Dates and times
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Course schedule
The course will run from 10am to 5pm on the following days:

Saturday 1 November 2025, Brighton

Saturday 8 November 2025, Brighton

Saturday 15 November 2025, Brighton

Sunday 23 November 2025 , Brighton

Saturday 13 December 2025, Brighton

Saturday 10 January 2026, Brighton

Saturday 24 January 2026, Brighton

Saturday 14 February 2026, Brighton

Saturday 21 February 2026, Brighton

Saturday 14 March 2026, Brighton

Sunday 15 March 2026, Brighton

A further in person day tbc nearer the time, Prickly Nut Wood, Lodsworth, West Sussex

There will also be two tutorial sessions on Zoom:

Tutorial 1: Saturday 6 December 2025, 10am – 1.30pm
Tutorial 2: Saturday 31 January 2026, 10am – 1.30pm

14 weekend sessions and home study.
Cost
sliding scale of fees
Course summary
This course looks at how we can design resilient, abundant human ‘ecosystems’; working collaboratively with one another to care for the planet, each other and ourselves.

Permaculture gives you design tools for planning and implementing garden, home, work and community projects that look after the earth and people.

Our Permaculture design course (Building sustainable communities) is an interactive and practical course 

Certified teachers
Stephan Gehrels, Dip Perm Des. Permaculture tutor and designer specialising in school and community growing projects

Fran Pickering has been with Brighton Permaculture Trust since 2003, received her Permaculture Diploma in 2009

Dr Alex Penn is an evolutionary ecologist and complexity scientist specialising in integrating scientific and permaculture thinking.

Lex Titterington is an artivist, land worker and creative facilitator Ben Law is a woodsman, green wood builder, teacher and author with a Dip Perm Des.

Ben Law is a woodsman, green wood builder, teacher and author with a Dip Perm Des.

Mischa Hewitt, Eco buildings courses tutor, director of Low Carbon Trust, project manager Earthship Brighton project and sustainability consultant.
Apprentice teachers
No apprentice teacher places available on this course
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Course type
Permaculture Design Course
Engagement style
Face to face

Postal address of venue

The Fruit Factory
Stanmer Village,
Brighton and Hove
BN1 9PZ
United Kingdom

Course contact email
Contact name
Catherine Lawrence
Contact telephone number
07746185927

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