Cincinnati Permaculture: Winter Weekend PDC (Feb 21-Mar 22) - Feb 2026

📅 February 21 - March 22, 2026 | 📍 Petersburg, KY, USA | 🏷️ course

The Winter Weekend PDC offered by the Cincinnati Permaculture Institute is an immersive, hands-on Permaculture Design Course (PDC) designed for individuals passionate about regenerative living, sustainable agriculture, and creating resilient ecosystems. Hosted at the Treasure Lake Regenerative Education Site, Permaculture Forest and Farm in Petersburg, Kentucky, this course spans five intensive weekends from February 21 to March 22, 2026, making it ideal for North American practitioners seeking practical skills in temperate climates. It's perfect for beginners, homesteaders, farmers, landscapers, educators, and community organizers who want to learn permaculture principles through direct experience on an advanced homestead featuring biodiverse food forests, natural building systems, and working regenerative models. Attendees will dive deep into core permaculture ethics and design methodologies, observing and interacting with real-world applications like earthworks, vegetation patterns influenced by tropical, dryland, and temperate climates, and innovative housing solutions using earth as a building material. Hands-on sessions cover fermentation techniques for nutrition—crafting sauerkraut, kimchi, sourdough bread, and pickles—while exploring social and economic permaculture, including bio-regional organization, living in communities, Transition Towns, and local resiliency strategies. Participants tour the property's unique food forest ecosystem, learning about biodiversity, soil health, water management, and integrated systems that mimic natural patterns. Supplemental online content from the TreeYo EDU Online PDC handbook, including prerecorded lectures, allows for self-paced study between weekends, maximizing in-person time for tours, discussions, and practical work. By course end, students complete a design practicum, gaining certification to apply permaculture worldwide. Early bird registration at $900 closes January 2, 2026, with full registration through February 13 and payment plans available. This PDC is invaluable for permaculture practitioners as it bridges theory and practice, empowering them to design food forests, restore degraded lands, build community networks, and foster self-sufficiency amid climate challenges. Whether transforming urban lots, rural farms, or community spaces, graduates leave equipped to regenerate ecosystems, enhance food security, and promote ethical land stewardship, contributing to global sustainability movements.[1]