Member Benefits

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!

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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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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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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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

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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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 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.

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 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)

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.