Our course starts with the chance to learn the core principles and design process in your own time, during our gentle, online 6 week introduction, with short, weekly Zoom sessions.
Following this, our 2 long weekend design immersions, a month apart, allow you to broaden and deepen your understanding and application of permaculture. Between each weekend, we send follow up resources and a personal design project.
You’ll need an average of around 2 hours per week to complete the online element and your personal design projects between the 2 residential weekends.. This allows us to cover the PDC curriculum, with a minimum of 72 hours study to achieve your certificate. Uniquely, it also gives you lots of applied design experience – through home projects and as part of group projects during the 2 weekends.
See our Design Course page for further details.
Permaculture 1 (Introduction):
5th February 2026 – 16th March 2026
Our course starts with the chance to learn the core principles and design process in your own time, during our gentle, online 6 week introduction, with short, weekly Zoom sessions.
Permaculture 2
Denmark Farm Conservation Centre near Lampeter, West Wales.
https://www.denmarkfarm.org.uk/
This is a remarkable biodiversity restoration project and training centre where Angie worked for 15 years and still volunteers. Its original aim was to see whether the process of land degradation could be reversed without major inputs or capital expense, whilst still within a farming context, and to monitor the return of wildlife. Within 10 years the site was described as a ‘notable nature reserve’ created from ‘a very barren place’. Denmark Farm also hosts a range of sustainably designed timber buildings (including the ecolodge where we stay), various short courses, a forest school, seasonal campsite, volunteer groups and a small eco shop. We will also visit Angie’s home and permaculture holding nearby.
Permaculture 3
Henbant Permaculture Farm, near Caernarfon, north Wales.
https://www.henbant.org/
Design course immersion at this fabulous agriwilding farm & market garden, with its learning spaces, campsite, venue & community shop. We’ll stay in the wonderful, eco tiny homes and also have a tour of Alice’s farm co-operative at Tyddyn Teg: https://tyddynteg.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/tyddyntegcooperative
“Henbant Permaculture is a vibrant centre of permaculture practice, agri-wilding, innovation and training between the mountains and the sea in Snowdonia. It is a diverse and dynamic project that has been running for 13 years and now comprises a highly productive market garden, an extensive livestock silvo-pastural system with cows, chickens and pigs, woodlands, a campsite with charismatic ‘glamping’ accommodation and training facilities. It is a fantastic place to see permaculture in action. Both a home and a farm, Henbant is an abundant, thriving ecosystem that produces real food whilst also building biodiversity, soil, income, resilience, and community, proving that a more beautiful world is possible.”
