The Live Permaculture Design Certification & Coaching Program is designed for people who want to move beyond collecting regenerative ideas and begin learning how to design complete, thoughtful, resilient projects. The program can serve people designing for themselves or their business and community, as well as people who want to use permaculture professionally.
Who This Program Is For:
- Homeowners, Homesteaders & Landowners - For people who own or steward land and want to create a more resilient home, homestead, farmstead, food system, retreat, or regenerative landscape. You may already have land—or be preparing to purchase it—and want the knowledge and design process to make better long-term decisions.
- Farmers & Agricultural Entrepreneurs - For farmers and aspiring farmers who want to diversify, regenerate, redesign, or strengthen an existing agricultural project. This may include regenerative farming, orchards, agroforestry, livestock systems, value-added enterprises, education, events, agritourism, farm-to-table experiences, or other diversified land-based businesses.
- Aspiring Permaculture Designers & Regenerative Professionals - For people who want to build the skills and confidence to help design projects for other people. Participants learn not only permaculture systems, but also how to move through a complete design process—from context and assessment through constraints and opportunities, conceptual design, master planning, rationale, and presentation.
- Mission, Ministry & Community Leaders - For people working with churches, ministries, nonprofits, community organizations, missions, cooperatives, intentional communities, and other groups that want to develop land and programs around food, resilience, education, stewardship, community building, or ecological restoration.
- School, Campus & Institutional Leaders - For teachers, school administrators, colleges, universities, corporate campuses, retreat centers, organizations, and institutional leaders responsible for designing or improving a campus, property, educational landscape, or land-based program. The program can help participants think beyond individual gardens or landscape elements and instead consider how land, food, water, education, programming, community, business, and long-term management work together as one designed system.
- Regenerative Entrepreneurs & Project Builders - For people developing businesses, educational programs, retreat experiences, demonstration sites, farms, consulting practices, or other mission-driven projects where ecological and human systems need to work together.
More Than a Course: A Year of Design, Mentorship & Application
The 2027 program is built around a simple idea: Permaculture is learned most deeply by actually designing something. Participants move through the year with a real project while learning the ecological knowledge, design processes, systems thinking, and practical tools needed to develop that project thoughtfully.
The program combines:
The heart of the program is the Sun & Bloom Permaculture Design Process — a practical framework for moving from vision to observation, from observation to analysis, and from analysis to a clear conceptual design.
The 2027 program is built around a simple idea: Permaculture is learned most deeply by actually designing something. Participants move through the year with a real project while learning the ecological knowledge, design processes, systems thinking, and practical tools needed to develop that project thoughtfully.
The program combines:
- Yearlong Permaculture Education (20 INTERACTIVE LECTURES) - A complete progression through ecological foundations, design process, soil, water, plants, food systems, animals, energy, materials, social systems, enterprise, and master conceptual design.
- A Real Design Project Participants apply what they are learning directly to a property, farm, homestead, community project, campus, organization, business, or other approved project.
- One-on-One Coaching (11 LIVE SESSIONS) - Participants receive individual time with Lucian to work through questions, challenges, decisions, and the development of their project.
- Mastermind Design Consulting (11 LIVE SESSIONS) - Throughout the year, participants return regularly to group Mastermind sessions where projects are discussed, questions are explored, and designs receive feedback as they develop.
- Visiting Faculty - Selected practitioners and specialists bring additional professional and field experience into particular areas of the curriculum.
- Graduate & Practitioner Project Spotlights - Recorded conversations and project features allow participants to see how permaculture thinking is being expressed through real farms, businesses, organizations, designs, enterprises, and careers.
- Final Master Conceptual Design & Presentation - The year culminates in participants bringing their learning together into a coherent project design and presenting their work.
The heart of the program is the Sun & Bloom Permaculture Design Process — a practical framework for moving from vision to observation, from observation to analysis, and from analysis to a clear conceptual design.
What You Can Achieve In This Program:
By applying yourself to the course structure, you can complete this program with:
This program is designed to help you move from scattered ideas into a grounded design process.
