Member Benefits

Here’s a good deal. PA members can access discounts and benefits from our supporters to encourage permaculture people to learn, trade and support each other.

Claiming your member benefits

IMPORTANT. To access your benefits below you need login to your account. Below is the full list of PA benefits.  Please note some courses and products are only available in certain states and territories.

If you are not a member and would like access the all of the great discounts below please Join PA today

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Professional and Organisation members are also able to: 

If you have a permaculture product or service to offer and  would like to become one of our key supporters please contact us today: hello@permacultureaustralia.org.au

Products - Online/Australia-wide

PERMACULTURE: A Designers' Manual

Member discounts of 25% from Tagari Publications for Bill Mollison’s PERMACULTURE: A Designers’ Manual.

 

Discount offered to PA members: 25%

Politics of Permaculture - Book

The Politics of Permaculture is one of the first books to unpack the theory and practice of this social movement that looks to challenge the status quo. Drawing upon the rich seam of publications and online communities from the movement as well as extensive interviews with permaculture practitioners and organisations from around the world, Leahy explains the ways permaculture is understood and practiced in different contexts.

 

Discount offered to PA members: 30%

Permaculture Principles

From books (digital and hardcopy), to magazines from Australia and overseas and the annual permaculture principles calendar (sales of which support Permaculture Australia’s Permafund small grants scheme), Permaculture Principles is a storehouse of everything Permaculture.

Members are offered a 10% discount on all items in their (AU) store.

 

Pip Magazine

Pip Magazine  is your essential guide to permaculture, with all the inspiration, ideas and practical skills that you need to grow yourself, in the garden and in life. Pip offers a 10% discount (print magazines only).

GroundGrocer.com

GroundGrocer.com is an online earth care and regenerative agriculture supplier of compost and compost tea production equipment, monitoring instruments, boosters, microbes and knowledge for any scale operation, from backyard to commercial production.

We have been making high-quality composts for many years and have a broad range of experience in soil, soil biology and organic systems. We can supply regular or organic certified booster materials as well as equipment.

Our products, technologies and information will enable you to improve your compost and soil life as well as help to reduce waste.

GroundGrocer is offering a 10% discount to PA members on EM-1, REOTEMP thermometers and moisture meters.

Wire Pegs

Order high quality stainless steel wire clothes pegs online. What a wonderful gift idea. Bulk order with friends and save $$$! Various grades of stainless steel available according to your location. Australia wide free shipping. wirepegs.com means no more throwaway plastic or wooden pegs!

Members are offered a 10% discount on all items when total order exceeds $40. 

WaterUps From Down Under®

WaterUps From Down Under® is an Australian designed and manufactured re-cycled product that allows the grower the convenience to build an extremely effective and sustainable watering system for gardens and other landscape environments. The concept is based on the capillary action of water-wicking and the product is easy and cost effective to install, reduces water waste and saves time and money on the maintenance of green space. Watering from below also promotes plant and crop health and yield by assisting in maintaining soil biology quality which can often be compromised when watering from above.

20% off WaterUps® products (Australian delivery only)

Robin Clayfield's Dynamic Groups

Robin Clayfield is a Permaculture and Social Permaculture Pioneer and international educator, group facilitator and author specialising in creative, interactive facilitation, teacher training and group leadership while living Permaculture, Deep Ecology and social change. Her legendary book ‘You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat It Too’ has sold over 5000 copies. The ‘Manual for Teaching Permaculture Creatively’ (co-authored with Skye), along with her educational card games and dynamic resources support educators in over 75 countries. Dynamic Groups website.

Product discounts offered to Permaculture Australia members:

  • 20% off ‘You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat It Too’ book
  • 10% off ‘Manual for Teaching Permaculture Creatively’
  • 10% off ‘Creative Community Governance and Decision Making Resource Kit’
  • 5 % off ‘The New Permaculture Principles Card Game’
  • 5 % off ‘Creative Process Wild Cards’
  • 20% off USB of Book, Manual, CD, Kits and Resources
  • 10% off ‘Seeds for Change’ CD (7 Guided Visualisations set to music)
  • 10% off upcoming book series ‘Dynamic Teaching and Facilitation’.

