Permaculture for your own garden.
Four days across two weekends. Hands-on, site-based teaching for gardeners who want to apply permaculture thinking to their own plot.
- Format
- In-person, Priziac
- Duration
- 4 days, 2 weekends
- Price
- €140
- Tutor
- Karen Noon
Most gardening courses teach techniques. This one teaches design.
Plenty of gardening courses cover what to plant and when. Permaculture Gardening covers something earlier in the process: how to read the land first, then decide what to do.
Over four days across two weekends, you will work on the Afrinoon farm, applying observation and design thinking to real growing systems. You leave with a framework you can apply at home, whatever the size or stage of your garden.
What four days on the farm gives you.
A specialised course for those drawn to permaculture with a particular focus on food production. Permaculture gardens are multifunctional spaces, offering a range of benefits that go well beyond the food they produce.
Across four days split over two weekends, you will move through the full cycle of setting up, tending, and expanding a permaculture garden, with plenty of hands-on time on the land.
You leave with a design framework you can apply immediately at home, whatever the size or stage of your plot.
Topics covered
- Starting your garden with methods like no-dig and raised beds
- Understanding ecological growing methods and implementing permaculture systems
- Healthy soils, composting, mycelium, and mulching techniques
- Growing abundant, healthy food through planting guilds, companion planting, and pest control
- Seed saving and seasonal planting
- Enhancing biodiversity to support wildlife and insects
Four days. One flat fee.
The current 2026 cohort is closing with its final weekend on 16-17 May. Register your interest for the next cohort and Karen will be in touch when dates are confirmed.
€140
For all four days
- Format
- Non-residential
- Duration
- 4 days, 2 weekends
- Tutor
- Karen Noon
- Current cohort
- 11-12 Apr + 16-17 May 2026
- Next cohort
- Dates TBC
Refreshments and biscuits provided. Please bring your own lunch to keep costs low.
“Just enjoyed the first weekend of a permaculture course run specially by Karen for the AIKB Gardening Club. Looking forward to the next session in June.”
About the Permaculture Gardening course
Do I need my own garden to attend?
What if I can only make one weekend?
Is this the same as the PDC?
How does this compare to the Introduction course?
The 2026 cohort is closing with its final weekend on 16-17 May. The next cohort dates are being confirmed. Register interest and Karen will be in touch when the next dates open.
Permaculture, applied to your own plot.
Four days, hands-on, on a 9-hectare working farm in Brittany. Register interest for the next cohort.
Priziac, Brittany, France+33 7 88 11 35 05·karen@afrinoonpermaculture.org