Dates

Your course opens on the 6th January.. followed by 4 zoom calls with Rakesh.

You will be supported by expert permaculture educator Rakesh in four live training sessions, and will have a private community space for your cohort. The live sessions will be (all 7pm-8:30),

• Monday Jan 13th

• Monday Jan 27th

• Monday February 17th

• Monday March 3rd

Testimonials

'I cannot see anyone who attempts undertaking this course going back to a normal life that doesn't include some kind of permaculture. I am thoroughly enjoying all the information included, the videos shared and the reality of what really happens. It's more than a short course and I feel like a "dry sponge". -MA

The video below features your teacher Rakesh and shows excerpts from a longer video in this course.

What is different about this course?

• It will connect you to nature, to any available outside space and the love of growing organic food

• This is an accessible course, open to anyone from any level, with an interest in growing food

• Learn about how your resources, choices and environment interact and how to design taking everything into account

• It’s tailored to be suitable to all growing environments.

Meet the teacher

Rakesh 'Rootsman Rak'

An experienced Permaculture designer teacher, forest garden specialist, yoga teacher, homeopath and reggae DJ. Rakesh has been designing and teaching permaculture to individuals and communities since 2009, and has taught over 200 permaculture, forest gardening, eco village design and related courses.

His design portfolio ranges from large scale forest gardens in eco villages through to many urban community food growing gardens, private farms and back gardens as well as designing collaborative businesses, and urban water retention systems.

Rakesh is also passionate about building communities, and the social side of permaculture.

What does this course cover?

Organic gardening, growing food and herbs is a lifestyle and with the right information will stay with you forever. In this course we will give you all the information you need to get started with growing food, even in the smallest of spaces. You’ll learn essential information, such as healthy soil - needed to grow healthy abundant crops without costing the earth - information that’s often missing from horticultural courses and the introduction to permaculture. There will be lots of no screen time, and we will provide you with a workbook to apply your learning throughout the course. Once you’ve completed the course, you’ll be ready to grow your own food and love eating it. The content for growing food in small spaces has been created by many expert permaculture teachers in collaboration with the permaculture association learning team (who brought you the well reviewed foundations of permaculture course), bringing you a course that draws from a wide variety of experiences and knowledge. Rakesh' courses sessions are complimentary to the online course materials. He will walk you through additional topics such as perennials and cycles to dive deeper into understanding nature and how this applies to their small spaces. He will support you with your course materials as needed in the live sessions, but will focus on supporting you to understand your space. Rakesh will discuss available and useful non natural methods sometimes needed to combat the restrictions that arise in small spaces.

Why learn with the Permaculture Association?

Course contributions directly support our charity work, helping more people do more permaculture.

Using permaculture design empowers you to make the right choices for a sustainable future. Whether you are involved in gardening, farming, planning, building homes, economic regeneration, or business. We, the Permaculture Association (Britain), are dedicated to ensuring that people coming to learn about permaculture are getting the best experience possible.

Permaculture is immersive - it opens up the door onto a whole new world of fascinating study and solutions. All courses on our online learning platform are developed in partnership with a range of certified permaculture educators.

You can meet some of this course’s fantastic contributing educators below.