FULL ONLINE PDC / IN DEVELOPMENT

Learn permaculture with Russell Manning and Chris Hill.

An established teaching partnership with around ten Permaculture Design Certificate courses taught together, Russell and Chris are bringing their shared experience into an online PDC. Learn to connect permaculture principles with practical design decisions and apply them wherever you live.

A framework for the whole design.

The forthcoming Permaculture Design Certificate course will be delivered online, in English, jointly taught by Russell Manning and Chris Hill. It follows the established 14-chapter curriculum based on Bill Mollison’s Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual.

Food growing is one part of a wider design education: climate, water, land, buildings, energy and people form connected living systems. Learn to consider how the parts work together, wherever you live.

Explore the 14-chapter curriculum

Introduction to Permaculture
Concepts and themes in design
Methods of design
Pattern Understanding
Climatic factors
Trees and their energy transactions
Water
Soils
Earth Working with earth resources
The humid tropics
Dryland strategies
Humid cool to cold climates
Aquaculture
The strategies of an alternative global nation

The course is in development and is not open for enrolment. Launch dates, prices, schedules, support, assessment and certificate arrangements have not been announced.

Meet your teachers

ONLINE PDC / CO-TEACHER

Russell Manning

Russell is a qualified permaculture instructor through the Permaculture Research Institute. He brings his experience of teaching PDC courses into a practical approach to understanding and applying permaculture design.

Originally from the UK, Russell has a degree in plant biology and trained with Geoff Lawton. His teaching experience includes Love Grows in Colombia. He is particularly interested in birdwatching, medicinal plants and bringing permaculture into education.

ONLINE PDC / CO-TEACHER

Chris Hill

Chris is a permaculture instructor whose everyday life reflects the principles he teaches. His farm, Finca Sin Fronteras in Colombia, is also where he and Russell have taught PDC courses together.

Born in Wales, Chris studied engineering and brings extensive practical experience with wood, stone, earth and metal. His interests span mechanics, solar installations and gardening. Finca Sin Fronteras is a living school dedicated to sustainable living, organic farming and permaculture.

Having taught around ten PDCs together, Russell and Chris bring a shared teaching approach grounded in practical experience.

Finca Sin Fronteras is Chris’s farm in Colombia and the setting for their shared in-person PDC teaching. The forthcoming course is online: no farm visit, residential stay or in-person workshop is included.

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