Online Permaculture Certification Courses Fall 2023
Online Permaculture Design Certification
with Andrew Faust & Guest teachers:
Adriana Magaña, Larry Santoyo, Rhamis Kent, David Harper, Paula Hewitt-Amram
11 Online classes - 10 am - 4 pm - Weekends
Begins September 23 & 24, 30 & October 1, 7 & 8, 21 & 22, 28 & 29
November 4th Graduation presentations
$600
Exceptional course, low cost, incredible teachers, every session recorded to replay at your convenience, includes 10% off for all of our PDC graduates, in any of our hands-on courses.
Getting trained in Permaculture Design is the perfect place to start to learn to build the world we all know is possible. Deepen your understanding of the patterns in nature by studying permaculture with our internationally known teaching team.
• Payment Plans available
• Flexible Scheduling
• Experienced Teaching Team
• Continued Mentoring
• Learn to Apply Permaculture to Properties, Business Models, Social Structures and Regional Scale Designs.
This course is the foundational 72 hour Permaculture Design Certification program, endorsed by PINA the Permaculture Institute of North America. Our course offers systemic solutions to the contemporary social justice and ecological issues of our times.
Come and learn with us and join our thousands of students who have set upon their permaculture journey to positively impact life on earth.
Topics Covered:
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History & Origins of Permaculture
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Sustainable Cities
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Best Places To Live
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Climate Resilience
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Renewable and Off Grid Energy
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Ecological Water Solutions
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Agroforestry & selecting high value trees
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Bio-intensive, Organic & Regenerative Farming
Our Permaculture design certification course imparts a positive and empowering vision for social and ecological transformation.
Lead Instructor Andrew Faust
One of the premier Permaculture teachers and designers in North America with over two decades of experience in the field. His passionate and mind expanding talks and curriculum have motivated teachers and students since his decade long career as a H.S. teacher at Upattina's, a open community free school in Glenmoore, PA.
View Faust's TED X lecture
OUR WORLD CLASS PERMACULTURE TEACHING TEAM
Adriana Magaña
Co Founder | Instructor
Adriana Magaña is an interdisciplinary artist and designer living with her family in Ellenville, NY. Adriana is inspired by her commitment to co-create a sustainable world with integrity and ethical values; a world based in nature and justice.
David Harper
Co Director of Permaculture Living Lands Trust has more than 30 years of work with conservation land trusts, community land trusts and local food and farming organizations, resulting in permanently preserving 8,000+ acres of farmland, natural areas, and cultural and historic sites in Pennsylvania.
Rhamis Kent
Rhamis Kent is a consultant with permaculture-based regenerative whole systems design serving as a registered certified Permaculture Design instructor with PRI Australia. He is a former co-director of the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI)
Larry Santoyo
Founder of the Permaculture Academy and lead instructor. He has been a teacher and practitioner of Permaculture Design for the 28+ years and spent over a decade studying and teaching with Bill Mollison.
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What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a design process and a worldwide movement that is helping to regenerate local ecologies and economies by addressing our social justice and environmental issues.
Permaculture Center for BioRegional Living - Farm Tour
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See a working Permaculture Educational Farm
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Learn how to grow more of your own food
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Learn how to set up big rain tanks for water security
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See our straw bale cabin, outhouses and natural classroom
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See how create ponds and to find and develop springs
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Visit our Dwarf Nigerian Goats, heritage chickens, nut trees natural buildings Biodigestor and more.
Available by appointment only - $100.00
Please call - 917.584.4588
JOIN OUR ON LINE MONTHLY PERMACULTURE MEETUP
TBA
Introduction To Urban Permaculture with Andrew Faust
Applying Permaculture Design to retrofit NYC and the region to be a healthier and happier place for people to live in. Learn how to use the principles of permaculture in the urban landscape and ways to create deeply ecological businesses and enterprises
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Permaculture Consultation Services - Property Analysis
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Real Estate Appraisals
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Energy Consulting
"If it was not for Andrew I would have completely bought the wrong piece of Land and wasted tens of thousands of dollars. After sharing my goals, Andrew patiently took months of narrowing down properties I sent him from online listings. Then he went to visit the best and final online selections in person, selecting the best of the best within my budget. Hiring his services was well worth every dollar. I would highly recommend leveraging his experience to anyone serious about buying land. " - Property Analysis Client
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Permaculture Gardens and Landscapes
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Gardens
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Agroforestry
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Native Pollinator
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Orchards
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Biodynamic
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Meadows and Landscape
- Design, build and maintain diversified, beautiful, edible and native landscapes for our clients using permaculture design principles. We fully utilize southern exposure for rare and delicate fruits and cooler areas for rare woodland medicinals and other appropriate plantings. We will disperse detrimental energies like wind and sun and increase privacy and the diversity of use by the strategic placement of the plantings we create on-site.
