Permaculture Design Certificate Course

This is an intensive 14-day residential course where students have the chance to get fully immersed in the permaculture way of thinking and acting.

Students are invited to bring details of their own or potential sites.

The course will;

• Cover sustainable living systems for a wide variety of landscapes and climates

• Give you a good understanding of the ethics, principles and patterns of permanent design

• Convey a general understanding of a wide range of common strategies and techniques

• Explore the implications of social change towards ecological sustainability

• Assist each student to access resources required to actively take the course philosophy and methodology into their future life.

The Tutors:

Trish Allen: Trish and her late husband Joe Polasicher founded the iconic, award-winning Rainbow Valley Farm in 1988 on permaculture principles and ethics. The farm has inspired thousands of people over 25 years in sustainable living and demonstrated the principles of permaculture in action. Trish has now moved on and established a village-scale model of permaculture and shares her knowledge by teaching permaculture-related courses and workshops.

Daniel Tohill: Daniel has worked for over 20 years as a landscape designer and environmental consultant with a propensity toward ecological designs that have won him awards for his innovative and artful work. His work has taken him all over the country and occasionally abroad in the last 20 years doing over 1000 small and large landscape designs in rural and urban areas plus a diverse range of specialist projects.

Price $ 1,700 (includes all meals and accommodation).
Day attendees by arrangement.
$500 deposit to Te Moata, PO Box 100, Tairua.
$100 earlybird discount for those registering before April 1st.