This unique course, delivered over 12 Saturdays in Brisbane, gives you the knowledge and skills to observe and design from natural patterns to create productive gardens and properties. You will learn how to grow your own food, apply appropriate technologies, use resources wisely, build on living systems and rebuild communities. Learn to build resilience through connectivity, facilitate regeneration of the earth and create abundance through design
This course runs on Saturdays, 8.30am to 4.30pm, from 1st March until 31 May 2025. There are two Saturdays off (19 April and 24 May), with the latter one being for students to work on their final design project.
Course outcomes
By the end of our course, held over 12 Saturdays, you will:
Have tools for living with more ease, in harmony with the planet
Understand how permaculture applies to food, money, technology, buildings and more
Be able to apply the permaculture regenerative design framework to any place
Deepen your understanding of how nature works
Join an alumnus of millions of permaculture practitioners around the world.
What will you learn and do?
Our PDC balances practical techniques with foundational ‘systems thinking’ knowledge and eco-literacy. Some of the things you will do on our course include:
practice observational skills for understanding natural patterns
site measurement, inventory and mapping
create site designs, including a project of your choosing
calculate water harvesting volumes and requirements
learn about earth works to capture and store storm water
practice food growing techniques such as no-dig gardening and cover cropping
exploring food growing systems such as food forests and aquaculture
undertake soil testing and devising soil rebuilding strategies
research the growing and cooking of perennial vegetables for the subtropics
selecting animal breeds suitable in permaculture systems
practice group decision making techniques
explore community financial systems
observe passive solar building design, insulation and glazing systems