6 weekends between April 26th and October 19th 2025
at Global Generation’s Paper Garden in Canada Water
The Permaculture Design Course is a 72-hour often life-changing experience, accredited by the UK Permaculture Association.
Over the period of 6 months we will come together as a learning community to explore practical and creative solutions for building resilient neighbourhoods and designing abundant eco-systems.
We will discover how we can work with, rather than against nature to fulfil our human needs whilst caring for the earth and the people.
The course has a strong practical emphasis on ecological and social design thinking and how this can be applied in different parts of our lives and society.
The Permaculture Design Course also offers us the opportunity to face the predicaments of climate breakdown and the biodiversity crisis and form our own healthy response to these challenges.
“I feel like I know a secret and want to share it with the world”
— Natasha, after taking the 2016 Creating Resilient Communities PDC
What will the course cover?
“Permaculture is dancing with nature and nature leads the dance.”
— Robyn Francis
Much of our Permaculture Design Course is focused around our most fundamental human needs. The design methodology and the permaculture principles that are thought can be used by anyone and be integrated in any job or life situation, far beyond gardening. You will learn about the permaculture way of setting up food systems, interacting with the natural world, building community, organising people – all of that inspired by the example of the natural world.
Anyone, previous knowledge and experience or not, are welcome.
Topics covered on the course include, but are not limited to:
. Ethics and principles of permaculture
. Systems thinking, design process and methodology
. Observation, map making, site and community surveys
. Soil science and land regeneration
. Cultivated ecology: gardens, farms and agroforestry
. Climate crisis & response
. Community dynamics & organisation
. Urban challenges and urban permaculture, including retrofitting homes
. Energy conservation and renewable energy
Each weekend includes theory taught in an interactive way and some practical hands on work. During the small group design sessions you will have the opportunity to integrate the things you learn during the course and you will have support from the tutors.
We will share handouts and other helpful information on an online learning platform. There is an opportunity to get involved with the Story Garden and Global Generation’s work as well as other Social Landscapes events and we encourage you to build learning groups with other course participants to support each other through sharing, experimenting and reflecting.
Learn more here: https://www.sociallandscapes.co.uk/events/permaculture-design-course-pd…