Let us take you into the world of Permaculture with a weekend tour of our home, Zaytuna Farm, a property which is at the forefront of Permaculture Design.

Zaytuna Farm is a very active Permaculture demonstration site and education centre. It is also a highly productive working family farm, which opens it’s gates to interested members of the public, on very limited occasions.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity, from which you will be able to observe the principles of permaculture and witness the abundance of food and other yields that we produce from our various living environments and intricately designed systems.

Our property tour will start with a brief introduction to Permaculture. We will then take you on a walk, inspecting some of the highlights of the farm including the animal housing, some of our biological cleaning elements, our natural buildings, our commercial farm projects, our compost systems, energy systems and food forests. You will be guided through our annual and perennial food systems, irrigation, potable water, soil conservation, waste systems & recycling, water harvesting and plenty more.

What better way to learn about Permaculture than to take part in one of these special events. Geoff and Nadia Lawton, along with the team at Zaytuna Farm invite you to come and learn more about Permaculture and to see first hand how they apply it in their everyday lives to create sustainable abundance.

The 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course allows you to be the change you want to see in the world. Based on Bill Mollison’s Permaculture Designers’ Manual, it provides skills and solid knowledge in Permaculture design as a science that can create abundant ecosystems sustainably in the backyard, a small farm or on a larger broad acre landscape.

Permaculture integrates land, resources, people and the environment through mutually beneficial synergies – imitating the no waste, closed loop systems seen in diverse natural systems.

The course covers sustainable living systems for a wide variety of landscapes and climates. It includes the application of Permaculture principles to food production, home design, construction, energy conservation and generation, and explores alternative economic structures and legal strategies supporting permaculture solutions.

You will be taught by world class teachers including Geoff Lawton. You will not find a better teacher than Geoff and he is supported by highly active and engaging staff, most of which live and teach alongside Geoff and Nadia at Zaytuna Farm. As one of the leading Permaculture demonstration sites in the world, Zaytuna Farm has a range of functioning systems including water harvesting, food production, and a very productive animal husbandry. All of which will add to the learning experience and make this course a very rich experience and one not to be missed.

Our brand new and thorough practical training at Zaytuna Farm picks up where the Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course leaves off.

The PDC, as we teach it, is an intensive theoretical journey into the essential core concepts and design elements of all aspects of Permaculture. Students of this course undoubtedly emerge inspired and with access to incredible new perspectives on the world around us. This large volume of theory is necessary and teaches the student all of the fundamental components of Permaculture as an entire system.

Which leads us to the most common questions coming out from the PDC:

“How do I get started?”
“How do I develop the skills and confidence I need to get going?”

Our Permaculture in Action course is the answer we have created to these questions.

This thorough five-day training takes the student through five of the core systems we currently run on the farm and teaches the basic practical nuances in running systems, or variations of systems, like these for oneself.

This course is a practical course with a small amount of class time. Around 80% of the time will be working directly in the field gaining the hands-on experience in applied Permaculture.

Let us take you into the world of Permaculture with a weekend tour of our home, Zaytuna Farm, a property which is at the forefront of Permaculture Design.

Zaytuna Farm is a very active Permaculture demonstration site and education centre. It is also a highly productive working family farm, which opens it’s gates to interested members of the public, on very limited occasions.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity, from which you will be able to observe the principles of permaculture and witness the abundance of food and other yields that we produce from our various living environments and intricately designed systems.

Our property tour will start with a brief introduction to Permaculture. We will then take you on a walk, inspecting some of the highlights of the farm including the animal housing, some of our biological cleaning elements, our natural buildings, our commercial farm projects, our compost systems, energy systems and food forests. You will be guided through our annual and perennial food systems, irrigation, potable water, soil conservation, waste systems & recycling, water harvesting and plenty more.

What better way to learn about Permaculture than to take part in one of these special events. Geoff and Nadia Lawton, along with the team at Zaytuna Farm invite you to come and learn more about Permaculture and to see first hand how they apply it in their everyday lives to create sustainable abundance.

