Learn the basics of Permaculture Design on this two-day Introduction to Permaculture and get ready to try it out in your garden, your workplace and your life.

What will the Introduction to Permaculture course offer?

This agronomy course will help you understand everything you need to know about growing legumes for food crops for human or animal consumption. It’s a great course to study if you are wanting to start your agronomy career or for you to enhance your knowledge and skills for some professional development.

This course covers the following lessons:
• Scope and Nature of Legume Cropping
• Peas
• Growing Beans
• Growing Lentils
• Growing Lupins
• Growing Alfalfa
• Soybeans
• Growing Chickpeas
• Other Legumes

Ecotherapy Practices Course. Requires around 100 hours of study. Tutor support throughout. Start at any time to suit you. The course has ten lessons covering -
Nature and Scope of Ecotherapy
Theory of Ecotherapy
Ecotherapy Clients
Intake Assessment & Ecotherapy Resources
Plant-Based Ecotherapy
Animal-Based Ecotherapy
Indoor Ecotherapy
Creativity based Ecotherapy
Holistic Wellness incorporating Ecotherapy

Ever wondered where your milk comes from? Well, the good news is there is probably an agribusiness nearby that will show you exactly how it’s done, and maybe give you a taste along the way! Agritourism is the combination of tourism and agribusiness, where people can experience, learn, taste, and see how products are grown and manufactured. Tourism itself is tricky business, but so is agriculture.

Forage Management distance learning course. This requires 100 hours of study approximately. There are eight lessons - scope and nature of forage resources, Grassland Species and Ecosystems, Fodder Trees and Shrubs, Forage Establishment, Forage Management, Forage Quality and Use, Forage Animal related disorders, Preserving Forage as Hay and Silage.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson to submit to your tutor for marking and feedback. You can also contact your tutor with any questions throughout the course.

Learn About Garden Tourism!

Learn how to plan, develop, manage and market:

Garden tourism destinations
Gardening events
Garden tours
Gardening activities in the context of garden tourism

Garden tourism is a form of niche tourism which makes up a significant and large part of the global tourism industry.

Learn about the significance of garden tourism and how to successfully plan, develop and manage garden tourism destinations, gardening events and garden tours.

A 20 hour distance learning course. Start at any time to suit you and learn more about medicinal herbs.
The Following Lessons are covered in this course:

Scope and Nature of Medicinal Herbs
Chemicals that are found in Herbs and Effects on the Human Body
Ways Herbs are Used in Medicines
Methods of Preparing Herbs for Medicinal Use
A Review of over 50 plant species; covering appearance, culture, chemistry, medicinal properties and uses.
Working with Medicinal Herbs

Study plant taxonomy. This essential course will help you to recognise a greater number of plants and know when and how to use them. It will also increase your knowledge of plant families. The course will help you to understand the advantages of accurate plant identification; but also appreciate the limitations, and occasional contradictions in plant naming.

Predicting the weather can be useful for anyone involved in permaculture, agriculture, horticulture, sailing and more. This 100 hour intensive course is studied by distance learning and looks at how we predict the weather.

This is a short but wide-ranging introduction to permaculture as an approach to designing sustainable ways of living and working. Running over 6 weeks, there will home study of around 1-2 hours per week that you can fit in at your convenience, plus 4 group sessions online of about 30-40 minutes. The taught content is followed by 2 assignments to deepen your practice and apply to a site of your choice; these will be due a month after the final online course seminar.

HUMANITARIAN DESIGN is the application of design for humanitarian aid purposes. Humanitarian design combines multiple design disciplines such as Permaculture Design, Biotecture Design, Ecological Design in order to address humanitarian emergencies.

How does the course work?

The course is a blended course including virtual synchronous sessions, team collaborations and discussions and life-term access to self-paced asynchronous study materials and sessions. The synchronous sessions will be held every Sunday 2:00-6:00 PM UK time.

