Designed to fit the local environments, cultures and ecologies of the participants involved, encouraging each of them to become teachers and designers for permaculture systems in their own right. The courses bring positive outcomes for those seeking culturally appropriate sustainable change and can be undertaken by anyone interested in gaining skills and perspective for sustainable living and productivity.– regardless of background or education. We offer a range of programs from short introductory courses through to extensive customised packages that can be tailored to the needs of our clients and their stakeholders. The Permaculture Design Certificate Course is one of our most popular programs - Held over a period of 12 days, the curriculum for this course is based on subjects covered by Bill Mollison, widely regarded as the father of permaculture, in his book Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual. The course includes:

• Introduction to Permaculture
• Methods of design
• Pattern understanding
• Climate
• Trees & their energy transactions
• Designing against disaster; fire; drought
• Soil
• Water
• The humid tropics
• Dry lands strategies
• Humid cool to cold climates
• Aquacultures
• Earth working & repair
• Effective aid
• Right livelihoods
• Village development

Tailored Courses, for which EDGE 5 also offers consultation, include:

• Sustainable landscape design; for Urban &Rural Landscapes
• Home garden landscape design
• Natural food growing systems
• Village design
• Whole farm plan design
• Agro-forestry – short & long-term timber harvesting
• Shelter belt & windbreaks
• Erosion control & flood prevention
•  Rain Water harvesting
• Wild fire minimization

Greg Knibbs taught with two of the worlds best and most traveled teachers and consultants Bill Mollison – the co founder of permaculture and Geoff Lawton from greening the desert at the Melbourne University. pdc_brochure_