Online Permaculture Design Course: Cultivating Change for a Better World

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I did this course two years ago and it changed my life. Geoff is a natural born teacher

[@NewWorldOrder-xh3rz]

It is very strange that this man is not the Minister of agriculture!!!

[@illustrious1]

You're an excellent example of someone whos made such a beautiful change to your part of the the earth.

[@TomFelton-d3t]

Second that.

[@ginac9008]

And I have learned a lot from you David aka The Weedy Garden.

[@DavidWilmering]

@@NewWorldOrder-xh3rz Judging from your tag I think you already know the reason why my friend.

[@GrandmomZoo]

You and some people that follow you changed my life. Thank you. ❤

[@DrakesPlaylistChannel]

ive been watching you for over 14 years. you changed my life geof.

[@hardwareful]

People need to see these videos, not just for the info, but to rebuild faith in a better future. In our ability to act in net positive ways. To fight back against degrwoth fatalism and "doing bad things more slowly".

[@mrdeanvincent]

I agree with this, but what is 'degrowth fatalism'? I'm pretty involved with the degrowth community and have rarely come across fatalism. Degrowth and permaculture complement each other very well. Both are fighting against much larger systemic crises.

[@jasonkennedy1670]

Geoff's courses are top shelf 👌

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 Geoff, I'm 5 years older than you and I wish I'd known that young Englishman moving to Australia. You truly are a gifted teacher ❤

[@ecstaseed89]

I first saw Geoff's videos in 2009, at a time of great inner crisis during my coming of age. It was a warm light at the end of a cold dark tunnel. In addition to seeing the lion's share of his videos, I also took his earthworks course in person in 2010, and his online PDC in 2016 and 2017. He doesn't miss.

[@TheInfiniteGarden-ds7lw]

Infinitely grateful for you, Geoff, and your team. Thank you for all you contribute.

[@ashtree9693]

Been there and done it. And I highly recommend to all. Well done Geoff 👏🏼

[@cis961]

Viva Geoff Lawton viva Permaculture !!

[@Collise]

So much gratitude for your offerings. Thank you for your dedication to permanent support systems for all the patterns of life. 💚🌱🐢

[@mano3867]

Love your teaching. I respect you so much thank you

[@bonniepoole1095]

Geoff is a GREAT teacher!

[@livefromplanetearth]

thanks for the free youtube videos

[@skeeter042]

I would give anything to be able to take this course and learn under Geoff!

[@earthmonkeySteve]

Geoff, you have been and always be the beacon of hope for us all. We need to grow, bigger stronger likeminded communities in every country until we can group together to create a global society, and of course you will be my choice for earth president elect ;)

[@haylinhunter5937]

What a Champion! Let's heal this world 🌍💚

[@NewWorldOrder-xh3rz]

Love your work

[@harleymarsh1989]

I am saving to do the 2024 thank you for the info you out up David appreciate your work

[@tcfarms7645]

Great work! Excited to keep learning.

[@kirsten8693]

I would really love a series on creating food forests & wind breaks in the ever- challenging Texas panhandle. We have all extremes: occasionally down to -20 in winter, up to 110+ in summer, damaging year-round winds between 20-50+ mph, and rain is all or nothing, plus hail every April. We have 11 acres, only slightly sloped. Wanting to use mostly medicinal/edible vegetation. I'm looking at large pampas grasses, locusts, soapberry, elder, hawthorn, etc...and creating swales. Would love a pond. We need shade, water capture, affordably improved soil, quality dry-land pasture for a couple head of cattle. Thank you for taking the time to read! 🙏

[@steven7891]

Thanks Geoff

[@MindRebelion]

Thank you!

[@sarcasmo57]

Ok. Let's do it.

[@tomatito3824]

Thank you for everything, Geoff. Unfortunatelly 2k USD is way too much for third worlders.

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

Not just third worlders.

