A Permaculture Design course in Central Portugal with more time for the practical elements of permaculture. You will cover the standard 72 hour PDC syllabus, receive a PDC certificate and get hands-on experience in all elements of permaculture. Click here for our latest Permaculture Design Course
You will experience living off-grid in a community setting. You will see a working permaculture farm with food forests, agroforest, many working examples of permaculture systems, sheep, pigs, chickens and enjoy yoga and meditation classes.
What is included in this PDC?
- The standard 72 hour PDC syllabus and you will receive a PDC certificate
- Theory class every day
- Practical work every day. this PDC is 4 weeks long so you get to put all the theories into practice
- Homesteading workshops: Soapmaking, Fermenting foods, healthy cooking
- Offgrid living workshops
- Events with the local community and eco markets
- 3 healthy organic meals per day – a chef cooks the lunches. Students cook dinner and breakfast on rotation in pairs
- Yoga classes
- A trip to another farm for a help day
- Weekends off to enjoy the farm, visit other off-grid farms or join local activities
Watch a video of a one-month permaculture internship from Keela Yoga Farm
Permaculture Design Course day by day outline
Each morning is theory followed by practical for the rest of the day. Usually about 1-hour classroom theory each morning and one hor theory in the field The rest of the time you will get your hands dirty
- Arrival day. Welcome meeting and dinner
- Keela Permaculture Farm Tour, off-grid living induction, daily farm tasks allocation and plan for the month
- Permaculture History, Ethics & Principles. Permaculture design principles. Introducing individual projects
- Designing a garden. Planting and working in the vegetable kitchen garden
- Off-grid event with local homesteaders
- Day off to enjoy the farm and self-study
- Soil and organic fertilising. Building compost piles, vermicomposting and making organic fertilisers
- Plant propagation, cuttings, grafting, seeds, layering and division.
- Appropriate Technology. Solar, Irrigation, Automation
- Measuring, drawing and designing a homestead or farm
- Sustainable building design and Natural Building
- Day off or community day at another farm
- Day off
- Naural Building
- Earthworks. Swales, Ponds and Roads
- Homesteading: Soapmaking, fermenting foods and preserving food
- Managing the vegetable gardens and vegetable production
- Managing forests
- Day off or community day at another farm
- Day off
- Pig Silvopasture. Working in the cork and pig silvopasture
- Chicken systems. Working in the chicken compost system and chicken food forest
- Sheep and fruit tree agroforestry: Designing and planting an agroforest
- Presentations of designs, receipt of certificates and pizza party in the stone pizza oven
- Departure
