Our courses include opportunities for hands-on learning, nature exploration, real-world design projects, and visits to active demonstration sites.

We work with sustainability education centers in locations that provide meaningful context and inspirational settings.

Our instructors have issued PDC certificates in-person to over 10,000 students worldwide.

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

One weekend a month, February – July (postponed due to COVID-19)

$800-900

This inspiring course will be held at our new home on 240 acres above the confluence of the great Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Tailored to regional participants, this course has a focus on urban and community-scale strategies, while also being steeped in the land. Students will learn from bottom-up neighborhood restoration efforts, urban agriculture projects, ecological and equitable business developments, and more.

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Two weeks in August (postponed due to COVID-19)

$1350-$1550

Learn Permaculture on a bluff top above the Great Rivers confluence. With a theme of regenerative land management, we will explore in-depth strategies from market gardening to watershed repair to forest restoration on the 240-acre Confluence Farms. We will also engage with exemplary urban projects around neighborhood restoration and urban agriculture. This course will be a diverse study, activating participants to make change in their own unique places.

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Five days in September (postponed due to COVID-19)

$950

Permaculture teachers empower and equip people for creating potential in an oftentimes bleak world. We need good teachers and leaders to create the future we know is possible—this training is offered to help you do just that. This may be one of the last opportunities to take a teacher training with the legendary Scott Pittman who has extensively taught Permaculture for the last three decades all over the world. Location and exact dates pending…