Permaculture Design Course
in Italy
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17th January - 8th June 2025
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With Eduardo Terzidis, Nick Steiner, Scott Gallant, Giuseppe Sannicandro,
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ONLY 2 EARLY BIRD SPOTS LEFT!
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Online theory and a week of practical learning!!​​
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Self paced theory for autonomous learning
Course Overview
Building soil – Building community – Building resilience
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No previous experience is required! Just openness and willingness to become part of the regeneration movement!
This unique course gives you the opportunity of spending several days learning by doing!
What will you learn? ​
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In the study of Permaculture, we challenge the current paradigm of where our food and water come from, the way we are constructing our villages and towns, and how we live our day-to-day and interact with each other.
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What can you do after? ​
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Our Permaculture Design Course graduates have gone on to become change-makers all over the world, designing their own land projects, founding eco-communities, redesigning their businesses, becoming consultants, teachers, writers, content creators, spearheading policy change, and continuing to spread the permaculture principles and ethics.
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Tuition
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EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT! €1400 ONLY 2 SPOTS LEFT!
Early bird available for the first 7 students!​
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Full price per student: €1600
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For more info on what the tuition includes, scroll down.
The program​
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This permaculture design course includes online theoretical modules and 5 days of practical learning in Italy.
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Every online module includes one interactive class where students will have the opportunity of asking questions and solving any doubts. Moreover, students will have access to the online forum where they will receive ongoing support from the facilitators.
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All online classes are recorded and available for self-paced study
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MODULE 1 - INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE (Online)
17th January - 9th February 2025
Interactive call will be 17th of January from 7 to 8 pm CET
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• Permaculture: Evidence that we need to act - Ethics & Principles
• Concepts and themes in design: Natural ecosystems - Web of life - Yield and Resource -
• Design Methods: Observation - Analysis of elements - Flow analysis - Maps & data overlay - Zones & sectors - Slope & aspect - Guilds - Scale of permanence
• Patterns: Understanding natural patterns and how to use them in design
• This module will include an extra live session on mushroom and microgreen production iwth Jack Patch. Time and date will be communicated during the course
MODULE 2 - CLIMATES, WATER AND TREES (Online)
21st February - 16th March 2024
Interactive call will be 21st of February from 7 to 8 pm CET
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• Climatic factors: Main climatic zones and their characteristics - Climatic factors - Climatic effects Landscape profiles
• Trees: Trees and their role in the ecosystem
• Agroforestry & Food Forests: Natural forests and natural succession - Food forests - Layers - Greening the Desert
• Water: Water cycle - Water in the landscape - Strategies for water management
• Earthworks: Design - Tools - Types of earthworks (swales, dams etc..)
• This module will include an extra live session on water management with Nick Steiner. Time and date will be communicated during the course
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MODULE 3 - SOILS, ANIMALS AND SOCIAL PERMACULTURE (Online)
28th March - 20th April
Interactive call will be 28th of March from 7 to 8 pm CET
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• Soils: Soil composition - Soil management - Compost - Nutrient management and closed loops - Animals in the landscape
• Social Permaculture: Project management - Group dynamics - Non-violent communication - Local economies - Community living & Ecovillages​
• This module will include an extra live session on agroforestry with Scott Gallant and one on soil science with Oli Inglis. Time and date will be communicated during the course
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MODULE 4 - PRACTICAL WEEK (Live in Italy)
23rd - 27th April 2025
@ReGen, Palombaio, Italy​
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Here is a list of the topics covered during the practical week:
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• Design and implementation of a new agroforestry system
• Maintenance of an existing agroforestry system
• Syntropic farming
• Water management and earthworks (implementation of a swale or diversion drain)
• Social Permaculture
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The practical week will be facilitated by Giuseppe Sannicandro alone, one of the figures of reference for the Permaculture world in Italy.
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Note that the exact topics of our practical week will depend on weather, group requests and machinery availability
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MODULE 5 - FINAL DESIGN PROJECTS (Online)
27th April - 8th of June
Presentations will be 8th of June
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To be able to provide an international PDC certificate, the course will include a final design project. All students will do a project simulating the design for a client. The project will be presented at the end of the permaculture design course and will be a great opportunity for the students to metabolise the newly-acquired knowledge and receive feedback from the teacher.
The hand over of the final designs will be organised with the teachers, who will provide feedback before delivering the certificate.
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Tuition for this Permaculture Design Course Includes:
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– 72+ hour Permaculture Design Certificate upon completion
– Lifetime access to online community with past students to keep exchanging and learning
– Course content and materials, all lectures, forums, and activities
– During your stay at ReGen in Italy, three vegetarian meals per day
– Lodging in shared accommodation
– Lifetime possibility to join any final design sessions of future Permaculture Design Courses
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We ask for a €200 NON-REFUNDABLE and NON-TRANSFERABLE deposit to be sent to hold your space.
What is included?
The Venue
ReGen is an iconic permaculture project ion Italy. Built after years of experience gathered all over the world, it is one of the best showcases around. They manage an agro-socio-ecological Agroforestry project with a biointensive vegetable garden. In addition to fruit trees, vegetables, edible flowers, aromatic and medicinal plants, they included plants suitable for the production of biomass, others capable of fixing nitrogen in the soil and species with flowers that are attractive to bees and other useful insects. They use various preparations and regenerative agriculture techniques: compost, biofertilizers, reproductions of microorganisms, mulches, etc. The Agroforestry was started from a 30-year-old almond grove that we transformed into a complex and "stratified" Agroforestry System, following natural successions. Their objective, in addition to experimenting with different strategies and plant consortia, is the recovery of ancient or rare varieties. In this botanical garden they organise training courses and workshops, our members take care of the plants and collect fruit, vegetables and aromatic plants.
Click here to know more about ReGen
The Facilitators
Eduardo Terzidis is a storyteller with an ecological heart. As an engineer, he wanted to help the world, yet he felt the need to “be out there”, learning and sharing with the very people who seek the same change he envisioned. At the core of his work is the understanding that global change needs to be carried from the inside out, recognising the intricate web of which we are part and being able to play our role in support of all life. Today he focuses on teaching and managing consulting projects as well as producing films and books.
Nick Steiner is extremely passionate about exploring, developing, and sharing ways of regenerating the world around us. His focus is on working with water and finding smart ways to grow more with less work. He has been working and educating in the field of regenerative agriculture and permaculture for almost a decade. Through his job in building up Climate Farmers he has worked with hundreds of farmers all over Europe on their regenerative journeys.
Scott Gallant is a permaculture designer and educator with fifteen years of experience working predominantly in Central America. He is the co-founder of Porvenir Design, a landscape design firm specializing in productive landscapes, syntropic farming, water systems, and design of large multi-stakeholder projects.
Giuseppe Sannicandro, is the co-founder of ReGen. For years he has been passionately designing and offering consultancy to multifunctional farms, self-sufficiency projects and ecological communities and he is involved in urban permaculture projects. He mainly focused on agroforestry and water management for mediterranean and tropical areas.
Jack Hodgson is a qualified Permaculture Designer from London. He ran his own Permaculture No Dig Market Garden in Greater London for 4 years supplying the local community, markets and chefs his beyond organic produce.
He now runs an urban project where he grows microgreens and mushrooms in a 20ft shipping container, which he specialises in teaching others how to grow. He currently teaches and consults for a variety of projects.