By the end, permaculture will not just be something you have learned about. It will be something you can begin to apply with clarity.
By applying yourself to the course structure, you can complete this program with:
- A strong foundation in permaculture ethics, principles, and systems thinking
- A repeatable design process you can use again and again
- A deeper understanding of soil, water, plants, animals, energy, materials, people, and livelihood systems
- A real conceptual design for your land, community, ministry, business, or professional portfolio
- A clearer sense of what to do first, what to phase later, and why
- A Permaculture Design Certificate, if enrolled in a certification track and all requirements are completed
This program is designed to help you move from scattered ideas into a grounded design process.
By the end, permaculture will not just be something you have learned about. It will be something you can begin to apply with clarity.
The Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program is Limited to 21 seats.
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“Imagine shaping a place, project, or community that is resilient, abundant, productive, and beautiful. Whether you are stewarding land, building a farm or business, designing for others, leading a school, ministry, campus, or community initiative, your vision becomes clearer, your systems work together, and you grow more confident in the future you are building. Now take the first step in that direction.”
~ Lucian Toma ~ |
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TUITION - 2027 Live Online Track
A yearlong learning, design, mentorship, and certification experience
Your tuition includes the complete yearlong Permaculture Design Certification + Coaching Program, including:
A yearlong learning, design, mentorship, and certification experience
Your tuition includes the complete yearlong Permaculture Design Certification + Coaching Program, including:
- 20 live online teaching sessions + group discussions
- 11 Mastermind Design Consulting sessions
- 11 one-on-one design coaching sessions
- 9 applied design exercises with professional feedback
- The complete course learning library, presentations, readings, resources, and selected digital books
- Visiting Faculty sessions with experienced regenerative practitioners
- Graduate & Practitioner Project Spotlights featuring real-world projects, businesses, and applications
- Live Q&A and instructor guidance throughout the year
- Support as you develop your own permaculture design project
- Final Master Conceptual Design, Design Report, and Project Presentation
- Permaculture Design Certification upon successful completion of the program requirements
Additional Structure & Support
You'll also receive:
You'll also receive:
- A comprehensive course blueprint with dates, topics, assignments, and milestones
- Calendar invitations and scheduling support
- Email and text reminders to help you stay engaged
- Access to course recordings and supporting resources
- Digital presentations, readings, exercises, and selected books/resources
- Ongoing access to the course learning library during the program
- Opportunities to learn from other students' projects throughout the year
The Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program is Limited to 21 seats only
Prefer to Learn at Your Own Pace?
The Live Certification + Design Coaching Program is the heart of our 2027 offering, but we also understand that some students need a different level of participation.
Self-Paced Permaculture Design Certification Track
Want the complete learning library and certification pathway but don't need the yearlong live classroom, Masterminds, or ongoing one-on-one coaching? The Self-Paced Certification Track gives you access to the recorded 2026 course and supporting learning library, the nine required design exercises, and the opportunity to develop and submit your own Master Conceptual Design, Design Report, and Final Presentation. After completing the required work, you'll receive a final project review and design discussion before certification.
Regular Tuition: $1,200
Content Library / Self-Guided Learning
If you simply want to study permaculture deeply and work through the material independently, you can purchase access to our extensive 2026 recorded course library. This includes the 27 recorded 2026 lessons, selected additional Sun and Bloom recordings, nine course modules, presentations, readings, exercises, and digital resources. You can use the material to guide your own project at your own pace, but this option does not include certification, project review, instructor feedback, live classes, Masterminds, or one-on-one coaching.
Regular Tuition: $700
The Live Certification + Design Coaching Program is the heart of our 2027 offering, but we also understand that some students need a different level of participation.
Self-Paced Permaculture Design Certification Track
Want the complete learning library and certification pathway but don't need the yearlong live classroom, Masterminds, or ongoing one-on-one coaching? The Self-Paced Certification Track gives you access to the recorded 2026 course and supporting learning library, the nine required design exercises, and the opportunity to develop and submit your own Master Conceptual Design, Design Report, and Final Presentation. After completing the required work, you'll receive a final project review and design discussion before certification.