[@Proboiler714]

Yo we dig your methods! We just bought 5 acres in the CA desert. Hope to use your methods to help succeed

[@damienwalton383]

Great video

[@DoctorMGL]

great and generous man, may allah bless you

[@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied]

Sweet 👏👏👏

[@Joe-uv9jo]

I wanted to do this course but for nearly 2k seems a bit extreme, especially with there being no certified qualification from it.

[@TaxEvasion777]

Chop and drop and focus on water retention in the soil.

[@ginac9008]

My first choice was a permaculture course, but at the time was unable to find one to enrol in unfortunately. So I enrolled in Horticulture Cert 3 course at local TAFE, I am enjoying it immensely. Due to finish early December and fingers crossed will have a Horticulture certification. My plan is to do a permaculture course afterwards. I bought Bill Mollisons design manual from Tassie, I was reading it regularly until I started my course, will get back to it in the future. My question is Geoff, are you planning on running any courses in the early part of 2025 at all? I am very interested in enrolling in one then, I have a commitment to finish my TAFE course first. I have implemented a lot that I have learned from David’s channel The Weedy Garden in my own suburban quarter acre block.

[@DiscoverPermaculture]

Hi @ginac9008, this will be the only online course for 2024. There will be more courses in the future but dates have not been set.

[@ginac9008]

@@DiscoverPermaculture thanks so much for the reply I will most definitely plan for the next course whenever that maybe.

[@taiwanjohn]

I don't mean to nitpick, but... um... at 0:12 the video says _"The course begins on May 10th,"_ but this video was published on May 26th. I realize that Geoff says in this video that studying permaculture can change how you experience time, but I think he's got a bit ahead of us here. ;-)

[@DiscoverPermaculture]

Hi @taiwanjohn, yes that is correct and the course remains open for enrollement until July 2024.

[@taiwanjohn]

@@DiscoverPermaculture Sorry, but the way you've phrased it is a bit confusing. You use the simple-present tense to indicate a future event ("The course begins..."), but that event is already two weeks in the past when you publish the video. Have we already missed half of it? Does it repeat every week? Is it an individual-study program that "becomes available" on May 10th?

[@DiscoverPermaculture]

We actually answer that in the FAQ section of the course listing :-) To summarize, although we published the first set of instructional materials in late May, our flexible enrollment period allows you to join anytime until July 31st. This means you can enroll at your convenience and work through the materials at your own pace. The course structure combines the best aspects of self-paced learning with scheduled guidance, offering you both flexibility and support.

[@Kalpapada]

Hi Geoff, You suggested to permanently Forest slopes steep more than 18°. Can this areas be used as short rotation coppices?

[@ErikHakhverdyan]

Hello dear Geoff, I would really like to take your course and bring changes to our complex decision in the Caucasus... It’s a pity that such an amount is not available to me... If someone decides to donate their place to someone and finance someone’s studies, please let me know.... Thank you for already teaching me a lot...

[@janosszentpeteri1922]

Geoff, what's the difference between this course and the previous one? What can this course offer that the earlier one cannot? Thanks for the answers! Have a good day!

[@DiscoverPermaculture]

Hi @janosszentpeteri1922, that depends which previous course you're referring to. Over the years, we've refined and expanded the online Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course to offer a more engaging learning experience and to meet students' needs. This includes adding instructional design elements like knowledge checks in the form of interactive quizzes, learning objectives, practical activities that help you apply what you’ve learned in real-world scenarios, brief overviews, and key takeaways. There's also new content added-from the initial 500 instructional materials to now 750.

[@alitahir4147]

Assalamualaikum Geoff. Can you please share a link to this course. I am a holistic kitchen gardener and organic farmer. I want to learn how I can heal our earth and actually produce quality food.

[@smoothswales8238]

Try this link with should get you to the course

[@DiscoverPermaculture]

Would love to have you on board. Click here for all the details: www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/2147844655/e3i2ci3L

[@TheWoodlandOrchard]

Is enrolment still open? I sent a message last week but have not had a reply. Many thanks, John.

[@smoothswales8238]

Try this link.

[@DiscoverPermaculture]

Yes, head to www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/2147844655/e3i2ci3L for all the details.

[@TheWoodlandOrchard]

@@DiscoverPermaculture Thank you.

