Established 2016
Land Restoration Course
Join us for one week to learn how to improve soil in a small garden, a homestead or farm scale. We will look at various methods for growing food in a way that improves soil so that you can get a bigger yield each year and not be reliant on supermarkets, supply chains and chemical fertalisers.
Soil, land and ecosystem
We often read in the news about possible food crisis due to lack of fertalisers, increasing petrol costs, lack of farmers and AI related issues. The answe to these problems is to grow our own food while improving the fertility of the soil. It sounds simple enough but it isnt easy for commercial farms to adapt. At Keela we grow food every year which takes from the soil but we knoe through our soil tests that we are also imprving the soil.
Even when we gety food from the supermarket, it has low nutritional value famers dont ened to make sure all the minerals are in the soil, that costs money. They just need to grow as much as possible as cheaply as possible. Wegrow food that is nutrient dence this is by making sure all of the minerals are availile in the soil.
1 week specialist permaculture course
What is included in this Land Restoration Course?
Full schedule to be confirmed
Theory classes on Land Restoration
Practical classes on Land Restoration
Tour of our various agroforests, food forests, market garden, home garden and land restoration sites
3 healthy organic farm to table meals per day – a chef cooks breakfast, lunch and dinner for you.
Free camping in your tent or camper, or hire a caravan or tent with bedding
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Specalist Course Dates
At Keela we have our two week permaculture design course (PDC) which gives you an overview of all things prmaculture and sustainble living. The PDC also gives you opportunity to design a garden, farm or buisness of your own during the course. But during the PDC we cant go so deep on each topic. so we have various one week specialist courses that you can attend.
No expereince is needed to join a specialist course and you font have to do the PDC.
You can join the specialist course alone or get a €150 discount if you take both as every specialist course is preceeded by a PDC
Permaculture Gardening Course : 27th April – 3rd May 2027
Natural Building Course : 9th - 15th August 2027
Food Forest Course : 28th Sept – 4th Oct 2027
Land Restoration Course : 15th - 21st November 2027
Permaculture Design Course : Various dates and always immediately before the above courses so you can attend both
Video from one of our courses
Natural Building Course in Europe
Your Course host and Teacher
Laurence Manchee
Lead Teacher
Co-founder of Keela Permaculture Farm. Laurence is certified by the Permaculture Association to teach certified PDCs. He lives in a straw bale house which he built. He has been teaching natural building courses for eight years. He has built a large straw bale community house, a wattle and daub chicken house, a large barn with various natural building techniques, a straw bale greenhouse, a yoga room and a garage, each with multiple building methods. Laurence is a keen advocate of sustainable building, which means using materials you can source locally, recycling materials and creating low-energy input buildings.
Prices & travel information
Cost of our courses
- PDC + Specialist Course package: €1,449 (save €150). 3 weeks of learning with all meals included.
- Permaculture Design Course: €1,045.50 all in (2 weeks of teaching, all meals and your certificate). Price includes VAT: €850 + VAT.
- Specialist course on its own (our 1 week courses): €553.50 including food and VAT (€450 + VAT)
- For extra nights please book a farm stay (including food): €65 per night
- Camping is free, or you can rent accommodation
Discounts available
- €75 per week for Portuguese residents
- €100 discount per week staying offsite (no breakfast or dinner)
- €75 per week for volunteering during the course
- €150 if joining the following specialist course
€50 off each when two people book together
Accommodation rental
- Onsite accommodation (more info and photos)
- Your tent or Caravan (free)
- Private Caravan €100 per week
- Tent with bedding €75 per week
- Offsite accommodation
Glamping tent with bedding: €200 per week
Farmhouse room: €300 per week (car required)
Your own campervan or caravan at our offsite partner (dog owners welcome): €150 per week
Traveling to Keela Permaculture Farm
- Fly to either Lisbon or Porto Airport.
- Take a coach or Train to Fundão Station
- Arrive by group taxi from Fundão station to the farm
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