Regular Tuition: $1,200
Content Library / Self-Guided Learning
If you simply want to study permaculture deeply and work through the material independently, you can purchase access to our extensive 2026 recorded course library. This includes the 27 recorded 2026 lessons, selected additional Sun and Bloom recordings, nine course modules, presentations, readings, exercises, and digital resources. You can use the material to guide your own project at your own pace, but this option does not include certification, project review, instructor feedback, live classes, Masterminds, or one-on-one coaching.
Regular Tuition: $700
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Not Ready Yet?
Try our Free PDF Resource: "REGENERATIVE PROJECT CLARITY & DIRECTION: A Mission, Vision & Goals Framework for Land-Based Projects" - Clear step-by-step guidance - Exercise prompts to avoid costly rework - Works for homesteads, farms, pro projects, campus projects and ministries Get started on a project and get a sense of our work from this free resource. |
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Program Journey: Themes and Topics
The course is organized into 9 major learning modules that build from foundations into design practice and then into the systems that support regenerative projects. Basic Knowledge Foundations We begin with the foundations of permaculture: definitions, ethics, principles, ecological literacy, patterns in nature, succession, climate, bioregions, and human settlement patterns. This part of the course helps students build a shared language and a deeper way of seeing. The Sun & Bloom Permaculture Design Process Students learn the full design process from beginning to end. This includes vision, mission, goals, holistic context, regional context, landscape analysis, constraints and opportunities, conceptual design options, master conceptual design, design rationale, and final presentation. This process gives students a repeatable framework they can use for home landscapes, homesteads, farms, community projects, client projects, and future professional design work. Soil & Fertility Systems Soil is the foundation of regenerative design. We study soil as a living system and explore practical fertility-building strategies, including compost, vermicompost, mulch, cover crops, biological inputs, soil testing, soil observation, and long-term soil stewardship. |
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Water Harvesting & Conservation Systems
Water design begins with understanding how water moves through a landscape. We explore watersheds, runoff, infiltration, roof catchment, water storage, slope, contour, earthworks, tanks, greywater, irrigation, and design strategies that help slow, spread, sink, store, and wisely use water.
Plants & Food Systems
We explore annual gardens, perennial systems, orchards, food forests, agroforestry, plant guilds, pollinator plants, culinary and medicinal herbs, mushrooms, and plant selection by function. Students learn to see plants not just as crops, but as living design elements that provide food, fertility, shade, habitat, medicine, beauty, microclimate, and resilience.
Animal Integration
Animals can support fertility, food, disturbance, pest management, pollination, and ecological health when they are integrated thoughtfully. We explore animal needs, ethical care, chickens, goats and livestock where appropriate, pollinators, manure systems, bedding systems, fencing, shelter, water, movement, and matching animals to land and human capacity.
Waste, Energy & Natural Materials
We explore how waste can become resource, how energy moves through a site, and how natural materials can support more resilient and lower-impact systems. This includes composting, nutrient cycling, biomass, appropriate technology, passive design thinking, and basic natural building concepts.
Regenerative Social & Entrepreneurial Permaculture
Permaculture applies to people, communities, institutions, and livelihoods as much as it applies to soil and plants. We explore social systems, community resilience, right livelihood, regenerative entrepreneurship, project planning, and the human capacity needed to support long-term projects.
Master Design Projects
The final part of the course brings everything together. Students refine their project vision, complete the design exercises, develop their master conceptual design, organize their design rationale, and prepare for final review and presentation.
Water design begins with understanding how water moves through a landscape. We explore watersheds, runoff, infiltration, roof catchment, water storage, slope, contour, earthworks, tanks, greywater, irrigation, and design strategies that help slow, spread, sink, store, and wisely use water.
Plants & Food Systems
We explore annual gardens, perennial systems, orchards, food forests, agroforestry, plant guilds, pollinator plants, culinary and medicinal herbs, mushrooms, and plant selection by function. Students learn to see plants not just as crops, but as living design elements that provide food, fertility, shade, habitat, medicine, beauty, microclimate, and resilience.
