Regenpreneur Permaculture Design Certificate — learn to design thriving landscapes, resilient communities, and a better future

Design regenerative land systems that work for your place.

274 designers enrolled across NZ, AU & UK

The most grounded permaculture course I've found — rooted in Aotearoa's soils and seasons.Aroha T., Waikato lifestyle block

Online Permaculture Design Certificate

The Regenpreneur PDC

Three short introductions — course overview, urban growing, and aquaponics from the programme.

Design your place with permaculture

Course overview and enrolment

Grow more food in less space

Urban and backyard regenerative design

Aquaponics island

Living nutrient loops from the course

Regenpreneur

Regenerating people, place, and community

At Regenpreneur, we build systems that restore rather than deplete — education, technology, and ecological design for resilient futures in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Farmers & land managers

Site analysis, soil, water, grazing, and enterprise — applied to your farm or whenua.

Lifestyle blocks

Wind, slope, shelter, biodiversity, and phased implementation for smaller holdings.

Urban & backyard

Microclimates, kitchen gardens, water harvesting, and community connection.

How enrolment works

  1. Step 1

    Subscribe

    $40 NZD/month via Stripe — secure, cancel anytime.

  2. Step 2

    Create your login

    Email and password after payment confirmation.

  3. Step 3

    Site profile survey

    Tell us about your place so we can coach you in context.

  4. Step 4

    One module per month

    Read, quiz, discuss, design — each feeds your portfolio.

Course modules

Every month, a new layer of regenerative skill

Each module builds understanding you can apply on your land — observation, analysis, design, and implementation — culminating in a facilitator-certified portfolio. Tap any module to explore what you will learn and the outcomes you will create.

19 modules

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One module per month — reading, quiz, forum, and a design task for your portfolio.

Subscribe — $40 NZD/month →
10+ years running NZ PDC cohortsPlace-based Aotearoa context throughoutFacilitator-certified final portfolioNo automated certification — real design work

Free masterclass · Not a mini-PDC

Learn to see land like an expert regenerative designer

Five field tools, the Landscape Reading Framework, and a 30-day journey that changes how you read water, wind, and fertility — before the PDC teaches you how to design the full system.

  • Rain Walk, Opportunity Scanner, Reading Cards — tools you keep into the PDC
  • Five emotional shifts from "I never saw this" to "I need the certificate"
  • Imagine food forests and water harvesting — then learn to design them properly
Start seeing differently

Companion field guide

Learning To See The Land

A field guide for regenerative perception and practical judgement

Not a manual or textbook — a companion for developing the perception and judgement to work well with living landscapes. Grounded in Aotearoa New Zealand, drawing on ecological science, mātauranga Māori, and decades of hands-on experience.

eBook

NZ$20NZ$40

PDF — read soil, water, climate, and ecological patterns for NZ landscapes

Print booklet

NZ$70

A5 bound with colour images

Who it's for

  • Farmers and growers
  • Regenerative designers
  • Educators and students
  • Land stewards and homesteaders
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