 Strawbale/Off-grid-Hillsboro,W,V,My permaculture Homestead/educational Center,Black locust posts from on site and clay for the walls, local hemlock framing and strawbales from a local oats farmer |  Strawbale-Sullivan,NYPole barn framing all from site. We sited, designed and built this 2200 square foot home from start to finish. |  Straw bale houseCochecton,NY a client and graduate of our class we designed and built this passive solar house for. |
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 No plastic wraps-All clay&woodEarthen plasters directly onto the bales with a wood siding for the final exterior and plaster on the interior. |  Clay walls done by handWe like to do earthen plasters from local clay after we paint the bales with clay slip. |  Passive Solar OrientationA straw bale earthen plastered, slab on grade home heated with radiant floor heating from a solar thermal array.It is a pole barn framing system with unique engineered metal joiners.Every stick of wood in the building came from on-site. |
 Wood sidingWide overhangs protect from summer sun,let in the winter sun.Solar thermal on the roof into the slab, thermostat inter tied to tankless propane hot water for winter heating, |  Solar Thermal-Passive hot waterSolar Hot water is your key to resilient domestic hot water and low effort winter warmth we put the suns energy right into the foundation of your home and into your water tank! |  2-5 sided Strawbale-Accord,NYWe designed and built and sited this 2 -5 sided strawbale healing sanctuary as part of a masterplan for a 40 acre property,for a client in Accord,NY |
 Solar thermal into slabWe built the forms and put the pex in for the solar thermal and sub contracted out the pour, |  Posts from on siteStanding seam metal roof and posts from on-site,ready to stack bales. |  2-5 sided strawbale-doneEarthern plaster finished w/lime wash. |
 A straw bale earthen plastered building It is actually two, 5 sided structures connected by a breezeway we designed, we sited and built for a client with ash posts from on-site and poplar framing from the area.It is slab on grade with radiant floor heating from solar thermal hot water and biofuels.We can do this for you! |  Inside the sanctuaryAll interiors earthen plasters and natural finishes. |  Posts sit in side balesThis way you can appreciate the beauty of the wood framing materials, |
 Roof insulated from outsideOur innovation we blanket the whole outside with salvaged rigid blue foam and then put the metal on so you get the beauty of seeing all your rafters and great insualtion! |  Built in shelvingThe details are all tailored to the clients needs. |  Tiny House Gardiner,NYLocal natural materials, non-toxic and passive solar writers studio,We designed and built . |
 Tiny house -Natural interiorAll non-toxic natural interiors in this tiny house project,Clay onto drywall and citra solve w /tung oil for the floors. |  Sunroom-Stone Ridge,NYOur team designed and built this addition for a graduate of our class , |  Sunroom |
 Latest Strawbale-Stonykill,NYSeth one of our crew and his wife Sarah are design/building this strawbale home for themselves based on the houses we built for our clients over the past 6 years in the region, |  |  |
 Outbuildings-Stony kill,NY |  4-stall-Outdoor showers,Stonykill,NYRain fed out door showers made for increased hosting at a Tai Chi center in Accord,NY |  |
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 |  Our classroom and summer kitchen in Ellenville from local lumber and poles on-site. |  Outdoor Classroom Waldorf SchoolAccord,NY .We are building natural structures with on-site trees with parents and students helping. |
 Teaching carpentry by doing, with Juniper's class at Acorn school in Accord, NY. |  Tent platformsModular and made with local rot resistant wood. |  Rain water catchment incorporated into outbuildings, as you see here, to create reliable water supplies on remote sites is one of our specialties. |
 1500 gallon rain tankWe can put water on a platform to get you the pressure you need! |  A structure for water supply and storage made from local materials. |  Pole construction with local rough cut hemlock.We built this at the high point in our 10 acre meadow to catch hold and store rainwater for our primary water supply on-site . |
Permaculture Consultation - Natural Building Services
We combine our experience in natural building and landscape construction to create healthy homes for healthy people. We will site buildings to be well located in regards to water drainage around them and maximize the natural benefits of being oriented to the sun for winter homes and towards the north for passive cooling and root cellars.
Humanity is more than ever threatened by its own actions; we hear a lot about the need to minimize footprints and to reduce our impact. But what if our footprints were beneficial? What if we could meet human needs while increasing the health and well-being of our planet?
"INHABIT - IS QUITE SIMPLY THE BEST FILM EVER MADE ABOUT PERMACULTURE" - Permaculture Magazine
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WHAT WE DO:
Educational Initiatives
Permaculture Design Consultation
Water Quality & Regional Planning
Herbalism, Food & Healing
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