10 Day Dryland Permaculture Design Course
What Makes This Permaculture Design Certificate Special?
This immersive 10-day Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) combines expert instruction, hands-on field experience, and a comprehensive design project to prepare you to create resilient, productive landscapes. Designed specifically for the American Southwest and other dryland climates, you’ll learn practical skills you can immediately apply to your home, farm, ranch, business or development.
Earning your PDC is also the first step toward becoming a professional permaculture designer. Recognized worldwide, the PDC provides the foundational knowledge for advanced study, consulting, teaching, and professional design practice.
What You’ll Learn
You’ll gain practical experience in:
- Permaculture ethics, principles, and systems thinking
- Site observation, analysis, and the Scale of Permanence
- Dryland design strategies and climate adaptation
- Passive and active rainwater harvesting
- Earthworks, erosion control, and watershed restoration
- Living soils, composting, mulch, cover crops, and soil biology
- Efficient irrigation and water-wise landscape design
- Food forests, tree guilds, orchards, and kitchen gardens
- Native plants, biodiversity, and pollinator habitat
- Livestock integration and regenerative land management
- Greywater reuse and residential water systems
- Natural building and appropriate technologies
- Site mapping, field exercises, and a complete permaculture design project
Who Should Attend?
Perfect for homeowners, gardeners, farmers, ranchers, landscape professionals, educators, conservation practitioners, and anyone interested in designing regenerative, water-wise landscapes.
No prior permaculture experience is required.
Graduate Ready to Design
You’ll leave with an internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certificate, a completed design project for your portfolio, and the knowledge and confidence to create landscapes that conserve water, build healthy soils, support biodiversity, and grow more abundant over time.
Participants are encouraged to book accommodations through the Ranch for the event duration to take full advantage of day and evening time learning and social activities.
Seats are limited so register today!
- When: April 5 – April 15, 2027, M-F 9am-5pm (weekend off)
- Meals: Delicious catered breakfast and lunch included in registration (veg or meat).
- Lodging: First come, first served. Contact Starrlight Augustine at 505-471-2573 to book.
What’s better than attending this workshop alone? Attending with friends and family! See you there!
- Country United States
- State New Mexico
- City Santa Fe