THE PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE IN DETAIL

Permaculture provides a framework for creating landscapes that mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature. It delivers diversity, stability, and resilience. Permaculture systems yield an abundance of shelter, water, energy and food; all to address local needs.

Our course offers the standard 72-hour permaculture curriculum for certification, with a special emphasis on food forest and intensive vegetable gardening in the tropics. Although we're in a tropical setting, many of the methods and techniques will transfer directly to any climate.

The schedule for week one is shown in the photos above! Arrive on Sunday after 2pm, and start class on Monday morning. Our breakfasts are at 7 am, lunches at Noon, and dinners at 6 pm. The course will cover 12 chapters in depth. Mornings are usually devoted to practical applications and afternoons are dedicated to course lectures. The second week includes an off-site trip to see local highlights. We will visit Don Joni to learn about the cosmovision of the indigenous Cabecar people, and see traditional land-use management in practice as he interacts with the land to produce his building materials, food and medicines. Also, prepare for a swim at the beautiful river! After don Joni's experience, we will visit SEED Ecovillage Agricommunity to learn about designing community scale and the incorporation of animal management. By the end of the course, each student will make a permaculture design exercise of 1.5 acres, applying natural building techniques, water and waste management, renewable energy systems, food forestry, organic gardening learned during the course.

Permaculture Design CourseJuly 29 - August 12, 2018This experience is currently not available.

Permaculture Design Course
July 29 - August 12, 2018

This experience is currently not available.