Permaculture Design Certificate, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Ireland

Learn how we can live more sustainably using ecological design - practical skills for horticulture, farming, enterprise, green building, perma-facture, collaboration, social innovation and community resilience.

This annual 10-day Permaculture Design Certificate Course is organised by Cultivate and hosted in association and is accredited by the UK Permaculture Association. The setting for this immersive course is Cloughjordan Ecovillage, one of Ireland’s leading examples of an ecosystem of innovation. It includes over 50 eco-homes, community woodlands, renewable energy production, community amphitheater, a wood-fired bakery, a digital fabriction lab (Fab Lab), research gardens and a community farm.

Each year we invite special guest tutors to share their expertise, (in 2017we were joined by Albert Bates, the founder of the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Tennessee and past president of Global Ecovillage Network and Aranya, leading UK Permaculture teacher and designer and author of Permaculture Design: A Step-by-Step Guide) Aranya has been coming to us online; he hosts the very popular, inspiring and interactive session on design via Skype..