The 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course allows you to be the change you want to see in the world. Based on Bill Mollison’s Permaculture Designers’ Manual, it provides skills and solid knowledge in Permaculture design as a science that can create abundant ecosystems sustainably in the backyard, a small farm or on a larger broad acre landscape.
Permaculture integrates land, resources, people and the environment through mutually beneficial synergies – imitating the no waste, closed loop systems seen in diverse natural systems.
The course covers sustainable living systems for a wide variety of landscapes and climates. It includes the application of Permaculture principles to food production, home design, construction, energy conservation and generation, and explores alternative economic structures and legal strategies supporting permaculture solutions.
You will be taught by world class teachers including Geoff Lawton. You will not find a better teacher than Geoff and he is supported by highly active and engaging staff, most of which live and teach alongside Geoff and Nadia at Zaytuna Farm. As one of the leading Permaculture demonstration sites in the world, Zaytuna Farm has a range of functioning systems including water harvesting, food production, and a very productive animal husbandry. All of which will add to the learning experience and make this course a very rich experience and one not to be missed.

The Zaytuna Farm Apprenticeship Programme is for dedicated and hardworking self-starters, who are passionate about Permaculture and have already successfully obtained a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC).

As a Zaytuna Farm Apprentice, you will work five days a week on the Permaculture demonstration site and one weekend in four.
For the first six months of the Apprenticeship Programme your attendance, performance and progress will be monitored closely and all of the Apprentices’ who have demonstrated continuous competence will progress to a senior position for the final six months of the programme. This will lead to additional responsibilities and finer management of the plant, animal and people systems. At the end of the programme all successful Apprentices will be awarded a PRI accredited certificate in “Practical Permaculture Management”

This programme is not for everyone. A year of consistently long hours of labor and working through the development of the programme is challenging. Only those who are committed to a total immersion in the world of permaculture and it’s propagation out into the wide world should consider applying.

Before submitting an application for this programme, please make sure you have read all of the details below. Ensure that you fulfil all of the requirements and confirm that you are comfortable with the Zaytuna Farm etiquette.

Our brand new and thorough practical training at Zaytuna Farm picks up where the Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course leaves off.
The PDC, as we teach it, is an intensive theoretical journey into the essential core concepts and design elements of all aspects of Permaculture. Students of this course undoubtedly emerge inspired and with access to incredible new perspectives on the world around us. This large volume of theory is necessary and teaches the student all of the fundamental components of Permaculture as an entire system.
Which leads us to the most common questions coming out from the PDC:
“How do I get started?”
“How do I develop the skills and confidence I need to get going?”
Our Permaculture in Action course is the answer we have created to these questions.
This thorough five-day training takes the student through five of the core systems we currently run on the farm and teaches the basic practical nuances in running systems, or variations of systems, like these for oneself.
This course is a practical course with a small amount of class time. Around 80% of the time will be working directly in the field gaining the hands-on experience in applied Permaculture.

This PDC is hosted by Geoff Lawton on the award-winning Greening the Desert Site in the Dead Sea Valley just 10km north of the Dead Sea and 6 km east of the Jordanian-Palestinian border, directly east of the West Bank.

The course covers sustainable living systems for a wide variety of landscapes and climates. It includes the application of permaculture principles to food production, home design, construction, energy conservation and generation, and explores alternative economic structures and legal strategies supporting permaculture solutions.

This is a four-week internship at the Dead Sea (or Jordan) Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’) site. This small project is located in the village of Jawasari on less than 1 acre of ground.

Immerse yourself in a once in a lifetime experience. Come and join us, live and learn about permaculture in the lowest place on earth.

This is a four-week internship at the Dead Sea (or Jordan) Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’) site. This small project is located in the village of Jawasari on less than 1 acre of ground.

Immerse yourself in a once in a lifetime experience. Come and join us, live and learn about permaculture in the lowest place on earth.