What Does Verge Offer?
- Over 12 years of teaching experience
- More than 2000 graduates from our permaculture courses
- Close to 100% completion rate of our online courses
- Hundreds of courses, events and free resources
- Dozens of green businesses we’ve inspired and consulted with
Discover the Training, Tools, and Support for Building a Resilient Life of Meaning and Abundance…
While You Create Positive Change for Your Community and the World!
Tools and Training to Live Well, Make a Difference, and Heal the Land
We don’t need to tell you about the impacts of a changing climate. Drought, extreme weather, reduced access to energy, food and water, and more are challenging more people each day. The only question is –
What can you do about it? How can you create a sustainable, resilient, meaningful life in such uncertain times?
We’re guessing that – since you’ve landed here – you’re looking for practical, real-world solutions. Holistic solutions that help you create a life of health and abundance while restoring the land and water around you. Integrated solutions that you can act upon, within a strategic plan that makes sense. Solutions like…
Growing nutrient-dense food in your own gardens and/or greenhouse
Harvesting a ready supply of pure water for drinking, cooking, or anything else
Generating your own renewable energy at home
Raising livestock for year-round eggs, milk, and more
Putting up and storing food in your own root cellar
Helping others in your own permaculture design consulting business
Tools and Training to Live Well, Make a Difference, and Heal the Land
We’re guessing that – since you’ve landed here – you’re looking for practical, real-world solutions like…
- Growing nutrient-dense food in your own gardens and/or greenhouse
- Harvesting a ready supply of pure water for drinking, cooking, or anything else
- Generating your own renewable energy at home
- Raising livestock for year-round eggs, milk, and more
- Putting up and storing food in your own root cellar
- Helping others in your own permaculture design consulting business
Verge Permaculture provides these solutions based on proven science and more than a decade of experience: since 2010, we’ve built two successful homesteads, consulted with hundreds of clients, and trained thousands of students.
Whether you’re taking the first steps of your journey or looking for ongoing training in building your resilient homestead, we can guide and support you with our introductory Permaculture Design Course and Permaculture Academy, featuring Masterclasses, free webinars, design clinics, and more.
Kudos From Our Colleagues
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Over the past five years I have watched Rob and Michelle build Verge Permaculture from the ground up and I am proud to say that Verge Permaculture is now one of North America's premier permaculture design and education companies.
Director of The Permaculture Institute
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Every so often someone comes along who seems to change the game. In this case, Alberta’s good fortune is doubly so, as it is a dynamic husband and wife who have changed people’s lives in service of environmental stewardship. As engineers-turned-sustainability designers, Rob and Michelle Avis have brought back Permaculture from a global learning expedition and innovated—adapted tools to Alberta conditions—sustaining not only their own small business but so much more…
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Rob and Michelle’s continuous passion for seeking out innovative approaches and finding ways to disseminate valuable information in the community with a keen eye for business sense has been a game-changer in Calgary, and across Alberta.
The Meaningful Work Project
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Rob is a dynamic, informative speaker who clearly knows his subject matter. As an engineer and an ecologist, Rob offers a unique and refreshing perspective.
Solar Energy Society of Alberta
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Owner/Operator of Polyface Farms
Rob & Michelle - I'm proud of your work and your vision. What a delight to see young people like you embrace and then lend your savvy talents to this movement.
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Author of The Urban Farmer
Rob and Michelle truly inspired me in so many ways. It's their passion for social change, that keeps me inspired to keep on given er'.
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Author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
If you want to schedule an event with them, or just attend one, I recommend them very, very highly.
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Dryland Solutions Inc.
Michelle, Rob and the rest of the Verge crew dedicate an enormous amount of care and energy to make life-changing educational opportunities available to their community.
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I've never seen a permaculture endeavour marry business and permaculture together so well and I've rarely met finer people in my life.
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Looking to Create a Sustainable World? Start Here…
We provide solid, proven, real-world theory combined with hands-on, dirt-under-the-fingernails training! Training that you can put to use right away in your own home or garden to feed your family or to create a sustainable income.
Training that puts the power for change in your hands…
Browse our site, check out our Permaculture Design Certification Course, Permaculture Academy online Community and free resources, meet our team, sign up for our newsletter …and discover just how you can begin to transform your life, your land, and your world!
Rob & Michelle Avis, and the whole team at Verge