 

Earth Mumma - Nature Kids Club

Nature Kids Permaculture Program For Families 

Calling all families who want to bring up healthy, wholesome nature kids…this is for you! A permaculture program to connect, nourish and grow together. Now you can get skilled in sustainable, DIY edible gardens and zero-waste living…with down-to-earth nature play  activities. With our online curriculum, you’ll get all the resources you need to design and grow food at home and create abundance in all aspects of your life. Why play? Because its is the best way to learn, stay motivated and inspire people of all ages to participate. Permaculture is about working with nature, design, solutions to better living and lavish home-grown feasts.

We provide all the online resources you need to ‘print and play’ with ‘how to’ videos, monthly member prizes and an active online community. This is a transformational program for budding earth carers, to be the change-makers, from your garden to your plate and beyond, toward community resilience! 
 
Earth Mumma is offering members a 20% discount for the online Earth Mumma – Nature Kids Permaculture Program. and subscription offers.
Freebee downloads available at https://www.earthmumma.co/naturekids 

Products - Regional

Northey Street City Farm - QLD

Northey Street City Farm – Brisbane, QLD 

Northey Street City Farm was founded in 1994 in Windsor, Brisbane. The Farm’s plantings and demonstration gardens showcase permaculture in a subtropical urban setting. Northey Street City Farm offers tours and educational programs, including permaculture courses and workshops. We run an Organic Farmers Market every Sunday and a retail nursery, City Farm Nursery.

Northey Street City Farm is offering a 5% discount on their Permaculture Design Course for Permaculture Australia Members! This unique course, delivered over 16 weeks in Brisbane, gives you the knowledge and skills to observe and design from natural patterns to create productive gardens & homes. You will learn how to grow your own food, apply appropriate technologies, use resources wisely, build on living systems, and rebuild communities.

 

City Farm Nursery – Brisbane, QLD

City Farm Nursery stocks a wide range of organic seeds, seedlings, herbs, bush foods and fruit trees suited to the Brisbane climate, with a selection of high-quality organic soil and potting mix, organic fertilisers and plant care.  The Nursery offers expert advice on how to grow wholesome, tasty food and create environmentally sustainable gardens. 

City Farm Nursery is offering a 5% discount on all purchases for Permaculture Australia members!

CITY FARM NURSERY OPENING HOURS: Tuesday to Saturday: 8.30am to 12.30pm & Sunday: 6.30am to 12.30pm   Ph:  07 3857 8774   Email:  nursery@nscf.org.au 

Courses and Services - Online

Permaculture Education Institute

Receive a 10% discount on the registration fee for any of the Permaculture Education Institutes Programs, which includes

  • Permaculture Educators Program
  • Permaculture Design Certificate
  • SHARE – Permaculture Marketing course
  • Permaculture Business Design Lab
  • The Incredible Edible Garden

Includes payment plans too!

Organic Vegetable Gardening Course with Milkwood

Do you dream of walking out your back door and into a thriving veggie patch, full of delicious and healthy produce, grown by your own hands?

No matter if you’re a complete beginner – or maybe you have a bit of a veggie patch but are struggling with mixed results – this course will give you the skills and the confidence to design, plant and grow your dream veggie garden.

Organic Vegetable Gardening – our latest guided online course & community, will help take you from complete beginner on bare ground to a thriving veggie patch – for all four seasons, and beyond.

We can’t wait to get you growing.

Our next class of Organic Vegetable Gardening is open for bookings right now. And the course will begin on August 21st! This is our last class intake for this course, this year.

Permaculture Australia Members receive a 10% discount on any Milkwood Course

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Permaculture Living with Milkwood

This self-paced, 12-week guided course and community will give you all the hands-on skills you need – to cultivate abundance, increase your household’s resilience, save money AND bring lots of climate-positive actions into your everyday… no garden required!

Milkwood is offering a 10% discount to PA members.

