Food Forestry
Recording: Food Forestry (Sunday, May 31st)
Recording: Food Forestry (Tuesday, January 19th)
Create a Food Forest with Geoff Lawton (Bonus Content)
Food Forestry with Carmen Lamoureux
Week 6: Soil Continued, Trees & Food Forests Spring 2020
Chapter 2 – Food Forest
Create a Food Forest with Geoff Lawton
Establishing a Food Forest – Free Livestream with Geoff Lawton!
When Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunities Arrive, We Believe in Sharing Them… …And thanks to a surprise visitor, we’ve got the perfect opportunity to share! Presenting Geoff [...]
Recording: Cold Climate Forest Gardening [1/2] (Thurs, Jan 13)
Recording: Cold Climate Forest Gardening [2/2] (Sun, Jan 16)
Recording: Community Building Through Food (Tuesday, February 16)
Recording: Cold Climate Forest Gardens Part 2 (Thursday, January 21)
Nola Marion: Maple Forest Farms
From Urban Sprawl to Earth Repair: Josh Baker Brings Permaculture to Suburban Calgary
Josh Baker demonstrates a beautiful and functional approach to urban permaculture design at his home in Calgary, AB, incorporating many unique landscaping elements including a young food forest, [...]
Permablitzing Jasper Place High School
With the help and expertise of our Edmonton PDC students and Big Sky Permaculture, we recently installed a series of wicking beds at Jasper [...]
The Eco-Transformation of our Home
For the last three years we have been working hard to convert our Calgary inner city home into a thriving permaculture project complete with a front yard food forest, water-harvesting features, [...]
You can’t do permaculture design without a good base map
Urban Homestead For Sale
You’re Not Alone. And You Can Make a Difference. Here’s How… (2/3)
Get an Instructor Assigned to Your Project – Fall 2021
Final Design Project Info, Overview, FAQ – Fall 2021
Recording: Water [2/3] (Tues, Jan 4)
Recording: Farm-Scale Trees (Thurs, Jan 20)
Recording: Resilient Permaculture Gardening (Tues, Jan 25)
Recording: Community Design and Planning (Sun, Feb 6)
Week 6 Agenda: Updates, Reminders & To-Dos – Fall 2021
Week 7 Agenda: Updates, Reminders & To-Dos – Fall 2021
BYPP Summit
HKP Summit
Recording: Farmscale Trees (Tuesday, January 26)
Creating Gaia’s Garden – Lesson 3
Week 9: What Happened & What’s Coming Up
Week 8: What Happened & What’s Coming Up
Week 7: What Happened & What’s Coming Up
Online PDC Final Design Project – Geoff Watson
“NOTE: we no longer accept PDF’s for the final design project. All projects must be presented in video format. If you’re unsure how to do this or want more details on design [...]
Online PDC Final Design Project – Sarah Grupen
“NOTE: we no longer accept PDF’s for the final design project. All projects must be presented in video format. If you’re unsure how to do this or want more details on design [...]
Online PDC Final Design Project – Shiloh Zayac
Online PDC Final Design Project – Kathryn Heerema
Online PDC Final Design Project – Darren Anderson
Online PDC Final Design Project – Vera McDonald
Vera used her own property, 22 acres of climax boreal forest, but focused on the cleared property area around the house (approximately 2 acres – zones 1 and 2). This included water systems, [...]
Online PDC Final Design Project – Dana Prediger
Dana’s design is an inner city lot in the community of Wildwood, Calgary with approximately 6000 ft2 of workable space on a 8000ft2 property. There’s very little sun in the back, and [...]
Online PDC Final Design Project – Darla Hommestaad
“NOTE: we no longer accept PDF’s for the final design project. All projects must be presented in video format. If you’re unsure how to do this or want more details on design [...]
Online PDC Final Design Project – Rebecca Middlebrook
“NOTE: we no longer accept PDF’s for the final design project. All projects must be presented in video format. If you’re unsure how to do this or want more details on design [...]
Online PDC Final Design Project – Shelley Rankin
“NOTE: we no longer accept PDF’s for the final design project. All projects must be presented in video format. If you’re unsure how to do this or want more details on design [...]
Building Your Permaculture Property Book
Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary method to overcome overwhelm. The authors, engineers and a farmer, lead you – the land steward – through a clear five-step [...]
