In Person Permaculture Design Certification - Brooklyn, NYC
Courses & Workshops - Spring 2025
164 Meserole Street. Brooklyn
10am to 4pm EST
April 5 & 6, 12 & 13, 19 & 20,
Field Trip Days – April 26 & 27, May 3 & 4
May 10 Graduation
11 SESSIONS -- WEEKENDS ONLY
$900
Bring a friend and get $100 off!
ALL LIVE SESSIONS!
Exceptional course, low cost, incredible teachers, every session recorded to replay at your convenience. Getting trained in Permaculture Design is the perfect place to start to learn to build the world we all know is possible. Deepen your understanding of the patterns in nature by studying permaculture with our internationally known teaching team.
Topics Covered:
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History & Origins of Permaculture
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Sustainable Cities
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Regenerative Organic and Biodynamic Farming
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Temperate and Tropical Agroforestry Systems
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Natural Building
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Finding Land & Starting Communities and Homesteads
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Climate Resilience
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Off Grid Energy
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Ecological Water Solutions
This course is the foundational 72 hour Permaculture Design Certification program, endorsed by PINA the Permaculture Institute of North America. Our course offers systemic solutions to the contemporary social justice and ecological issues of our times.
Our certification connects you to an international world of designers, architects, organic farmers, and communities who all recognize a permaculture design certificate as a legitimate passport to another level of knowledge.
• Payment Plans available
• Flexible Scheduling
• Experienced Teaching Team
• Continued Mentoring
• Learn to Apply Permaculture to Properties, Business Models, Social Structures and Regional Scale Design
WHAT IS PERMACULTURE?
Permaculture is a design process and a worldwide movement that is helping to regenerate local ecologies and economies by addressing our social justice and environmental issues.
Hands-on Permaculture Classes
Ellenville, New York
May 31st - June 29th - Weekends - 10am - 4pm
Join us in Ellenville on our educational campus, 18 years in the making!
These are the workshops that many of you have been clamoring for.
They will be relaxed, very informative, fun and a great way to have an immersion educational experience on our permaculture campus.
Andrew Faust and Adriana Magaña at our Center for Bioregional Living are proud to present a series of advanced permaculture and ecological design courses this season.
We have thoughtfully crafted each of these offerings to extend your fundamental Permaculture design skills and advance them strongly, with these hands on trainings taking you forward on the wings of true experience!
Our themes this season are:
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Working with Rain water
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Biodynamic Gardening
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Whole site Design
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Natural Building
All the courses in this series function as stand alone teachings and they build off of each other when taken together. You will be helping to create a legacy that will be enjoyed by future visitors and students for years to come.
Camping is encouraged in designated areas on our land and taking in the sights, during off time, at one of the many nearby gorgeous hiking areas (Lake Minnewaska, Sam's Point, Peter's Kill to name a few)
Rain Water Abundance
Installing Rain Tanks & Rain Gardens
Hands-on Workshop - May 31st - 10am - 4pm - $100
Come and Learn how to capture, hold and store pure high quality rain water. A free gift in a place that gets 49 inches of rainfall a year! You can catch .6 gallons per inch of rainfall, for each square foot of roof area you connect to a tank.
Topics:
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Calculate your water harvest
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Install a rain tank system
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Use Gravity for water pressure
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Off grid sinks and showers
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Connect your overflow or downspouts
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Design a series of dynamic diverse, flowering rain gardens
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Create havens of biodiversity and beauty fed by rain tanks!
Celebrate the abundant gift of rain water and solve water problems on your land with one action. Learn to create gravity fed rainwater supplied irrigation systems for gardens and livestock. You will learn how to connect a big rain tank to your house and how to properly plumb it to use for watering needs on your land and for fun!
Introduction to Permaculture & Biodynamic Gardening
Saturday, June 7 - 10am - 4pm - $100
In this workshop we will have hands-on activities taking you from seed starting to bed prepping and planting an organic market scale garden.