[@TheWoodlandOrchard]

@@smoothswales8238 Thanks for your reply.

[@TheWoodlandOrchard]

Registered today. Already making notes from the first module!

[@sutlucorek2434]

What do you think of Geoff tagasaste?

[@EnzoMagida]

Hello Geoff,may I ask does a person needs to still learn agriculture in high school if that person joined your classes

[@DiscoverPermaculture]

Yes, anyone can take Geoff's OPDC. There are no prerequisites. - Bonnie (DP team member)

[@evalerchesecher4623]

i miss info from northern climates

[@TheMexicanStaringFrogofSouther]

yeah... if ethics is the foundation of permaculture, then why does an online course cost 2k bucks? I'm not sure that people from a poor starving country will find the money to take this course and start permoculture...although maybe permoculture is not suitable for the poor and starving...

[@0ctatr0n]

Still yet to see a permaculture farm that solely relies on food output for profit and doesn't rely on teaching permaculture as additional income as well as essentially free student labour. If you can't run a permaculture farm on the same size of land as a typical farm in the same conditions as a farm with the same cost of labour and materials as a farm (or less) then it's simply a pyramid scheme that relies on free labour (and course payments) from students that falsely believe that they can run a permaculture farm profitably without also needing to teach permaculture for income and utilising free student labor on their own farm..

[@appleandoranges1]

So, build one.

[@fishsteak3246]

I get what you're saying but this specific project is pretty open about being an example and to show people how even in extreme conditions how to set up something for yourself and regenerate useless land into useable land. I've seen several permaculture projects or individual farms online that are focused mainly on produce, but as with most farms, they aren't drawing as much attention to themselves because they are a produce farm, not an education project. Often it's only when other channels make videos on these productive farms do they even get some kind of attention. Of course projects like this one are going to be more visible by design.

[@0ctatr0n]

Honestly I used to really champion Permaculture as something we need to switch our main food production too, however when commenting on a Video of Clarksons Farm I had a user say this: "This is exactly why we in the rural world are fed up. Everyone's an expert. I make about 1.5t olives every year from traditionally placed trees. Not bad, but space and labour intensive. Modern intensive farming of olives is much better but a bloody environmental crime. also, I live 1000 miles away from the Cotswolds. You'd need genetically engineered trees for that climate. Permaculture is a hoax for urban rubes. I did a test run a few decades ago and was surprised how wasteful it is of organic matter and then it's only perma for 3-5 years, then you have to build it all over again. Also, only scales with predatory labour practices. Clarkson built a pond in the first season because of some regulation. Pond farming is even worse for the environment than intensive olive orchards. So here's the problem. Farming can be profitable if it's run as a neoliberal no-fucks-given enterprise and screws everyone around us. If we want a pleasant working space that enriches the countryside and the workers then we're limited to a handful of crops with tiny profit margins. People keep being fed propaganda and don't realise that if farm owners, who know better, are forced to act on it the rural world would turn into a dystopian hellscape." So If you can name a few working Permaculture Farms that solely work off food sales, name a few so I can give a solid retort thanks :)

[@fishsteak3246]

@@0ctatr0n @0ctatr0n I do know some personally but I'm not going to dox myself on the internet. Not that they'd even have much internet presence anyway if at all. They provide well for rural communities and towns, they are able to profit off of growing but they arent doing the same thing as farmers catering for a supermarket where they mass produce one or two things in obscene quantities for urbanites. Personally I think you're expecting something of permaculture thats too close to what you're used to with modern agriculture, and when it lets you down you blame permaculture instead of your own ideas of it. Permaculture is excellent for providing for communities, towns and individuals, where it becomes more difficult to keep up though is, ironically, farming specifically to provide for the completley dependent urban rubes you complain about. There are insane amounts of people in cities who are completley reliant on other systems to feed them, it's completley unnatural therefore you're going to have to resort to unnatural means to keep it up.

[@appleandoranges1]

​@0ctatr0n so what you're saying is that all farming is a fail. Ok.

[@TheBarefootedGardener]

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