Growing Roots - an immersive 14 day PDC

Permaculture is about shifting our perspective, seeing with new eyes, and becoming a positive impact, a regenerative presence on the Earth - encouraging our living landscapes towards new and more vigorous life. It is rooted in relationship with the living world around us, a deep kinship with nature and reverence for the web of life that sustains us.

Over 14 immersive days we will enter deep into the world of permaculture and explore all of the different topics and practices that can help you on your way to changing your life based on the intelligence, patterns and principles found in the natural world. The curriculum of the course includes 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.

Throughout the course we will be guiding you through a full design process that will give you a solid grounding in using the permaculture ethics, principles and design tools in a range of contexts, and towards the end of the course you will complete a group design project of your own, giving you the practice of putting all you have learnt into action. You will receive a PDC certificate on completion of the course which is recognised and respected around the world.

The course is to be held here at Cynefin Farm, a 7-acre smallholding and permaculture education project in the North Pembrokeshire national park, beside the mountains and the sea in a wild and beautiful location. As parents ourselves, we want to make this course as accessible to those with families as for individuals. With this in mind, participants are welcome to bring along their families to live alongside us. For more details, please see https://www.cynefinfarm.org/growing-roots