Transform Your World with Permaculture – This Autumn

Join us this autumn for the classic 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course – a life-changing journey into regenerative living. Over six immersive weekends, you’ll explore powerful, practical tools for transforming your home, your community, and the wider world.

This course goes far beyond gardening. You’ll learn the core principles of ecological design and how to apply them in diverse contexts – from home gardens and community spaces to sustainable building, ethical enterprises, and even broadscale landscapes.

Alongside hands-on design skills, you’ll develop your communication and collaboration abilities, preparing you to become a confident practitioner of one of the world’s most vital regenerative disciplines.

Permaculture is a holistic, long-term approach to the challenges of our time. The PDC is an investment in your future – one that will continue to grow and give back for years to come.

Led by Paul Jennings, an experienced practitioner dedicated to regenerative living and sustainable design. This course offers a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to permaculture principles, empowering participants to create resilient, productive systems in harmony with nature.

Whether you're new to permaculture or looking to deepen your knowledge, Paul’s practical approach and deep ecological insight will guide you through the fundamentals of land, water, food, and community design — helping you apply these tools to your own life, projects, and landscapes.

A little about the course content

We start by looking at the origins of and the need for Permaculture, outlining definitions and finding out what the participants want from the course. We’ll look at the ethics behind Permaculture Design and the important design principles that together make a powerful and accessible toolkit for all kinds of projects, but especially food growing ones.

We’ll be looking at and discussing numerous real-life examples of Permaculture in practice and delving in detail into water in the landscape, trees in the landscape, soil and soil life, gardening with a Permaculture twist, urban Permaculture, and community organising and groups working together.

Over the course of the 6 weekends participants will complete two design practices and come away from the course feeling confident that they can take their new training away and carry on the good work.

This course is devised and taught by Paul Jennings, a permaculture practitioner with over 30 years real-world experience of teaching and permaculture.

This course is certified by the Permaculture Association. Those completing a minimum of 75% the course will receive a Permaculture Design Certificate.

This course will be taught over 6 weekends

13th and 14th September 2025

11th and 12th October 2025

8th and 9th November 2025

13th and 14th December 2025

10th and 11th January 2026

14th and 15th February 2026

Timings

Each day will run from 9:30am until 4:30pm, with around 6 hours of teaching and breaks for lunch, tea and coffee.

Refreshments

Please bring your own lunch each day. Tea and coffee will be provided.

Cost

The cost of each weekend session is £40 (£20 Concession) or, for those who are able to, we are offering a 'Pay It Forward Ticket', which will help pay towards another person to take part in the course.

The total cost for the 6 weekends is £240 (£120 Concession).

We are offering a £100 deposit ticket with the remainder of the balance being paid on arrival of each session.

TICKETS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE VIA THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE GREEN SHOP

If the cost of the course is a barrier, please get in touch as we have a number of free places available on this course.

Permaculture Design Course