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Get answers to your toughest permaculture design challenges with access to expert teachers, masterclasses, collaboration with other practitioners, special events and Q&As, and more.

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The Courses

Warning: You may experience the burden of abundance.

Build a comprehensive skill set for resilience with the Verge Academy’s core curriculum: six fresh, live 4-to-8-week Masterclasses each year. Here’s a sample of the inspiring Courses we’re offering in 2024

Resilient Garden Fundamentals: A 4-part Verge Workshop Series with Carmen Lamoureux

November 2023

Passive Solar Greenhouse Design Masterclass with Rob Avis

February 2024

Lawns to Food Forests Masterclass with Carmen Lamoureux

Spring 2024

Advanced Permaculture Design Course

May 2024

Permaculture Workshop Series: Community Engagement Edition

August 2024

Advanced Regenerative Gardener Certification

Fall 2024

Featured Bi-Weekly Live Events

Are you thinking about renting farmland to raise your herd? Wondering about the intricacies on agroforestry on your property? Debating whether to use hugel berms, swales, or a combination of both to control run-off? Curious about the safe practices for compost management?

These are just a few of the questions that might come up in our biweekly, themed Q&A sessions! We bring in experts from across a variety of disciplines to answer our students’ pressing questions on how to develop resilience and abundance in their lives and on their property.

As an Academy Member you help determine the themes we offer. Among this year’s topics:

Live Workshops & Q&A Sessions with Global Experts:

Syntropic Agroforestry with Klaus Lotz

Composting with Chickens with Sean Dembrosky

Coppice Agroforestry with Mark Krawczyk

Compost Science for Gardeners with Robert Pavlis

Grey Water Systems with Dr. Peter Coombes

Rainwater Harvesting with Michelle Avis

Community Design Clinics

Facilitated, collaborative, permaculture ‘think tanks’

Library of On Demand Courses

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rainwater storage tanks on the side of a building while featuring michelle avis and dr. peter coombes

advance home orcharding with stefan sobkowiak

perennial plant propagation on-demand course presented by Sean Dembrosky

Garden Design Strategies for Year-Round Nutrition On-Demand Course

renewable home energy solutions presented by dan chiras

resilient homes and homesteads on-demand course

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No need to commit to watching all of this awesome content on your screen. With the mobile podcast app, you can easily stream or download hours of content and take the Verge Vault anywhere!

Exclusive original audio and video content in podcast format

Bill Mollisons PDC lectures

Exclusive podcast recordings

All summit recordings

Passive Solar Greenhouse Summit

Permaculture Design Conference

Keystone Conversations

Online Community

Imagine: An online Community with no ads, bots, spam, or distractions!

Tired of all the annoyances and distraction of mainstream social media? Then you’ll want to hang out with other permies in the Verge Community platform. As a member you have access the private Insiders’ group with direct access to Verge faculty and fellow Insiders.

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$800

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Building Your Permaculture Property

Nov 2022 – Dec 2022

This live course is designed to guide you through the tried and true 5-step process of making effective decisions while developing your permaculture property; Be it a rural homestead or a suburban backyard. Based on the book of the same title, this course will teach you to:

-> Clarify your vision, values and resources

-> Diagnose your land and resources for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

-> Design your land and resources to meet your needs

-> Implement the right design

-> Establish benchmarks to monitor your success

Meet Your Instructors:

Rob Avis
Rob and Michelle left the oil and gas industry in 2008 to launch Verge Permaculture and Adaptive Habitat. Leveraging 20 years of combined experience in engineering, project management, ecological design, and sustainable technologies, Rob and Michelle recently left their urban home in Calgary and are currently developing their dream homestead in Central Alberta.
Alain D’Aoust Academy Specialist
Alain has spent the last decade working on local food projects, delivering school garden programs and developing community-based permaculture in the Seaway Valley of Eastern Ontario.

He and his family have since settled on a new rural homestead where they have designed and built a simple home and are developing their 10-acre parcel using the Building Your Permaculture Property process.

When he isn’t farming or collaborating on projects, he can usually be found in the kitchen preparing nutrient dense meals or paddling down a river somewhere.

Schedule:

Opening Session	Wednesday	November 2, 2022	3:30 – 4:30 MT
Session 1	Saturday	November 5, 2022	9:00 – 10:30 MT
Q&A	Wednesday	November 9, 2022	3:30 – 4:30 MT
Session 2	Saturday	November 12, 2022	9:00 – 10:30 MT
Q&A	Wednesday	November 16, 2022	3:30 – 4:30 MT
Session 3	Saturday	November 19, 2022	9:00 – 10:30 MT
Q&A	Wednesday	November 23, 2022	3:30 – 4:30 MT
Session 4	Saturday	November 26, 2022	9:00 – 10:30 MT
Q&A	Wednesday	November 30, 2022	3:30 – 4:30 MT
Session 5	Saturday	December 3, 2022	9:00 – 10:30 MT
Q&A	Wednesday	December 7, 2022	3:30 – 4:30 MT
Session 6	Saturday	December 10, 2022	9:00 – 10:30 MT
Q&A	Wednesday	December 14, 2022	3:30 – 4:30 MT
Session 7	Saturday	December 17, 2022	9:00 – 10:30 MT
Q&A	Wednesday	December 21, 2022	3:30 – 4:30 MT

Gardening for Storage Climates

April 19 – May 31, 2023

Plenty of folks come to permaculture from the perspective of building better gardens: Food forests, keyhole gardens, herb spirals, no dig, sheet mulching….

But what of the cold climate permie with a real need to feed themselves throughout the lean, frigid winter months?

Join Carmen Lamoureux as she walks you through key strategies for planning and implementing a main crop garden at any scale for year-long abundance and a full, nutrient dense plate; Even in the dead of winter!

Meet Your Instructor:

Carmen Lamoureux Lead Instructor
The lead instructor for the Verge PDC, Carmen has had a varied career, working for the Alberta government in the fields of sustainable resource management, forestry and privately in silviculture, soils and horticulture. As founder and owner of Calgary’s URBAN FARM SCHOOL, as well as the Urban Farm Permaculture Project, she is dedicated to helping emerging gardeners and permaculture enthusiasts gain the freedom, confidence and skills they need to live more abundant, sustainable and resilient lives. Having grown food organically for over 4 decades, Carmen gets excited about helping others cultivate great food, and in turn, great selves. (Verge PDC Grad 2013)

Schedule:

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