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Ways to be involved

Join as a regular member to transform your house and garden and access our extensive project support materials and online forum. Join as a professional to showcase your education, design or consultancy experience to others and share learning with other educators and designers.

Be a friend of the Permaculture Association

Be a friend of the Permaculture Association! Donate or provide funds to help increase our reach and impact.

The Permaculture Association is the UK’s leading charity providing nature based solutions.

Since 1983, our members have been at the forefront of regenerative agriculture, green community development, sustainable living and natural gardening.

What our members say

I’m a lifetime member because the Permaculture Association is really important to me. I’ve supported the PAB as a trustee and as a member of various working groups, since 2000 and also through my membership.

-Aranya Austin: Diploma Tutor, experienced teacher trainer, author and lifetime member.

I love being part of a proactive community focused on solutions and what we can contribute to a flourishing future for people and planet. The people I meet through the permaculture association are such fun, kind and creative people.

-Looby McNamara, Educator member

I'm a member of PAB as I am passionate about teaching permaculture as a way to help people learn regenerative skills—not just to grow food, but to grow connection, compassion, and a more harmonious world where we care for each other and the whole living world, in all its beauty and diversity.

-Rakesh Rootsman Rak, Educator member

Our termly offers

Learn from the best with our Campfire webinar sessions with:

9th September Autumn, Growing with Permaculture, Poppy Okotcha
14th October, Digital Permaculture, Dominik Jais
11th November Campfire plus AGM Eco-citizens network

Campfire sessions are free for members and £6/session for non-members.

Permaculture Digest - Our latest publication with feature articles, national and international news, and even a children's corner!

The Permaculture Digest is a termly publication exclusive to members.

Membership newsletters every month packed with tips, news, and community updates.

The membership newsletter is also exclusive to members.

Every term we will make one practical toolkit free to download for both members and non-members.

This term's free downloadable toolkit: Climate Action Plan Toolkit

Introduction to Permaculture with Nim Robins

Begin your permaculture learning journey here! Learn the foundations of permaculture design with a highly experienced teacher, on this CPD accredited online Introduction to Permaculture course you'll get a basis for how to apply permaculture in your life and make your own designs.

Growing Food in Small Spaces with Abi Mordin

In this course, you'll learn how to apply regenerative practices and permaculture techniques to design and grow a garden that optimises the time and energy you put in, in order to produce high yields of delicious, nutritious food.

Permaculture Teacher Training with Alfred Decker

Are you ready to share your passion for permaculture but feel unsure how to teach it effectively? If you hold a Permaculture Design Certificate and are passionate about sharing permaculture knowledge, this course is your gateway to becoming a confident, skilled, and inspiring teacher.

Education Gathering

We're planning an engaging and useful event online this November. The online event is still being designed by your Education Working Group.

What to expect : Networking & connection, Interactive facilitation tools, Teaching standards & reflection, Co-designing solutions

Diploma Gathering

Join the Diploma Gathering this Autumn!

Wales Permaculture Festival

Join us for our annual get together of all things permaculture, with a fantastic lineup of inspirational speakers and practical skills based workshops, showcasing the best of permaculture across Wales and beyond. Come and camp with us under clear starry skies with great local food, great music and great company.

Campfire with Poppy Okotcha: How Gardens Grow Us

Join Poppy as she talks about the power of gardens for social, physical, and mental well-being, starting off the beginning of our Autumn Campfires. Poppy is an ecological home grower and community gardener trained in horticulture and regenerative growing practices like permaculture, and forest gardening. From gardening to cooking to nutritional values, Poppy will explore Growing with Permaculture.

Green Gathering 2025

Come and see us in the Permaculture Area at the Green Gathering this August! Join us for four days of low impact living in an area of outstanding beauty, every corner bursting with music, creativity, natural abundance and community spirit. Intimate solar stages host up and coming acts, festival legends, DJs and spellbinding spoken word. The original off-grid, non-profit festival: we’re powered by sun, wind, people and passion for change. Share wisdom and skills; find friends old and new; weave, weld and tell stories. Put the world to rights - and then dance all night.

Seed Gathering

The Gaia Foundation is excited to offer tickets for the Seed Sovereignty Programme's 2025 in-person Seed Gathering at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Machynlleth, Cymru, on the weekend of the 17th - 19th October. The theme this year is centred around ideas, inspiration, and hope for the future of seed: Sowing Tomorrow's Resilience. This will be a jam-packed conference weekend filled with workshops, demonstrations, panel discussions, presentations, art and celebration, co-created by the Seed Sovereignty Team.

Get your free toolkit!

Climate action plan toolkit

Are you working in a school or college but not sure how to create your climate action plan? This toolkit is for you! Download a copy and start your climate action plan now. All the support you need to create the plan is provided by the Designing Sustainable Schools course.

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Latest Blogs

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Slow Solutions, Strong Futures: Kakuma’s Regenerative Journey

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Government Food Strategy - a step in the right direction?!

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Our latest course offering

Our 'Designing Sustainable Schools' Course supports climate action in schools

Helping educators develop comprehensive Climate Action Plans (CAP)

Aligned to deliver the Department for Education’s Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy (England).

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Our latest courses and events

Latest courses

There are many different courses you can take, with a range of different teachers who have specialized in different areas. You can learn online, face to face or a combination of both.

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Latest events

Connecting with other permaculture people is at the heart of People Care! Here you will find events run by the Permaculture Association and our members; find a workshop or event near you!

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Visit a project

Visiting or volunteering at a permaculture project is one of the BEST ways to learn about permaculture and its a great way to find people who think differently and put their ideas into action!

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Our Impact

1983: Founding Year

After a couple of courses, the permaculture idea takes root and a small group of dedicated people work hard to establish permaculture in the UK. The inaugural AGM was held and dreams were dreamt. The concept is in sharp contrast to the consumerist vision of Thatcher's Britain. We are pioneers, visionaries and innovators - and we love nature. The first newsletter imagines root and branch reform for a re-designed Britain. Our impact story starts here.

1990s: The plot thickens

Permaculture is being tested in many places now. The Permaculture Magazine starts, the Permaculture Plot is published and contains 52 visitable projects, mostly Association members. The Diploma gets established and we set up our first website. People can access permaculture resources more easily, there are far more courses running and national events attract hundreds of people.

2000s: Projects blossom

The Association starts its first partnership work with other organisations like the Federation of City Farms and Women’s Environmental Network. Groups and projects are popping up all over the UK and the Association starts to do more research about the results of permaculture - which look good! We host the International Permaculture Conference in 2015 with attendees from 60 countries. The LAND network has 120 Centres and permaculture is well established and gets mentions on the telly.

2025: Into the future

We launch our first Annual Impact Report, and start work with the Ecological Citizen’s Network, who are fascinated by the work we have done over 40 years. Apparently we are pioneers and doing essential work to help citizen’s take action, transform farms and gardens, and set a new course for society - a future in harmony with nature! Over the coming months we are working with them to imagine what the Association needs to do over the next 40 years to have the biggest impact. Read more about out impact here.