Dates and times
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More info
Saturday 16 November 2024 – Sunday 30 March 2025
Next course: November 2025 – March 2026 (dates tbc)

14 weekend sessions and home study.
Saturday 16 November, Brighton

Saturday 23 November, Brighton

Saturday 30 November, Brighton

Saturday 7 December , Brighton

Saturday 11 January, Brighton

Saturday 18 January, Brighton

Saturday 25 January, Brighton

Saturday 8 February, Brighton

Saturday 1 March, Brighton

Saturday 29 March, Brighton

Sunday 30 March, Brighton

Sunday 12/Sunday 26 January, Prickly Nut Wood, Lodsworth, West Sussex

There will also be two tutorial sessions on Zoom:

Tutorial 1: Saturday 14 December, 10am – 1.30pm
Tutorial 2: Sunday 1 February, 10am – 1.30pm
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
Course can be started at any time (online)
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Brighton Permaculture Trust logo
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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