Bottle sliding scale, to help you decide which price to choose.

https://www.wortsandcunning.com/blog/sliding-scale
Course summary

Launched in 2023 this was the UK’s first Full Permaculture Design Course specifically focused on artists and creatives. Our course is unique. and remains one of the only PDCs globally which has this focus.

It takes the classic Permaculture Design Course as a starting point, but has been created with a specifically creative focus exploring how permaculture design can be used to deepen creative practice and to bring a new ethical basis to projects, particularly in relation to ecology, natural systems and regenerative cultures.

The next cohort of the course runs from Wednesday 10th September 2025 to Saturday 8th August 2026 It includes 60 hours of live online sessions delivered as 1 x 3 hour session per month and 1 x 2 hour session per month. There will also be 1 x 1 hour filmed / self led design activity. These are supported by additional optional ‘homework’ activities, online resources, guest teachers, and virtual project visits.

Full information about the course content and structure can be found here.

Certified teachers
Previous course guests have included:

Gui Castro (Kew Gardens) – Understanding the value of trees

Pippa Chapman – Creating forest garden guilds

Lucy Wright – The role of folk tradition in regenerative creative practice

Roy Sean Parker (Fermental Health) – Permaculture as insipration for arts practice

Ann-Marie Culhane – The work that reconnects
Apprentice teachers
No apprentice teacher places available on this course
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Course type
Permaculture Design Course
Engagement style
Online

Course contact email
Contact name
Liz Postlethwaite

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