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This fully certified permaculture design course is designed to support you to integrate permaculture thinking and practice fully into your everyday life. Over 4 long weekends we will enter deep into the world of permaculture and explore all of the different topics and processes that can help you on your way to changing your life based on the intelligence, patterns and principles found in the natural world.Is this course for you?
You might be...
- Passionate about being the change you want to see in the world
- Looking for a way to add deeper resilience to your life, home, family, and future
- A complete beginner or seasoned permaculturist, gardener or land worker
- Looking for a new direction in life or have a renewed focus, and want an immersive and inspirational start to the path ahead
- Interested in developing a more connected relationship with the living world around you, and to begin to read the language of the landscape, plants and trees
- Keen to gain or deepen your skills in food systems, land care or soil health
- Passionate about community based projects and initiatives and social transformation
- Interested in finding intelligent, coherent, responsible and responsive, nature conscious and connected ways to move forwards with whatever your next steps in life are
- Looking to increase your skill set to support your move into a regenerative, fulfilling and resilient life
The course is structured around 4 face to face long weekends here at Cynefin farm - our permaculture renovation project here in Pembrokeshire, where we will go through all of the content and curriculum of the accredited Permaculture Design certification, including the living landscape, soil health and the soil food web, food growing and plant propagation, plant identification and uses, trees and perennial food systems, natural building and retrofitting, food preservation and fermentation, social and community based permaculture and much more- all based on the curriculum set by the UK Permaculture Association.
Each weekend we will also be guiding you through the different stages of a permaculture design process that will give you a solid grounding in using the permaculture ethics, principles and design tools, and between sessions you will have mini tasks to complete at home which will bring it to life for you in your own context as you work on your own individual design project.
“I loved the course so much - I knew I would but I wasn’t prepared for the huge shift I felt. I’m now ready to incorporate permaculture thinking into future projects and it has made it all feel so much more possible and exciting. Thank you! ” — 2023 course participant.
DATES 2025
The course will run one long weekend a month from April to July, from 9.30am -5.30pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Overnight camping is included in the course fee for anyone who would like to stay over, and participants are welcome to come and camp here at the farm from Thursday until Monday.
25/26/27 April
23/24/25 May
20/21/22 June
18/19/20 July
COURSE COST
Tier 1 / Concession - £595
Tier 2 / Standard price - £765
Tier 3 / Pay it forward/good wage - £985
WHERE?
The course is to be held here at Cynefin farm, our 7-acre smallholding and permaculture education project in the North Pembrokeshire national park, beside the mountains and the sea in a wild and beautiful location. The site of an old long abandoned and re-wilded garden centre, we have been living here for the past 5 years and are slowly - and with deep observation and care - weaving ourselves into the landscape. Whilst still in the early stages there are a range of projects developing here to explore, including no dig gardens and the beginnings of a small diverse CSA growing project, an indoor and outdoor forest garden, and examples of a variety of regenerative agriculture techniques employed to repair and build the soil and grassland habitats. Due to being left to grow wild for so long and its location in a national park, Cynefin farm is blessed with a huge variety of biodiversity and is a haven for wildlife.
Lunches on the course are provided with local, fresh and organic food, supplied both from Cynefin farm and local producers. Breakfasts and evening meals need to be organised individually, and there will be access to a kitchen for those staying over. Tea and coffee are freely available throughout.
ACCESSIBLE FOR FAMILIES
As parents ourselves, we want to make this course as accessible to those with families as for individuals. With this in mind, participants are welcome to bring along their families if they are staying over for the weekend. The course itself is designed for adults and follows the same content of a standard PDC, so parents will need to bring along a second parent, friend or caregiver to spend time with the children whilst we are taking classes, and we can come together over lunch. Just to clarify - there won’t be any childcare provided, but children and caregivers are welcome to live alongside us and can camp here on the farm free of charge, just paying a contribution towards food costs.
For those joining us without children - just to let you know that there are also plenty of spaces to camp where you won't be woken by children. Previous solo course participants have expressed how much they’ve appreciated having a family atmosphere surrounding the course and how easily this has brought a deep sense of community to our time together.
The local area is perfect for families to explore whilst we are immersed in our learning, with a wide and long sandy beach just 10 minutes away, along with mountains to climb, forests to explore and lovely little towns to visit.
For more information and booking please visit https://www.cynefinfarm.org/cultivating-change
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Cynefin Farm, Newcastle Emlyn, United Kingdom
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