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Event date:14/03/2026 at 8:30 am
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Event end:13/06/2026 at 4:30 pm
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How to bookClick on the Book Now button.
Like a mighty tree, permaculture design offers a strong framework for creating abundance and resilience in harmony with nature and has roots that go deep and wide.
Permaculture can be used in all aspects of living including food, money, health, community, land management, buildings, education and technology. It has a proven track record in delivering genuinely sustainable and regenerative human settlements, ranging from households to entire regions. Drawing on the science of systems ecology, practitioners tap into the power of nature and human creativity, and are inspired by traditional cultures and some of the great thinkers of our times.
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
- cooking with a solar oven or rocket stove.
