Why this Course?

Permaculture Design Meets Soil Science | Never before has a PDC convened over 70 instructors from 22 countries, from permaculture elders to soil food web consultants, prepared for an international cohort of learners. The Sil FooD Web PDC is the only program that integrates permaculture alongside Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web approach.

  • 70+ Expert Instructors

    72 hours of instruction from the world's permaculture elders. Only in the Soil Food Web Permaculture course will you find such diversity of knowledge represented.

  • 22 Countries Represented

    Enjoy an inclusive and diverse classroom with content developed by a team of 70+ permaculture educators from 22 countries around the world!

  • Internationally Recognized Certificate

    The Permiculture Association has endorsed our program, meaning graduation from our course earns you a certificate from their organization & access to their community for one year.

  • April 13 - June 30, 2026

    This 12-week permaculture Design Certification experience is designed to allow you to learn while real life unfolds all around you. Course sessions will run weekly from April 13th - June 30th with two live session options.

  • Legacy Course Honoring Graham Bell & Elaine Ingham

    This program was co-created by Graham Bell - one of permaculture's most beloved elders and the first diploma holder in the UK - in collaboration with Delvin Solkinson and Dr. Elaine Ingham. Completing this course was among Graham's final wishes. His memory is a blessing and his legacy lives on in every lesson.

Learn from Nature

If you're looking for a robust overview of permaculture & renegerative design, this course is perfect for you!

Discover practical ways to understand and apply nature’s wisdom in your daily life. By combining scientific observation with time-tested traditions of regenerative living, this course reveals powerful new possibilities for creating healthier lives, thriving landscapes, and meaningful livelihoods.

Permaculture principles offer a practical framework for designing systems that work in harmony with nature. Through these methods, you’ll build the skills and confidence to become a more capable designer in everyday life—whether you’re planning a garden, organizing a project, or shaping a long-term vision for your home or community.

Permaculture provides accessible, affordable, and achievable solutions that can be applied anywhere—from homes and gardens to farms, businesses, and community initiatives. Learn how to meet more of your own needs while cultivating resilience, productivity, and abundance in a rapidly changing world.

Permaculture is a comprehensive design science for building resilient landscapes, livelihoods, and communities rooted in the principles of living systems. This course brings that science to life through the lens of the Soil Food Web.

Developed in partnership with the Permaculture Association (UK), this certificate covers 72 hours of instruction across 12 weeks of self-paced content, weekly live sessions, hands-on design projects, and a global peer community you'll carry with you long after graduation

Curriculum Overview

72 Permaculture Elders | 12 chapters | 3 Sections | 2 Live Instructors | Weekly Live Sessions | Average 6 hours of self-paced lessons each week | One living system.

  • Permaculture Essentials

    Part 1 | Week 1 - 4 | April 12 - May 5

    Think like nature. Upgrade your ability to make effective, efficient, and ethical decisions using the permaculture design toolkit. Recognize nature’s pattern language. Soak up the Soil Food Web science of ecology and biology. Map a meaningful place in your home, garden, farm, or project.

    | Chapter 1 Permaculture Foundations | Chapter 2 Design Tools & Frameworks | Chapter 3 Designing with Patterns | Design with Soil |

  • Ecological Essentials

    Part 2 | Week 5 - 8 | May 10 - June 2

    Work with nature. Level up your ecological literacy with regenerative methods, strategies, and techniques for gardening and farming. Learn permaculture approaches for working with animals, trees and wild spaces. Understand how nature is designed for water and apply these principles in different scales and climates.

    | Chapter 5 Design with Plants | Chapter 6 Design with Plants & Animals | Chapter 7 Design with Water | Chapter 8 Design with Climate |

  • Design Essentials

    Part 3 | Week 9 - 12 | June 7 - June 30

    Apply nature’s lessons. Study new approaches to resource use for resilience and adaptability to changing climatic conditions. Meet the needs, opportunities, and challenges of cool climates, topics and drylands. Bring permaculture into life and livelihood. Design a meaningful place in your home, garden, farm, or project.

    |Chapter 9 Cool Climate Design | Chapter 10 Dryland Design | Chapter 11 Tropical Design | Chapter 12 Social Permaculture |

Earn your Permaculture Design Certificate and Design a Life Rooted in Living Systems

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12 chapters. One living system.

From foundational ethics to dryland design, tropical agroforestry to social permaculture - this certificate walks you through the full arc of permaculture design thinking, grounded in real soil and real communities. Learn through weekly live sessions, group activities, take home design projects, and self-paced video content.

  • 72 hr Permaculture Associate Certified Curriculum

  • 12 week cohort experience (starts April 13th)

  • Mentor support on your permaculture design project

  • Exclusive access to SFW community forums

  • 1 year membership to Permaculture Association

~ Guided by Practitioners Who Live This Work ~

Delvin Solkinson

Lead Permaculture Instructor

Community gardener, student and teacher from British Columbia, Canada, Delvin has done a Permaculture Design Certificate, Diploma and Masters Degree with Bill Mollison, the co-originator of Permaculture. He has taken many in-person programs including 13 advanced courses and 14 teacher trainings with Permaculture elders like David Holmgren, Rosemary Morrow, Larry Santoyo, Robin Clayfield, Geoff Lawton, Scott Pittman, Starhawk, Toby Hemenway, Looby Macnamara, Michael Becker, Jude Hobbs, Doug and Sam Bullock. Ongoing training included three additional Permaculture Education Diplomas, numerous Permaculture Design Certificate Courses, and an experimental Doctoral Degree with the Permaculture Academy. He is currently a Diploma Tutor with the Permaculture Association and Senior Diploma Tutor with Permakultur Danmark. Delvin has co-taught 27 permaculture design courses over the last 20 years. He is an accredited teacher with Permaculture Institute, Permaculture Association, Permaculture Institute North America and Permaculture Research Institute.

Kavi Reddy

Permaculture Instructor

Kavi Reddy is a permaculture educator and community organizer who constantly actualizes solutions for the benefit of Earth today and in the future. She stumbled upon Permaculture in 2013, earned her PDC in 2017, and has advanced permaculture certifications in landscape mapping, passive rainwater harvesting design, and soil fertility building. Kavi has learned from and taught alongside many Permaculture elders in the U.S. and India including Jude Hobbs, Narsanna Koppula, Clea Chandmal, Robyn Francis, Rico Zook, and Kelda Lorax. Academically, Kavi holds three degrees from UC Berkeley, focusing on the history of agriculture, colonialism, and food systems transformations. Her career spans social entrepreneurship, regenerative agriculture, climate technology innovation, and non-profit management. In her role as Director of Operations at the Soil Food Web School, Kavi builds programs and partnerships that further access to regenerative ecology & soil fertility education around the world. In her personal life, Kavi loves teaching Permaculture & Regenerative Thinking to middle & high school students at her alma mater The Athenian School in the Bay Area, CA.

Can't wait to see you in the course!

“Though the problems of the world are becoming increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.” - Bill Mollison

To earn the PDC certificate, you must attend at least 80% of the 1 ½ hr weekly live sessions, complete a small-scale permaculture design project, and complete 4 ½ hrs a week of self-paced learning. The course also includes an annual membership in the Permaculture Association.
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