NOW OPEN
2024 Permaculture Design Contest
Submission Period: Now thru October 15, 2024
Theme: Design for Impact
📢 Can you design a viral meme that spreads the power of permaculture solutions to regional and/or national media attention?
💥 What design can you create that is so amazing, unique, and attractive that it reverberates throughout your entire community and beyond?
Top Design
Grand Prize
$5000
Would $5000 be enough to provide you with the seed money for your high-impact permaculture design? PINA not only will help you fund your project but we will also provide institutional support when and where we can. Partner with us in making a continental impact!
Honorable
Mentions
Various Prizes
Voters will select 5 Honorable Mention winners who will receive these amazing gifts. Thank you to our wonderful and generous Sponsors for the list of prizes at the bottom of this page!
🎁Free Gift for ALL Design Entrants🎁
All entrants to the Permaculture Design Challenge will receive a FREE Premium Membership to the Natural Capital Plant Database for 1 full year, a $50 value that will fully offset your annual PINA membership. Thank you to United Designers International!
Enter the contest and add this valuable tool to your design kit.
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Help Us Spread the Word
What We Are Looking For: Collaboration & Integrated Designs
We want highly integrated designs solving or hinting at solutions across multiple areas of concern for your town, city, village, or community.
As an example, imagine a town or city that has a central piece of land that is yet to be developed…
Can your design simultaneously address land use, access, river rehabilitation, local economics, affordable housing, community workspaces, indigenous honoring and other local elements?!
For a design to have real community impact, we must design for collaboration.
How does your design draw in community stakeholders and regional support structures?
Let’s show people what a fully integrated permaculture design can do in densely populated areas and introduce these solutions to people who have never even heard of the word…permaculture.
Detroit's "Agrihood" Concept Spreads
National Media Attention!
How $5000 Dollars Can Become Infinite Capital
How can you use the award money ($5000) to not only purchase needed materials and financial capital expenditures, but also grow other forms of capital? Which forms of captial yield the greatest returns? How can your design and design money be used to tap into the nearly infinite field of the 8 Forms of Capital?
Fully Integrated Permaculture Design for Impact
Can you WOW the general public with the many layers of good design and cultural benefits that your design addresses? How can your fully integrated design address local issues in Eduction, Well-Being, Land Stewardship, Technology, Economics, Buildings, and Community Process?
Have a design that you’re thinking of entering into the contest?
The Design Contest is open to PINA members only so if you’re not a member, why not sign up?
Rates are reasonable. You’re supporting a good cause. And you can win a lot of money to implement your best design ideas!
Past Winners
One way to inspire your winning design is to see some of the past winning designs.
Our past winners have submitted designs that encompass a wide array of permaculture ideas.
Take inspiration from the best.
Contest Rules
Interested in entering the 2024 Permaculture Design Contest? Then check out the full rules to be sure you don’t miss anything.
Submit Your Design
Submit your Permaculture Design for the chance to win up to $5000 in cash prizes and bragging rights as 2024’s Best Permaculture Design.
Key Dates
All the relevant dates from Submission to Voting to the Announcement and more can be found here.
Support The Design Contest and Help Fund Amazing Permaculture Projects!
Every little bit counts…
We have secured matching donatations, so whatever you donate is immediately doubled 💪
The Jury
Our esteemed permaculture design contest jury will evalute all projects using a standard judging matrix. Highest score wins! Then, our top 5 finalists will be featured on our website and put up for a member vote. Who’s design will win? It’s up to YOU.
Peter Bane, PINA's Executive Director
Elizabeth Lynch, PINA's Administrator
Jono Neiger, Regenerative Design Group
Matt Bennett, PINA Board Member
Salina Duncun, PINA Board Member
Prizes for Honorable Mention Winners Include
HISEA Farm & Garden Boots
Peter Bane’s ‘The Permaculture Handbook’
GrubTerra Chicken Feed
Made Possible by a Generous Grant From Ian Graham @ Old 99 Farm
