Practicing permaculture

Here are steps you can take to become part of the growing community of permaculture practitioners: 

1.     Read about permaculture

• Permaville Handbook: A Practice of Permaculture Design
• Recommended Reading 
• Read through the project planning chapter for how to design your piece of land

2.     Download a project application form. When you are ready, send us your project.

3.     Practice permaculture

• Create designs, plant gardens, build things
• Volunteer and practice permaculture at projects around the world
• Sign up or be support for other workshops and permaculture courses
• Start a blog. Document all your work there. Post your blog here to be eligible to teach a Permaville course.

4.     Teach

A.  Teach a workshop (suggested criteria for teaching):

• Complete at least 3 element installations for the area of work you would like to lead the workshop
• Practice at least 6 months from the date you complete(d) a PDC
• If you are ready to offer a course, upload the following information:Course/workshop title, dates, location, fees, about the workshop, about the site/website, about the instructor(s)/website, course website, contact, register.

B.  Teach Intro to Permaculture (suggested criteria for teaching):

• Complete a combination of 6 element installations and site designs (at least one of each, ie 3 site designs 3 element installations, or 5 and 1, 4 and 2)
• Practice permaculture for at least 12 months

C.  Teach Permaculture Design (suggested criteria):

• Complete a combination of 10 projects and site designs (at least one of each, ie 5 site designs 5 element installations, or 9 and 1, 8 and 2)
• Teach at least 1 Intro to Permaculture course
• Practice permaculture for at least 24 months after taking PDC