Permaculture Design Course (PDC) 2024

Beyond Buckthorns’ Lumia and Dominik invite you to the 2024 PDC permaculture course at their homestead! About the PDC The PDC, permaculture design certificate course, is a 72 hour course that will cover all aspects of permaculture, giving you a wide understanding of what permaculture is and how to use it in your own life.  The curriculum follows the guidelines detailed by Bill Mollison in his book “Designers Manual”. The course will touch all elements required by the UK Permaculture association - https://www.permaculture.org.uk/education/permaculture-design-certifica… outlined in their “Core curriculum”.  

The course is a low carbon footprint course – you will be camping, eat locally sourced food (as much as possible during this time of the year), use energy created from solar panels, water heated from solar heating, etc. Our Focus While we touch different aspects to create a regenerative human settlement, our main context at Beyond Buckthorns is homesteading. 

Dominik is the leading expert in DIY biogas in Finland and currently the only available PDC teacher who has years of practical experience with the Finnish climate. 

What you will learn In 72 hours you learn about ethics, principles, design tools, soil, water, energy, social aspects and much more. Techniques and concepts like food forests, herb spirals and passive solar heating will be only few amongst many in your repertoire as a permaculture designer at the end of this course. Course details The 72 hours are split over 13 days. There is one free day in the middle of the course.