12 Week Permaculture Design Course for Young Adults

A Permaculture Design Course (PDC) is an internationally recognized, intensive training that teaches the ethics and principles of Permaculture to design sustainable, regenerative systems for food, animals, energy, water, and shelter, empowering graduates to create ecological, resilient, and abundant landscapes and lifestyles, it can be applied to rural, urban, suburban, and community settings. It goes beyond theory with hands-on learning, that focuses on observing nature to create solutions that work with, rather than against, natural systems. Students will learn the process of creating a permaculture design and complete a design project.

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This course includes the internationally recognized 72-hour Permaculture Design Course curriculum, with  additional hands on practice and field trips. This in-person format gives participants the opportunity to build community and networking connections. This course offers the expertise teachers and many guest teachers that are experienced in permaculture. Students who complete the design course will receive a ‘Permaculture Design Certificate’ which, allows them to use the word ‘permaculture’ in the promotion of their work or business.

This course will take place at Lotus Ranch Retreat Center offering real working examples of a permaculture homestead.

This course will be partially in classroom, other sessions will be hands-on outdoors, where students will experience real life permaculture applications, such as gardening, erosion control, earthworks, and tiny home construction. This course is for urban, suburban, and rural living and design.  Our focus is that you able learn a lot of information, but our goal is to change the lens that you see and think about the world. The experience of the Permaculture Design Course will hopefully give each student purpose. Purpose to guide any profession or walk of life, a spark of why, and a reason to be hopefull about how humans can impact the world positively.

More info at: https://lotusranch.org/permaculture-design-course/