Online PDC+ (Permaculture Design Certificate)
Online PDC & Optional On site Practicum
February - April, 2024 | All levels |130 Hour Course| 68 hours On Demand |30 hours Live Sessions with recording | 32 hours Bonus content |Optional 1 week hands-on (July)
Fundamental
$ 989 .00
+ tax- PDC+ Online Course (132 hours)
- 72* hour Internationally recognized PDC
- *32 hours of Live Interactive Sessions
- *40+ hours On Demand Content
- 60+ hours of Bonus recommended Videos and Content
- 7 Step by Step Design Tools
- 14 Quizzes
- 4+ Mini Design Projects
- 1 Final Design Project presented
- Lifetime access to online PDC resources, practice exercises, videos, quizzes and tools
Pro
$1989 .00
+ tax- Save 250$
- Foundational PDC+ & 1 Week Intensive #LevelUp at the farm (162 hours)
- 72* hour Internationally recognized PDC
- *32 hours of Live Interactive Sessions
- *40+ hours On Demand Content
- 60+ hours of Bonus recommended Videos and Content
- 7 Step by Step Design Tools
- 14 Quizzes
- 4+ Mini Design Projects
- 1 Final Design Project presented
- Lifetime access to online PDC resources, practice exercises, videos, quizzes and tools
- On Farm #Levelup (30 hours)
- Day 1: Social Permaculture & Conscious Communication (NVC)
- Day 2: Garden & Water Systems
- Day 3: Forestry & Food Forests
- Day 4: Earthworks & Erosion Management
- Day 5: Soils Compost; tea & extracts
- 5 Days of Breakfast, Lunch & Supper
- Camping Included & Beds available at extra cost
- Nightly Campfires
- Tinker and discover a plethora pf permaculture technologies and techniques
- Biogas, Lasagna Gardens, Compost tea, Food Forests, Rotational Grazing, Aquaculture, Mushroom Cultivation
LevelUp
$1250 .00
+ tax- 1 Week Intensive On Farm #Levelup (30 hours)
- Day 1: Social Permaculture & Conscious Communication (NVC)
- Day 2: Garden & Water Systems
- Day 3: Forestry & Food Forests
- Day 4: Earthworks & Erosion Management
- Day 5: Soils Compost; tea & extracts
- 5 Days of Breakfast, Lunch & Supper
- Camping Included & Beds available at extra cost
- Nightly Campfires
- Tinker and discover a plethora of permaculture technologies and techniques
- Biogas, Lasagna Gardens, Compost tea, Food Forests, Rotational Grazing, Aquaculture, Mushroom Cultivation
15 Live Online Session
(Live attendance is recommended however sessions are recorded and uploaded afterwards)
February
Monday 19th | 5-7pm | Chapter 1: Welcome, Intro, History, Ethics and Principles
Thursday 22nd | 12-2pm | Chapter 2: Concepts and Themes in Permaculture
Monday 26th| 5-7pm | Chapter 3: Methods in Design
Thursday 29th | 12-2pm | Chapter 4: Patterns and Observation in Design
March
Monday 4th | 5-7pm | Social Permaculture Guest Speaker
Thursday 7th | 12-2pm | Chapter 5: Climate and Micro-Climates
Monday 11th | 5-7pm |Chapter 6: Trees, Food Forests and Forest Management
Thursday 14 th | 12-2pm | Chapter 7: Water systems and Cyclic design
Monday 18th | 5-7pm | Chapter 8: Soils, Remediation and Regeneration
Thursday 21st | 12-2pm | Chapter 9: Earthworks, Erosion, and Earth Resources
Monday 25th | 5-7pm | Chapter 10&11: Dryland & Humid Tropic Strategies
Thursday 28th| 12-2pm | Chapter 12: Humid Cool to Cold Climate Strategies
April
Thursday 4th | 12-2pm | Chapter 13: Aquaculture, Aquaponics & Mariculture
Monday 8th | 5-7pm | Final Project Presentation
Thursday 11th| 12-2pm | Chapter 14: Global Strategies for an Alternative Nation
About Our Teachers
Graham Calder Founder & Chief Designer, P3 Permaculture
Graham has more than 13 years' experience in teaching permaculture and ecological design. In 2009, he finished his BA in Environmental and Ecology Studies at Concordia University, (Montreal, QC). Dissatisfied with the traditional environmentalist approach and its ability to meet the challenges of our time, he turned to permaculture. In the same year he obtained his Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) from Jesse Lemieux at Pacific Permaculture. Afterwards, he became an apprentice of one of the great names in the field, Geoff Lawton, at the Permaculture Institute of Australia (PRI).
He founded P3 Permaculture in October of 2009 and has ever since been teaching and consulting with the goal of making permaculture accessible to everyone. To date, Graham has certified over 375 students in permaculture design and has offered design services in more than 9 countries around the world: from urban gardens in Montreal, to the 7000 Hectares in the deserts of Gansu in China, and the tropical rain forests of Costa Rice and Cameroon.
He is dedicated to creating new courses and projects that will inspire and facilitate the transition to regenerative solutions for our society.
Liza Charbel Co-Founder, Jardins sans Frontiers
After 10 years in the corporate world in Dubai, Liza moved to Montreal where she pursued a Masters in Business Administration, (MBA). Soon after, driven by a new found passion for social innovation and a longing for personal growth, she co-founded the social enterprise Gardens without Borders in 2011 after completing her PDC with P3 Permaculture. Through Gardens without Borders, she has developed urban and rural community-food projects in a diversity of social contexts and climates; including locations in Montreal, Ecuador, Senegal and Lebanon.
She shares her experiences in social innovation and food sustainability through conferences and workshops related to permaculture. She also has training in geo-biology, and integrates art and spirituality into the projects she co-creates. As a mother of a 3 year old, she's an aspiring urban homesteader and is now exploring permaculture as a parenting and education tool.
Vivian Kaloxilos Founder DocTerre
Vivian studied at the McGill School of Environment which spearheaded her passion to find concrete solutions to the environment and food crisis we are seeing today, and ecosystem regeneration became the focus of her studies. Outside of school she studied Permaculture and Agroforestry. After a few years of practicing ecosystem regeneration through permaculture techniques, she went to study privately with Dr. Elaine Ingham of Soil Food Web Inc in order to train in soil ecology, soil microbial microscopy, applied microbial soil regeneration, and high quality compost, inoculum, and microbial amendment creation.
Since then, she continues to work side by side with Dr. Ingham and other certified soil consultants in the field, attempting to gather data, success stories, and train more soil life consultants.
In 2015, Vivian founded DocTerre, a consulting service and laboratory which offers to serve the Québecois and Canadian community in the regeneration of their soils through regenerative soil ecology techniques.
Reconciliation & Equity in Action
We are committed to doing more than acknowledging that our courses are held on the unceded, unsurrendered territories of the Kanienkehaka, or Anishinabewaki.
We also acknowledge that we are living today in a society that is structured to privilege white patriarchy. As such we are taking many steps to adapt and grow. In every online course we offer 25% and 4 spots with 25% off in our in person courses, for those individuals who live with systemic barriers in their daily lives (more specifically Indigenous people and people of Colour). Regardless of your identity, if you are a person in need of additional financial support we can discuss options to support your learning.