Begin your permaculture learning journey here! Learn the foundations of permaculture design with a highly experienced teacher, on this CPD accredited online Introduction to Permaculture course you'll get a basis for how to apply permaculture in your life and make your own designs. Sign up be December 28 and get 50% off!

Course opens January 13th 2025, four live sessions over 1.5 hours

Live Session times all 6:30-8:00pm:

• January 20st
• 10th Feb
• 3d March
• 24th March

 What this course is all about 

• Study over 3 months with around 10 hours of online material with lots of written resources, videos and activities plus 6 hours of teacher time
• Small learning group with private community
• Learn how to connect with people and projects in your community
• Share any design ideas with your teacher and fellow learners
• Including membership for 1 year for non Permaculture Association members
• 25% discount for Permaculture Association members (discount code available in members area).

Includes:

⭐ Introduction to Permaculture certificate awarded on completion of the course

⭐ Membership for 1 year for non Permaculture Association members

⭐ Discounted rate for our members

⭐ Discounts on 6 books from the Permaculture Magazine, chosen to complement this course

⭐ Included resources, videos, PDF handouts

⭐ Activities, quizzes and plenty of no screen time included!

▶ Get instant access to our members-only video library!
Enrol now then activate your included Permaculture Association membership to access the recordings library, including:

🔥 Campfire events (exploring how permaculture intersects with current issues)

🚀 Masterclass events (project focus hour long sessions with experts, covering topics including consultancy, marketing, accessible garden design, and more!)
New events are being scheduled all the time, so you can join us for them!

Only 20 places per course available on a first come first served basis.

The course has 6 thorough modules, based upon the Introduction to Permaculture curriculum:

Many educators collaborated to create these thorough and interactive modules:

1. A nature based approach
2. Principles of Permaculture
3. How to Apply Permaculture
4. Design Frameworks
5. Design Methods
6. Your next steps

Testimonials

I realised that the curriculum was not just about gardening but more about turning one's whole life more sustainable. The group setting was great. Definitely a good course for anyone interested in gaining an understanding on the permaculture practises and starting their own green revolution!" -Minni

"This course is so full of information that I think it is a resource that I will come back to many times over and for me over and above all that I have learned knowing that there is one place where I can I find it all is fantastic.  Also, all the downloadable worksheets is a super resource, specially when just starting out. Simple and user friendly layouts." - CS

About your teacher Aline

Skills, technical expertise and areas of interest: 

Consulting and Design for the Individual, the Home, the Community - La Casa Integral (a permaculture design workers cooperative) in Catalunya and on the Balearic Islands

Hydrological Design for the Home (Waste Water Systems and Natural Pools) 

• Regenerative Tourism Project Design and Consulting
• Design Consultations with PermaMed.org
• Facilitation of PDCs
• Collaborator of the Permaculture CoLab's
• Online facilitator for Gaia Education: Design for Sustainability (Ecological Dimension and Design Studio)

Aline on permaculture ethics:

Areas of Permaculture Design Experience: 

Forest Gardens, Perennial Food Systems and Soil Building:

Collaborating with Julio Cantos and coordinating the community network for the maintenance of "the Permaculture Circles", an educational and experimental demonstration site (Analog Forestry and other Agroforestry techniques in the Mediterranean climate) of PermaMed, from 2015 to 2019. Now implementing a new design, on a suburban plot of 1000m2 in the coastal forest area North of Barcelona (Maresme) at "Can Cel", demonstration site of La Casa Integral. Training received from Stella Strega, Darren Doherty, Ana Digón, Jesús Ruiz, Joel Salatin, Sergi Caballero, Carlos Martinez, Richard Perkins, Josep Ramon Sainz de la Maza, Matt Powers, Planeses, Frances Font and Manuel Buades from Organic Managers, Morag Gamble, MasHumus...

Hydrological Design:                                                                                                       

Our star "service" at La Casa Integral is working with water; from water in the landscape to water in the home, from water catchment to water recycling, working with strategies to slow, sink and spread water in your watershed, and designing Nature Based Solutions for waste water re-using in your garden as well as natural swimming pools. 

Group/Organizational Design:

Aline is a co-founder of PermaMed, the not-for-profit association Permacultura Mediterránea, with base on Mallorca and a branch now in Catalunya, where she co-designs trainings, workshops and talks, in person but also across borders, online, for example with Permacultura Íbera and its Academy and in the Permaculture CoLab, amongst other collaborations and group work.

Permaculture in Education:

Facilitator of permaculture workshops in and design of Educational Centers (PermaEduca Project of PermaMed, Erasmus+ project with Gaia Education):
 With primary school children (Garden, Compost, Design) as well as in Secondary schools (Economics workshops) and for teachers (Gaia Youth Manual).

Co-facilitating at least one PDC per year (PermaMed or La Casa Integral)

Diploma tutor at the Academia de Permacultura Íbera

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