Animal Integration
Animals can support fertility, food, disturbance, pest management, pollination, and ecological health when they are integrated thoughtfully. We explore animal needs, ethical care, chickens, goats and livestock where appropriate, pollinators, manure systems, bedding systems, fencing, shelter, water, movement, and matching animals to land and human capacity.
Waste, Energy & Natural Materials
We explore how waste can become resource, how energy moves through a site, and how natural materials can support more resilient and lower-impact systems. This includes composting, nutrient cycling, biomass, appropriate technology, passive design thinking, and basic natural building concepts.
Regenerative Social & Entrepreneurial Permaculture
Permaculture applies to people, communities, institutions, and livelihoods as much as it applies to soil and plants. We explore social systems, community resilience, right livelihood, regenerative entrepreneurship, project planning, and the human capacity needed to support long-term projects.
Master Design Projects
The final part of the course brings everything together. Students refine their project vision, complete the design exercises, develop their master conceptual design, organize their design rationale, and prepare for final review and presentation.
How We Define Permaculture In This Program:
For us, Permaculture is more than gardening or farming — it is a holistic systems-design approach for creating and managing regenerative human habitats, communities, and institutions. At its heart, permaculture is about designing spaces and relationships that meet evolving human needs while regenerating the ecosystems that support all life. We see permaculture as:
By the end, permaculture will not just be something you “know about.” It will be something you live, embody, and apply to your land, your livelihood, and your community.
For us, Permaculture is more than gardening or farming — it is a holistic systems-design approach for creating and managing regenerative human habitats, communities, and institutions. At its heart, permaculture is about designing spaces and relationships that meet evolving human needs while regenerating the ecosystems that support all life. We see permaculture as:
- A science of design — rooted in ecology, patterns, and systems thinking.
- A practice of regeneration — building soils, harvesting water, growing food, integrating animals, using regenerative materials and restoring biodiversity.
- A way of living and leading — shaping communities, economies, and cultures that are resilient, ethical, and life-giving.
- A homestead, farm or farmstead;
- A consulting or professional design practice;
- A school, campus, organization, ministry, or community project;
- A regenerative enterprise, retreat, or land-based business.
- Observe and analyze natural and human systems.
- Design food, water, soil, shelter and energy systems that mirror the resilience of ecosystems.
- Build social and entrepreneurial structures that support thriving communities.
- Integrate ecological, cultural, and spiritual dimensions into a living design.
By the end, permaculture will not just be something you “know about.” It will be something you live, embody, and apply to your land, your livelihood, and your community.
Our Unique Permaculture Design Process:
Many people leave permaculture courses inspired but overwhelmed. They learn about soil, water, food forests, animals, energy, community, and natural building, but they do not always leave knowing how to organize those ideas into a clear design. At Sun and Bloom, we teach permaculture through a practical design process.
Our process helps students move step by step from vision to analysis, from analysis to concept, and from concept to communication. The Sun & Bloom Permaculture Design Process includes:
Our process helps students move step by step from vision to analysis, from analysis to concept, and from concept to communication. The Sun & Bloom Permaculture Design Process includes:
- State preliminary project vision, mission, and goals
- Conduct holistic context analysis of the people the project is for
- Conduct holistic context analysis of the region where the project is taking life
- Gather preliminary landscape information
- Perform in-person or close landscape assessment and analysis
- Create a summary of constraints and opportunities
- Create conceptual overview design options
- Create the master conceptual design
- Create the master conceptual design rationale and details report
- Create and present the final project
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"This isn’t about trial and error. It’s about clarity, leadership, and expert guidance that collapses time and saves you costly mistakes. That’s exactly what our PERMACULTURE DESIGN DEEP DIVE YEARLONG PROGRAM 2027 delivers." ~ Lucian & Anna Maria ~ |
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Meet Your Instructors:
Anna Maria & Lucian Parents • Farmers • Educators • Designers We’ve spent 12+ years designing and delivering community transformation programs within universities, government agencies, businesses, non-profits and our own 3 farms in multiple places in the United States. We designed 100+ private and public landscapes, lead over 400 workshops, and helped over 10,000 people grow abundance. We are partners in life, farming, designing, community building and education, with a deep love and respect for all life, including yours. In our work, we combine lived experience with international practice, from small homesteads to community transformation projects. |
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Together, we have trained and empowered over 10,000 individuals in:
Our passion is making permaculture practical and inspiring — so you leave with a clear plan and the confidence to bring it to life. We look forward to learning, creating, and celebrating regeneration with you.
