The Resiliency Institute is offering a Permaculture Design Course beginning October 22, 2015 that will follow a 3 weekend (4-4-3) commuter style format to accommodate working adults and caregivers enabling them to be home with their families each evening and spreading the learning over a 4 week period. REGISTER NOW!
The philosophy within permaculture is one of working with rather than against nature, and of protracted and thoughtful observation. Permaculture design techniques encourage land use that integrates principles of ecology and applies lessons from nature. It teaches us to create settings and construct ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It also teaches us to allow natural and designed ecosystems to demonstrate their own evolutions. Permaculture teaches us how to build natural homes, grow food, restore diminished landscapes and ecosystems, catch and store rainwater, build communities, and utilize waste all while reducing work and maintenance, and creating abundance.
A PDC opens your eyes to designing resilient systems for lifestyle, land and community. The course will cover the core permaculture ethics, principles, and practices. We will introduce you to good design through classroom experiences, field trips, and hands-on activities. The goal is for you to achieve a basic working understanding in ecologically-based planning, site design and management.
REGISTER - $1500 check/$1550 Paypal
Grow your Business with Permaculture
You can make Permaculture design a career, or choose to incorporate the principles into your own discipline. The PDC meets an internationally recognized certification standard as a foundational course for Permaculture practitioners and teachers. The certificate gives the holder the right to use the word “permaculture” in a business or other professional practice, and signifies successful completion of the permaculture design course. It is the prerequisite to further training in permaculture design, such as teacher training courses, and other advanced permaculture trainings. The design course is the first step in becoming a permaculture practitioner, whether in design, education, construction, landscaping, or any one of many other fields. Holders of the certificate join a growing community of many thousands of design-course graduates.
The gardening forecast for 2015 shows that 58% of consumers plan to grow edible plants as part of their sustainable, healthy lifestyles. Consumers are interested in protecting nature and wildlife, eating locally and organic, but time and insect/disease control are concerns. Learn how to fulfill this growing trend while mitigating concerns with a Permaculture Design Certificate course.
Register for the Landscape Professionals Special
- Diversify your business
- Expand your brand to eco-consumers
- Market yourself or staff as a Certified Permaculture Designer
- Earn CEUs
- Learn to design perennial edible landscapes
6 months FREE marketing* + 1 registration for $1600
6 months FREE marketing* + 2 registrations for $3000
*Online marketing via our website, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, blog, and email. Offer to donate your registration to a deserving student, and receive a tax deductible benefit
The instructors are Peter Bane, Rhonda Baird & Keith Johnson.
Peter Bane has published Permaculture Activist magazine for over 20 years and has taught permaculture design widely in the temperate and tropical Americas. He is a native of the Illinois prairie whose interest in good food and simple living led him at mid-life to become a writer and teacher of permaculture design…. Read more
Keith Johnson was raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (where he learned at an early age he was related to Johnny Appleseed), and has been a commercial landscaper, stonemason, and organic gardener since 1976 in places as varied as subtropical Bay Area of California, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Michigan, & the mountains of W. North Carolina. After devouring Permaculture One in 1978 he continued to learn all he could on the subject. He’s been teaching Permaculture since ’95, has instructed more than 1200 students, … Read more
Rhonda Baird is a permaculture educator and designer; homeschooling mama; and community organizer. She and her family are nestled in Bloomington, Indiana. Rhonda is a seventh generation Hoosier, with deep ties to the forested hills and rivers of southern Indiana. Though permaculture practice began formally for her in 2005,… Read more
2014 PDC Graduates
Last year we graduated 13 Permaculture Designers who are using their knowledge to improve their lives and the lives of others by designing permaculture homesteads and community forest gardens.