REGENERATIVE NEIGHBORHOODS & DE-URBAN DESIGN is a brand new design discipline that emphasises on the effects of the recent massive urbanisation in transforming our world from microbic scale to the global one. De-Urban Design re-imagines progressive changes in human settlements on neighbourhood and urban scale and envision future cities and neighbourhoods as ethical, equitable, and ecocentric living habitats.

How does the course work?

This agronomy course will help you understand everything you need to know about growing legumes for food crops for human or animal consumption. It’s a great course to study if you are wanting to start your agronomy career or for you to enhance your knowledge and skills for some professional development.

This course covers the following lessons:
• Scope and Nature of Legume Cropping
• Peas
• Growing Beans
• Growing Lentils
• Growing Lupins
• Growing Alfalfa
• Soybeans
• Growing Chickpeas
• Other Legumes

Ecotherapy Practices Course. Requires around 100 hours of study. Tutor support throughout. Start at any time to suit you. The course has ten lessons covering -
Nature and Scope of Ecotherapy
Theory of Ecotherapy
Ecotherapy Clients
Intake Assessment & Ecotherapy Resources
Plant-Based Ecotherapy
Animal-Based Ecotherapy
Indoor Ecotherapy
Creativity based Ecotherapy
Holistic Wellness incorporating Ecotherapy

Ever wondered where your milk comes from? Well, the good news is there is probably an agribusiness nearby that will show you exactly how it’s done, and maybe give you a taste along the way! Agritourism is the combination of tourism and agribusiness, where people can experience, learn, taste, and see how products are grown and manufactured. Tourism itself is tricky business, but so is agriculture.

Forage Management distance learning course. This requires 100 hours of study approximately. There are eight lessons - scope and nature of forage resources, Grassland Species and Ecosystems, Fodder Trees and Shrubs, Forage Establishment, Forage Management, Forage Quality and Use, Forage Animal related disorders, Preserving Forage as Hay and Silage.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson to submit to your tutor for marking and feedback. You can also contact your tutor with any questions throughout the course.

Learn About Garden Tourism!

Learn how to plan, develop, manage and market:

Garden tourism destinations
Gardening events
Garden tours
Gardening activities in the context of garden tourism

Garden tourism is a form of niche tourism which makes up a significant and large part of the global tourism industry.

Learn about the significance of garden tourism and how to successfully plan, develop and manage garden tourism destinations, gardening events and garden tours.

A 20 hour distance learning course. Start at any time to suit you and learn more about medicinal herbs.
The Following Lessons are covered in this course:

Scope and Nature of Medicinal Herbs
Chemicals that are found in Herbs and Effects on the Human Body
Ways Herbs are Used in Medicines
Methods of Preparing Herbs for Medicinal Use
A Review of over 50 plant species; covering appearance, culture, chemistry, medicinal properties and uses.
Working with Medicinal Herbs

Predicting the weather can be useful for anyone involved in permaculture, agriculture, horticulture, sailing and more. This 100 hour intensive course is studied by distance learning and looks at how we predict the weather.

REGENERATIVE NEIGHBORHOODS & DE-URBAN DESIGN is a brand new design discipline that emphasises on the effects of the recent massive urbanisation in transforming our world from microbic scale to the global one. De-Urban Design re-imagines progressive changes in human settlements on neighbourhood and urban scale and envision future cities and neighbourhoods as ethical, equitable, and ecocentric living habitats.

How does the course work?

This fully accredited online PDC will provide:
* 39 hours online contact over 11 x 3.5-hour zoom sessions
* 40+ hours self-directed learning with observation and design activities, group tutorials and peer group exercises
* a chance to apply permaculture design principles and process on a real home design of your choosing

"Really helped me to focus on how I want to move forward and what more I can do to continue learning"
"The group has been a lifeline in lockdown"
- Applewood online PDC 2020 participants

Do you think differently about life and wonder why we waste so much stuff? Do you think about the future of the planet? Do you want to make changes, but are not sure how to start?
The Stroud Permaculture Design Course could be the springboard you need to explore your ideas. Meet like minded people and enjoy sharing experience and knowledge. Discover ways to live sustainably and achieve your dreams.
Why Stroud?