Get Your PDC with Boulder Permaculture This Summer and Fall
Design Real Landscapes, Build Real Skills — Boulder’s PDC Returns in 2026
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to earn your Permaculture Design Certificate, this is it. Boulder Permaculture’s renowned PDC is back for 2026, offering one of the most hands-on, community-rooted certification programs available in North America — and early bird pricing makes it a compelling opportunity to act now.
What to Expect
Spanning more than 100 hours of blended learning across a carefully paced every-other-weekend format, this course takes permaculture off the page and into the field. Participants move through the full PINA-certified 72+ hour curriculum — covering soil regeneration, water harvesting, food forest design, natural building, and community resilience — while touring real permaculture projects across Boulder County. Experienced local designers lead each session, grounding abstract principles in the landscapes participants can actually see and touch.
The course’s standout element is a facilitated small-group design project. Each participant contributes 10–15 hours of out-of-class work to develop a complete permaculture plan for a real site. This is learning by doing at its most meaningful — not a theoretical exercise, but a practical design process that builds the systems-thinking and site-analysis skills you’ll carry into every future project.
Practical Details
- Dates: Saturday, July 11 – Sunday, October 11, 2026 (every other weekend, holiday exceptions apply)
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA (in-person)
- Organizer: Boulder Permaculture, certified by the Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA)
- Cost: $1,600 early bird (until March 20) / $1,800 regular
This format is designed with working professionals in mind — intensive enough to go deep, spaced enough to integrate what you learn.
Why It Matters
Permaculture design is how we move from good intentions to regenerative action. Programs like this one don’t just certify — they build lasting networks of practitioners who go on to transform homesteads, farms, urban lots, and communities. In a region as ecologically dynamic as Boulder County, learning within that landscape adds a dimension no classroom can replicate. This is how the global permaculture movement grows: one skilled, connected designer at a time.
How to Get Involved
- Register early via the link below to secure the $1,600 early bird rate before March 20, 2026.
- Share this with someone ready to level up — a homesteader, farmer, educator, or community organizer who’s been asking about permaculture certification.
- Come with a site in mind — the design project works best when you arrive with a real place you want to transform.
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