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10/04/2026 at 10:00 am
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12/07/2026 at 6:00 pm
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Dates and times — 10 Apr 26 – 12 Jul 26 — over 4 weekends
- APRIL 10/11/12,
- MAY 15/16/17,
- JUNE 6/7/8,
- JULY 10 /11/12
Cost
- Standard price £750
- Higher Income £1200 (if you can afford this would be really helpful)
- Lower income £550
Further Concessions available on request. We will find a way to make this accessible.
Payment plans are available. Weekly payments spread out starting as soon as you want.
Early bird price — early bird and concessions please apply by end of February 2025.
Course summary
Hosted by the East Kent Permaculture Learning Centre at Abbey Physic Community Garden a long time Permaculture LAND Demonstration site. The theme is around everyday Life. We will cover the full curriculum with experienced and passionate Educators, Specialist guests, inspiring site visits and immerse ourselves in beautiful examples of Permaculture Living.
This 4 month Permaculture Design Certificate aims to be deeply supportive and toward exploring how your life can align even more with Earth replenishing practises and be happier and healthier too. We have a huge amount of expertise in our team and wider supportive community to help make this happen in our lives, businesses, jobs and communities.
We will learn about Permaculture Principles, Ethics and Patterns. See how they can be applied to your life, land and work. It will include practical, hands on sessions, foraging and many other fun activities that all explore this inspirational and empowering design system. Learn nature inspired solutions
We have many inspirational trips planned including the beautiful Pines Caylx rammed chalk building, beyond zero carbon and Brogdale national fruit collection. We will have eco guests.
A robust bridge from Industrial paradigm to designing the more beautiful world we know is possible.
The first April weekend, will focus on Design and give an overview.
May, June and July we will spend a weekend each on:
- Biological including Growing food, foraging, unshopping, rewilding, soil, plants.
- Forest gardening.
- Foraging.
- Built. Including eco buidling techniques, eco retrofitting, energy, water and stuff!
- Behavioural. Including Community, relationships finance and economics, life, death and parenting and stuff!
It is a pre-requisite to have done an Introduction to Permaculture Course to register for this Course, We have a Permaculture for Everyday Living Foundation Weekend a month earlier in March, the perfect add on: https://www.permaculture.org.uk/education/course/permaculture-everyday-living-foundation-weekend-sat-7-mar-2026-12am
Between them the key facilitators have been passionate about Permaculture for over 50 years!!! We are not even that old really! We have a lot to share from birth and death to growing food, building, foraging and everything else in between. We bring in others that know more about the things we don’t too.