Permaculture Design Course, Bellingen

More than a course. An inspiring regenerative framework for living.

Are you ready for a life-altering experience, to shift your perspectives, to change the way you think about life and work? Then a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) is the next step on your journey.

Join this 72-hour Permaculture Design Course delivered across 8 immersive days on the beautiful Levenvale Farm, Bellingen NSW and 5 online day sessions from wherever you are. Led by a team of practising designers, farmers and educators with decades of applied experience across four continents’.

Nov 8-15, 2026 Levenvale Farm, Bellingen NSW. 72-hr PDC Certificate 8 days in-person + 5 days online.

A PDC is one of the best investments you can make for yourself for future planning, building resilience, sustainability, connection, regeneration, adaptation, creativity and homesteading.

• You are tired of seeing the many broken systems all around us and want to be a part of the movement that is regenerating land and creating sustainable solutions.

• You feel pulled to work with nature rather than against it.

• You want to start living by design rather than by default.

• You are curious about how to incorporate ecological design into your garden, farm, home, relationships, work and/or life.

• You crave a holistic approach to sharing resources, minimising waste, and advocating for human needs, earth needs, and the needs of future generations.

• You’ve heard about permaculture and want to learn more!

Permaculture Design is a set of techniques and more. It is a way of seeing; it’s a disciplined approach to understanding how natural systems work, and applying those principles to every scale of (human) life: your home, your food, your livelihood, your community, your planet.

This PDC gives you the internationally recognised Permaculture Design Certificate and something rarer: the practical experience, the peer network, and the design confidence to actually use it.

“A revolution disguised as gardening.” We think this quote from Graham Bell still holds up, but this course goes further. Biodynamics, syntropics, edible forest gardening, ecopsychology and regenerative market gardening are woven through every module, taught by people who do this work every day.

This PDC will weave together critical topics on Regenerative Agriculture, Permaculture for Mobility, Social Permaculture, Biodynamics, Ecopsychology, Radical Redesign, Preparing for Extremes, Rewilding, and practical applications of Permaculture in your life, to name a few. Receive your PDC certificate at the end of the course.

Bellingen is a popular tourist destination known for its beauty, connection to nature and welcoming community. Situated in nurturing Gumbaynggirr Country, Bellingen is the perfect place for transformative change. The course will be hosted on an organic regenerative agriculture farm and have access to a commercial market garden for real-world application of all concepts.

This PDC is taught right in the middle of the beautiful Levenvale Farm, a certified organic farm made up of 300 acres of pasture, 200 acres of pristine rainforest, and a snaking creek throughout. Participants will experience many diverse microclimates and ecosystems all on one farm.

Host to 7 enterprises, from commercial composting to a commercial market garden to raising beef and chickens for retail, participants will get the chance to see what it is like operating intersecting small systems and using diverse management practices.  This farm is a brilliant all-in-one demonstration site.

Fantastic Facilitators

Dr Charlie Brennan and Bridget O’Brien, directors of Garden Juju Collective and Gateway Farm, team up with Luigi Marasco and Nidya Bellido of The Patch Organics, Georgina and Sam Baker of Levenvale Farm, and a wealth of knowledgeable guest speakers to offer a powerful Permaculture learning experience.

All standard PDC topics will be taught as well as special sessions on the following subjects:

• Design and Radical Redesign

• Regenerative Agriculture

• Biodynamics

• Conservation and Re-wilding of the Land

• Making a Living with Permaculture

• Social Permaculture

• Preparing for Extremes

• Healing Places

• Walkabout Permaculture

• Camping accommodation

• Access to amenities

• Access to a camp kitchen

• All meals included

• Permaculture handbook

• Adapt Game deck of cards

• Two weeks of dynamic facilitation

• Access to industry experts

• Permaculture Design Certificate

• All levels of experience are welcome.

Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs, and we will accommodate you.

We warmly invite you to join us to learn, grow and thrive together.

Secure your spot today!

Dates: 8th-15th November 2025

Full Fee: $3000

Earlybird: $2800

**Refundable Deposit: $560

Payment Plans are available; please reach out.

**Refundable deposit only within specific timelines as outlined under the terms of the agreement within the Memorandum of Understanding (available upon registration). The full deposit will be refunded less any Shopify, PayPal, or Bank fees incurred.