26th April – 8th May
You don’t have to be a farmer or even a grower, permaculture is for everyone. It is an inclusive and nature friendly way of seeing; one that embraces the perspective that all life is connected, that we are all part of a single Eco-system.  James Lovelock made clear in the Gaia hypothesis that all life is interwoven as a larger single, living, breathing organism, something of which we are only a part.

Permaculture teaches us that we can influence and shape this through conscious design but that we can never control it. Consequently we are all invested in building a culture and society that recognizes that our imperative is to learn how we can collectively steer this ship without crashing, and soon. The natural state for nature is abundance, somehow we have allowed our collective actions to strip the natural world to its barest bones and see that as economic growth.

Permaculture teaches how to apply the observable logic of nature to all forms of design. Permaculture is a shift in perspective designed to allow for such a behavior change, a common language we can share.

Our next key lesson is that the better we work together through co-operation and collaboration the more we align ourselves with the forces of nature. Applying this logic allows us to begin the process of rising to the many and interconnected challenges we currently face.

There is an urgency for us to meet more of our core and essential needs from an energized and interdependent local community. Food needs to take front and centre and be a the start of a process which can a forge a new resilience helping us face the coming shocks and uncertainties. Permaculture teaches you to start with the self, start small, from the back door, if we can harmonize locally then we can find ways to harmonize globally.

Also and critically the evidence mounts that the quality of our food depends directly on the quality of the soil in which it is grown; if the nutrients are not in the soil then they are not in the food. Permaculture teaches us the degree to which everything is linked, everything is connected and that by re-energizing soils, we re-energize local economies and their communities.

Permaculture design brings those elements together in a practical design framework and a PDC shows you how to begin to apply this.

A PDC is a 72 hour curriculum designed to equip you with a vocabulary of ideas, examples, patterns, to see design through the eyes of nature. Permaculture also gives you the tools you need to begin to apply that to your world around you. 

You will see living practical examples, whether in field on online, the course brings a whole new et of possibilities alive for you. It involves you in a live community of people actively applying these ideas.

Permaculture 72-hour curriculum 

Coming back from pandemic, facing the climate and ecological and economic shocks which we know are coming requires us to think again, how can we work together  much more effectively to face these challenges? We also need to be enjoying full and wholesome lives at the same time, it has to be fun also!

Permaculture can be seen as a framework, a common language of ideas, which help address complex and interconnected things, a system language.

Permaculture is not a magic bullet, rather it is a way of seeing and planning which requires conscious and thoughtful application as well as consistency over time, but with that and some humility we really can change the world.