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Learn Regenerative
Design and Practice with Sun And Bloom Books, courses, practical resources, and ongoing writings for regenerative land, life, and business design and practice.
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Our educational work grows from years of teaching, farming, designing, consulting, researching, and applying regenerative ideas in real places. Whether you are improving one garden, designing a homestead or farm, developing a larger regenerative project, or building your own professional design skills, you can begin at the level that best fits your goals, experience, time, and project.
WHAT YOU’LL FIND HERE
Explore Sun & Bloom learning resources in four ways — from self-guided reading to deeper guided study and ongoing ideas from our work.
Explore Sun & Bloom learning resources in four ways — from self-guided reading to deeper guided study and ongoing ideas from our work.
- BOOKS & GUIDES - Practical, in-depth resources for learning at your own pace.
- COURSES & PROGRAMS - Guided learning, certification, coaching, and deeper study.
- FREE RESOURCES - Free guides, webinars, assessments, and practical tools to help you begin.
- JOURNAL & REFLECTIONS - Articles, field notes, project lessons, and ongoing regenerative thinking.
BOOKS & GUIDES
Learn at your own pace.
Our books and guides bring together practical knowledge developed through teaching, design work, consulting, farming, research, and direct experience. They are created to be studied, applied to real projects, and returned to as your understanding grows.
Learn at your own pace.
Our books and guides bring together practical knowledge developed through teaching, design work, consulting, farming, research, and direct experience. They are created to be studied, applied to real projects, and returned to as your understanding grows.
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REGENERATIVE SOIL & FERTILITY SYSTEMS
A Practical Guidebook for Reading, Building, and Managing Living Soil in Gardens, Orchards, Farms, and Designed Landscapes Written, designed, and developed by Lucian Toma, this practical guidebook helps gardeners, homesteaders, farmers, orchard keepers, permaculture students, and land stewards understand soil as a living system. Learn to understand soil as a living system, read and test what your soil is communicating, build fertility through plants, compost, mulch, biology, organic matter, and animals, and bring those strategies together into a practical regenerative soil plan. 185 pages of practical regenerative soil wisdom, with guided tasks at the end of each chapter to apply to real projects. |
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REGENERATIVE LAND DESIGN
A Practical Guidebook to the Sun and Bloom 10-Step Permaculture Design Process for Personal, Professional and Community Land Projects Written, designed, and developed by Lucian Toma, this practical guidebook helps landowners, farmers, permaculture students, designers, educators, corporate and community leaders move from inspiration into grounded regenerative land design. Work step-by-step through the complete Sun and Bloom Permaculture Design Process - from Mission, Vision and Goals, to understanding people and place, through landscape assessment, constraints and opportunities, conceptual design, master planning, design rationale, and final presentation. Practical exercises throughout the guide help you apply each step to your own property, a client design, or a campus or community project.
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COURSES & PROGRAMS
Go deeper through guided learning.
Our courses and programs take the ideas found in our books and resources further through visual teaching, exercises, discussion, project application, feedback, certification, and coaching. Choose the level of guidance and support that fits the way you want to learn.
Go deeper through guided learning.
Our courses and programs take the ideas found in our books and resources further through visual teaching, exercises, discussion, project application, feedback, certification, and coaching. Choose the level of guidance and support that fits the way you want to learn.
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MASTER REGENERATIVE SOIL & FERTILITY SYSTEMS
A 4-Part Online Course with Optional Certification - Self-Paced or Live Cohort Go deep into the living soil framework through this practical online course created and taught by Lucian Toma, author of the Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems Guidebook. Learn how to understand soil, how to read and test soil, how to build living fertility systems, and create a regenerative soil management plan for your own garden, homestead, farm, orchard, food forest, or design project at any scale (under 1 acre or over 1000 acres). Available as a recorded course, certification pathway, or full supported live online cohort. |
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PERMACULTURE DESIGN - YEARLONG DEEP DIVE
ONLINE COURSE & COACHING PROGRAM 2027 Learn permaculture as a whole-systems design practice and apply it to a real project. Study the foundations of permaculture along with soil, water, plants, animals, energy, materials, social systems, and regenerative livelihoods while working step-by-step through the Sun & Bloom 10-Step Permaculture Design Process. Build the knowledge and design capacity to create a conceptual plan for your own land, homestead, farm, community project, or professional portfolio, with self-guided, certification, and live coaching pathways available. |
FREE RESOURCES
Start here, explore an idea, or put one tool into practice.
Our free resources are designed to help you begin without needing to commit to a full book or course. Explore practical guides, webinars, assessments, checklists, and design tools drawn from the same frameworks we use in our teaching and professional work.
Start here, explore an idea, or put one tool into practice.
Our free resources are designed to help you begin without needing to commit to a full book or course. Explore practical guides, webinars, assessments, checklists, and design tools drawn from the same frameworks we use in our teaching and professional work.
FROM THE JOURNAL
Explore Regenerative Design Thinking
Learning does not only happen inside books and courses. Our journal is where we continue thinking in public—sharing field observations, project lessons, regenerative design ideas, case studies, reflections from the farm, and what we are learning as our own work continues to evolve.
Explore Regenerative Design Thinking
Learning does not only happen inside books and courses. Our journal is where we continue thinking in public—sharing field observations, project lessons, regenerative design ideas, case studies, reflections from the farm, and what we are learning as our own work continues to evolve.
KEEP LEARNING WITH US
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