Permaculture Design Certification course, Darjeeling India

23rd  Nov. to 8th Dec. 2024
Aapbotay Busty, Mineral Springs, Darjeeling, India
Instructors: Rico Zook, Sailesh Sharma, Duhita Ganguly, + local Guest Presenters

Located in 1,000's of acres of organic forest garden cultivated by 467 family farmer cooperative, his course is the longest running annual PDC in Asia. In this course we focus on the foundations and understandings of regenerative systems so that students are able to think through to understand what is needed, than how to adapt and do the needfuls for their specific situation and site conditions. This course seeds a holistic designer's perspective into the student’s consciousness.

Using a variety of learning techniques and strategies this course presents Permaculture as an integrated holistic design approach to create sustainable human habitat. Course time will consist of traditional lectures, guest presentations, group discussions, games, exercises, hands-on projects, photos, movies and site visits. While we will focus on land systems, many discussions and examples will be explored of applications in the 'Invisible Structures'. These are the social, cultural, political, and economic structures we create as humans that powerfully shape much of our world today.
Not only will the course be about Permaculture, but it will also model it by its structure and the environment we create together during the course.

Mineral Springs, Dabaipani is an internationally certified organic area and fair-trade labeled collective of 456 small farmers since 2002. The farmers are joined together as Mineral Spring Sanjukta Vikas Sanstha, a farmers cooperative that collectively markets small farmer’s organic tea in the international market, which is grown as a polyculture crop. This course is located in one of these traditional villages in the beautiful Darjeeling hills, amongst 1,000's of acres of forest garden, with participants staying with local farm families, and our classroom is the village community centre.

Phone: +91 9800 86 9959
Cost: Indians rs.42,000, International & NRI rs.49,000   ~$590
Accommodation is Homestay w/local farm family
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