Permaculture Design South Africa
This website provides links to our various projects, services and courses available in the realm of permaculture design and implementation and we provide professional assistance on multiple levels to help you to establish or refine permaculture systems in your life context.
We hope to witness in our life-time the transition of our planet and our people into a REGENERATIVE culture.
COURSES
We will resume with short-format weekend courses and a fully online Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) starting in 2027. Stay tuned for announcements!
DESIGN
We can help you design your site—whether it’s a home, farm, or any other property, creating integrated systems for complete self-reliance and true off-grid living. Our specialty lies in crafting regenerative, resilient designs that free you from external dependencies, drawing on over 30 years of hands-on permaculture experience across diverse contexts and climates.
MENTORSHIPS
Your permaculture journey doesn’t have to be solitary. Through our mentorship and support services, we walk alongside you, mostly virtually, to make it accessible and affordable. You stay in the driver’s seat, handling the design and hands-on implementation, while we review your progress, offer tailored advice, assess your work, and help refine your path toward a thriving, regenerative system.
SITE ASSESMENTS
WATER SELF-RELIANCE
We specialize in the design and implementation of regenerative water-harvesting earthworks suited to all landscapes, climates, and scales, from urban gardens to broad-acre farms.Our approach develops integrated, ecosystem-driven systems that slow, spread, sink, and make full use of water: intercepting runoff, infiltrating it deeply into the soil, rehydrating degraded land, boosting biodiversity, and building long-term drought resistance and productivity.
SITE ESTABLISHMENT
We can assist and mentor you across a wide range of site establishment contexts, helping you bring your regenerative vision to life.From water harvesting and soil building, to establishing productive gardens, integrating livestock, creating thriving food forests, implementing agroforestry systems, and beyond. We guide you step by step through the practical phases of implementation.
Whether you’re starting small or scaling up, our hands-on and virtual support ensures your site evolves into a resilient, self-reliant ecosystem that supports abundance for you, your community, and future generations.
WHY PRACTICE PERMACULTURE?
End the Great Reset and bring on the Greater Reset
The present global situation can be captured in a single word: UNSUSTAINABLE. The unequal distribution of resources impacts every individual, and the rise of stakeholder capitalism is dramatically widening the divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots.” Critics argue this shift is being deliberately advanced through the political framework of the “Great Reset.
“Freedoms are eroding systematically, with efforts underway to confine humanity within a digital system that imposes scarcity and reduced quality of life. Centralised industrial models, factory farming, insect proteins, GMOs, and nutrient-deficient diets, are positioned to become the norm, while the Collective Commons is exploited. Independent small farms and businesses face targeted destruction in pursuit of a franchise-dominated, totalitarian structure.
Such centralised control systems are accelerating the degradation of global ecosystems. Ultimately, this agenda lacks a regenerative path forward.
We can change the world
We are not helpless. Every one of us has the power to spark change, starting with our own lives as living examples. This path not only improves our personal well-being but also paves the way for regenerative living.
Permaculture lets us redesign the world. By creating working models, we offer real solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges. It provides a blueprint for regenerative, free ecological societies that deliver harmony, abundance, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all. The journey is long, much needs undoing before true rebuilding can begin. We need widespread participation to holistically redesign our planet’s systems and structures.
We stand in the Great Awakening. Now is the moment to fuel the “Greater Reset”: the rising wave of grassroots people, networks, and organizations turning toward regeneration in defiance of tyranny. We are constructing the parallel society, and permaculture gives us the tools to build the thriving life we dream of.
How Do We Do This?
The good news? We don’t need to wait for permission or perfect conditions. We can begin right here, with what we already have, in our own spaces, and together with our communities, by reshaping the elements around us into regenerative designs that create abundance, resilience, and a truly high quality of life for us and those who come after.We can reverse course. Let’s make it happen, and ensure the planet is in far better shape when we pass it on.At Permaculture Design South Africa, we’re here to help every step of the way: offering courses, one-on-one consultations, hands-on regenerative services, mentorship, practical advice, and up-to-date information.
