The registration fee, counting with 10 members, is 400 euros on average.

However we invite you to propose how much you would like to contribute between €200 and €500. We encourage those of you who can contribute more to do so, which should allow us to cover our costs comfortably. If there is a shortfall in the final sum (which by experience is unlikely), we will request the shortfall to be covered anonymously via a magic hat process.

This process is part of the permaculture ethos, which allows people to pay according to their capacity, while meeting the needs of the hosts, teachers, etc.

What do you get for it?

- 14 days of free camping at Dóri’s Ecofarm, situated in a natural environment

- A complete, accredited Permaculture Design Course training (detailed overview below)

- An EXTRA training in Sociocracy - a method for utilising permaculture principles in local community decisionmaking and planning

- including a day of specialised training in Forest Gardening

- including a day of specialised training in Soil Generation

- participation in the practical execution of what you learned, right here, right now

- a full plan for your own permaculture design project

Optional Extra

- A unique opportunity for a one day training in collaborative decison making (Sociocracy), which we enourage participants to attend in order to be able to use it effectively during the course.

Food is extra and is managed by the students:

- we will use our collaborative decisionmaking skills to decide on how to feed ourselves. This is a significant learning experience which we have designed into the course.


Who is Rakesh?

Rakesh “Rootsman Rak” is an experienced Permaculture designer, teacher, forest garden specialist, yoga instructor and reggae DJ.

Rakesh has been designing and teaching permaculture to individuals and communities since 2009, and has lead over 120 Permaculture courses, creating forest gardens and designing eco villages in the process, leaving a lasting effect on many of the ecologically conscious spots and communities, all over the world.

Apart from private ecofarms and community gardens, he created collaborative businesses, urban water retention systems and even computer software and documentation systems.

Scroll down for more info on Rakesh and the other instructors in the Teachers section.

ONE DAY INTRO TO SOCIOCRACY COURSE: 18th August
(Pre - Permaculture Design Course (PDC), which we recommend for all PDC to attend)


PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE (PDC) DATES 19th to 31st August, including:


=== TWO DAY INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE ===

19th & 20th August

=== ONE DAY ON FOREST GARDENING ===

26th August

=== ONE DAY HANDS-ON SOIL GENERATION ===

27th August

Preparing our food for ourselves is an important part of the course material. Working in the kitchen is part of the programme, you won't miss anything from the "real" lessons. Every minute from the start to the end of the PDC is a complex, experience-based training, you don't need to worry about "classes" and you can't be left out from anything important.

We will cook dishes to each other in a rotational and voluntary manner. All of our foodstuffs will be coming from local and organic sources.

Based on the success of our past courses we will keep the cost down and have fun working together by asking people to either bring their own ingredients (to the value of €70), or chip into a pot to buy ingredients from which we will all take turns to cook for each other.

Dóri’s farm is a pictoresque ecofarm where she lives with her kids and animals, at the edge of Kunszállás, situated in the unique, scattered farmland of the Hungarian Plains. The farm is a tried and tested community space, where workshops and activites similar to the PDC regularly take place, from spring to fall. Check out this article about last year’s Transition In Action Youth Exchange, to get a snapshot of the moods and flavors of the locale:

https://transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/transition-action-2-living-life-walking-walk-transition-age/

To qualify for the accreditation, you must have attended 80% of the training course (10 of the 12 days) and make a design presentation at the end of the course.

Participants will receive a certification from Rakesh Rootsman Rak which is included in the PDC at no extra cost. If you would like to receive a certification from the Permaculture Association of Britain, please let us know. This will cost you an additional 20 Euros.

Rakesh Rootsman Rak

Rakesh is an experienced permaculture teacher and low impact living designer from the UK, specialising in community resilience, permaculture, creating food forests and low maintenance food growing systems.

 Rakesh has been designing and teaching permaculture to individuals and communities since 2009, and has taught over 120 permaculture, forest gardening, eco village design and related courses.

 His design portfolio ranges from a forest garden on part of a 30-hectare ecovillage in Croatia that he co-owned through to many urban community food growing gardens, private farms and back gardens as well as designing collaborative businesses, urban water retention systems and even computer software and documentation systems.

Rakesh is passionate about sharing his journey of self empowerment (learning how to make all the things you need for yourself rather than relying on the system to provide for you).

This includes eco architecture (low impact housing); capturing and storing energy (electricity, heat, lighting, etc); fuel efficient heating systems (rocket heaters and stoves); water capture, purification and recycling systems, natural bee keeping and so on.

He is one of the founders of the Children in Permaculture project which was launched at the international permaculture convergence and is currently launching a new Youth in Permaculture collaborative project.

Website: www.ecologicaldesigns.co.uk 

Vitalia Baranyai

Vitalia was studying Soil science at the University of Maryland when she discovered this witty design science, called permaculture. Ever since she has integrated the ethics and principles of permaculture into her professional and personal life.

She lives in a small town in South East Hungary, where she is working on developing a perennial polyculture based hub, which works as an escape route from the city life in many ways.

Vitalia has been teaching short permaculture courses for hundres of people in the past 5 years and she is actively sharing her soil restoration knowledge throughout the country. With her husband she co-founded Permaforum, which is the single most thorough source of permaculture based knowlegde in the country.

The course is primarily theoretical and will give you an overview of the permaculture ethics, principles and approach to challenges. We will do practicals and hands-on work, but emphasis is on learning the patterns and concepts that are applied in permaculture.

Principles of Natural Systems
Sustainable Design Methodologies
Patterns in Nature, Culture and Society
Reading the Land & Understanding Natural Processes
Large Scale Land Restoration Techniques
Water Harvesting Techniques
Design Principles of Sustainable Human Settlements
Grey Water Recycling
Natural Building Strategies
Cultivated & Productive Ecologies
Food Forests, Plant Guilds, Gardens for Self-Sufficiency
Energy Conservation Technologies
Appropriate Technologies and Renewable Energies
Urban Environment Permaculture
Wildlife Management and Biological Pest Control
Community Activism
Invisible Structures: People, Community, Economics, EcoVillages
Community Supported Agriculture
Strategies for an Alternative Nation
At the end of the class, students engage in a group design project

Official working language of the course is English.