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Dates and times
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Please see the course listing on our website for full dates and times of this course.
It is comprised of 3 in person weekends, 1 x 5 in person days, and online sessions.

After 12 years of PDC’s in Carraig Dúlra, and 3 years in Roscommon, we are embarking on something fresh and new this year. In branching out and putting the best of both courses and locations together in 2025, we are offering an even more diverse multi venue PDC programme!`

The highlights

This course will run over 3 months, May - August

It will be based out of 3 main locations:

2 x weekends at Earthcare farm in Roscommon and

An immersive 5 day back to back component at Carraig Dulra farm in Wicklow,

1 weekend in Common Knowledge, Clare

Additional site visits to other Permaculture projects integrated into the programme

A diverse tutor team from across the Island

Live online course component, together with an online platform full of curated resources

Exploratory activities assigned for you to do in your own locality in between sessions

Permaculture Design Certificate awarded on completion, accredited by PAB

Sliding scale fees

Opportunity to part-sponsor someone on a lower income than you and those unable to access other funding.

Funding available for participants in receipt of social welfare via the Training Support Grant (TSG).  Contact us for more information.

Active, engaged, diverse, integrated!

Cost
Fees (payable in installments)
Full course fee: €1450
Fairshare fee: €1650.
If you can afford to pay this, it will help us to top up payments from those in receipt of the TSG and those without access to funding.
Unemployment concession: €1200.

If you are in receipt of a social welfare payment, you can apply to the Department of Social Protection for a Training Support Grant (TSG) of up to €1000, leaving you with a balance of €200 to pay as your deposit and to secure a place on the course. Contact us for more information.
Fees can be paid in instalments running from March to July 2025. **Please get in touch to organise this and set up a direct debit.**
Course summary

We focus on practical and community skills development alongside design skills & techniques.
We facilitate hands-on experience in:
Local site visits - Experience Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share in action!
Design Practice
Organic Growing & Seed saving - Compost systems - Forest Gardening -
Ecology -  Soil -  Water -  Biodiversity
Natural Building & Crafts - Upcycling and DIY skills
Working with Water
Trees Agroforestry & Woodland Skills
Foraging and Making Natural Products
Local & Seasonal food
Social Permaculture -  Community development - Personal  resilience
& More depending on the group!
Local site visits - Experience Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share in action! 
We visit, case study and engage with other local projects at differing stages of their design and implementation. These experiences of applied Permaculture design in various contexts support your understanding of the core concepts from many angles. Exposure to these techniques, information, and styles of Permaculture will provide you with a rich toolkit for your own future projects.
 

 

You will be immersed in a supportive and nurturing environment centred around community (people care) and ‘earth-care’ living and we encourage a ‘participants not passengers’ approach where we can experience shared community living, learning, and laughing! We maintain a PDC group size that respects the natural capacity of the sites, and to facilitate and explore the human side of Permaculture

Certified teachers
Hannah Mole
Lead tutors on this course are Hannah Mole and Suzie Cahn, both certified educators with PAB and both seasoned Permaculture designers and practitioners who have worked independently and together on Permaculture projects across the country since 2011!

Guest tutors - We work with over 15 other guest tutors in person on the course, along with others remotely during our live online sessions and yet others via pre recorded resources. Each of our guest tutors bring their own wealth of experiences and expertise and we are incredibly grateful to have them contributing to this programme.
Apprentice teachers
No apprentice teacher places available on this course
Poster for the PDC course showing 4 photos of people doing practical outdoor activities
Course type
Permaculture Design Course
Engagement style
Face to face

Postal address of venue

Cloonslanor
Strokestown
F42 E181
Ireland

Course contact email
[email protected]
Contact name
Hannah Mole
Contact telephone number
0851969790

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