2021 Permaculture Design Course

Permaculture design is a wonderful process for solving all kinds of problems. Whether you are wanting to grow more of your own food, start a farm, contribute effectively with a community project, or start a design business of your own, this course can support you.

While we love the residential and weekend formats for the permaculture design course, through circumstance, we found a great way to present the standard 72-hour curriculum in an online format that works really well (maybe better?) than the in-person formats. We also recognize that online can mean more do-able for you. The course does have three in-person days that are important for course culture and success.

For more details about the 2021 course, or to sign up go here:

https://threewaterspermaculture.com/2021-permaculture-design-course/

About Our Team:

The course is led by Rhonda Baird, William Faith, Milton Dixon, and guest instructors throughout the course. Our team represents one of the most experienced teams of teachers in the region with hundreds of students.

About Our Approach:

An important part of designing successful systems is constantly adapting to needs based upon feedback. While in-person permaculture design courses may resume later this year, online is here and here to stay. We all burned out on day-long zoom calls and workshops in 2020. We need to find a balance. In order to manage our 2021 lives more easily, it makes sense to revisit and improve a format for studying permaculture common until the early 2000’s–a divided course focusing first on permaculture fundamentals and secondly on design and implementation. By using this approach, we support small groups of students in supported self-study, facilitated exploration, and mentored experiences. This approach allows you to:

Join a course at a time that works for you.

Access and study core material (or review it) in a way that fits your life

Supports healthy bodies and minds by not asking you to sit still for hours

Creates connection and community with other students and with your teachers by focusing on your questions and learning

Allows you to start viewing and implementing permaculture in a way that supports your success and confidence as your skills grow–minimizing costly mistakes and helping you to move toward your goals more effectively

Connects you to a community of practitioners in the region and around the globe

What are the fundamentals? Permaculture uses a variety of lenses from which to view ecological and cultural health. In the fundamentals section of the course, we lay the philosophical and theoretical foundation which can hold those multiple perspectives together and allow us to work effectively with nature. Then we use that foundation to build a framework from which to inhabit more fully the complexity of our world. Once that framework is in place, we can connect more easily to what is going on around us and understand how to make better choices.

In the practicum section of the course, we will take all that we’ve learned about observing and understanding dynamic systems and put it into a practical design for your life. We will be working with design for the integrated ecosystem and gardens around you; your built environment; and your community. Here is where our study becomes a practical means to improve your quality of life and set you on the path to a life that is connected, nurturing, and resilient–a world where you and everything around you can thrive.

In order to receive a permaculture design course certificate, you will need to complete both the fundamentals and practicum sections.

For more details about the 2021 course, or to sign up go here:

https://threewaterspermaculture.com/2021-permaculture-design-course/