We are offering an Online Permaculture Design Courses starting in October 2025
🌿Learn to be more self-sufficient
🌿Live a healthier lifestyle
🌿Improve your quality of life
🌿Build and participate in stronger and more supportive community
The course is self-paced, with live Zoom sessions for presentations, Q&A, and instructor mentoring via email for six months.
You are expected to study independently between meetings. During each Zoom session, the instructor will cover the class topic and answer questions. The second monthly meeting may feature a guest speaker or related topic. You can reach out for support at any time. (Full details are in the syllabus provided after enrollment.)
Get trained now, be part of the solution, and join our community. We're adding sections to this course for January with details on:
🌳Food independence
🌳Disaster mitigation and recovery, permaculture style
🌳and more.
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Register for our internationally recognized Permaculture Design Course, a cutting edge approach to living that creates positive impact on both the environment and the individuals sharing that environment.
This course attracts students from all over Florida and beyond. Students meet others who think like they do, and often make lifelong friendships during the course; some find new career or lifestyle opportunities. Be the change you would like to see, and be effective at it, by designing that change!
Endorsed by Permaculture Institute of North America (https://pina.in).
For the Online course we meet the 2nd and fourth weekend for six months, while the In-person hold classes one weekend a month over six months. For the In-person you can miss up to 3 days of this schedule - we have online materials that will help you make up the time, but we encourage people to not miss any time as it will be rich!
## Subjects covered in the course
• Permaculture design ethics, principles and tools
• Creating abundance with natural patterns
• Grow more food with less work by working with nature
• Edible landscaping, food in small spaces
• Building food forests
• Nutrient dense “beyond organic” gardening and farming
• Agroforestry and ecoagriculture, regenerative farming
• Aquaculture
• Building rich, live soils
• Composting and vermicomposting
• Alternative pest management
• Designing sustainable water use
• Greywater and rainwater catchment
• Natural building and regenerative building technology
• Reducing energy costs in your home
• Best forms of sustainable energy
• Appropriate technology
• Boosting your career with permaculture
• Sustainable economics
• Increasing quality of life through “placemaking” design
• Designing for climate change
• Community revitalization and rebuilding
• Successful intentional communities, ecovillages and cohousing, urban and rural
For more information visit courses.growpermaculture.com