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Permaculture Australia may receive a commission from your booking

Mushroom Cultivation course with Milkwood

Ready to learn sustainable, low-cost skills for cultivating mountains of mushrooms to eat and share, all while learning from home?

Our Home Mushroom Cultivation course is designed especially for folks like you – who want to grow fungi for food and fun, and get it right the first time, supported live by a crew of experts.

Get ready to learn everything you need to know – to successfully grow a wide range of organic AND waste-free edible & medicinal mushrooms, at your place – on cardboard, in buckets, and logs and gardens too. This is a self-paced and fully mentored 8-week course to get you growing.

Milkwood is offering PA members a 10% discount.

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Permaculture Visions

Pioneers of online permaculture training, specifically mentorship. Serving the world continuously since 1993. Permaculture Visions have tutored participants from more than 65 countries. 
Through Permaculture education we create a better world – cleaner water and air, fresher food, rich wild-life habitats, and healthy and empowered communities. We help you design your Permaculture space. 

PA members receive 10% off online courses

WWOOF Australia

WWOOF is a worldwide movement linking volunteers with organic farmers and growers to promote cultural and educational experiences based on trust and non-monetary exchanges, helping to build a sustainable global community.

WWOOFers travel Australia-wide, volunteering on their choice of permaculture, organic and biodynamic WWOOF Host farms and small holdings. They learn real skills from expert WWOOF hosts and offset their carbon travel footprint, often making friends for life.

How Does WWOOF Work?

WWOOF is a membership program with WWOOFer volunteers and WWOOF Host members.  WWOOF Australia is offering Permaculture Australia members a special 15% discount for all WWOOF memberships when they join as a Volunteer or Host.

Permies.com - Garden Master Course

The Garden Master Course (Beyond Organic)

35 hours of quality instruction on better-than-organic garden practices with Helen Atthowe.

What the Garden Master Course covers:

Unit 1: Getting Started: How everything is connected

Unit 2: The Roots of a Healthy Plant Community: Understanding soil structure and ecology

Unit 3: Strengthening Your Garden: Managing beneficial insects, pests, and disease

Unit 4: Weeds vs. Garden: Working with plant competition in the farm/garden system

Unit 5: Growing a Diet: Planting, pruning and rotating for long-term success

Helen presents a comprehensive overview of the soil food web and its significance in maintaining a thriving garden. She sheds light on the importance of having a diverse microbial community both on the surface and in the subsoil, which can be achieved by plantinga range of different plants, explaining how the use of pesticides can disrupt these cycles. Through sharing her personal experiences of gardening in both Montana and California, Helen highlights the benefits of having a living mulch and an active root system in the soil throughout the year. These principles, when followed correctly, can establish a healthy soil food web that provides a habitat for a variety of species and ensures a stable ecosystem for plants to thrive.

The garden master course is a must-watch for garden enthusiasts and permaculture practitioners – go beyond organic in this stimulating online course.

Permaculture Australia Members receive a 10% discount (prices in USD)

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Matt Powers - The Permaculture Student

Permaculture Student
“For the new course, I’m visiting soil composting sites, visiting home sites of amazing soil creators, working on my certification officially through Dr. Elaine Ingham’s programs, making animations for soil cycles and nutrient processes in roots and plants, diving deeper with experts like Dr. Olivier Husson and Dr. James White, and so much more!! It’s going to be my most in-depth course ever!!” Matt Powers

With this course folks will be able to understand, diagnose, and work with soil micro to macro fluently, seeing the principles underpinning all the effective natural and regenerative farming practices. This book and these courses are designed to be bridge builders between disciplines and perspectives within the soil community and to showcase the amazing science behind it all.

Offer 1: The Introduction to Regenerative Soil, the Online Course (self-paced with 30+ hrs of content) Course normally USD$250 – Recieve a $30 discount using the following link
 Join Now!  

Offer 2: Regenerative Soil, the In-Depth 16-Week Online Course w/LIVE weekly Q&A + The Introduction Course (as a signup bonus) USD $990

To access the discount you must sign up for the course(s) using the above links.

