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What Makes This Permaculture Design Certificate Special?This immersive 10-day Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) combines expert instruction, hands-on field experience, and a comprehensive design project to prepare you to create resilient, productive landscapes. Designed specifically for the American Southwest and other dryland climates, you'll learn practical skills you can immediately apply to your home, farm, business, or community.
Earning your PDC is also the first step toward becoming a professional permaculture designer. Recognized worldwide, the PDC provides the foundational knowledge for advanced study, consulting, teaching, and professional design practice.
What You'll Learn
You'll gain practical experience in:
Permaculture ethics, principles, and systems thinking
Site observation, analysis, and the Scale of Permanence
Dryland design strategies and climate adaptation
Passive and active rainwater harvesting
Earthworks, erosion control, and watershed restoration
Living soils, composting, mulch, cover crops, and soil biology
Efficient irrigation and water-wise landscape design
Food forests, tree guilds, orchards, and kitchen gardens
Native plants, biodiversity, and pollinator habitat
Livestock integration and regenerative land management
Greywater reuse and residential water systems
Natural building and appropriate technologies
Site mapping, field exercises, and a complete permaculture design project
Who Should Attend?
Perfect for homeowners, gardeners, farmers, ranchers, landscape professionals, educators, conservation practitioners, and anyone interested in designing regenerative, water-wise landscapes.
No prior permaculture experience is required.
Graduate Ready to Design
You'll leave with an internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certificate, a completed design project for your portfolio, and the knowledge and confidence to create landscapes that conserve water, build healthy soils, support biodiversity, and grow more abundant over time.
Participants are encouraged to book accommodations through the Ranch for the event duration to take full advantage of day and evening time learning and social activities.
Seats are limited so register today!
Where: Synergia Ranch, Santa Fe
When: April 5 - April 15, 2027, M-F 9am-5pm (weekend off)
Cost: $1300 per person (3 or more attendees from the same organization receive 10% off- contact me for discount code)
Meals: Delicious catered breakfast and lunch included in registration (veg or meat). Students responsible for dinners. Multiple kitchens available to prepare meals.
Lodging: First come, first served. Contact Starrlight Augustine at 505-471-2573 to book.
What's better than attending this workshop alone? Attending with friends and family! See you there!
Contact Susan with any questions: 505-886-1185.
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Synergia Ranch, 1 Blue Bird Ct, Santa Fe, NM 87508-1531, United States
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