We have been working in collaboration with expert permaculture teachers to create a programme of courses that draw from a wide variety of experience and knowledge. Our courses are regularly updated, if you sign up to our Online Learning mailing list and you will be the first to hear about any new courses as soon as they are available.
Permaculture Association members receive a 25% discount off all courses run by the Permaculture Association. Links to the discounted courses can be found in the ‘Members Area’ under ‘Discounts’. This also includes links to discounts by other permaculture teachers as well.
All courses are held via our Community Hub platform. If you have not yet joined the Community hub, please use the link below to register. However, you don’t need to be on the Community hub to view all courses.
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Introduction to Permaculture - Foundations of Permaculture: Designing for Resilience
Self-study/ start anytime
Teacher-led with Aline VaMo
Session times
Wednesday 18th of October at 19:00-20:30 UTC+1 / BST (13:00-15:30 CDT)
Wednesday 1st of November at 19:00-20:30 UTC / GMT (14:00-15:30 CDT)
Wednesday 22nd of November at 19:00-20:00 UTC / GMT (14:00-15:00 CDT)
Wednesday 13th of December at 19:00-21:00 UTC / GMT (14:00-16:00 CDT)
On this course, you will:
- Learn about permaculture through videos and case studies of people applying permaculture to their lives and their gardens, allotments or community land
- Apply permaculture design in your life with the help of lots of tools and exercises
- Cover 6 modules including a nature-based approach, permaculture principles, how to apply permaculture, design frameworks, design methods and your next steps
- Connect with fellow learners globally and feedback on each other's design work
- Gain an Introduction to Permaculture certificate* (*only on teacher-led courses because you need at least 4 hours of teacher led time to qualify for this).
This course goes further than standard introductory courses as you get to develop your first design and share it with your peer group.
What's included?
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6 hours of teacher time over four evening sessions, first cal on January 16th
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10 hours of online material to do in your own time, with lots of written resources, videos and activities
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Small learning group with private chat
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Learn how to connect with people and projects in your community
This festive sale price is for a short time only, until January 6th!
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Including membership for 1 year for non Permaculture Association members
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25% discount for Permaculture Association members
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To access a link to the discounted course, go to the member area of the Permaculture Association website and when logged in, go to the 'Discounts' page on the right side bar)
Sign up to the next teacher-led course with Aline VaMo (non-members) Autumn 2023 Course
Sign up to the self-study course (non-members)
Discounted links for members (Price £75 Self-Study or £142.50 Teacher Led) can be found in the ‘Members Area’ under ‘Discounts’
Growing Food in Small Spaces
Self study/ start anytime
Teacher led with Abi Mordin
This interactive teacher-led online course will make you confident in turning small spaces into highly abundant food gardens.
Teacher-led sessions:
- Course Open Sept 26th
- Tuesday October 3rd 19:00-20:30 UTC+1 / BST (14:00-15:30 EDT)
- (2 week study time)
- Tuesday October 17th 19:00-20:30 UTC+1 / BST (14:00-15:30 EDT)
- (3 week study time)
- Tuesday November 7th 19:00-20:00 UTC / GMT (14:00-15:00 EDT)
- (3 week study time)
- Tuesday November 28th 19:00-21:00 UTC / GMT (14:00-16:00 EDT)
In this course, you'll learn how to apply regenerative practices and permaculture techniques to design and grow a garden that optimises the time and energy you put in, in order to produce high yields of delicious, nutritious food.
On this course, you will learn about:
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Organic gardening, growing food and herbs is a lifestyle and with the right information will stay with you forever.
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In this course we will give you all the information you need to get started with growing food, even in the smallest of spaces.
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Essential information, such as healthy soil - needed to grow healthy abundant crops without costing the earth - information that’s often missing from horticultural courses and the Introduction to permaculture.
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Bonus topics such as perennials and cycles to dive deeper into understanding nature and how this applies to their small spaces.
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Once you’ve completed the course, you’ll be ready to grow your own food and love eating it.
What's included:
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A food growing course framed around climate, equity and food security
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Four live sessions with experienced Permaculture educator Rakesh 'Rootsman Rak'
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An in depth 40-page workbook and videos and quizzes to support your learning
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Connect and chat with your small learning cohort any time
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There will be lots of no screen time, and we will provide you with a workbook to apply your learning throughout the course
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Certificate of completion from the Permaculture Association
Price: £135 (non-members)/ 25% discount for members
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Including membership for 1 year for non Permaculture Association members
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25% discount for Permaculture Association members
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To access a link to the discounted course, go to the member area of the Permaculture Association website and when logged in, go to the 'Discounts' page on the right side bar)
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We have a small number of bursary places for this course for £35 for those on a low income, unemployed, refugees and asylum seekers, those from minority ethnic backgrounds or those living with a disability. Please contact us to apply: [email protected]
Sign up to the course (non-members)
Discounted links for members can be found in the ‘Members Area’ under ‘Discounts’
Think like a Tree – Nature’s Principles
Self-study course
Sarah Spencer's 'Think like a Tree' course is now available on the Permaculture Community Hub as a self-study course!
Sarah's course teaches about the 22 natural principles harnessed from disciplines such as permaculture, biomimicry, systems-thinking and regenerative cultures and unlocks how we humans can learn from the wisdom that has developed an abundance of life for the past 3.8 billion years.
Think like a Tree offers three inter-connected phases on your regenerative, nature-inspired journey:
1. Deeply connect with nature (via activities we'll share with you)
2. Learn from nature's wisdom (via the natural principles throughout the course)
3. Take action - make the changes you want to see in your life, your surroundings and our world (through the activities and exercises we'll guide you through).
The Nature's Principles course also encourages you to share your insights with others via the Permaculture Learn and Connect community course platform so you'll never feel alone on your nature-inspired journey.
Sign up to the course (non-members): https://community.permaculture.org.uk/plans/241020
Discounted link for members can be found in the ‘Members Area’ under ‘Discounts’