Courses & Services - Regional

Permaculture College - Djanbung Gardens - NSW

Permaculture College Australia at Djanbung Gardens provides community education and professional development in permaculture and cultural regeneration. Our programs include PDCs, advanced courses, teacher training, diverse specialist and online courses, workshops, master classes, cultural and community events, private and group tours, and open days.

PCA founder, Robyn Francis, a renowned permaculture pioneer, educator, designer, and author, has taught over 150 PDCs plus hundreds of specialist courses around the world. She works with the PCA team of experienced local and visiting permaculture teachers and practitioners to facilitate exceptional courses and learning experiences in an inspiring environment.

Djanbung Gardens established in 1994, is a purposed designed living learn-scape where the concepts taught are practised. We welcome students, interns and visitors from around the world. Located in the lush subtropics of Nimbin Valley in Northern NSW, a short walk from Nimbin village and just an hour from the Gold Coast and Byron Bay.

Members are offered a 10% discount on all courses and workshops.

Byron Region Community College - Byron Bay NSW

Byron Region Community College is a not for profit community organisation with a vision to engage people through inspiring learning experiences. The beauty, diversity and fragility of the amazing local natural environment has been the inspiration behind the college’s commitment to socially and environmentally responsible practice. Our Mission is to embrace and facilitate community resilience and personal growth through learning by acknowledging the natural current advantages of our place, our time, our people and our choices.

We offer nationally recognised qualifications, short courses and workshops across a broad range of subjects including Permaculture, Horticulture, Sustainable Living, Language, Music, Dance, Business, Visual Arts, and Wellbeing.

The college is offering Permaculture Australia members a 10% discount off the full price of any of our general courses.

Good Life Permaculture - Hobart TAS

Permaculture Australia members are offered a 5% discount on all workshops.

Good Life Permaculture do permaculture landscape design to develop urban and rural landscapes to be productive and beautiful. They also host workshops in how to live the good life – everything from beekeeping, growing food, permaculture design and making your own homebrew beer. By joining Permaculture Australia, you can receive a 5% discount on all workshops.

PA Members are offered a 5% discount on all workshops.

Robin Clayfield's Dynamic Groups - Crystal Waters QLD

Robin Clayfield is a Permaculture and Social Permaculture Pioneer and international educator, group facilitator and author specialising in creative, interactive facilitation, teacher training and group leadership while living Permaculture, Deep Ecology and social change. Her legendary book ‘You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat It Too’ has sold over 5000 copies. The ‘Manual for Teaching Permaculture Creatively’ (co-authored with Skye), along with her educational card games and dynamic resources support educators in over 75 countries. Dynamic Groups website.

Discounts offered to Permaculture Australia members:

  • 10% off “Waged Individual’ and ‘Gov’t/Corporate’ price for 6 day ‘Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning’ Creative Teachers, Facilitators and Group Leadership course
  • 5% off ‘Concession’ Price for 6 day ‘Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning’ Creative Teachers, Facilitators and Group Leadership course

10% off all consultancy sessions:

  • Creative Facilitation and Dynamic Presentation
  • Group Visioning, Team Building and Development
  • Social Enterprise Establishment and Revamp
  • Session and Program Planning and Facilitation
  • Revamping Permaculture Teaching and Process
  • Resource Development
  • Self Publishing
  • Ceremony and Celebration Design and Facilitation
  • Empowerment and Confidence Building
  • Problem Solving and Conflict Transformation
  • 5% off ‘Social Permaculture’ Courses organised by Robin (possibly when co-created with other Facilitators)

 

Purple Pear Farm - Maitland NSW

Here at Purple Pear Farm, a productive 14 acre farm on the outskirts of Maitland, our life revolves around food – growing, selling, preparing, preserving and eating it. We run a sustainable farm and aim to show how permaculture, biodynamics and organic principles work equally well on apartment balconies, in backyards and on working farms like our own. Come and have a look at our affordable courses and soon you too, will be harvesting fresh vegetables, making yogurt and cheese in your kitchen and recycling scraps into your fresh, sweet smelling compost heap.

10% discount on all workshopsfor Permaculture Australia members.