Permaculture Design Certification course, Bandipur Wildlife Sanctuary, South India

1st to 16th February 2025
Open Shell Farm, Bandipur, India
Instructors: Rico Zook & Malvikaa Solanki

This course is both for those who want a general though comprehensive introduction to sustainability and how to create it, as well as those wishing to get a complete and in-depth introduction to permaculture, all its component elements, and the process and methodologies for creating a holistic permaculture design. Our focus is to really imprint the foundations and understandings 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. A basic understanding of regenerative systems is that every site is unique; therefore every application of Permaculture must be site-specific. So, while we will give many different ideas and system examples, it is the ability to adapt these to specific site conditions, including cultural, social and economic ones, which will truly make something regenerative, i.e. sustainable.

Join us for this 16-day immerse journey at Open Shell Farm. A demonstration experimental site for regenerative living as we explore Permaculture through traditional lectures, learning exercises, discussions, multimedia, walkabouts, design challenges, and immersive hands-on projects. Open Shell is a working farm with many installed permaculture/regenerative systems, so there will be many good expamples, as well as engaement with adding to Open Shell's regenerative systems.


Cost: Indians rs.42,000, International & NRI rs.45,000 ($540)
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