Having earned your PDC, you are invited to join the BOP Permablitz design guild. Many graduates find that by doing multiple volunteer designs for Permablitz, they start to expand their range and build their confidence as designers. You normally work along side a senior guild member for your first couple of designs to assure you are not missing any steps.
Plenty Permaculture also invites its graduates to return to the next years PDC course as a presenter. We encourage new presenters to do 30 minute presentation or demonstration in something they find fascinating. These short offerings weave the fabric of the BOP permaculture community, depend the learning of our graduates and honors the principle of “honouring diversity” in our teaching staff. If this is of interest, please email us at : [email protected].
Plenty Permaculture also offers numerous “living skills” workshops each year, a chance to learn a new skill or delve more deeply into topics like Biointensive gardening, how to use a microscope, how to prune fruit trees and understanding soils. Subscribe to the mailing list to be kept updated.
After graduation, we give you about five months to savour your certificate and flex your wings. We then host a 2.5 day Advanced Permaculture Design workshop, led by senior permaculture teacher Dan Palmer. This catapults most people into a whole new level of “what’s possible” with design and if you choose, the world of the professional designer. We cannot recommended this workshop highly enough.
And for those who want to take their permaculture education even further, a two year permaculture diploma is available through Permaculture in New Zealand, PiNZ. PiNZ also offers a national permaculture Hui / conference with opportunities for continuing education and meeting the larger NZ permaculture community.
There are many PDC programs in the world. Some are a year long, some take place over two weeks. You could study permaculture in almost any country and any climate in the world. All of them are different, all of them could be instructional. The world is yours to explore and observe! Many blessings!
