Earn your Permaculture Design Certification with CRMPI!

February 2 - 12, 2024

Beat those winter blues this year and enjoy the tropical weather of Puerto Rico while earning your Permaculture Design Certification.  CRMPI teams up with the Caribbean Agroforestry Institute for the second year to offer the PDC, island style.  

Learn to design a sustainable lifestyle + eat healthy + immerse yourself with hands-on experience in a tropical jungle, edible garden, medicinal healing herb gardens and young tropical food forest while earning your Permaculture Design Certification.  This is a FAMILY FRIENDLY course.

The accommodation is BYO tenting, the food is from our farm and other local organic farmers. While the information serves as a general education in permaculture, this course offers an in-depth examination of the function of the homestead and farm and is designed to inform students who will gain the skills and design thinking to implement and manage a system. This is a very hands-on course. Mornings are usually devoted to practical applications and afternoons are dedicated to course lectures.

We will talk about the principles and practices of creating lush, sustainable living systems in climates and bioregions ranging from coastal to arid, tropical to temperate. We talk about how you can apply these principles in designing and building your garden and home, creating and using renewable energy systems, and co-creating social and economic systems that are healthy for both the planet and its human and nonhuman beings. Additionally we look at ways in which you can create a sustainable livelihood based on these principles.

You will be learning the essential concepts and practices of permaculture from a world renowned team of master teachers who imbue their work with rich depths of life wisdom.

Instructor include but not limited too…

Jerome Osentowski, CRMPI ~ Stephanie Syson, Caribbean Agroforestry Institute ~ Kareen Erbe, Adrian Fielder, Colorado Mountain College plus many local PR instructors!

Tuition: $1, 800–  includes meals, camping (bring your own gear), and all curriculum materials. Couples Discounts, Scholarships and more. Link Below.

July 12 - 21, 2024

The Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) offered through CRMPI is the longest running course of its kind in North America. The PDC at CRMPI you don’t just get the vision of what’s possible in a permaculture future, you will learn from a campus-homestead where permaculture has been practiced for the over 30 years. Not only are you learning the essential concepts and practices of permaculture from a world renowned team of master teachers who imbue their work with rich depths of life wisdom, you learn the tools to design and engineer sustainable systems, such as forest gardens, renewable energy systems, water conservation systems,  and other eco-technologies…

But you’re putting your learning to use, hands-on!

• passive and active solar  greenhouses - tropical, Mediterranean, and temperate
• mature indoor and outdoor forest gardens, tropical and Mediterranean
• rain water catchment and greywater systems…

You’ll not only be learning the concepts, you’ll be applying these the skills needed to implement them, and seeing the fertility and abundance that result from decades of applied permaculture.

When you spend just a day touring CRMPI, you walk away understanding the potential of permaculture to restore the land, heal human communities, end hunger – and transform the world.

Tuition: $1875, includes BYO camping, all meals and course materials.

To reserve your spot in the course please send a non-refundable $600 deposit by check (mail to CRMPI; PO Box 631; Basalt, CO 81621).  We also accept payment by PayPal through the PDC page on our website, or paypal.me/CRMPI.  If you chose PayPal, the total must include processing fees.  For tuition deposit through PayPal, please send $617.40.  Full tuition with fees is $1929.38.

Tuition paid in full before February 14th, 2024 will receive a $100 discount. Couples who register together receive a $100 ($50 per participant) discount.

*Full tuition must be paid  by July 4th, 2024*