Dive Into Permaculture
Become a regenerative change maker with our
Live & On Demand Online permaculture design course (PDC)
Four-Month Winter Course Begins February 2024
Save up to $150 with Early Bird Pricing when you register before December 30th
All levels |130 Hour Course| 68 hours On Demand |30 hours Live Sessions with recording | 32 hours Bonus content |Optional 1 week hands-on | Online course: February 19th - April 11th, 2024
Starting at
$989
+tax Sign Me Up!
30 hours Live Online
15 Live sessions with Breakout rooms, group projects, and live Q n A sessions. Recorded and uploaded for on demand access
42 hours bitesize video sessions
short clips for your convenience! review specific tools and techniques without wading through 2 hour long recorded videos session
Earn your Certificate
Follow and complete an internationally recognised Permaculture Design Certificate curriculum
Learn Adaptive Design
So many techniques in permaculture are taught as a copy and paste solution however are rarely appropriate to simply do as has been done without being able to read the land and adapt the design.
Grassroots Guidance
Our Instructors are Experienced, Cultured, and Diverse in our on the ground experience and knowledge!
We are not Engineers, Bigshots, or Famous. We are real People doing real work on the ground
Earth Based
Learn how to observe the land, forest, animals and water and reconnect with the patterns and cycles. This basis to permaculture coupled with our grass roots team gives us a real world skills for transition
Reconciliation in Action
We offer 25% off minimum discount on all online courses for Indigenous Community Members or People who identify as BIPOC. Take the discount or pay it forward to build up to a full sponsorship for people in need.
All levels |130 Hour Course| 68 hours On Demand |30 hours Live Sessions with recording | 32 hours Bonus content |Optional 1 week hands-on | Online course: February 19th - April 22nd, 2024
Starting at
$989
+tax Sign Me Up!
Transformational Experience
More than just a permaculture course, connect with peers, practice your skills, and make your first design project come to life.

#Level Up on the Farm
Once the online course is done if you still want the hands-on #levelup then you have the option to join us for one week of practical, intensive, onsite workshops on the farm that not only connect you with your peers and the land, it builds your realtime skills.

Step by Step Design Tools
We took our years of experience and broke permaculture concepts into actionable step by step tools that simplify the design process

Wake-up and Grow
Learning about our world and the solutions to all the challenges is hard, and to think most of us feel alone in the journey when we are literally surrounded with like minded people. Join up in support groups and connect with others through the process.
Why Take a PDC?
Let our Participants tell you in their own words.
The Course
Earn your certification with a Geoff Lawton recommended instructor. Engage with like minded participants and develop your skills with multiple scales of group and individual projects
The P3 School
Our professional Learning Management systems makes it easy to follow, and organise all the different components of your certificate course. With options to #Levelup on other topics, like Advanced Earthworks, Food Forest Design, Mushroom Cultivation and more.
The Community
Our Discord Channel is growing a Non Facebook Community with groups for sharing projects, resources, and connecting with like minded people in your area.
Join P3's worldwide community of permaculture practitioners.
Our On-demand and Live online classes support a diverse community of permaculturists. We have been teaching environmental and permaculture courses since 2007 and have taught in 10 countries in 3 languages.
Our students come from all walks of life
β Homesteaders looking to increase nutrition and health
β Business Owners seeking more productivity and wellness un the workplace
β Aspiring Professionals pursuing a permaculture-related career
β Urban Homeowners and Renters transitioning to a more ecological future.
β People lost in the despair of the world seeking a Regenerative path to the issues of the world.
1. Sign up!
Choose your package below. Pay the fee, and follow the email prompt to complete your account setup.
2. Explore the Community
Gain immediate access to the discord community "The Good Swale". Connect with fellow students and share your story.
3. Tour the E-Learning platform
Watch the recorded content. Take a quiz. dive into the Rabbit hole of recommended resources.
4. Prepare to take the next step
Get ready to open your eyes to a new world full of options. with a new way to see challenges and a new way to design our future.
All levels |130 Hour Course| 68 hours On Demand |30 hours Live Sessions with recording | 32 hours recommended content |Optional 1 week hands-on | Online course: February 19th - April 22nd, 2024
Starting at
$989
+tax Sign Me Up!
Choose your PDC+ Package
Study On Demand, Live and at the farm
Fundamental
$ 989 .00
+ tax- Half the cost of our competitors
- 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 of permaculture technologies and techniques
- Biogas, Lasagna Gardens, Compost tea, Food Forests, Rotational Grazing, Aquaculture, Mushroom Cultivation
Level Up
$1250 .00
+ tax- *Requires Permaculture Design Certificate
- 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
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.
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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.