Online PDC Upgrade Offers (Deadline extended to April 9th)
What’s included in the online PDC Premium Upgrade Package?
Assignment: Create a Plant Guild
Assignment: Create a Plant Guild (Fall 2020)
Gardening Part 1B
Assignment: The Soil Crossword Puzzle (Fall 2020)
2020.04 Get an Instructor Assigned to Your Project (& Access Office Hours)
Get an Instructor Assigned to Your Project (& Access Office Hours) Fall 2020
2020.04 Design Project Info & Guidelines
Design Project Info & Guidelines Fall 2020
Recording: Content Re-Cap & Q&A (Tuesday, June 9th)
Recording: Content Re-Cap + Q&A
Recording: Trees (Thursday, May 28th)
Virtual Week-End Schedule
Online PDC Course Schedule Fall 2020
Ludovic Bourdon: Abundant by Nature
Adaptive Habitat Profiles The Farm Team, Part 2
Brandon Scherling: Resilient Living Systems
Dana Prediger
Shelley Rankin: Cold Creek Farm
Design
How a Resilient Home Addresses Global Risks
This week, I want to go over a case study in rainwater harvesting design. This example is special to me because it’s about how we partnered with my mother-in-law to transform her property into a [...]
How Rainwater Harvesting Transformed Our Urban Home, Part 1
This week, I want to go over a case study in rainwater harvesting design. This example is special to me because it’s about how we partnered with my mother-in-law to transform her property into a [...]
Seabuckthorn: A Permaculture Crop Spotlight
Looking for an ideal pioneer species for your cold climate permaculture food forest? I highly recommend seabuckthorn, a plant that grows quickly, fixes nitrogen into the ground, and produces [...]
What are the price options or packages for your PDC courses? What’s included in each?
What are the price option for the Online PDC Upgrade Packages? What’s included in each?
What’s included in the 2021 PDC Packages?
What’s included in the 2021 PDC Pro Package?
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How Permaculture Changed My Life, by Dustin Bajer
Welcome to “How Permaculture Changed My Life”, our blog series that features personal stories from students speaking on how permaculture shaped their careers and their lives. This [...]
ReGenerate Design
reGenerate Design offers urban design, permaculture, and placemaking services in the Calgary area at a range of scales; from urban yards and peri-urban acreages to community gardens, schools, and [...]
On Living Larders, Part 2: Types and Designs
As I mentioned in part 1 of this blog series, a living larder can be defined as living floral or faunal food sources that humans can harvest when needed. There are three types of living larders: [...]
How Permaculture Changed My Life, by Jon Berlie
Welcome to “How Permaculture Changed My Life”, our blog series that features personal stories from students speaking on how permaculture shaped their careers and their lives. This [...]
Melissa Valgardson & Frank Crawford: Passive House Consulting
4 Reasons Why Permaculture Businesses Fail to Produce Right Livelihoods
Last post, I spent some time dispelling the 3 main myths around permaculture consulting. (You can read it here). This time, we’ll delve into 4 reasons why a business in the regenerative field [...]
Ben Redwood: Organic Landscaping
Voices of Change Podcast: The Antifragile Property Series – Part 2
Here is Part 2 of my chat with Diego Footer from Creative Destruction and his Voices of Change podcast series, featuring “honest, hard conversations about farming, business, and life with [...]
Tim Wickstrom: Forging Permaculture Hand Tools, Part 3
Tim Wickstrom is a former Verge grad who has started his own forge business to make permaculture and garden hand tools (Check out his Alumni Profile here). Here is the final piece of his [...]
Tim Wickstrom: Forging Permaculture Hand Tools, Part 2
Tim Wickstrom is a former Verge grad who has started his own forge business to make permaculture and garden hand tools (Check out his Alumni Profile here). Here is the second piece of his [...]
Tim Wickstrom: Forging Permaculture Hand Tools, Part 1
Tim Wickstrom is a former Verge grad who has started his own forge business to make permaculture and garden hand tools (Check out his Alumni Profile here). Here is the first piece of his [...]
Verge Video Vault
We keep our favorite videos here, in our exclusive Video Vault, which is available only to students registered in our Premium level Permaculture Design Course.