Courses

Soil, Water, Trees and the Natural World

Work with nature to build rich soil, conserve water, the fundamentals you need to create a healthy ecosystem full of nutritious edibles in your yard. Join experienced permaculture designers Jono Nieger and Koreen Brennan for a weekend immersion into permaculture approaches to building soil, conserving water and understanding natural patterns and the... [Find out more...]

Dan Hemenway Permaculture Design Weekend Workshop

Jan 31-Feb 2, 2014 Grow Permaculture is pleased to present a rare opportunity – a Permaculture Design Workshop by Dan Hemenway, veteran permaculturist with more than 30 years of experience teaching and applying permaculture in Florida and around the world. Dan will take students through the design process at a typical suburban home. This is an... [Find out more...]

Urban Permaculture Design Certificate Course Tampa Bay

This course is the internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certificate course, based on Bill Mollison’s work. Permaculture design offers techniques, tools, and design principles to enable you to live abundantly while caring for the environment and the people around you. Working with nature allows you to grow food with less work and expense,... [Find out more...]

Detailed breakdown of dates and topics for Spring 2014 PDC

Below you will find a schedule and some of the highlights that we will cover for each weekend. We provide glossaries, outlines, additional written materials, self-testing material, videos and more, to assist you to access and absorb the information. Please note that there are sometimes changes in this line up based on needs of students/instructor availability... [Find out more...]

Introduction to Permaculture Design and Soil Building workshop – Clearwater FL

Sept 14-15 Clearwater, FL Our two day Permaculture Design Workshop is jam packed with useful and simple information that you can easily put in application to design your life and/or garden to be as resilient, regenerative, healthy, and abundant as you wish. During this weekend, there will be lots of hands on and practical information as well as info... [Find out more...]

Permaculture in Cuba

Roberto Perez, Cuban permaculturist and spokesperson in the film  The Power of Community will be speaking at two locations in South Florida on August 14 and 15. Roberto will be sharing some of the successes of permaculture in Cuba. For instance,  Havana has an extremely successful urban agriculture network that feeds more than 1/2 of the people... [Find out more...]

Free Introduction to Permaculture Lecture

Want to get a better idea of what permaculture really is and what it can do? Permaculture design is an effective tool to help you really make a difference, whether by gaining access to healthier food, reducing pollution, healing the earth, creating more economic stability, or building stronger and healthier communities.  We are offering several free... [Find out more...]

Urban Permaculture Design Certificate Course 2013 – Tampa Bay

The course will be taught during 6 weekends over 6 months: July 13-14, Aug 10-11, Sep 21-22, Oct 19-20, Nov 16-17, and Dec 14-15. Learn to design your life to be regenerative and abundant at the beautiful Moccasin Lake Nature Park in Clearwater FL. Instructed by Koreen Brennan, designer and teacher. Welcome to our 2013 Urban Permaculture Design Course! We... [Find out more...]

Fall 2012 Urban Permaculture Design Course, Tampa Bay

Permaculture design works with nature to create abundance for all living things. Permaculture principles and techniques cover a wide variety of topics, all of which are covered in this course. You will learn: Natural building techniques for Florida – cob, straw bale, yurt, earthship, do it youself, and others Alternative energy choices – ... [Find out more...]

Mocassin Lake

We are excited to be partnering with Moccasin Lake Nature Park, a 50 acre wild reserve in the heart of the most populated county on the East Coast – Pinellas – for our early 2012 series of courses and workshops. The park offers many opportunities to learn from the natural world as well as some exciting permaculture design potential. We... [Find out more...]

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