The Bonnie Ann Burnett Scholarship

For Verge’s Permaculture Design Certificate Course

Bonnie Ann Burnett was a wisewoman of many gifts, a quiet force of nature, who, in the last years of her life, achieved the fulfillment of her lifelong dream: moving onto her family’s Michigan homestead.

Her goal was to turn its neglected 160 acres and drafty 1920s farmhouse into a regenerative farm and healing retreat for artists, and she began researching permaculture. A friend’s gift of funding made it possible for her to attend the first Verge PDC in 2020, where her classmates were inspired by her presence, her commitment, and the vision that she fleshed out in her meticulously detailed final design project.

See Bonnie Ann’s written description of her design HERE.

But Bonnie Ann had barely six months to begin implementing that design before an aggressive brain cancer ended her dream, and her beloved homestead was exchanged for hospice. She passed out of this life on Sunday, April 4, 2021.

In her honor, her friends have funded the Bonnie Ann Burnett Permaculture Scholarship, to help give adults the opportunity, the training, the inspiration and the support to achieve their regenerative vision through Verge’s Permaculture Design Certification course. 

Are you, like Bonnie Ann, contemplating a new direction for your life?

…A new direction embracing food, water, and energy security while reducing your carbon footprint, healing the ecosystem around you, and providing you with a sustainable income…

…but you’re struggling to fund the training you need to achieve your dream? 

If this is your situation, this scholarship is open to you. We also have 2 scholarships sponsored by Tagari Publishing and the Permaculture Institute which include a physical copy of Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual by Bill Mollison.