More About Lucian Toma:
Lucian is an ecological designer, educator, and consultant with over a decade of experience creating regenerative programs in academia, government, business, and nonprofits. He has led 300+ workshops and courses for 7,000+ participants on permaculture, farming, and horticulture. Lucian has taught at the college level and supported underserved farmers through University Extension Offices. His design portfolio spans ~100 projects, from backyard gardens to school and church food forests to larger farms across California, Arizona, Nevada, Missouri, Hawaii, Chile and Romania. He holds a BA in International Relations, an MA in Global Leadership & Sustainable Development, and multiple Permaculture Design Certifications. Lucian’s work bridges hands-on practice with systemic, global perspectives.
More About Anna Maria Desipris:
Anna Maria is a regenerative beekeeper, herbalist, farmer, and educator with over a decade of experience in beekeeping, urban farming, and community food systems. She has led 100+ workshops on regenerative beekeeping, farming, and food sovereignty, and has designed and managed neighborhood farms and educational spaces across several states. She has taught at the college level and holds a BA in Political Science, along with certifications in Permaculture, Master Beekeeping, and Herbalism.
- Permaculture design & consulting
- Regenerative horticulture & small-scale farming
- Small & large scale composting
- Beekeeping & herbalism
- Homesteading & food sovereignty
- Community building & social design
- Farm-To-Table planning & execution
- Entrepreneurial and practical skills for resilient livelihoods
Our passion is making permaculture practical and inspiring — so you leave with a clear plan and the confidence to bring it to life. We look forward to learning, creating, and celebrating regeneration with you.
More About Lucian Toma:
Lucian is an ecological designer, educator, and consultant with over a decade of experience creating regenerative programs in academia, government, business, and nonprofits. He has led 300+ workshops and courses for 7,000+ participants on permaculture, farming, and horticulture. Lucian has taught at the college level and supported underserved farmers through University Extension Offices. His design portfolio spans ~100 projects, from backyard gardens to school and church food forests to larger farms across California, Arizona, Nevada, Missouri, Hawaii, Chile and Romania. He holds a BA in International Relations, an MA in Global Leadership & Sustainable Development, and multiple Permaculture Design Certifications. Lucian’s work bridges hands-on practice with systemic, global perspectives.
More About Anna Maria Desipris:
Anna Maria is a regenerative beekeeper, herbalist, farmer, and educator with over a decade of experience in beekeeping, urban farming, and community food systems. She has led 100+ workshops on regenerative beekeeping, farming, and food sovereignty, and has designed and managed neighborhood farms and educational spaces across several states. She has taught at the college level and holds a BA in Political Science, along with certifications in Permaculture, Master Beekeeping, and Herbalism.
Visiting Faculty
Lucian Toma remains the lead instructor and primary guide for the program, maintaining the continuity of the Sun and Bloom Permaculture Design curriculum and design process. For 2027, selected Visiting Faculty will join the program to deepen particular subjects through their own professional knowledge and lived experience. Each Visiting Faculty member teaches within an established curriculum. Core concepts and learning outcomes remain consistent, while faculty members are bringing their own experience, examples, projects, stories, methods, and professional insights into how those concepts are taught. This allows students to learn from multiple practitioners while still moving through one coherent design framework.
