3-Weekend Permaculture Design Course

July 11-13, 18-20, and 25-27

2025 SESSION NOW OPEN FOR EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION!

Cincinnati Permaculture Institute takes its signature Permaculture Design Course on the road to Antioch Farm, a property of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, for our most condensed format yet, great for people eager to get started right away. CPI Lead Teacher & Executive Director Susan VonderHaar teams up with Antioch College Organic Farmer Bruce Linebaugh and other faculty and guest speakers to cover the essentials of permaculture:

  • History, ethics, & principles

  • Methods of design and implementation

  • Pattern understanding: Interpretation and application

  • Climate and microclimates

  • Water: Harvesting, conservation, and earthworks

  • Trees and their energy transactions

  • Soils: Classification, food web, and restoration

  • Plant selection, natural pest management, creating habitats, and growing annual/perennial food gardens

  • Ethically integrating animals — rabbits, chickens, goats, sheep, cows & more

  • Managing bees in your ecosystem

  • Renewable energy, using biological resources, natural building, and appropriate technology

  • Food preservation, fermentation, nutrition, and food/herbs as medicine

  • Invisible Structures: Personal, social, governance, and economic permaculture; intentional communities and local resiliency

Students will also spend time together working as a team on a design project on site at Antioch Farm.

COURSE FORMAT

Full 72-hour training on campus over three weekends in July, starting July 11 and ending July 27:

  • Fridays: 4 hr online lecture/discussion sessions (4:00PM – 8:00PM) – July 11, 18, and 25

  • Saturdays & Sundays: 8 hr on-site lecture, discussions and work-learn interactivity on farm (9:00AM – 6:00PM) July, 12-13, 19-20, and 26-27.

  • Plus 12 hours of supplemental reading and videos to be completed outside of class time

REGISTRATION AND TUITION

This course is open to members of the public as well as enrolled Antioch students. This training is accessible to beginners as well as experienced home gardeners, farmers, homesteaders, artisans, nature enthusiasts, and more.

Early Bird Registration available through April 30: $900

Regular Registration, May 20-July 5: $950

Antioch Alumni: $795

Contact us for discounts on groups of three or more!

All registration for this course is being managed by Antioch College. Payment plans are available. For more information please contact Eric Miller at emiller@antiochcollege.edu