Training

Practical skills for thriving when supply chains fail — from securing clean water and growing calorie-dense food to cooking without grid power and building community resilience. This course applies permaculture's original energy descent framework to the real-world challenges of fuel disruption, fertiliser scarcity, and food insecurity. Part of the Permaculture Skills Development Series.

Learn to grow food regeneratively — from understanding your site and building living soil to planting, watering, and harvesting. This course covers the foundational skills every food gardener needs, with permaculture principles woven through every lesson. Part of the Permaculture Skills Development Series.

Learn to harvest at peak quality and preserve your garden's abundance — from root cellaring and freezing to fermentation and canning. This course covers the complete chain from garden to pantry, with food safety at its core. Part of the Permaculture Skills Development Series.

Learn to save seeds from your garden — from basic harvesting techniques to community seed banking and seed sovereignty. Covers seed biology, pollination control, processing, storage, variety trialling, and the legal and ethical frameworks around seed sharing. Part of the Permaculture Skills Development Series.

Develop the inner skills that make permaculture design effective. This course connects mindfulness practice directly to permaculture principles and ethics — from observation training and body awareness to emotional resilience and daily self-care. Part of the Permaculture Skills Development Series.

A comprehensive, self-paced Permaculture Design Certificate covering ethics, soil science, pattern language, water harvesting, food forests, and animal integration. Eighteen lessons across six modules guide you from foundational principles to a complete site design — with hands-on assignments tracked through Libre Grow provenance.

A free, self-paced course that teaches you to record your garden using provenance tracking. By the end of 4 weeks, you'll have a complete baseline record of your garden — from site assessment through soil testing to your first planting — with every step connected in a living history.