Online Permaculture Design Certificate course over 6 weeks. By donation, pay what you can afford!
THIS COURSE IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. PLEASE BOOK INTO THE OCTOBER/NOVEMBER ONLINE COURSE.
We have recorded our residential Permaculture Design Certificate course delivery and made it available online. We will run it several times per year during a designated timeframe. You will need to book in for this course. Bookings are taken at the bottom of this page, but please read the remainder of this information prior to filling out the booking form.
This Online Permaculture Design Certificate is a 72 hour theoretical course based on Bill Mollison’s Designers Manual. It teaches how we can use today’s tools and technology to create a more sustainable and equitable world for all species. Permaculture is more than just gardening, it is a design system for a truly sustainable and self sufficient lifestyle. The course is run by the PermEco Inc., taught by Tom Kendall and your certificate is accredited by PRI Australia, recognised and highly regarded world wide.
Tom Kendall is a permaculture farmer with over 40 years farming experience. He is co-founder of the PRI Sunshine Coast Inc (now PermEco Inc.) and PRI Luganville, Vanuatu and teaches Permaculture courses on his Permaculture Demonstration Site Kendall Permaculture Farm. Tom has co-taught PDC courses with Geoff Lawton and has taught Permaculture courses in Australia and overseas. He has been a Permaculture Research Institute accredited teacher for 5 years and is part of our environmental advisory team and Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Consultants team, doing regular consultations for local and international land owners and NGOs. For complete bio click here.
Please note: Our courses are non-denominational; we do not include any spiritual practices and welcome people from all cultural, spiritual and religious backgrounds. The course material is science and observation based.
We deliver the theoretical Online Permaculture Design Certificate course with lots of visual examples of implementations on our farm. Tom will answer any questions that may have come up via a live stream in the course. Questions can be submitted to us via a simple form at the end of each session, and will be answered during the live stream 2 times per week during the course. The live stream will be saved as part of the course if you cannot see it live on the day.
You will need to login every day and each section of the course needs to be completed. You will need to complete 90% of the course plus submit an assignment in order to get your certificate. Confirmation of attendance and booking in to attend the course is required, and the course is by donation, pay what you can afford. Donations can be made via our website, click here to go to our Donate page. Donations help us continue to run this Online Permaculture Design Certificate Course, allow people from developing countries to do the course for free, and helps running the farm and the not for profit organisation.
We create a group for each Online Permaculture Design Certificate course on our community social page which we will invite you to. The group will keep you updated with messages and news during the course, please check the group regularly. We will also have a forum for the Online Permaculture Design Certificate group which will function as a question and answer forum, where students and facilitators can answer participants’ questions.
We feel that it is urgent for this information to go into the world. We wanted to ensure we can still deliver the course while social distancing, and we have recorded and uploaded this course to our site. The course will be a work in progress, with more material added all the time. You will be able to re-visit the course as graduates, to ensure you will be able to absorb the information.
Please feel free to connect with us through the forum or our social network on the website. You can register here and login via the link on our main menu at the top of the page.
Bookings now taken for our Online Permaculture Design Certificate courses running in 2021.
IMPORTANT: As we have had communication issues in the past, please ensure you allow your email app to receive emails from zaia [at] permeco.org!
Please book below for the Online Permaculture Design Certificate Course:
Tom will answer your permaculture questions at a live Q & A every Wednesday evening 6pm AEST (Brisbane time). Please fill in the form below with your question. Click on the orange button above to go to the Q & A on Wednesday 6pm. You can also jump on the live Q & A and ask your questions via chat in person on Wednesdays.
“I would recommend Tom Kendall’s PDC to anyone looking to learn or become part of the Permaculture Community. I really enjoyed the course. It was also an excellent opportunity to learn from someone who has always worked with the land and who has spent a long time developing that relationship into what it is now. I learned a great deal about the agricultural systems from a practical and solutions based perspective. And yes, they are lovely people too.
It means a lot to me that they offered the course as pay-as-you-can and as self catered. I am in the position where I can only find sporadic work and rather than waste my time feeling stuck I was able to learn and find new opportunities with this course. The sense of community it gives was also really important to me and I am great full to them for being generous with their time. It is something that will give more value as time goes on and I hope to return this fully when I’m able. ” Marni, PDC 02/2020
“ Unlike all the other students I had no previous knowledge in permaculture and it far exceeded my expectations. I was happy to see the ethics related to this topic were one of your criteria. I would highly recommend this course and have done so already multiple times and will continue to refer people to you in all my travels
To be able to do the course by donation has meant to me that I’ve been able to upskill myself for an affordable amount in a time of current unemployment.
It also meant I could please my curiosity on this topic and dip my toes in the water with the little knowledge I had in this field where as a full price course would have not lead me down this path. I thank you both so kindly for your contribution in getting this knowledge out there in our current global situation.” Todd Dent, PDC 02/2020
Another thundery night! Now we have rivers running through the property, as dam and swales were already totally full. Around 370mm Tuesday night, 80mm Wednesday and Thursday, around 120mm last night and still raining! Poor chooks cannot go outside as there are lakes surrounding their night pens! All animals are ok, no casualties, just not much fun for them atm…#flooding #permaculturefarm #rain #noosafloods #sunshinecoastfloods2022...
Tom Kendall is a permaculture farmer with over 40 years farming experience. He is co-founder of the PRI Sunshine Coast Inc (now PermEco Inc.) and PRI Luganville, Vanuatu and teaches Permaculture courses on his Permaculture Demonstration Site Kendall Permaculture Farm. Tom has co-taught PDC courses with Geoff Lawton and has taught Permaculture courses in Australia and overseas. He has been a Permaculture Research Institute accredited teacher for 5 years and is part of our environmental advisory team and Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Consultants team, doing regular consultations for local and international land owners and NGOs. For complete bio click here.
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