2027 Visiting Faculty will be announced as participation is confirmed.
Lucian Toma remains the lead instructor and primary guide for the program, maintaining the continuity of the Sun and Bloom Permaculture Design curriculum and design process. For 2027, selected Visiting Faculty will join the program to deepen particular subjects through their own professional knowledge and lived experience. Each Visiting Faculty member teaches within an established curriculum. Core concepts and learning outcomes remain consistent, while faculty members are bringing their own experience, examples, projects, stories, methods, and professional insights into how those concepts are taught. This allows students to learn from multiple practitioners while still moving through one coherent design framework.
2027 Visiting Faculty will be announced as participation is confirmed.
Learning From Real Projects - Graduate Spotlights
Permaculture becomes much easier to understand when we can see how people actually apply it. Throughout the 2027 program, participants will have access to selected Graduate & Practitioner Project Spotlights, featuring people who are applying regenerative thinking through farms, businesses, consulting, education, food systems, community projects, products, organizations, and other forms of work.
These recorded conversations will explore questions such as: How did the project begin? What does the person or organization actually provide? What challenges shaped its development? How is permaculture expressed through the work? What systems, principles, or design decisions became especially important? What worked? What changed? What lessons might another designer carry into their own project?
These conversations give students access not only to finished projects, but to the thinking, experimentation, decisions, mistakes, and adaptations behind them.
Permaculture becomes much easier to understand when we can see how people actually apply it. Throughout the 2027 program, participants will have access to selected Graduate & Practitioner Project Spotlights, featuring people who are applying regenerative thinking through farms, businesses, consulting, education, food systems, community projects, products, organizations, and other forms of work.
These recorded conversations will explore questions such as: How did the project begin? What does the person or organization actually provide? What challenges shaped its development? How is permaculture expressed through the work? What systems, principles, or design decisions became especially important? What worked? What changed? What lessons might another designer carry into their own project?
These conversations give students access not only to finished projects, but to the thinking, experimentation, decisions, mistakes, and adaptations behind them.
Visuals Of Our Work in Action
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Tuition & Enrollment
Choose the track that best fits your goals and desired level of support.
2027 Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program
Early Enrollment: $2,500
Regular Tuition: $3,000
Six-month payment plans available.
Prefer a self-paced option?
Self-Paced Certification: $1,200
Content Library: $700
Payment Plans
Payment plans are available. We do not charge more for payment plans. Instead, course access is released in stages as payments are received. Students who pay in full receive access to all currently available materials for their track. Students on payment plans receive access module by module as payments are completed.
For the Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program, resources are released with the pace of the live course, generally after the presentations and modules are delivered. This helps students stay focused and prevents overwhelm from receiving too much material at once. Live participation continues as long as payments are current.
Final review, final project discussion, final project presentation, certification approval, and certificate issuance require that tuition be paid in full and all course requirements be completed.
Choose the track that best fits your goals and desired level of support.
2027 Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program
Early Enrollment: $2,500
Regular Tuition: $3,000
Six-month payment plans available.
Prefer a self-paced option?
Self-Paced Certification: $1,200
Content Library: $700
Payment Plans
Payment plans are available. We do not charge more for payment plans. Instead, course access is released in stages as payments are received. Students who pay in full receive access to all currently available materials for their track. Students on payment plans receive access module by module as payments are completed.
For the Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program, resources are released with the pace of the live course, generally after the presentations and modules are delivered. This helps students stay focused and prevents overwhelm from receiving too much material at once. Live participation continues as long as payments are current.
Final review, final project discussion, final project presentation, certification approval, and certificate issuance require that tuition be paid in full and all course requirements be completed.
Certification Requirements
Certification is available only through the Self-Paced Certification Track and the Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program. Certification students are required to:
Project Requirement
Certification students should choose a real project to work with during the course. This may be your own land, home, garden, homestead, farm, retreat, community project, ministry project, educational space, land-based business, or professional portfolio project. You can be both the designer and the client. The best projects are real enough to matter, but focused enough to complete conceptually within the course year.
