Permaculture Design Course - Bellingen

Are you ready for a life-altering experience, to shift your perspectives, to change the way you think about life and work? Then a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) is the next step on your journey.

A PDC is one of the best investments you can make for yourself for future planning, building resilience, sustainability, connection, regeneration, adaptation, creativity and homesteading.

A PDC empowers you with critical knowledge and equips you to meet the challenges and opportunities that arise from our current time.

Join us for two weeks of learning, connecting and practical hands-on activities with knowledgeable facilitators in the natural & pristine surroundings of Gumbaynggirr country, Bellingen.

This workshop could be for you if:

• You are tired of seeing the many broken systems all around us and want to be a part of the movement that is regenerating land and creating sustainable solutions.
• You feel a pull to work with nature rather than against it.
• You would like to start living by design rather than by default.
• You are curious about how to incorporate ecological design into your garden, farm, home, relationships, work and/or life.
• You are craving a holistic approach to sharing resources, minimizing waste and advocating for human needs, earth needs and the needs of future generations.
• You’ve heard about permaculture and want to learn more!

Highly Relevant Topics

This PDC will weave together critical topics on Regenerative Agriculture, Permaculture for Mobility, Social Permaculture, Biodynamics, Ecopsychology, Radical Redesign, Preparing for Extremes, Rewilding, and practical applications of Permaculture in your life, to name a few. Receive your PDC certificate at the end of the course.

Empower yourself with critical knowledge for the challenges and opportunities of today.

@ Beautiful Bellingen

Bellingen is a popular tourist destination well known for its beauty, connection to nature, and welcoming community. Situated in nurturing Gumbaynggirr country, Bellingen is the perfect place for transformative change. The course will be hosted on an organic regenerative agriculture farm and have access to a commercial market garden for real-world application of all concepts.

This PDC is taught right in the middle of the beautiful Levenvale Farm, a certified organic farm made up of 300 acres of pasture, 200 acres of pristine rainforest, and a snaking creek throughout. Participants will experience many diverse microclimates and ecosystems all on one farm.

Host to 7 enterprises, from commercial composting to a commercial market garden to raising beef and chickens for retail, participants will get the chance to see how life is like operating intersecting small systems.

Using diverse management practices such as practical applications of permaculture, biodynamics, regenerative agriculture, and urban agriculture, this farm is a brilliant all-in-one demonstration site.

Fantastic Facilitators
Dr Charlie Brennan and Bridget O’Brien, directors of Garden Juju Collective and Gateway Farm, team up with Luigi Marasco and Nidya Bellido of The Patch Organics, Georgina and Sam Baker of Levenvale Farm, and a wealth of knowledgeable guest speakers to offer a powerful Permaculture learning experience.

All standard PDC topics will be taught as well as special sessions on the following subjects:

• Design and Radical Redesign
• Regenerative Agriculture
• Biodynamics
• Conservation and Re-wilding of the Land
• Making a Living with Permaculture
• Social Permaculture
• Preparing for Extremes
• Healing Places
• Walkabout Permaculture

Course Inclusions

• Camping accommodation
• Access to amenities
• Access to a camp kitchen
• All meals included
• Permaculture handbook
• Adapt Game deck of cards
• Two weeks of dynamic facilitation
• Access to industry experts
• Permaculture Design Certificate

All levels of experience are welcome.

Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs and we will accommodate you.

We warmly invite you to join us for these two weeks where together we can learn, grow and thrive.

Full Fee: $2800
*Earlybird: $2500
**Refundable Deposit: $560
Payment Plans are available, please reach out.

* Earlybird discount available until 30th June 2024.

**Refundable deposit only within specific timelines as outlined under the terms of agreement within the Memorandum of Understanding (available upon registration).

The revolution starts with you!