September 14 (evening), 15, 16, September 29, 30, October 19 (evening), 20, 21

November 3, 4 November 17, 18 December 1, 2 December 8 (snow day)

Course Fee: $998 early bird price; $1250 after July 31st;

$200 deposit required to hold your spot.

Work trade available by application.

*Ask us about reimbursement through MA workforce training fund

Permaculture offers us skills, tools, solutions and strategies for healing social and ecological systems. It is a vision, design system, and global movement that draws on patterns and principles found in nature to meet human needs, while regenerating the natural world.

This 88-hour permaculture design certificate course goes beyond the standard 72- hour course to give participants a comprehensive understanding of permaculture principles & ethics; design processes, methodologies & tools; and how they can be applied to create regenerative human systems including food, housing, energy, communities, and economies.

The course centers around experiential learning and hands-on skill building including local field trips where we will see theory in action. It concludes with a design practicum, where participants will work together

to create a design for a half acre urban homestead.

This course is structured in twelve weekend day sessions with some evening sessions, allowing full-time workers, students and people with families more flexibility to participate. Successful completion of this course will earn participants an internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certificate.

principles and ethics • reading the landscape • urban homesteading • forest gardening • water harvesting • soil regeneration • creative waste cycling • micro-livestock • energy and building systems • social justice • food systems planning • cooperative economics • design for climate change • community building • health & well-being • aquaculture • design projects, methods, and tools

“The PDC course was an awesome opportunity to get practical about living sustainably as a part of community and as a part of the natural world. The information, the examples, the speakers, the practice and the instructors/participants as well all created a rich and inspiring experience that made these projects imaginable. I left with confidence, ideas, skills, motivation and a sense of becoming a part of a network of folks choosing to live and create beautiful alternatives.”  -Katherine 2010