Starting November 2025 at Treflach Farm, Shropshire
Permaculture Design Certificate
Different because
Rooted in connection: an integrated PDC for self, community and earth...
- Gain an internationally accredited qualification: The Permaculture Design Certificate
- Integrate learning about permaculture with self-care through meditation, mindfulness, yoga
- Activate your learning through coaching, community building, eco and change psychology
- See Permaculture in action in different settings on different scales and hear stories of how people started from scratch
- Study across six weekends in a year so you can integrate the course with family and work life
- Take small and steady actions for change between the sessions and share and get feedback when we meet.
- Build an awareness of the affect of the seasons not only on earth systems but also human biology and behaviour
- Work with skilled practitioners who are use permaculture principles in the course design
- Spend time in nature
- Have time to reflect
The details
Venue, permaculture and what you need to bring
Venue
Treflach is a regenerative farm in the Shropshire hills with outstanding views. It uses permaculture principles to regeneratively farm using circular systems of animal, plant and human relationships. We will be using their warm and bright yoga studio, eating their home cooked food and possibly even plunging in their pool!
Treflach, Morda, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY10 9HX
We will also visit other permaculture sites locally and have guest speakers so you can learn from people’s experiences and stories.
Permaculture
Permaculture is a design system born from close observation of natural patterns and ecosystems to create regenerative, resilient and productive food and land systems. The Permaculture Design Certificate is an internationally recognised qualification covering the ethics of earth care, people care and fair share as well as the 12 design principles which culminates in a practical design project.
Dates 2025-26
- 15-16 November 2025
- 10-11 January 2026
- 21-22 February 2026
- 23-24 May 2026
- 6-7 June 2026
- 4-5 July 2026.
Saturdays run from 09:00-20:30 and Sundays from 09:00-16:30.
Booking and costs.
The course cost includes content and materials; homegrown home-made food during the course day: lunch and dinner on Saturday; lunch and afternoon tea on Sunday.
The course does not include accommodation although camping is available on the farm and an accommodation list is available on request.
Cost for the course £995.
There will be a maximum of 14 places so that participants have opportunity for individual attention from the three facilitators.
A deposit of £250 is required by 31 August 2025 to secure your place.
What you need to bring
- A note book
- Yoga clothes and mat
- Outdoor clothes to suit the weather
- Any extra snacks you might need
Helen
After a career spent teaching and managing, she moved to Ethiopia as a VSO volunteer in 2004 then retrained as an illustrator for children’s publishing.
She gained her PhD on Ethiopian Children’s Illustrated Literature and continues to illustrate books for Ethiopian publishers.
Helen is the owner of Ty’r Felin where she practices permaculture ethics, principles and techniques in her home and on the land and has developed a Forest Garden.
Julie
Julie has a PhD in Education which draws on mindfulness, psychology and gender.
As well as being a working mum with a rewilded, fruit-producing garden she is also a prize winning poet whose collection Farmotherlands will be launched in March 2025.
Julie is also a life coach, workshop facilitator, yoga and meditation, Psychology and English teacher and will be bringing all her skills to share to help you weave your words and connect with your body, each other and the beautiful space we will be meeting in.