Come and join our PDC permaculture design certificate course in beautiful rural Finland! Our course covers a wide range of topics from natural gardening to social permaculture, from biogas to food forests. You'll learn from experienced instructors and have the opportunity to put your newfound skills into practice at our permaculture homestead.
Curriculum was super intensive yet balanced and filled with lectures, theory, lots of practice, lots of groups discussion, which helped us really get along with each other.
The course is canceled.
Welcome to our homestead Beyond Buckthorns for the Summer of '24 PDC permaculture course in Finland!
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-certificate-pdc 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.
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 diploma-awarded PDC teacher who has years of practical experience with the Finnish climate.
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.
The 72 hours are split over 13 days. There is one free day in the middle of the course.
Place: Beyond Buckthorns, Kuisemantie 150, 36660 Laitikkala
Main Tutor: Dominik Jais
Co-Tutors: Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais, Dan McTiernan, Kalle Nikkanen, Anton Nordqvist
Price: 890,- €
Date: 6th of June 2024 to 19th of June 2024
The course includes
The course is limited to a maximum of 10 people and the minimum is 6. If the minimum number can’t be reached the course will be canceled and deposits will be paid back.
Course language is English. Dominik also speaks German. Lumia also speaks Finnish and German.
There is one early bird left: Save 100 € - You pay 790,- instead of 890,-
In order to secure your spot a deposit of 25% of the course fee is necessary. The remaining course fee has to be paid 2 weeks before the course. You will receive invoices for both payments.
If you need to pay in arrears or have very low means and would need a sponsored ticket (50% off - for one person), please write us an email at perma (at) beyondbuckthorns.com
Welcome! Tervetuloa!
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