What We Do
Permaculture Design Certificate Course 2019 Now Open
Plenty Permaculture offers the internationally recognised permaculture curriculum over a year of 12 Saturday workshops. You’ll learn the foundations of permaculture, its cutting edge design process, as well as lots of practical hands-on skills which can be applied to whatever is important to you – your home property, a school you might be involved in, or a perhaps social organization. During this course, you’ll get to spend time with our expert tutors, plus go on numerous visits to nearby permaculture properties. Enrolment is now open for the next course starting 4 May 2019.
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Gardening Essentials Course
This course, new in 2019, is designed as a stand alone course or a companion to the permaculture design course. Become a gardening expert with this 12 month course that follows the seasons to provide a year of fundamental growing skills.
Living Skills Workshops
More workshops and events in the BOP community.
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Design Consultancy
No time for a course? We are happy to come to your property and work with you to create a design and action plan.
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Who we are
Catherine and Neville Dunton-McLeod founded Plenty Permaculture in 2014. We love offering education to Bay of Plenty residents like the powerful design process of permaculture. As the BOP is our chosen home, we are keen to spread practical know-how with the people who live here, adding to the resilience and permanent abundance of this beautiful place.
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture was developed in the 1970s by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in response to the overpopulation and environmental destruction happening around them. In the 40 years since, it has developed into a powerful process which leads to easy-to-understand, abundant, economical. low maintenance and nature-friendly property design. Permaculture allows us to design resilient environments to any scale – in our own apartments, backyards, lifestyle blocks, farms, businesses and communities.
Why Permaculture?
Co-founder David Holmgren has something to say about that.
And here’s how the laconic teacher – designer Geoff Lawton says it.
