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Welcome to our global community of women in permaculture,

collaborating, communicating, sharing resources, and empowering each other towards equality, sustainability, and abundance. 

How can we help you?

Care for the Earth,
Care for the People, and
​Care for the Future of All Species.

We offer free permaculture courses, traditional and advanced permaculture design certification courses, several online publications, a large social media network, and a diversity of actionable resources for anybody who wants to grow more food, live in closer harmony with nature, and co-create a future in which we can all be proud to thrive.​
 Whether you're a serious designer, a wise woman writer,  a garden diva healer, an exhausted working mama, or all of the above, we're here to support you, encourage you, publish you, and teach you everything you want to know about permaculture, whole systems design, and how to confidently, blissfully empower yourself and your family to face the climate cataclysm to come.

We're so glad you found us. Welcome!

Training

Become a certified permaculture designer with our online permaculture design certificate course, which includes the classic 72-hour curriculum, plus advanced training in social systems design. Taught by an expert faculty of 40 women from around the world.

Resources

We curate, create, and collect a myriad of resources, by and for women, to help you learn how to design your home ecosystem, grow your own organic food, and network with your local community to build a peaceful abundance, together.​

Writing

One of the most important parts of the permaculture triad is the 3rd ethic: paying it forward. We help facilitate this by publishing an online blog and magazine, and by offering scholarships to women who want to write about permaculture.

"We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the earth, or we are not going to have a human future at all."

-Vandana Shiva

Online permaculture design course with 72-hour certification PLUS advanced permaculture course in social systems design:

​Learn permaculture online, at your own pace, while designing your own home, garden, and community projects, all with the support of our 40-woman international faculty.

​Sliding scale tuition starts at $750 USD, and includes lifetime access to the course, two certificates*, and three full hours of 1:1 design consultation with your expert faculty mentor. 
*interested in just the advanced social systems portions of our course? 

More than 4000 people have taken our online courses, and we provide 1:1 mentorship and permaculture design support to 300+ students in our certification program.
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​"The Permaculture Women’s Guild Design Course has provided a great opportunity to learn and grow at my own pace. The vast wisdom and knowledge that has been compiled and shared by these masterful women continues to draw me through the course, supporting not only my design, but my day to day life."
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​-Jamie, garden educator, Montana
>>read more of what they're saying.

5 Reasons You Should Take the Permaculture Women's Guild Online Permaculture Design Course

1. Extra emphasis on social and emotional permaculture

provides a one-of-a-kind education in advanced stewardship, community organizing, and using permaculture to elevate social, emotional, and cultural abundance. You still get top-notch expert instruction on landscape design, but with us you also earn an Advanced Permaculture certificate in Social Systems Design.

2. Go at your own pace, online format 

means you have time and privacy for your own, ongoing, hands-on experimentation, and you can take as long as you need to give what you're learning a chance to percolate in your mind. ​Plus you get lifetime access to all future iterations.  In-person courses simply can't offer that, and neither can they offer the size and breadth of community we do.

3. Our international faculty of 40 women!

Our teachers are recognized authors, leaders, and innovators in the permaculture community, and together we offer the unparalelled strength and wisdom of more than 400 years of combined, hands-on experience. 

4. The tuition price 

​Sliding scale tuition starts at $750, including 1:1 faculty mentorship, and TWO certifications. This means our course is one of the most affordable permaculture design courses on the planet.
​(Plus we offer #timesup discounts for survivors of abuse and women of color. Just ask.)

5. Nurture and support the Permaculture Women’s community.

Your tuition helps to fund scholarships, mentorships, the #freepermaculture project, and the Permaculture Women Writers program.

Already got your PDC?
Here are some options for you:

Do an advanced social permaculture design certification.

If you'd rather focus on the People Care and Future Care/Fair Shares ethics, instead of doing a land-based design, you can get an Advanced Social Permaculture certificate.  

Audit our course for half-price.

 If you have a PDC, you can "audit and assist" our course for 1/2 price. This gives you access to the content, but does not include faculty mentorship or certification. Inquire via email for more information on this option.