Permaculture Design Certificate

12 month Permaculture Design Certificate
Learn a foundation of permaculture design and practice to apply to your own garden or to embark on community or consulting enterprise.

This course is a mix of design and creative skills with practical hands on learning focused around a personal design project.
No previous gardening/permaculture experience or gardening space required, just enthusiasm to learn!

Course topics include:

• Permaculture ethics and principles
• Understanding weather and climate
• Soil and composting
• Water and air within design
• Using patterns
• Contours and reading landscape features
• Food forests
• Grafting, pruning and training trees
• Vegetable garden planning and planting
• Plants for medicinal and creative uses
• Food sovereignty
• Sustainable buildings
• Animal care
• Design and communication skills from ideas to presentation
• Social, economic and political structures within design