Center for BioRegional Living
DESIGN • EDUCATION • CONSULTATION • PUBLIC SPEAKING
How Does Our Online Course Work?
Join our Fully Online Permaculture Designers Certification Course
Anxious about the state of the world?
Our online Permaculture Design Certification offers a positive and empowering vision for social and ecological change.
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Wanting inspiration and ways to improve your gardening?
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Seeking a deeper connection to Nature and the Earth's systems?
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Looking to become a Permaculture consultant?
Studying Permaculture Design can help broaden your opportunities and take you exactly where you want to go. We will train you to apply the permaculture principles in a diversity of landscapes, scales and issues from city to country and temperate to tropical environments.
All 11 sessions are on weekends and are live and recorded!
If you need to miss any, no worries, they are sent to you as downloadable files after each weekend.
• Payment Plans available
• Flexible Scheduling
• Experienced Teaching Team
• Continued Mentoring
• Permaculture Cities, Businesses, Social Structures and Regional Scales
Learn from an internationally known cast of teachers with myself and my recent book included with your registration.
The course is a great fit for people from all kinds of backgrounds and interests, with regional and urban scales and each student doing an individual design to sharpen your design skills with our mentoring on your designs in the course. Our Permaculture class will empower you to design for your whole community. This course is for an international audience and for people coming in from many different perspectives.
ALL LIVE sessions! -- Downloadable cloud recordings
Along with our welcome letter you receive our 152 page resource packet organized by themes for you to use as an ongoing reference for you from our library of resources with other curated videos and course materials.
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We mentor all of our graduates, offer apprenticeships and hands-on trainings
TOPICS COVERED
Design Principles
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Permaculture Principles & What they derive from
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History Of Civilization
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Ecological Patterns
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Sustainable Cities
Water Systems
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Catch Hold & Store
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Ecological "Waste" Water Systems
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Rain Tanks & Rain Gardens
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Aquaculture
Improving Soils
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Organic Gardens
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Earthworks
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Raised beds
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Soil Analysis
Forest Gardens
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What is Forest Gardening
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Beneficial Plants
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Pollinator Habitat
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Restoration Ecology
Growing Food Crops
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History of Domestication of Plants
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Urban Roof Top Gardens
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Compost Systems
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Working With Weeds
Working With Animals
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History of Domestication of Animals
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Biodynamics
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Rotational Grazing Systems
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Regenerative Farming
Energy Systems
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Reducing the need for energy by design
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Maximizing Passive Systems
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Biogas & Anaerobic Digestors
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Fully Off Grid Home and Community Scale
Natural Building
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Passive Solar House Design
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Strawbale Construction
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Hempcrete & Cob Buildings
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Creating Microclimates with Structures
Springs, Ponds, Streams & Fish Farming
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Finding & Identifying Perennial & Seasonal Fresh Water Springs
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Digging Natural Ponds
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Streambank Reforestation & Riparian Buffers
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Ecological Aquaculture/Fish Farming
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Creating Community & Ecovillages
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Finding Your Allies & Starting Where You Are
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Creating Bioregional Economies
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Worker Guilds, Villages & Communities
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Pioneer Design & Land Use Ethics
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Design Process: Skills, Methods & Techniques
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Working From Patterns To Details
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Analysis, Assessment & Design Concepts
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Whole Site Design
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Regional & Watershed Scale Design
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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Clea Chandma
India on Tropical systems, Clea, from a ‘Genetics’, 'Ecology and Evolution', ‘Plant Breeding’ and a ‘Plant Molecular Physiology’ background (University of Cambridge, UK) and a Permaculture background (PDC : Bill Mollison; Geoff Lawton; Greg Knibbs; and Andrew Millison), is a recognised expert in Regenerative Systems. Her approach and methods are novel and rigorously developed over 30 years at her 'food forest' farm at the foothills of the Western Ghats in India.