The full PDC, over nine weekly sessions.
Same 72-hour curriculum, same Permaculture Association UK certification, same working farm. Designed for people who cannot take two weeks off.
- Format
- In-person, Priziac
- Duration
- 9 weekly sessions
- Price
- €485
- Next cohort
- 2026 dates TBC
Two weeks away from work is a real barrier.
Two weeks of residential teaching is a serious commitment. The good news is that the certified PDC does not require it. The same 72-hour curriculum is delivered here over nine weekly sessions, with the same small-group feel and the same site-based teaching.
If your life or work cannot accommodate the residential PDC, the part-time format is the same qualification, on a slower rhythm.
Same curriculum. Same certification. Different rhythm.
Want to transform your property into a beautiful, sustainable, and healthy oasis? This course enables you to create a complete permaculture design for your own project over the course of a few months, and at the end you will earn your internationally recognised Permaculture Design Certificate.
The course content has a wide and flexible application, not only in home-based settings, but also for those wishing to apply permaculture design within their business or community. This slower-paced course gives you time to absorb and practise what you learn as we move through the modules.
Perfect for anyone who cannot commit to the full-time two-week PDC, or who wants to let ideas settle and return with questions each week.
During this course you will
- Create a complete permaculture design for your own project
- Earn your internationally recognised Permaculture Design Certificate
- Apply permaculture design to a home, garden, business, or community
- Absorb and practise each module between weekly sessions
What you will cover
The part-time PDC covers the same curriculum as the full-time course, delivered over nine weekly sessions instead of two weeks.
The curriculum covers
- Ethics and permaculture principles
- Observation, pattern literacy, and design methodology
- Soil, composting, and fertility systems
- Water: harvesting, catchment, and management
- Forest gardening and cultivated ecology
- Climate, microclimate, and site analysis
- Animal integration and productive systems
- Community, economy, and social permaculture
- Waste systems and closing the loop
- Design practice: applying what you have learned to a real brief
The full PDC. A deposit holds your place.
A €150 deposit holds your place on the part-time PDC, deducted from your final fee. The 2026 cohort dates are being confirmed. Register your interest and Karen will be in touch as soon as the schedule opens.
€485
For the full programme
- Format
- In-person, Priziac
- Duration
- 9 weekly sessions
- Schedule
- One session per week
- Tutor
- Karen Noon
- Deposit
- €150 at booking
- Next cohort
- 2026 dates TBC
Includes vegetarian lunch, refreshments, teaching, site visits, handouts, and access to online resources. Deposit is deducted from your final fee.
“Her Permaculture Design Course turned out to be a joy and was one of the most insightful things I have ever done, awakening my love of nature and introducing me to the wonderful world that is around me. Her passion for and knowledge of permaculture, in all its guises, flows out to invoke in you the belief that the world can be a better place.”
About the part-time PDC
Is the certification identical to the residential PDC?
Can I switch to the residential PDC if I realise I can make two weeks work?
What if I miss a session?
How far apart are the sessions?
The 2026 part-time PDC dates are being confirmed. Register your interest and Karen will be in touch as soon as the schedule opens.
The same PDC. Different rhythm.
Nine weekly sessions, same 72-hour curriculum, same PA UK certification. Register your interest for the 2026 cohort.
Priziac, Brittany, France+33 7 88 11 35 05·karen@afrinoonpermaculture.org