Regional Events

What an amazing community organizing to bring this course to their region! Many groups are pulling together to sponsor and promote this course—joining it will build you into this network of activists and innovators. This course does cover the 72-hour content including ecological, built, and social systems. We also include additional blocks on key skills we find critical in implementing permaculture into your life. Rather than an immersive two-week course, we prefer to work in weekend formats that allow participants to absorb and apply information in their lives as we go. This makes for a more transformative experience.

Learn to design eco-system specific self-reliant food producing communities. Northern California 4 weekends over 4 months. Learn to design the world you want to be living in. PERMACULTURE OFFERS A NEW DESIGN FOR A PLANET IN CRISIS Join us in creating a sustainable design for all earth creatures, for the highest good of all, based on observing and implementing the patterns of our living biological earth. Learn to grow food and gardens with nature year-round as well as create resilient communities. PERMACULTURE OFFERS POSITIVE SOLUTIONS AND AN ACTION PLAN. AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

Connect with a positive, proactive community and create sanity, security, and abundance with training, tools, and support to thrive, here on planet Earth! The Verge PDC (Permaculture Design Certification) is based out of Alberta, Canada and is live AND online meaning you'll get your questions answered in real-time and be able to engage with a focused community group for support. Our spring PDC is stretched over 7 months where online class time is batched over only ONE long weekend per month. Reach out to jen@vergepermaculture.ca with any questions.

Join Santa Cruz Permaculture for this 2-week PDC course this June at our permaculture farm on the coast of California! The Santa Cruz Permaculture Design Certificate course includes the internationally recognized 72-hour curriculum, augmented by an additional 38-hours of hands-on practice and field trips. Plus, folks have the option to camp on site, and build community around the fire! This course brings in leading designers and teachers from around the region, each experts in different areas of permaculture. The 2-week intensive is followed by our 8-day Advanced Permaculture Design Course. Please consider joining us for both courses.

This full Permaculture Design Certificate Course will start by covering the basic nuts & bolts of permaculture design (principles, process, methods, etc.) and provide you with the tools you need to see the world through holistic lenses. Then the course will provide you with a variety tools that you can use when creating your own designs. If contributing to ecological and cultural solutions is important in your home, business, or community, this intensive, dawn to dusk, information-loaded experience will empower you to achieve your goals.