Details:

Location: Camuy, Puerto Rico

Dates: February 02-12 2024

Cost: $1,800.00

Includes: 10 days camping, 9 days instruction, 30 meals, 100’s of new sets of skills.

Couples get $200 off.  *Limited scholarships available

Enjoy the tropical weather of Puerto Rico while earning your permaculture design certification PDC. The Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (CRMPI) teams up with the Caribbean Agroforestry Institute (CAI) for the second year to offer the PDC, island style. Learn to design your Permaculture system, while being immersed in an off-grid homestead and tropical jungle with hands-on learning and medicinal, herb gardens, a young food forest, and an Agroforestry farm while earning your Permaculture Design Certification.

* This is a FAMILY FRIENDLY course.

72-HOUR STANDARD PDC CURRICULUM PLUS AN IN-DEPTH EXAMINATION OF OFF-GRID, HOMESTEAD, AND AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS. STUDENTS WILL GAIN THE SKILLS AND DESIGN, THINKING TO IMPLEMENT AND MANAGE THEIR SYSTEMS. BOTH LECTURE AND HANDS-ON LESSONS, JOIN US TO LEARN TO DESIGN, IMPLEMENT, AND MANAGE A PERMACULTURE SYSTEM.

Learn the principles and practices of creating lush, sustainable, living systems, climates, and bioregions, ranging from coastal to arid, tropical to temperament. Explore had to apply these principles and design and build your garden, farm, business, and home while creating, and using renewable energy and water, systems, and much more.

Learn the essential concepts and practices of permaculture from a world-renowned team of master teachers and practitioners with many decades of real-life experience.

Instructors include, but are not limited to:

Jerome Osentowski, CRMPI.

Stephanie Syson, CAI.

Kareem Erbe, Broken Hound Permaculture.

Adrian Fielder, Colorado Mountain College.

Marjory Wildcraft, The Grow Network.

Maria Benedetto, Botanicultura.

Tim Armstrong, Eat Your Yard Jax, Inc.

Juan Miranda, and many other local instructors.