Making money from permaculture?

What are the ways to "make money from" permaculture? I've realised this is the path I want to go down, but sadly money is required for my continued existance.

Is there any way do be doing permaculture and also making money at the same time?

Permaculture as a career, what I have bumped into are the teaching permaculture design courses and doing the actual designing for people. There are other stuff too probably, but I have no insight on those. Other Permies will soon chime in on this!

My plan is to use the permaculture methods to lower the amount of money that I need to exist and make the money from selling stuff that I produce as in herbs (tea mixes, salves), wool stuff from the sheep, eggs from the chickens, jams and other preservatives from the garden and of course the fresh produce.

But the main idea is to lower the amount of money I need.

Teaching and designing gardens are the ones I hear about most.

I feel those careers would require a PDC.

The obvious is to grow plants, have a market garden, and/or sell at farmers' markets.

Raise animals and sell animal products.

Do agile work:

https://permies.com/f/199/agile-work

Start a Cottage Industry:

https://permies.com/f/197/ci

Here are some threads that might give you or others some ideas:

https://permies.com/t/189600/productive-downtime/save-planet-earning-coin#1560177

https://permies.com/t/72776/Making-money-Internet-selling-trash

https://permies.com/t/16339/making-marketing-craft-Share-work

https://permies.com/t/153575/charging-coppice-pollard-work

Help Paul with world domination.....https://permies.com/t/210573/find-Paul-world-virtual-assistants

I know a young person who wants to go to college for Environmental Studies so they can help the world.  I think there will be 100,000 other students in those fields and all will be scrabbling for work.

I've tried to tell him that he can maybe have more influence on the world as an engineer, lawyer, business person, etc and secretly implement environmental stuff in their job.  Many decisions are made in companies that can be pushed one way or another by someone on the inside who is just "doing the work".  

What's that have to do with this?

I think that if you want to do the true traditional "make money from permaculture" you're limited to some sort of niche food growing, site design, education or permaculture facility management sort of job.  I'm sure there are more but there aren't many of those positions.  And there aren't many entry level ones either.

But, as Saana said, using permaculture to reduce your income needs will free your time up from work.  Or allow you to work in lower paying but more soul building fields.  Or build the street cred to do other permaculture jobs.

Once you've dived (dove? diven?) into permaculture, and you know all the ways that it speaks to you, you'll find your own niches.  After time those niches can turn into income producing streams.  

Helping at Permies (as Nancy mentions) is also a great way.  There are lots of ways to make money by playing around in the Digital Market.