Permaculture Design Courses

Are you interested in learning how to design sustainable and resilient systems for yourself and others?

Look no further than our Permaculture Design Course! Our online program offers the official 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course, taught by certified instructors with significant professional experience.

We pride ourselves on being the leading worldwide provider of this esteemed certification. Our instructors are in the direct teaching lineage of Bill Mollison and the Mollison Permaculture Research Institute, meaning that our students receive training that is both authentic and reliable.

Bill Molison, founder of Permaculture Design 72 hour certification education.
Bill Mollison

With our course, you will gain the skills and resources needed to start your own successful Permaculture farm, business, consulting firm, or teaching practice. Our program equips you with the knowledge necessary to create sustainable and regenerative systems that support both human needs and the natural world.

Our Permaculture Design Course is ideal for anyone looking to take the first step in learning about Permaculture or for those seeking to deepen their knowledge and skills. Our curriculum is designed to be accessible, engaging, and impactful, ensuring you leave our program with the tools you need to create a better world.

We provide our students with the skills and resources needed to start their own successful Permaculture farms, businesses, consulting firms, and teaching practices.

Join our community of learners and start your journey toward designing sustainable and regenerative systems today!

Why choose Permaculture Education?

Our courses are available online to work through on your own schedule. The course materials are accompanied by expert instructors’ support, feedback, practical exercises, fieldwork, and media, including graphics, photos, and videos.

PRIMER TO THE PDC COURSE

Introduction To Permaculture

This course covers the first section of the full Permaculture Design Certificate Course. This introductory course covers the Ethics and Principles of Permaculture Design and Natural Systems Design, as well as provides some ideas you can experiment with immediately in your home and on your site.

Available languages: English, Vietnamese, Spanish, German, French

Enroll In The Introduction Course
OFFICIAL CERTIFICATION COURSE

Permaculture Design Course

The official 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) is taught by the founders of Permaculture – Bill Mollison and David Holmgren. The full Permaculture Design Course (PDC) is a 72-hour intensive program. This course involves study modules supported by practical exercises, photos, fieldwork, and videos.

Available languages: English, Vietnamese, Spanish, German, French

Enroll Today in the PDC Course
After having discovered my life’s passion in Permaculture, there was the question of how to pursue it. I am so fortunate to have found the online PDC course, which allowed me to become a certified Permaculture Designer at my own pace. As a busy mom of young children, it was the perfect solution. The PermacultureEducation.com PDC course material condensed a lot of information that led me to new paths of understanding, encouraging me to look further and deeper into the subject matter. I learned to read the land, as it were, in the language it spoke, and in a way that combined ancient, indigenous wisdom with the valuable resources offered by the sciences. I hope to use this new literacy in the service of the Creator, of life itself, as part of a community that strives to make the world a better place by designing landscapes that work symbiotically, providing abundance for all of its inhabitants. I am deeply grateful for the attentiveness and encouragement of my teachers, who responded to each installment of homework with personal concern, guidance, and praise. Their personal approach, I believe, is the primary ingredient that makes for the highest quality Permaculture Design education alongside a very good curriculum, making it worth every penny.
Sara Harding
I was looking for a high-quality permaculture design course that would broaden my horizons but fit my non-traditional schedule. The online PDC offered by Dr. Enzo and the team at PermacultureEducation.com was exactly what I was looking for! The lessons were challenging and informative, not to mention well-written, and I immediately immersed myself in the resources. The feedback from the instructors was quick and informative, helping me see areas I might want to concentrate on while sharing the nuances of my particular site. My favorite aspect of this course was the collaborative feel of the instructors. They were always available with suggestions and were genuinely as excited about designing my site as I was. I would highly recommend this course and PermacultureEducation.com to anyone seeking a high-quality PDC course with maximum flexibility.
Derek Kirbow, Ph.D., M.A.
I have a love and passion for my newly found science of permaculture. I desperately wanted to take a PDC but with a full-time job, building a homestead, and a brand new baby, I just could not spare 10-14 days in a row. After reading all the books I could find, I heard podcast interviews with Dr. Enzo and Jessica Enzo and liked their straight forward approach. Honestly, I remain a little uncomfortable with some of the more qualitative, political, emotive social justice aspects of some peoples’ permaculture courses. I wanted to learn the real science and methods. That is exactly what the PermacultureEducation.com online PDC supplied. The email exchanges were challenging and thought-provoking and gave me confidence in my own understanding to practically try the concepts learned. The time flexibility and low cost from PermacultureEducation.com made getting a PDC possible for me.
Kevin Kilgore
I would like to just send you a quick message thanking each and every one of you involved in this course. I have been both inspired and educated by the information you have put together and I have learned so much along the way. Through the knowledge I have gained, we have been able to improve the design of our farm in such a huge way and and my husband are now equipped with the knowledge and inspiration we needed to take the farm to the next level. So, a huge thank you to all of you for your hard work.
Russell
What impresses me most about this PDC is the quality of the instructors. The support was superb! It was obvious from first contact – the wealth of knowledge that they have. Anyone can go out and buy one of Mollison’s manuals, but knowledgeable insight offered in layman’s terms (when necessary) has been invaluable to me as a beginning Permaculturist. There was always just enough input supplied from the instructors to help me connect-the-dots on my own while encouraging my creativity. Also, all of the responses from the instructors were given in a constructive, build-you-up manner. This is the best online class I have taken to date and would recommend it to anyone!”
Amber Baker