Certification is available only through the Self-Paced Certification Track and the Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program. Certification students are required to:
- Study the course materials
- Complete the required design exercises
- Develop a real conceptual permaculture design project
- Submit the final design project
- Participate in the final review, discussion, or presentation process
- Complete tuition payment in full
Project Requirement
Certification students should choose a real project to work with during the course. This may be your own land, home, garden, homestead, farm, retreat, community project, ministry project, educational space, land-based business, or professional portfolio project. You can be both the designer and the client. The best projects are real enough to matter, but focused enough to complete conceptually within the course year.
Why Join This Program?
This isn’t just a certification — it’s a transformational journey. You’ll gain the tools, mentorship, and community support to design regenerative systems that truly matter, whether for your land, your livelihood, or your mission. With live teaching, direct mentorship, design practice, and immersive gatherings, you’ll gain the knowledge, confidence, and support to design regenerative systems that truly matter.
This isn’t just a certification — it’s a transformational journey. You’ll gain the tools, mentorship, and community support to design regenerative systems that truly matter, whether for your land, your livelihood, or your mission. With live teaching, direct mentorship, design practice, and immersive gatherings, you’ll gain the knowledge, confidence, and support to design regenerative systems that truly matter.
- Home & Land Owners – To create a clear, resilient, step-by-step design and plan for your hobby farm, homestead, retreat or farmstead, working hand-in-hand with professional designers to ensure long-term abundance and resilience would cost you from $12,000 to $50,000 - in this program you get the opportunity to be fully immersed and do it yourself for less; you'll get us to provide you custom feedback and practical step-by-step plans.
- Aspiring Professionals – To train to become a skilled permaculture designer and consultant, fully immersed in acquiring clients and delivering projects rooted in ethics, principles, and regenerative practices would cost you a lot of years of portfolio building and several PDC and related courses for $10,000 to $30,000 - in this course you get to learn how to design and build your business during the course for less; besides design wisdom, you'll get insights into finding clients, writing proposals and managing relationships of multiple projects at once.
- Missionaries & Ministry Leaders – To lead local and international transformations, reversing ecological and social degradation while building regenerative, Christ-centered community resilience would cost you years of training and several courses - in this course you get to learn how to combine universal regenerative design approaches with local ecological and cultural particularities and be ready to serve a myriad of communities around the world; we'll make sure you get a good understanding of designing community gardens or farms, food sovereignty programs and eco-village resilience.
What Our Students And Clients Say About Our Work:
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PDC: "I was a just starting to dabble in permaculture projects but I didn't have the confidence to lead a project or call myself a pro. I saw Lucian implementing the types of projects I wanted to lead. I also saw him conducting business at a higher level of professionalism that I had not previously seen in my permaculture peers. In the course I learned a lot of cool permaculture stuff, but one of the greatest lessons learned was how to communicate its principles and practices in a way that was relatable to potential clients. This course gave me the confidence to start my design career. Now, I am a licensed contractor with a team of designers, and an installation crew. Aside from the permaculture business, I feel personally fulfilled seeing the changes we are making throughout our community."
~ Benito Olamendi - Permaculture Practitioner and CEO at Elemental Designs ~ |
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PDC: "Lucian and Anna's course has woven into every aspect of my life. From land projects to psychotherapy, this course is applicable in every context. Rather than simply applying what I’ve learned, it has become a way of life and a way of perceiving the world. Over the last few years I have transitioned from full-time farmer to the path of a licensed therapist and I am continually blown away how the material from this course continues to provide a life-giving framework for healing all my relations, as well as stewarding this knowledge to share with others."
~ Nikki Velch - Brain-spotting Practitioner & Marriage and Family Therapist ~ |
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PDC: "Taking Lucian and Anna Maria’s course gave me the courage to finally start sharing my work publicly, even as I continue to build my skills. I’ve always believed that learning never really ends—and that’s a good thing—but before this course I kept telling myself, ‘Once I learn that next tool or software, then I’ll start.’ That mindset kept me stuck. This course helped me break through that hesitation and realize that trial, error, and practice are part of the real learning. The course helped me build a strong first piece of my portfolio and gave me the confidence to start offering my services as a designer."