Come and join us at our one of a kind of Permaculture farm in Ellenville. The Center for Bioregional Living is a demonstration farm designed specifically, as our example to the regional food movement Offering opportunities and approaches for addressing our food needs with more of an integrated, ecological, permaculture approach.
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Discuss preferred seed sources
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Explain the Biodynamic Calendar & how we use it
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Prep and plant beds in our garden
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Explain our rain water catching system
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Discuss permaculture in the fruit & vegetable garden layout
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Explain when we use the tractor and when we use hand tools
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Show you amendments that we use in our garden and why
You will get a chance to plant seed and prep beds and learn experientially about some key biodynamic and permaculture gardening insights and approaches to take home to your family and farm.
Permaculture Whole Site Design
June 21st & 22nd - 10am - 4pm - $400 -- Meals and Camping included!
Learn to lay the groundwork for an entire land development project; establishing ecological businesses, community farms, eco-villages, co-housing and homesteads. Siting buildings and integrating the entire project through a solid phase plan. Hands-on activities: siting buildings and infrastructure, laying out and establishing earthworks and infrastructure.
Topics:
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Identifying Trees
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Understanding Water
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Creating Habitats
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What Pollinators Need
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Reading the landscape
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Making use of topography and hydrology Identifying biological indicators
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Whole site analysis, mapping techniques
Come participate in the Center for Bioregional Living’s Permaculture Design Educational center where we will help to teach people the essentials of high quality ways of living abundantly now and into the future.
Naturally Built Tiny House
Saturday June 28 and 29 - 10am - 4pm - $400
Meals and Camping included
Healthy Buildings = Healthy People
Applying the permaculture principles throughout the building process. This hands-on workshop series will teach you about creating buildings with trees cut from the land, maximizing on-site and local raw materials and framing with rough cut local lumber. Natural, local and bioregional buildings contribute to ecologically sound local economies and create beautiful, healthy homes and villages to live our lives in.
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Passive solar design
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Phased and integrated site development and building techniques.
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Building structures and sacred sites with good feng shui and natural energy.
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Insulating naturally, using rainwater for domestic needs and greywater for gardens.
How to use Straw bales:
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Earthen Plasters, Light Clay straw
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Passive solar hot water systems for domestic heating
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Off grid Energy systems
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Minimizing household sources of Electro-Magnetic Fields
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Using gravity and low energy pumps and systems for indoor/outdoor plumbing systems
When you complete this entire series you will know how to create a beautiful natural building from the ground up and set it up to be fully off the grid! Come and learn how to create healthy, natural reasonably sized homes, outbuildings and communities . We will teach you how to analyze building locations and materials to determine how ecologically safe and sound they are. Most of our time will be spent outdoors and there will be plenty of hands-on work. Home cooked and locally sourced meals included! Lodging options include limited indoor common area as well as tent space on our beautiful 14 acres. Bring tents, sleeping pads, sleeping bags.
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FREE ONLINE PERMACULTURE COURSES
INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE
MARCH 25, 2025 -- 7pm
Center for Bioregional Living courses educate and inform our students to create true health, wealth and regional self-sufficiency through cooperating with nature. We offer permaculture design courses and consultation services, inspiring hundreds of graduates in the northeast, and New York’s Five Boroughs. With over 20 years of experience in design for a wide range of clients, we are your source for permaculture design education and consultation.
Permaculture is an ecological design science based on the resilient patterns found in nature. It is a vision of what we would rather see in the world and how to achieve it in a step by step manner. The ethics, tools and techniques of Permaculture are focused on creating vibrant bioregional cultures and economies providing long term comfort and security for our families, communities and future generations.
OUR WORLD CLASS PERMACULTURE TEACHING TEAM
Adriana Magaña
Co Founder | Instructor
Adriana Magaña is an interdisciplinary artist and designer living with her family in Ellenville, NY. Adriana is inspired by her commitment to co-create a sustainable world with integrity and ethical values; a world based in nature and justice.
David Harper
Co Director of Permaculture Living Lands Trust has more than 30 years of work with conservation land trusts, community land trusts and local food and farming organizations, resulting in permanently preserving 8,000+ acres of farmland, natural areas, and cultural and historic sites in Pennsylvania.
