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Permaculture Design Certificate Course
Date & TimeSep 1 - Sep 14, 2025
LocationBarreiros, 2715-311 Montelavar, Portugal
Hosted byAldeia do Vale
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Join us for an unparalleled learning adventure in the heart of an eco-village in Sintra, guided by permaculture experts Sílvia Floresta and Orlando Pereira. This intensive two-week course is an opportunity to understand and apply permaculture principles in creating sustainable and regenerative living systems.
Course Details
Dates:September 1st to 14th 2025
Schedule: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM daily | Dinner at 8:00 PM
Location: Aldeia do Vale Agroecological Project, between Sintra and Mafra
Investment: €686.50
Course Highlights
This PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) course, following the original two-week intensive format created by Bill Mollison, combines theoretical lessons, hands-on workshops, field trips, interactive games, dynamic activities, experience sharing, and community living. The topics covered include:
- Permaculture ethics and principles
- Reading landscapes and understanding natural patterns and cycles and their applications
- Ecosystem principles, climate, and biogeography in permaculture
- Design principles, including analysis processes, zones, and efficient energy planning
-Resource identification, water management, soil mobilization, and mulching techniques
- Soil building and the establishment of permaculture gardens, food forests, orchards, and agroforestry systems
- Seed conservation and collection
- Designing barriers against wind, fire, and agrochemical drift
- Sustainable housing and natural building materials
- Appropriate technologies, including composting toilets, solar dehydrators, and alternative energy solutions
- Introduction to sustainable community and eco-village design
- Ecological sanitation – Wastewater treatment
- Rainwater harvesting
- Water in landscapes – Earthworks, dams, lakes, ponds, and ecological swimming pools
Certification
To receive a Permaculture Design Certificate, participants must attend at least 80% of the course, fully immersing themselves in permaculture design principles. The course concludes with the presentation of a final design project.
Join us for this unique learning experience, guided by permaculture experts Sílvia Floresta and Orlando Pereira, and discover how to design sustainable and regenerative living systems!
Dates:September 1st to 14th 2025
Schedule: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM daily | Dinner at 8:00 PM
Location: Aldeia do Vale Agroecological Project, between Sintra and Mafra
Investment: €686.50
Course Highlights
This PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) course, following the original two-week intensive format created by Bill Mollison, combines theoretical lessons, hands-on workshops, field trips, interactive games, dynamic activities, experience sharing, and community living. The topics covered include:
- Permaculture ethics and principles
- Reading landscapes and understanding natural patterns and cycles and their applications
- Ecosystem principles, climate, and biogeography in permaculture
- Design principles, including analysis processes, zones, and efficient energy planning
-Resource identification, water management, soil mobilization, and mulching techniques
- Soil building and the establishment of permaculture gardens, food forests, orchards, and agroforestry systems
- Seed conservation and collection
- Designing barriers against wind, fire, and agrochemical drift
- Sustainable housing and natural building materials
- Appropriate technologies, including composting toilets, solar dehydrators, and alternative energy solutions
- Introduction to sustainable community and eco-village design
- Ecological sanitation – Wastewater treatment
- Rainwater harvesting
- Water in landscapes – Earthworks, dams, lakes, ponds, and ecological swimming pools
Certification
To receive a Permaculture Design Certificate, participants must attend at least 80% of the course, fully immersing themselves in permaculture design principles. The course concludes with the presentation of a final design project.
Join us for this unique learning experience, guided by permaculture experts Sílvia Floresta and Orlando Pereira, and discover how to design sustainable and regenerative living systems!
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