PDC with Spiralled — UK

Dates of course coming soon — Spring 2026

This course offers positive design for your life, your community, and your world by empowering the genius inside all of us! Running from spring to autumn 2026 at OrganicLea’s 12-acre Hawkwood community growing  site  on the edge of Epping Forest, we will come together over six weekends for a regenerative learning experience, enabling individuals, organisations, and communities to create empowering solutions to the real-world challenges we are all facing.

Adapted from the Permaculture Association (Britain)’s PDC core curriculum core curriculum, this is a person-centred, fun, lively, and inclusive course that explores permaculture ethics, principles, and design skills, utilising concepts including forest gardening, systems thinking, holistic design, community empowerment, skill-sharing, right livelihoods, and much more.

The format is participatory and dynamic using diverse visual, audio and kinesthetic learning methods such as individual and group work, games, problem solving, discussion, observation, practical activities, lectures and slideshows.

This course is hosted and organised in partnership with OrganicLea  at Hawkwood Nursery; a 12 acre Certified Vegan Organic community food project run by a core workers cooperative, which is located on the edge of East and North London in Chingford amongst Epping Forest.

This is a unique opportunity to learn about Permaculture with  instructor Graham Burnett, author of The Vegan Book of Permaculture and experienced Permaculture Designer. The course and the content are Vegan-friendly.

Course participants will be awarded the Permaculture Association (Britain)’s internationally recognised Certificate in Permaculture Design (NB, to be awarded the certificate you must attend a minimum of 70% of the course and complete a group design presentation at the end of the course).