~ Caleb Howerton - Farm Designer and Consultant ~ |
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"Design Client: After many failed attempts with landscape designers and architects, Lucian & Anna Maria truly understood my needs to transform my garden to satisfy my desires to spend my free time working with plants and bees outside, while also making it a safe space for my elderly parents to enjoy. I did not realize how much food production it is possible with food forest design. I truly enjoy this space that has inspired so many of my neighbors and friends to transform their backyards also. These two changed my neighborhood and life."
~ Beth - Health Industry Executive ~ |
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Frequently Asked Questions!
Do I need land to take this course?
No, but certification students do need a real project to design. That project may be your own land, a family property, a garden, a community site, a school, a church, a farm, a retreat, a business concept, or a professional portfolio project. You can be both the designer and the client.
Can I take the course just to learn, without certification?
Yes. The Content Library / Self-Guided Design Track is designed for students who want access to the recordings, resources, readings, books, and exercises without certification or review.
Can I earn certification without joining the live program?
Yes. The Self-Paced Permaculture Design Certification Track allows you to complete the material independently, finish the required exercises, submit your final project, participate in a final design discussion, and earn certification after successful completion.
What is the difference between the self-paced certification and the live coaching program?
The Self-Paced Certification Track gives you the content, exercises, final review, final discussion, and certification pathway. The Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program gives you all of that, plus live lectures, live discussions, group masterminds, one-on-one coaching sessions, design exercise feedback, accountability, and ongoing guidance throughout the year.
Will you design my land for me?
No. In this course, you do the design work. We teach, guide, coach, ask questions, provide structure, and offer feedback depending on your track. The goal is to help you build your own design capacity so you understand the decisions being made and can continue applying the process long after the course ends.
When are materials released?
For the Content Library and Self-Paced Certification tracks, materials are released in stages according to payment status and course access structure. For the Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program, resources are released with the pace of the course, generally after the presentations and modules are delivered. This helps students stay focused and not become overwhelmed.
When do I receive my certificate?
Certificates are issued after all certification requirements are completed, tuition is paid in full, the final project is submitted and reviewed, and the final design discussion or presentation process is complete.
How do refunds work?
Full refund only within 14 days after your first payment, but not after the course has started. Deferrals allowed once without penalty (can use the credit for a future class or course, once).
Do I need land to take this course?
No, but certification students do need a real project to design. That project may be your own land, a family property, a garden, a community site, a school, a church, a farm, a retreat, a business concept, or a professional portfolio project. You can be both the designer and the client.
Can I take the course just to learn, without certification?
Yes. The Content Library / Self-Guided Design Track is designed for students who want access to the recordings, resources, readings, books, and exercises without certification or review.
Can I earn certification without joining the live program?
Yes. The Self-Paced Permaculture Design Certification Track allows you to complete the material independently, finish the required exercises, submit your final project, participate in a final design discussion, and earn certification after successful completion.
What is the difference between the self-paced certification and the live coaching program?
The Self-Paced Certification Track gives you the content, exercises, final review, final discussion, and certification pathway. The Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program gives you all of that, plus live lectures, live discussions, group masterminds, one-on-one coaching sessions, design exercise feedback, accountability, and ongoing guidance throughout the year.
Will you design my land for me?
No. In this course, you do the design work. We teach, guide, coach, ask questions, provide structure, and offer feedback depending on your track. The goal is to help you build your own design capacity so you understand the decisions being made and can continue applying the process long after the course ends.
When are materials released?
For the Content Library and Self-Paced Certification tracks, materials are released in stages according to payment status and course access structure. For the Live Online Certification + Design Coaching Program, resources are released with the pace of the course, generally after the presentations and modules are delivered. This helps students stay focused and not become overwhelmed.
When do I receive my certificate?
Certificates are issued after all certification requirements are completed, tuition is paid in full, the final project is submitted and reviewed, and the final design discussion or presentation process is complete.
How do refunds work?
Full refund only within 14 days after your first payment, but not after the course has started. Deferrals allowed once without penalty (can use the credit for a future class or course, once).
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