permafunK ​

Permaculture & Regenerative Agriculture
Education & Ecological Design

Education

WE offer Permaculture & Regenerative Agriculture classes, hands-on workshops for children & adults & Permaculture Design Courses in Northern California, Spain & now also in Hawaii.

WE work with other local organizations & schools like Butte College Sustainability Resource Center, the Organic Vegetable Project at Chico State University Farm, Fungi Perfecti, Redwood Seed company, Grub Education & others, to bring Permaculture & Regenerative Agriculture Education to our communities.

Permaculture Design Certification Trainings in 2023:

- Santa Cruz Permaculture Design Certification Course fall 2023

Bilingual & Focused on Urban Solutions, Climate Change & Regeneration
Details & Registration

- Online Permaculture Design
A guided step by step, personalized course to fit all climates & levels.
30 days of contents that you can complete in 2 months in your own time.
Guided hands-on activities for you to adapt to your specific climate & circumstance, interviews with regeneration teachers all over the world, pdf's, slide shows, videos & final design map exercise
Details & Registration

2015 PDC Video to the left & 2016 PDC video to the right. We hope you enjoy them!

Ecological Design Services

We also provide ecological design consultations & services for your private land, community or school garden & urban plot. We can help you make your dreams come true with walk and talk consultations, design maps and implementation work.

Our Vision & Mission

We want to see more Permaculture schools so our children can access this from an early age so we are working on building a curriculum for them.
We share with others what we know so they can life a beautiful, friendly & sustainable life.
We offer ecological designs for our neighbors & community: private land designs, community/school garden designs & urban designs.
We walk our talk. We life our work day to day. We enjoy serving the land & our community as this brings us more happiness personally too.
We are committed to bring in service of the land & our community, creating education & designs that help people move towards sustainability & more respectful practices with the land.
We are a living university. We make mistakes as a part of our process.
We create our path as we walk it being flexible to change and responding openly to constructive criticisms and the communities ideas/needs.
We envision a community that has more sustainable education for all & practices more holistic approaches for the ecology & economy.

Our Holistic Goals

To educate children & adults on climate solutions & ecology design.
To promote organic & regenerative agricultural practices.
To create FOOD, ENERGY, WATER SECURITY & COMMUNITY RESILIENCE.
To bring practical tools to challenged community groups.
To create Permaculture Education with other organizations.
To move towards resilient habits & peace communities.
To document educational videos & materials.

Educational Approaches

Hands-on learning & community celebration.
Creating a safe container where coming into leadership & problem solving is embraced for all the participants.
To apply group dynamics, eco psychology & sustainable community techniques.