Permaculture Home Garden Design: PSI Course, NSW 2025 - Mar 2025

📅 March 2025 (specific 2025 dates listed in PSI events calendar) | 📍 Upper Macdonald (St Albans), New South Wales, Australia | 🏷️ course

The Permaculture Home Garden Design Course offered by Permaculture Sydney Institute is an immersive training that shows participants how to design, construct and manage a productive, eco‑friendly, organic and low‑maintenance home garden using permaculture principles.[3] Delivered at Bandusia Country Retreat in the Macdonald Valley, this course covers the basic concepts of permaculture design, core ethics, and practical strategies for integrating food production, water harvesting, soil building and energy efficiency into a suburban or rural household setting.[3] Attendees learn about zoning and sector analysis, plant guilds, garden layout, composting systems, and integrated pest management, all with a focus on creating resilient systems that suit local climate and site conditions.[3] The teaching approach combines classroom‑style sessions with outdoor practicals in demonstration gardens, enabling participants to directly observe design elements in place and practice skills such as bed preparation, mulching, propagation and small‑scale earthworks.[3] This course is ideal for householders wanting to retrofit existing gardens, new landholders establishing a property, community garden coordinators, and anyone considering a full Permaculture Design Certificate who wants a strong home‑garden foundation first. By the end of the weekend, participants leave with a conceptual and practical framework to plan or redesign their own permaculture home garden, including a draft site analysis and action plan tailored to their circumstances.[3]