Rhamis Kent
Rhamis Kent is a consultant with permaculture-based regenerative whole systems design serving as a registered certified Permaculture Design instructor with PRI Australia. He is a former co-director of the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI)
Larry Santoyo
Founder of the Permaculture Academy and lead instructor. He has been a teacher and practitioner of Permaculture Design for the 28+ years and spent over a decade studying and teaching with Bill Mollison.
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Clea Chandma
India on Tropical systems, Clea, from a ‘Genetics’, 'Ecology and Evolution', ‘Plant Breeding’ and a ‘Plant Molecular Physiology’ background (University of Cambridge, UK) and a Permaculture background (PDC : Bill Mollison; Geoff Lawton; Greg Knibbs; and Andrew Millison), is a recognised expert in Regenerative Systems. Her approach and methods are novel and rigorously developed over 30 years at her 'food forest' farm at the foothills of the Western Ghats in India.
Permaculture Student & Entrepreneurs
Testimonials and Reviews
"The online course is 100% worth it! I just completed the online 2020 permaculture certification course and was blown away by the amount of information I gained. The information itself is a healthy mix of bass-tacks-know-how (geared towards the Northeast), theoretical, analytical, biological, philosophical, cosmic, and spiritual. Because of this, the class is suited for anyone who is interested in learning or DOING permaculture. Andrew's knowledge is vast, informative, and sobering. You can't fake that. It becomes very clear within the first few minutes." - Ben Feistmann
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Permaculture Design is :
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A design science that provides a new model for economic development.
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Addressing the major social justice and environmental issues of our times from a whole systems perspective.
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A worldwide movement that is helping to regenerate local ecologies and economies.
The certification connects you to an international world of designer’s, architects, organic farmers, and communities who all recognize it as a legitimate passport to another level of knowledge.
Begins Feb 22 ends Apr 4
11 Weekend Sessions
Permaculture Design Certification Course NYC 2020
This course is the foundational 72 hour Permaculture Design Certification program, endorsed by PINA the Permaculture Institute of North America.We adapt our course to the northeastern corridor and to contemporary social and ecological issues in the United States and the world.
Our Permaculture design certification course imparts a positive and empowering vision for social and ecological transformation. We will train you to be a permaculture consultant who can apply the permaculture principles to a diversity of landscapes, scales and issues from rural to urban, and temperate to tropical environments.
Come be inspired by the possibilities of today and not by the fear of tomorrow!
We look forward to working with the next group of amazing humans ready to transform the world!
• Payment Plans and Paypal
• Flexible Scheduling
• Experienced Teaching Team
• Continued Mentoring
• Excellent Field Trips
• Learn to Apply Permaculture to Properties, Business Models, Social Structures and Regional Scale Designs.
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Introduction to Permaculture with Andrew Faust
The Brooklyn Commons -
Saturday February 1st - 10-5pm - $40
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Healing Yourself With Vital Foods and Conscious Living
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Eating Locally And In Season
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Doing More with Less-Making Your Own Ferments
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Choosing Healthy Products For Your Home and Family
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Holistic Solutions For City and Country Living
Permaculture is an ecological design science that offers insights and practical techniques for living fruitful and abundant lives.
Permaculture is addressing the major issues of our day from a whole systems view. It is a worldwide movement that is helping to regenerate local ecologies and economies.
Permaculture incorporates traditional methods, intuition, and in-depth site analysis. Learn how to create beneficial interrelationships in landscapes and infrastructures,create microclimates and design cultivated ecosystems.
Come and learn how to design an ecologically integrated and highly self sufficient Community Supported Farm, ecovillage, homestead, town or region. The confluence of climate change, economic collapse, peak oil and wide spread pollution are all pointing to a need for an articulate and comprehensive alternative.
Learn to live well with the earth!
Andrew Faust, one of New York City’s leading Ecological Design teachers, will describe a beautifully simple and effective way to transition from an inherently inefficient and polluting economy to a healthy and prosperous economy and infrastructure.