Regenerative Landscape Design Online Interactive Course
How to Design, Build and Manage Polycultures for Landscapes, Gardens, and Farms.
Begins May 1, 2023
This is a 20-week, interactive online course with 10 modules.
This course is for anyone that has the desire to create for themselves or for others, regenerative landscapes that produce food and other resources for humans while enhancing biodiversity. The course builds towards a final design
project of your choice. You will complete the course with your design in hand and be ready to implement. However, If you are looking for information to work in tropical climates this course is not for you.
The course is designed for you to work through week by week. We estimate that you need around 6-8 hrs per week for the course. We understand that you may not always be able to attend live sessions and keep up with the pace of the course so will provide recordings of all of the sessions and allow time for you to ask questions in monthly live catch up sessions.
You will be provided with a wide range of unique material including design spreadsheets, planting schemes, extensive plant lists, videos from our gardens and weekly sessions with over 40 hrs of live questions and discussion time with Paul.
Course Overview | What's Included | Weekly Schedule
Module 1 - What are Polycultures?
Module 2 - Organizing Polycultures
Module 3 - Understanding Plants
Module 4 - How to Design Polycultures
Module 5 - Working with the Wild
Module 6 - Annual Polyculture Profiles
Module 7 - Perennial Polyculture Profiles
Module 8 - Site Design
Module 9 - Implementation - Site Preparation
Module 10 - Implement - Planting out and aftercare
Complete final design for review and assessment
Your Course Tutor - Paul Alfrey, founder of The Balkan Ecology Project and The Polyculture Project
Paul has worked with plants for over 20 years, first as an arborist in the UK where he ran a
local Tree Surgery business and following that 15 years of growing plants at the project. He has studied horticulture with the RHS , completed a number of PDC’s (that were hosted at the centre) and has read plant physiology, botany and pedology extensively. It is the years of
experience working with plants both wild and domesticated that has provided him with a unique perspective on how to work with polyculture to build regenerative landscapes , garden and farms that can provide food and other resources for humans while enhancing biodiversity, and it is this experience Paul would like to share with you during this course.
Your payment will be going to good use and we will be using every penny we earn from this program to invest directly into developing our demonstration and research gardens, specifically paying for boundary fencing (the wild boars and goats have a habit of eating some of our research). Your funds will contribute to us building a world class example of regenerative polyculture landscapes at our site and extending our ability to share this work with others. Our site is open to visitors and you are welcome to email us to arrange a visit to see what we are working on. 
